The Fortnightly Rant

The Fortnightly Rant for May 20, 2011, from The New Hampshire Gazette, Volume 255, No. 17, posted on Wednesday, June 8, 2011. New Hampshire Democrats are liars, according to House Speaker William O’Brien. Addressing the Seacoast Republican Women at the Elks Club on Monday morning, the Speaker said, “When … the facts don’t agree with their rhetoric, the Democrats invent. They lie about our motives, and our actions. They fabricate about what’s going on in the legislative process, they lie about legislative bullying.” The credibility of the Speaker’s own statements might best be judged by what he went on to say next: “They lie about …

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The Fortnightly Rant for May 6, 2011, from The New Hampshire Gazette, Volume 255, No. 16, posted on Sunday, May 22, 2011. Here we are with only nine months remaining until New Hampshire’s® 2012 First in the Nation© Presidential Primary™, and for all the excitement we’ve had we could just as well have been in Minot, North Dakota. Finally, though, on April 27th, Portsmouth got a visit from what passes for a candidate these days: Donald Trump. The debate over whether or not America is on the skids has now officially ended. In the two days preceeding Trump’s visit the Portsmouth Herald, Foster’s Daily Democrat, …

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The Fortnightly Rant for April 22, 2011, from The New Hampshire Gazette, Volume 255, No. 15, posted on Thursday, May 12, 2011. With the fiscal year more than half over, Congress finally passed a budget for 2011 on April 14th. To placate Republicans who were threatening to shut down the government, Democrats agreed to inflict billions of dollars in cuts upon those who are already bleeding. Cruel though it was, the budget bill was not cruel enough to satisfy 59 House Republicans who voted “nay.” Fortunately for Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH), 81 Democrats ran true to form and betrayed their constituents with …

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The Fortnightly Rant for April 8, 2011, from The New Hampshire Gazette, Volume 255, No. 14, posted on Thursday, May 12, 2011. Lots of people have been talking lately about the Founding Fathers and how they thought this nation should be run. This is a topic fraught with peril, as any Supreme Court ruling written by Justice Scalia will clearly demonstrate. Despite the risk, recent actions taken by Congress and a number of state legislatures have emboldened us to venture onto that thin ice. Conservative [?] Occultism Before we do, though, let us note for the record that it’s a bit odd for so many …

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The Fortnightly Rant for March 25, 2011, from The New Hampshire Gazette, Volume 255, No. 13, posted on Tuesday, April 15, 2011. For many a fortnight now we have used this space to report on the unrelenting efforts of the rich and powerful to gain control over those small scraps of money and influence that have as yet eluded their grasp. We have taken that approach for a couple of reasons: there is never a shortage of material because they are always up to something, and you cannot cover the defensive side of a Class War unless someone is fighting back. Now that neo-feudalism looms …

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The Fortnightly Rant for March 11, 2011, from The New Hampshire Gazette, Volume 255, No. 12, posted on Tuesday, April 15, 2011. Nearly three million American families went into foreclosure last year. The figure would have been even higher if the foreclosure processing system weren’t jammed up due to the heavy workload. But don’t complain — at least there are jobs in the foreclosure racket. The employment rate is at nearly nine percent and that’s good news, because it had been higher for so long. Still, for every available job opening, five people are looking for work. The national economy is so shaky that a …

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