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Mon, Apr 21

1999—NRA president Charlton Heston says that to honor those massacred at Columbine the day before, the gun lobby’s Denver convention will be shortened by one whole day. 1992—Robert Alton Harris is strapped into San Quentin’s gas chamber at 3:00 a.m. Twelve minutes later he’s taken back out amid legal wrangling. At 6:00 a.m., he’s put back in and successfully gassed to death. 1980—Ronald Reagan says ’Nam veterans can’t get the GI Bill because their war wasn’t declared. It’s not true. 1975—South Vietnam’s last president, Nguyen Van Thieu, calls it quits. 1972—General Wm. Westmoreland, ex-U.S. commander in Vietnam, is pelted with tomatoes in El Paso. 1971—Vietnam …

Sun, Apr 20

2017—The remains of South African hunter Scott Van Zyl are recovered from a crocodile in Zimbabwe. 2010—Deepwater Horizon explodes and burns; 11 die and the world’s largest oil spill ensues. Wrists are slapped. 2008—The New York Times reveals that many “independent military analysts” appearing on TV are actually puppets of the Pentagon. 2001—The Peruvian Air Force, with some help from CIA “contract workers,” fires on a plane they think is full of dope. Nope; it’s full of proselytizing American Baptists, two of whom die. 1979—Canoeing near Plains, Ga., President Jimmy Carter fights off a deranged swamp rabbit. 1977—The Supreme Court says N.H. residents are free …

Trump is bringing patriotism back into vogue for the rest of us

by Jean Stimmell Winter is losing its grip. Even the chunks of snow that slid off my north-facing roof are almost gone. The daffodils have pushed up through matted oak leaves, and the ice went out early on Jenness Pond. It’s a time of renewal not only for Mother Nature but also for our democracy. Since his inauguration in January, President Trump has given it his best shot to destroy our country. But he will fail! As the opposition, we were flabbergasted by the audacity of Trump’s attacks on our Constitution and institutions starting on day one. We were initially struck dumb, but once it …

MAGAVoter’s Lament (a pipe dream)

First they came for the undocumented immigrants,and I did not speak out because I was happy to get rid of them. Then they came for the foreign students,and I did not speak out because they were foreign. Then they came for the green card holders,and I did not speak out because they were taking Americans’ jobs. Then they came for the Muslims,and I did not speak out because they weren’t Christians. Then they came for the judges who ruled against them,and I did not speak out because judges are usually way too liberal. Then they came for the unions,and I started to get a little …

Volume 269, No. 16

Did we learn, this fortnight, how to create a link so that readers could click on the image at right to download our latest issue? We did not. What’s our excuse? We were distracted by a complaint from a Very Important Person. See Mash Notes, Hate Mail & Other correspondence for our frank exchange of views. Here’s the link to the pdf of the whole paper.

A Grand Panjandrum from Mount Pelerin
Accuses Us of Error—or Worse!

At 00:01 a.m., on April 8th, that Tuesday’s entries into Admiral Fowle’s Piscataqua River Tidal Guide went live at nhgazette.com. At 10:00 a.m.—about the start of the working day for the mandarins who oversee the nation’s public discourse—one of those items drew a response. Without further ado, the entry in question, the response it drew, and our rebuttal. — The Ed. Entry: 1947—Frederick von Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, Milton Friedman, et al. issue a manifesto at Mont Pelerin obfuscating their goal: neo-feudalism. Response: At best this is not true. At worst it is a lie. I would encourage you to read Mises’ book Liberalism or …