Tag: Volume 269 | No. 20 - Page 3 - The New Hampshire Gazette

Mon, June 16

2020—The Wall Street Journal publishes Mike Pence’s op-ed, “There Isn’t a Coronavirus Second Wave.” 2019—“Last Call” at The Hammer. 2015—For $50 each, 240 actors cheer on cue in the lobby of Trump Tower as the star of a [cancelled] TV show announces he’s running for President. 2000—The Energy Department discovers two missing Top Secret computer hard drives in a location which had previously been searched twice. 1992—Reagan Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger is indicted for lying to Congress, but is soon pardoned. 1991—Otis Nixon steals six bases. 1966—Stokely Carmichael, continuing the March Against Fear as James Meredith recuperates from an assassination attempt, introduces “Black Power” to …

Sat, June 21

2006—Fox News, citing Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), reports that WMD have been found in Iraq. 2005—Edgar Ray Killen, 80, is found guilty of manslaughter in the case of Schwerner, Goodman, and Chaney. 2004—SpaceShipOne reaches an altitude of 100 kilometers; Mike Melvill becomes the first civilian astronaut. 1989—The U.S. Supreme Court rules that it’s legal to burn the U.S. flag. 1964—Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney are murdered in Mississippi by the KKK. 1942—A Japanese sub shells Fort Stevens, Ore., damaging a phone cable. 1935—The top cop busts a cap at a Eureka, Calif. sawmill; chaos ensues, but a jammed machine gun keeps the death …

Sun, June 15

2016—Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy [R-Calif.] tells colleagues, “I think there’s two people Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump.” 2006—The Supreme Court rules that evidence seized by cops breaking “no knock” rules can be used in court. 2002—Arthur Anderson is convicted of impeding investigation of Enron, G.W.[MD] Bush’s #1 contributor. 1967—Calif. Gov. Ronald Reagan signs a bill liberalizing abortion laws. 1920—A mob of thousands drags three Black circus workers from the Duluth, Minn. jail; arrested for a rape that didn’t happen, they’re lynched. 1917—Woodrow Wilson signs the Espionage Act. Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman are promptly arrested for conspiring to “induce persons not to register” for the …

Better Old News Than New Lies

It has been thought necessary in Chicago to display the American flag in the public schools in the “foreign quarter” of the city—which is about three quarters of it—in order that the pupils may discover what the Stars and Stripes are like. This is in truth an odd country with an odd people. A band of desperados have been trapped near the scene of the recent attempted train robbery near Delhi, Ohio. Peter Alt, proprietor of the Arlington house at Baltimore, Md., was shot dead by his son William, aged fifteen, while beating his wife. Dennis Williams, colored, was lynched at Ellaville, Fla., June 10th, …

A Nazi-Defender Writes…

Dear Asswipes: In regards to the front-page rant article on your May 2 (Vol. CCLIX, No. 17) issue… [“100 Down, 1,359 To Go” – The Ed.] Now you know how the REST of US, the MAJORITY of us (Don’t believe me? Google a color-coded map of the Voting Pattern in the last election!) felt EVERY DAY of the obama + Biden presidencies… Sweating every day about what new STUNT he was going to spring on us next and worrying about what was going to be left of the country when he was done… Now it’s YOUR turn to sweat… And seeing how much you’re cryin’ …

“A Rose by Any Other Name”

by W.D. Ehrhart “What’s in a name?” Juliet asks in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. “That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet.” But what the heck did Shakespeare know? “U.S. Military Bans Men With Girl Names From Participating In Combat,” read a recent headline. According to this story, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth says that gender characteristics, courage, tenacity, dependability, reliability under fire, the warrior spirit, what have you, are all determined by one’s name. And thus, only soldiers with masculine names are fit to serve in combat. Our Fox TV “presenter” and “personality” never completed Ranger School, …