Tag: Volume 269 | No. 24 - Page 3 - The New Hampshire Gazette

Mon, Aug 11

2017—A “good person” rallying for White Supremacy in Charlottesville, Va. commits vehicular homicide. 2009—President Obama speaks inside Portsmouth (N.H.) High School. Outside, a Libertarian packs a 9-mm pistol and totes a sign calling for the “blood of patriots and tyrants.” 1980—Ex-Gov. John Connally ends a weeks-long Middle East trip. There, he lobbied Iran, via foreign leaders, not to release its U.S. hostages. 1972—Delta Co., 3/21st Infantry, conduct the last U.S. combat patrol in Vietnam; booby traps wound two. 1966—The first Coast Guardsmen (2) are killed in Vietnam when B-57s and F-4s attack the cutter Point Welcome. 1965—A white L.A. cop pulls over a Black driver …

Sun, Aug 10

2019—Mysterious sex criminal and pal of bigwigs Jeffrey Epstein is found conveniently but mysteriously dead in his closely unguarded N.Y.C. jail cell. 2000—“I want you to know,” George W.[MD] Bush tells farmers in Salinas, Calif., “that farmers are not going to be secondary thoughts to a Bush administration. They will be in the forethought of our thinking.” 1974—“I take my instructions from General Haig,” says a Colonel overseeing Richard Nixon’s attempt to spirit files out of the White House. White House Counsel Benton Becker calls the Colonel’s bluff, and three full Air Force trucks are unloaded. 1973—Free Marketeer Charles Koch writes Free Marketeer Friedrich von …

Better Old News Than New Lies, August, 1888, Part Two

According to the returns of the keepers of the Boston public baths, there were 250,000 visitors in July. Lawrence Donovan, who jumped from the Brooklyn bridge some time ago, and escaped without serious harm, on the 7th inst. jumped from the Hungerford bridge across the Thames at London, and was drowned. William Grady, a worthy young man of East Boston, aged twenty-four years, was murdered by a drunken sailor named Van Buren on the afternoon of Aug. 6th, while trying to protect his slayer from the savage attack of a drunken mate named Coleman. Edward H. Olmstead, head clerk in the bursar’s office at Harvard …

When The Revolution Comes

To the Editor: It’s a familiar cry for those of us who lived through the turmoil of the ’60s. Great things will happen “when the revolution comes.” One reason the revolution never came was money. The people in the street lacked the cash and time it would take to build a unified political machine! On the other hand, for Kevin Roberts and the folks at the Heritage Foundation, time and money have been no object. Years of planning and billions of dollars have been invested in “2025,” and it is quite well documented who the biggest contributors are. All of which led Roberts to arrogantly …

“The Don’t Want to be Shot At”

by W.D. Ehrhart Readers may remember the essay of mine that The New Hampshire Gazette published on May 30th called “A Part of You Will Die with Us,” prompted by a letter written by a Palestinian woman named Rawand Gawad Abu Ghanem and finding its way to me via the playwright Naomi Wallace and the scholar and anthologist Lorrie Goldenson. Rawand’s letter details the terrible hardships and dangers she and everyone living in Gaza have had to endure since October 7th, 2023, when the government of Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) began what has become the utter destruction and decimation of Gaza …

Volume 269, No. 24

To download a pdf of today’s New Hampshire Gazette, just click on this link. By way of enticement, here are a few selected items from our “Better Old News Than New Lies” department: James McDevitt got shaved in a barber shop at Somerville, Mass., Saturday night, refused to pay for the shave, and was stabbed in the face with a pair of shears by the barber. According to the returns of the keepers of the Boston public baths, there were 250,000 visitors in July. Lawrence Donovan, who jumped from the Brooklyn bridge some time ago, and escaped without serious harm, on the 7th inst. jumped …