Volume 269 | No. 4

Sun, Nov 3

1986—A Lebanese newspaper reveals that the U.S. has been selling arms to the Ayatollah’s regime in Iran. 1979—Communists are fired on by Klansmen and Nazis in Greensboro, N.C.. Five die and 11 are wounded, but three trials yield no convictions. 1973—A DC-10’s #3 engine explodes over New Mexico due to a flight crew’s unauthorized experiment. All aboard land safely except the guy in 17H, who is sucked out a window. His skeleton is found two years later. 1969—In a speech which proves to be fatally effective, Richard Nixon conjures up his “Silent Majority.” 1964—Lyndon Johnson—the peace candidate—is elected President. 1956—Israeli Defence Forces kill 275 Palestinians …

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Better Old News Than New Lies

Portsmouth, Nov. 3, 1892 This is the last issue of the Gazette to reach our readers before the presidential election. … no man who loves his country… can hesitate about voting the republican ticket, both national and state. … If unworthy local candidates have been put in nomination, it is also the duty of loyal republicans to reject them for the future good of the party. … The nomination of Henry W. Blair for Congress in the first congressional district is not to the credit of the republican party, and his past record is not such as to hold out any hope that he will …

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“They’re Eating the Dogs!”

by W.D. Ehrhart I recently drove on a major thoroughfare through Chester County, Pennsylvania, one of the most reliably Republican counties in the United States. Somewhat to my surprise I did see more than a smattering of Harris/Walz signage along with signs for Pennsylvania’s incumbent Senator Bob Casey. But by far the overwhelming political signage was for Trump, Trump/Vance, and Casey’s challenger, David McCormack. There were stretches of highway with dozens of Trump signs every five feet. Most amazing of all were signs that read: “Trump: Safety; Harris: Crime,” “Trump: Low Taxes; Harris: High Taxes,” and “Trump: Low Prices; Harris: High Prices.” All three of …

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Let Us Reclaim Armistice Day

To the Editor; On November 11, 2024, we celebrate the 106th anniversary of the signing of the World War I armistice that ceased hostilities on the Western Front, which took effect on the “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” of 1918. With this ceasefire, nations still recovering from the dreadful nightmare of WW I, one of the deadliest conflicts in human history, collectively embraced peace as a universal principle and called for an end to all wars. Thus it was that Armistice Day was initially designated as “a day to be dedicated to the cause of world peace and to be …

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Election at Bernie’s

It seems odd. Prior to July 21st, news organizations could not stop talking about the mental fitness and acuity of the candidates in the 2024 presidential race. Now it seems like anything goes. This is a delicate issue, so we’d like to make one thing clear: we harbor no prejudice against those who speak gibberish. Professor Irwin Corey had no more devoted fan. The line must be drawn, though, at the entrance to the Oval Office. The problem here is that if the media were to start applying the standards they once used on Joe Biden to the Republican nominee, they would immediately be buried …

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