Tag: Volume 270 | No. 18 - Page 3 - The New Hampshire Gazette

Mon, May 18

1992—The 27th Amendment, barring any Congress from raising its own pay, is ratified after a 202 year process. 1982—Sun Myung Moon, a Reverend, is now a convicted tax cheat, too. 1980—Korean students in Gwangju, protesting closure of their university, are beaten and shot by paratroopers. 1980—Mount St. Helens cuts loose for the first time in 123 years. 1974—Operation Smiling Buddha is a success: now India has a nuke. 1969—The commander at Hamburger Hill orders helicopters out of the area to hold down friendly fire deaths. 1935—The propaganda plane Maxim Gorky, equipped with a printing plant and loudspeakers audible from the ground, crashes after it’s hit …

Sun, May 17

2017—Learning his election will be investigated for Russian involvement, President Trump says, “Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I’m [bleeped].” Sadly, no. 1987—Its weapons officer away from his duty station, its Phalanx gun operator absent “on personal business,” and its radar countermeasure system unarmed, the frigate USS Stark is hit by two Exocets from an Iraqi plane; 37 sailors die on the Gipper’s watch. 1976—R. Reagan, in Time: “Fascism was really the basis of the New Deal.” 1974—Six members of the Symbionese Liberation Army armed with full-auto M-1 carbines, holed-up in a small house in L.A., fire 4,000 …

John Sununu — Man of the People

To the Editor: As a proud U.S. Marine Corps veteran, I will not sit idly by while Republican U.S. Senate candidate John Sununu sells out Granite Staters to support a war that is not important or critical for our national security, is directly hurting the lives of Granite-Staters, and has been boosting his personal wealth. As of May 11th, 15 of my brothers and sisters have died and hundreds more have been wounded in Trump’s ill-planned war in Iran which involves our New Hampshire Air National Guard 157th Air Refueling Wing. Mr. Sununu has repeatedly expressed support for Trump’s war, calling it “important and critical” …

Our Human Rights Boomerang

by Richard Balzano The United States is often called the “world police,” and with reason. Washington tries to police the globe with decreasing success and a brutality that mirrors its own police state, yet framing U.S. foreign policy in legal terms implies, absurdly, that those subjected to “justice the American way” are criminals. Western media backs this up across a spectrum from overt jingoism to reluctant nuance, but the hyperbolic accusations railed against our caricatured adversaries almost always include the charge of human rights violations. Hypocrisy abounds, and the U.S.’s relationship with human rights casts an irony so dark it may yet kill us all. …

A Bit Silly versus Dangerously Silly

by W.D. Ehrhart During the recent visit of Britain’s King Charles III to the U.S., I was fascinated to see that in almost every photograph of him, he is sporting a chestful of medals—eight or ten or a dozen of them—and one around his neck the way an American would wear the Medal of Honor, America’s highest decoration for heroism. I found myself wondering what Charles, who at age 77 is a few weeks younger than me, had done to amass such a spectacular array of medals. Charles did serve on active duty in both the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy for a …

Two weeks ago today, a person whose name has become nearly impossible to avoid spoke to a gaggle of other geriatrics at The Villages, a Golfer’s Valhalla in Florida. We refer, of course, to the President of the purportedly United States of America, who, lest we forget, inexplicably won a second term in 2024, despite having ended his terrible first term by fomenting an insurrection to overthrow an election he lost. Since the median age of the residents there is 73 years, and 97 percent of them are white, our Chief Executive must have felt right at home in this peculiar institution. For the record, …