Tag: Volume 270 | No. 2 - Page 3 - The New Hampshire Gazette

Mon, Oct 6

2004—The top U.S. arms inspector in Iraq says there is no evidence Saddam Hussein had tried to manufacture any WMDs after 1991. Oops. 1976—Cubana Flight 455 is bombed over Barbados, killing 73. Everyone suspects CIA-trained Luis Posada Carriles, a Miami resident, is behind it; but the U.S. won’t extradite. 1970—The replacement statue of a cop in Chicago’s Haymarket Square is blown to bits by the Weathermen. 1969—The statue of a cop in Chicago’s Haymarket Square is blown to bits by the Weathermen. 1961—President Kennedy recommends that, in case of nuclear war, American families get ready to live for a while in holes in the ground. …

Sun, Oct 5

2017—The Senate confirms a new Ambassador to the Czech Republic: Steve King, who, in 1972, forcibly injected Martha Mitchell with tranquilizers on orders from her husband, ex-AG John Mitchell, to keep her from talking to the press. 2010—“Fox and Friends” reports that Los Angeles has bought $1 billion worth of jet packs for its Police and Fire Departments. They cribbed the story from the Weekly World News. 2003—Timothy Treadwell and Amie Huguenard learn the hard way that their supposed “friends”—Alaskan grizzly bears—are not vegetarians. 2002—George W.[MD] Bush tells N.H. Guardsmen that Saddam could inflict “massive and sudden horror” on the U.S. It’s not true. 2001—Robert …

Nineteenth Century Humanity

Charles Parker, wife, and two children aged two and four years, fled from Decatur, Ala., when the yellow fever broke out there, to the home of relatives at Oak Mountain. When within fifteen miles of Oak Mountain they were confronted by the shot-gun quarantine, and driven back. On the 7th inst. a brave physician went in search of them, and found them all dead, the parents having died in the woods of yellow fever, and the children of starvation. The Biddeford Journal remarks: “The democratic newspapers are still strugling [sic] to hold down the remaining republican plurality in Maine. It reminds one of the late …

Gun Rights Über Alles

To the Editor: Charlie Kirk, of Turning Point U.S.A., had a byline, “Prove me wrong.” Unfortunately, events appear to have proved him right. Mr. Kirk was killed by gun violence on September 10, 2025, while speaking at a college in Utah. According to Newsweek, in 2023, Mr. Kirk said, “I think it’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights… .” The premise of Mr. Kirk’s argument is that the Second Amendment must be read such that any restrictions on guns are unconstitutional. Until the …

“Raise High the Flag”

by W.D. Ehrhart I do not advocate, have never advocated, and never will advocate for the murder of anyone, and nothing I am about to write negates what I’ve just said. Though I have no doubt that at least some people will claim I am doing just that, it is not true. Truth, however, seems to have little value in Trumpian America. I cannot stop the Trumpasaurians from thinking and saying and believing what they think and say and believe. But the real and actual truth is that I am not glad or grateful or relieved that Charlie Kirk was murdered. There is, however, a …

Wednesday morning, we woke up without a government. Cynics might ask, what made that any different from Tuesday? Or, from any of the many other times when our political class has shot the rest of us in our collective fiscal foot? Now, it is true that, if we define a functioning government as a body of officials who work together to carry out the will of the people, it’s been quite some time since we have had one. For the sake of argument, let’s call it fifteen years ago, when President Obama, succeeding where ten of his predecessors had failed, created a system of national …