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This has been, we regret to report, the most maddening decade in American history. Trust us, we have seen it all. Typically our hard times have given us something: independence, the end of chattel slavery, an improved standard of living, and so forth. All we have gotten over the past ten years, though, has been the constant degradation of… just about everything. The only exceptions seem to have been the laws of physics, but you can bet your bippy that otherwise unemployable asshats at some lavishly-funded think tank are conjuring up a scheme for doubling the speed of light and cutting gravity in half. This presents us with a conundrum for which the trade journal Editor & Publisher offers no solution. Every fiber in our being strives to present the truest and most accurate account possible of current events. Under present circumstances, the better we do our job, the more deeply we drive our readers into a state of catatonic despair—so, hardly a good business… Jack Gets His Day in Kangaroo Court
War is Hell, Energy is Business by Richard M. Balzano Venezuela, Iran, Ukraine, and Gaza appear to be separate crises, each with its own history and its own official Washington explanation. Viewed against the global energy economy, however, they begin to look considerably less distinct, as oil fields, gas reserves, pipelines, refineries, shipping lanes, sanctions, and competition for customers repeatedly intersect with American foreign policy. The countries and circumstances vary, but control over hydrocarbons and the markets through which they flow remains remarkably constant. Study the global energy economy if you want to understand American foreign policy. After murdering fishermen accused of smuggling drugs in boats that could not plausibly make the journey across the Gulf to the United States and kidnapping Venezuelan President Nicolás… The Hydrocarbon Doctrine
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2017—America learns the hard way it has 800 troops in Niger: four Green Berets are killed in an ambush. 2004—SpaceShipOne, Burt Rutan’s tourist rocket, makes it to space a second… 2009—Combat Outpost Keating, in Nuristan, badly-sited and scheduled for abandonment, is mostly overrun by Taliban fighters who capture weapons and ammunition, leaving eight Americans dead and 27 wounded. 2006—Republicans in… 2003—Survey chief David Kay reports that his three-month, $300 million search for Saddam Hussein’s WMD has turned up squat. 2002—George W.[MD] Bush calls Iraq “a threat of unique urgency,” because… 2013—In the name of fiscal discipline, Republicans shut down the government. Cost to the economy: $24 billion. 2003—With the blessings of Gov. Benson [R-$], Free Staters choose New Hampshire as… Sun, Oct 4
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To the Editor: The Democrat Party has a long anti-democratic history; now it’s fielding Democrat Socialists of America (DSA) candidates who want to replace the American Constitution that protects our rights, and implement policies that will make American life more dangerous, less free, and much… Ewing’s Still Spewing
–=≈=– Every other Friday we realize with a shock that we are still un-incarcerated, after all these issues… Thanks in large part to our small team of volunteers, thousands of copies of our conveniently-sized paper—small enough to pocket and pass on to another reader—are now available, for free, here in Portsmouth and environs. If you click here, the whole thing, in digital form, will appear more or less miraculously on the glassy screen of your gadget of choice. Volume 271, No. 2
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a freelance insurgency. Watch the video.
The New Hampshire Gazette’s resident starving artist. Over 20 years of political satire, some whimsical and some occasionally irreverent.
“Thanks again, as always, for making the now really bad news somewhat easier to tolerate. The truth, which is now seldom spoken, and never spoken by our nation’s “Liar in Chief,” just keeps getting worse and worse. I am thankful for our still (for now, anyway) free press and late night television comedians’ rants posted on Youtube about the state of our country.”
— E.S., Dover, N.H.
Portsmouth, arguably the first town in this country not founded by religious extremists, is bounded on the north and east by the Piscataqua River, the second, third, or fourth fastest-flowing navigable river in the country…read more.