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Don

Don is a local New Hampshire resident

Media Irresponsibility

The editorial in Friday’s The Citizen, reprinted from the Concord Monitor was totally irresponsible.  So, I submitted the following as community commentary to The Citizen, and something similar to the Concord Monitor.  I doubt they will publish my input: +++++++++++++ Please check the attribution of The Citizen’s April 13, 2012 editorial, titled, “A budget to …

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The Debt Generation

College Students discuss the debt that their generation faces ….

Plymouth Tax Day TEA Party April 17

 Join Fellow Patriots at the Plymouth Tax Day TEA Party When:  Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 4 PM to 6 PM Where:  Plymouth Common, Plymouth, NH Promoting: Limited Constitutional Government, Fiscal Responsibility, Liberty, The Rule of Law, The United States of America Organized by TEA Party Patriots

Has Obama lost touch with reality?

Has President Obama lost touch with reality? Even for a consummate liar, President Obama’s statement that Obamacare (Affordable Care Act) was “passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress” is stunning. Obamacare was so unpopular that deals (the Louisiana Purchase, the Cornhusker Kickback, etc) were required to get enough Democrat senator support for …

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The Usual Suspects Fan Racial Fires

To the Editor: Apparently there is another eye witness to the incident that ended with the tragic shooting of Trayvon Martin.  Hopefully Cathy Merwin, who seems to know exactly what happened and how the case should be handled, has provided her information to the Florida state, Justice Department, FBI, and Special Prosecutor investigators. Perhaps she …

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Ed Freeman: A True American Hero

You’re a 19 year old kid. You’re critically wounded and dying in the jungle somewhere in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam . It’s November 11, 1967.  LZ (landing zone) X-ray. Your unit is outnumbered 8-1 and the enemy fire is so intense from 100 yards away, that your CO (commanding officer) has ordered the …

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Congressional Stalemate is better than Financial Disaster

Is Congress at a stand-still?  If so, is that good or bad? Americans elect representatives whose views, they believe, are best for our country and our people.  Since Americans disagree about these things, there will be disagreements, conflicts and even stalemates in Congress. Our nation’s founders wanted to ensure that extreme legislation, violating their principles, …

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Why President Obama “can’t” fix high gas prices

President Obama says he cannot do anything about high gasoline prices.  It seems to me that lowering gasoline prices should be a lot easier than President Obama’s claimed ability to “slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet”. Democrats demanded that President Bush do something about high gasoline  prices by releasing oil from …

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