I have heard a rumor that no one is above the law. This is the alleged rationale for the indictment of former president Donald Trump. To borrow from our President-in-Name-Only, I only have two words: Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Are you old enough to remember how their behavior was either dismissed, supported, or both?
A letter writer to the Sun (4-3-23) somehow believes that Trump’s indictment made accountability great again. Uh-huh. See the previous paragraph.
I found Rep. Bordes’ reasoning for eliminating the penalties for performing abortions after 24 weeks somewhat lacking (Daily Sun 4-5-23). Isn’t the whole point of having penalties attached to malum prohibitum laws to dissuade people from violating said laws? Having no penalties is like having a chihuahua as a guard dog: not too many people will be frightened.
Another recent letter to the Sun (4/3/23) calls out the Free State Project by claiming that, somehow, FSP people ( i.e., state representatives? He isn’t clear.) have “forced” restrictions on freedom of speech. He claims that speaking about American history and gender issues has been forbidden. Um, no. The restrictions are in response to lying, biased, and racist versions of our history. The misrepresentation of gender issues is what was addressed, not eliminating the ability to speak about them.
Are “hate crimes” on the rise, especially in NH? My question is: is there actually such a thing as a “hate crime”? As so many things in the real world have opposites (e.g., hot and cold – well, lack of heat, actually, up and down, left and right), are there then “love crimes”? I would say there are not. That said, as I have repeatedly noted, the publicity provided to this minority of citizens seems to only encourage them to continue to scrawl lame supremacist slogans. While we don’t have to ignore them, their antics don’t need to be on the front page.
Another writer (3-21-23) stated that history could not be rewritten. Perhaps not, but the recording of said history can be biased. She notes “that Africans were kidnapped from their homes and subjected to slavery.” What she missed was that it was their fellow Africans who did the kidnapping and the selling of these people to the white colonists. Kind of an important missing piece. Maybe she was right: “Rewriting history means the horrors of the truth is [sic] lost.
A piece in the Sun (3-20-23) noted that a Belmont resident was reported to have weapons, including three handguns, five rifles, and knives. The “firearms” were then said to be airsoft guns. So, I guess that he didn’t have any firearms. The accompanying photo had the scary “firearms” displayed. Typical Sun reporting.
A piece in the Wall Street Journal (1-9-23) on public transit notes that “when riders stop taking subways and buses, it’s harder to keep up service.” Whoda thunk it? I’m sure that the World Economic Forum will find out how to force us into the train cars.
I read that the Real ID deadline has been extended yet again. Do you want a definition of closing the barn door after the horse is gone? See Real ID.
The last item from way back in last November, the NH Executive Council rejected funding for sex education. The amount of funding was $682,000. How many people would that potentially assist, you may wonder? One thousand. What in the wide, wide world of sports would $68,200 per person provide? I guess that we’ll never know.
