Europe- Thy Name is Cowardice

Friend Bill A. of Dover forwards the following email: . Food for thought from an enlightened European.  Subject: Fw: EUROPE – THY NAME IS COWARDICE . This is one of the most straight forward and to the point understandable, editorials, I have read for a long long time. Few people today can appreciate what our President … Read more

City & Town. Voters & Tax Caps.

Besides public employee salary and benefit costs, nothing impacts local property taxes more than big construction projects like new $chools, mammoth libraries, and police $tation megaplexes. Throughout the state, and indeed the entire country, we see massive projects proposed or under way. Why not? The economy is good right now. People seemingly have enough money … Read more

We ARE succeeding in Iraq – by one who knows

The following is an address given by the US Ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzada. Summary (and Conclusion) In my remarks, I have explained the path to success in Iraq – the actions that the Iraqi government, the United States, and other members of the Coalition see as the keys to achieving the strategic goal of … Read more

Big Wind

Back in January, I wrote about wind farming in my weekly Laconia Daily Sun column–The January 9th NH Union Leader contained an interesting story about a man constructing a wind-generating farm on Mt. Jerico in Berlin. With the help of his father, Massachusetts transplant and entrepreneur Christain Loranger has been working since the summer building three … Read more

“They came in twos and threes…”

As the debate rages on over whether to grant “amnesty” to those persons having violated US laws as their first act on our sovereign soil, the question of securing the border completely remains unsolved. To be sure, improvements are being made, but the end result continues to be a porous border. Like water, as certain … Read more