Vote Red, America: Tell Me Who You Are 

09.11.2022 __In 2004, Senator Barack Obama, speaking to a national audience before the Democratic National Convention in Boston, said: ” … We Continue reading →

Who Needs a Library When We Have the Internet?

05.02.2021 ________________________________________ “Who needs a library when we have the Internet?” I recently read on a local blog dedicated to Continue reading →

Then, They Came for America …

01.31.2021 ________________________________________ Then, They Came for America … I fully support the First Amendment rights of New Hampshire residents Mark Continue reading →

Why I’m Angry: Thank You For Asking

02.23.2020 ________________________________________ Recently, I read newspaper columns that asked: “Why are Americans so darn angry?” and “America, how did it Continue reading →

Violence. Values. Voting: With Whom Do You Stand?

10.21.2018 ________________________________________ In 1963, in his Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote, “We will have Continue reading →

John McCain: Standing Strong against Zealots

07.30.2017 ________________________________________   DATELINE 07.27.2017: I remember when, in 1999, not long before his landslide primary win in New Hampshire over Continue reading →

The Alt-right is not All-right. It’s deplorable.

09.18.2016 ________________________________________ A former New Hampshire state representative not long ago bemoaned the fact that “Dixie” was no longer played Continue reading →

Beware Pundits of Power and Privilege

03.13.2016 ______________________________ How self-gratified some elements of the right-wing pundit class must have been in 2009 when, shortly before his Continue reading →