Sunday, May 19, 2013
I have served the people of New Hampshire in a variety of positions. I’ve been a county attorney, city councilor and state representative. All along I’ve followed the same guiding principle: The people I represent elected me to deal with challenges, issues and problems and work on solutions. …
Sunday, May 19, 2013
A bill before the New Hampshire Senate would enable citizens to leave loaded guns scattered about their unlocked house without fear of liability if the guns are taken and used in a murder or some other crime. HB 388, only one sentence long, states: No person who stores …
Sunday, May 19, 2013
The state of New Hampshire has a revenue problem. That is not something new. I was first in the Legislature in 1992. We had what is called a structural deficit, and we still do. We have always had …
Sunday, May 19, 2013
As American troops were pulling out of Iraq in 2010, the U.S. effort to stabilize the country resembled the task of an exhausted man who had just pushed a huge boulder up a steep hill. Momentum had been painstakingly built up and the crest approached. Was it safe …
Sunday, May 19, 2013
The left’s simmering disdain for free speech went public last week. The Obama administration’s abuse of power finally turned much of the left-leaning press corps against this increasingly Nixonian White House. The final straw was the revelation that the Justice Department secretly seized two months of phone records …
Sunday, May 19, 2013
It was inevitable. In a short press conference Thursday, a downy-cheeked young reporter – couldn’t have been more than 35 – asked President Obama: How do you respond to these comparisons of you with Richard Nixon and Watergate? The president smiled a bit ruefully. “I’ll let you guys …
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Among the manifold sins of Richard Nixon 40 years ago was a blatant attempt to use the IRS, then more directly under presidential control, to punish the 37th president’s many enemies and to reward a few of his friends. For instance, not only did he demand access to …
Sunday, May 19, 2013
If you read the Sunday Monitor in order, from front to back, chances are you’ve not yet come across Sarah Palermo’s new column on the Your Life page – and I want to make sure you don’t miss it. Palermo has a hybrid reporting mission in the Monitor …
Sunday, May 19, 2013
I take issue with a Politico story last week suggesting that President Obama has lost Washington. Washington is not monolithic. It is composed of many power centers, tribes and stakeholders. They almost never move in unison, either for or against a president. And while Obama is down, I …
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Amid scandal-mania, it has gone somewhat under the radar that the Florida state director of Hispanic outreach for the Republican National Committee, Pablo Pantoja, recently resigned his position and left the GOP. Indeed, Pantoja changed his party affiliation to Democrat. His reasoning: For all the focus on outreach …