On Wednesday, Monitor cartoonist Mike Marland drew House Speaker Bill O’Brien with a Hitler mustache. On Thursday, he followed up with O’Brien as Groucho Marx. This morning’s mustache? Rhett Butler. Up next – well, I don’t want to spoil the surprise. Equally unexpected this week: the number… 0

Well, that struck a nerve. Mike Marland’s Wednesday cartoon depicting House Speaker Bill O’Brien with a Hitler mustache has drawn attention far beyond the Monitor. People have had plenty to say about this morning’s cartoon too: the one showing O’Brien with a Groucho Marx mustache. Here’s… 4

The chairman of the state Republican Party this morning called on the Monitor to retract Mike Marland’s editorial cartoon depicting House Speaker Bill O’Brien as Hitler and to apologize to O’Brien. “The Concord Monitor’s far-left editorial slant took a sharp turn into the gutter today… 11

Didn’t you love the old photos of George Romney running for president in 1968, republished in this morning’s edition? If they left you wanting more about Mitt Romney’s father and that year’s campaign, you’re in luck. I recently suggested that we report a story on the elder Romney’s… 0

I took a couple calls from readers this morning who were fairly exasperated by the opening sentence of Molly A.K. Connors’s report on the front page of the Sunday Monitor about the next Episcopal bishop for New Hampshire. It said: “New Hampshire’s Episcopalians yesterday elected a 50-year-old, straight, father of three to be the next bishop of the state diocese.”… 3

  Saying that the Monitor rarely pays attention to Chester College is an overstatement. It’s never been on our radar. It’s tiny. It’s relatively far away. It doesn’t make much news. Well, all that was true until this week, anyway. Chester College – located north of Derry and south of Raymond -- appears to be on the verge of shutting down, forced… 0

Perhaps not surprisingly, Monitor readers were astonished, entertained and outraged by the bizarre spectacle at the State House earlier this week – and eager to weigh in. If you missed it, Rep. Steve Vaillancourt, a Republican state lawmaker  from Manchester, was called onto the House floor to apologize for uttering a Nazi-era salute in response to what he described as… 16

Here’s a strange trend on the Comics page: storylines about abortion. Back in March, Garry Trudeau made waves with a week of Doonesbury comics skewering legislation in Virginia and Texas that requires women seeking abortions to first receive compulsory sonograms. Trudeau’s comics were dark, pointed and… 0

On Friday the Monitor published an article from the Washington Post about Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s reaction to the Post’s earlier story on Romney’s high school years – particularly his involvement in what he and the Post described as “pranks.” The headline we put on the story: “Romney apologizes for school pranks.”… 0