While Everyone’s Distracted Elsewhere…

The month before making that famous descent on his own personal gilded escalator, to bask in the adulation of a hired crowd while excoriating those less fortunate than himself, a certain overweight draft dodger with implausible hair proclaimed on Twitter, “I was the first & only potential GOP candidate to state there will be no …

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The First District Begins to Heat Up

After fidgeting around the starting blocks a time or two, Dover’s Matt Mayberry seems to be serious about a run for the First District nomination. In March of 2018, the Union Leader’s John DiStaso noted that the former Vice Chair of New Hampshire’s GOP, and employee of noted local capitalist Bill Binnie, “had been actively …

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And So Begin the 2020s

In 1957, Nevil Shute published On the Beach, a post-apocalyptic novel set mostly in Australia which follows the doomed survivors of a nuclear war as radioactive fallout inexorably spreads. It doesn’t end well. Sixty-two years later, the world’s nuclear arsenals remain in their silos. On January 1st, though, Australia’s armed forces were off the coast, …

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