The New Hampshire Gazette

Fri, Sept 11

2016—The GOP nominee for President tweets “best wishes to all, even the haters and losers, on this special date, September 11th.” 2012—Benghazi!…

Tues, Sept 8

2018—Secretary of the Army Mark Esper posts an anti-suicide message on Facebook. It features a photo of Army SSgt. Robert Bales, then doing life…

The Politics of Agency

by Richard M. Balzano The algorithm-driven debate-industrial complex recently gifted the internet another installment of its ongoing effort to m…

Thurs, Aug 20

2018—Greta Thunberg strikes, demanding action on the climate crisis. 1998—Days after admitting he’d lied about sex with an intern, Bill Clinton…

Tues, Aug 18

1996—The U.S. prison population hits 1,600,000, double what it had been just 10 years earlier. 1988—Accepting the GOP nomination, George H.[H.]W…

Tues, Aug 11

2023—Police Chief Gideon Cody raids the Marion County (Kan.) Record. In a career full of idiotic and costly mistakes, this is his magnum opus. 2…

Raúl Castro: A Guide to Manufacturing Martyrs

by Richard M. Balzano There is a certain dark comedy in watching Washington indict former Cuban president Raúl Castro for allegedly killing civi…

Mon, June 15

2016—Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy [R-Calif.] tells colleagues, “I think there’s two people Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump.” 2006—The Suprem…

Fri, April 26

1986—Murphy’s Law at Chernobyl: Ukrainian real estate values plummet, northern Earth is irradiated, and thousands are condemned to death. 1970—W…

Sat, April 6

2016—For each of the 29 miners killed in his death trap, coal mine owner Don Blankenship is sentenced to serve 12.5 days in jail. 2009—A year be…