Tag: New Hampshire

It will be a while before they can assess the damage that Hurricane Irma has left in its wake, but what we do know...

  Changing winds A snowstorm bearing down on New Hampshire, and snow is not the only thing swirling in the state. The primary vote is finally...

It was great theater, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't an act. I'm guessing Hillary Clinton actually believes that there's too much big money in...

Bernie Sanders's supporters marched from Cheeseman Park to the state Capitol to show their support for the democratic socialist from Vermont who's rattling Hillary...

In the last Democratic debate before Iowa, Bernie Sanders had his best performance yet, and Hillary Clinton seemed nervous.   Bernie Sanders had his best debate,...

Anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony List this week launched a video campaign against President Obama based on the administration's move to shore up family planning services in New Hampshire. Social conservatives on the state's executive council earlier stripped $1.8 million in federal funding from Planned Parenthood affiliates there. New Hampshire officials informed the Obama administration that, in failing to provide key women's health services, the state was violating federal law.

If he wins the Republican nomination for president, you can count on evolution, climate change, The Texas Miracle and a host of other issues becoming interesting to voters when they think about Rick Perry. For now--chasing only Republican votes--his positions on those issues seem pretty safe. Immigration, though, is dogging him everywhere he goes.

Critics of the 2011 Republican battle against abortion on Capitol Hill and in capitals around the country have said it's about more than abortion. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Colorado Rep. Diana DeGette, chair of the House Pro-Choice Caucus, told the Colorado Independent this spring that the GOP push had exposed a large percentage of Republican lawmakers as anti-contraception and opposed to family planning. That assertion is supported by the vote and related discussion in New Hampshire last week that rejected a $1.8 million state contract for Planned Parenthood's family planning and disease prevention and treatment services. The contract had been in place for decades.

"The justice of man is rot," which is why the Tea Party has swerved clear of traditional left-wing Hollywood and made its own contribution to the pop-culture U.S. history canon. Courage, New Hampshire, is a one-hour drama made by Tea Partiers for Tea Partiers that shines out with Christian faith and American exceptionalism and the unfettered right to bear muskets. After debuting Sunday in Monrovia, California, it heads straight to DVD.

Libertarian satirist P.J. O'Rourke has written about a journey he took recently through New Hampshire Tea Party land in search of the movement's foreign...