The casino vote: The House did its duty

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The huge importance of the casino defeat.

Just say it: Our fight is with radical Islam

READER COMMENTS: 24

Radical Islam is at war with the west, whether we admit it or not.

Ignorance abounds: Obamacare and small businesses

READER COMMENTS: 22

Small increases in government spending hardly equal devastation.

Mayor development: Growth and a Manchester city office

READER COMMENTS: 1

Moving the city's economic development office makes sense.

Page One Editorial: Control of NH’s future: Today’s House vote will be one for the ages

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In some ways this vote could return us to a century ago when the Boston and New York railroads controlled our state Legislature, and made no bones about it.

Consider Nevada: Gambling always expands

READER COMMENTS: 9

Big Casino vs. New Hampshire.

Missing the point: The IRS scandal and state power

READER COMMENTS: 27

Rep. Shea-Porter's awful IRS spin.

Helping panhandlers: A method worth trying in Manchester

READER COMMENTS: 7

Parking meters for the homeless.

For the people: A century of the NH primary

READER COMMENTS: 0

How to celebrate a century of the New Hampshire primary.

What innovation? The casino way is the lazy way

READER COMMENTS: 10

Of the effects casino gambling would have on a state, like New Hampshire, that has no casinos, one could say many truthful things.

Fergus Cullen: Is Rand Paul peaking too early? (That’s a joke, people)

READER COMMENTS: 3

Rand Paul walks in his father's footsteps in New Hampshire.

Another View -- Garth Corriveau: Sen. Jeanne Shaheen's real leadership benefits us all

READER COMMENTS: 2

Jeanne Shaheen has shown true leadership.

Delaney Flanagan: Memories at the graveyard

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In memory of 1st Lt. Michael Cleary (my Uncle Mikey), killed in action on Dec. 20, 2005.

John Stossel: Sublet my people go

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New York crushes small competitors to the big hotel chains.

Another View: A voter ID compromise with which we all can live

READER COMMENTS: 14

A workable comromise on Voter ID.

George Will: The NLRB’s school-door stand

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Obama's lawless promotion of Big Labor.

Pat Buchanan: Barack Obama is the spectator President

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Obama watches as the government runs on auto-pilot.

Charles Arlinghaus: On Medicaid expansion, the right answer is, 'not yet'

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This is not a time to expand Medicaid.

Jonah Goldberg: Obama's 'idiot' defense

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Government makes idiots out of those who wish to control it.

Deroy Murdock: A bloated state necessarily bullies, as the IRS did

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Big government run amok.

Kathy Sullivan: The IRS scandal exposes flaw behind tax-exempt politicking

READER COMMENTS: 24

What the IRS did was wrong, but there really is a problem with the abuse of the non-profit issue organization.

Pat Buchanan: For what should Americans die?

READER COMMENTS: 1

We are a nation increasingly wary of war.

Your Turn, NH: Common Core will be a costly burden for students, taxpayers

READER COMMENTS: 10

Pick two words that New Hampshire taxpayers detest, and "unfunded mandate" would be high on the list.

Joe McQuaid's Publisher's Notebook: Hybsch made a lasting impression here

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I went to Bill Hybsch's funeral last week. In a 40-year career at this newspaper, Bill met and dealt with a lot of people, although he never had a byline.

Jonah Goldberg: The IRS was only following Obama's lead

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Of course the President deserves some of the blame.

Another View -- Glenn Normandeau: Protecting endangered non-game species a NH success story

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As we observe the 40th anniversary of the federal Endangered Species Act this month, it is affirming to look at the progress that's been made for rare wildlife in New Hampshire.

Charles Krauthammer: Redacted truth, subjunctive outrage

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Note to GOP re Benghazi: Stop calling it Watergate, Iran-contra, bigger than both, etc.

George Will: The loss of trust

READER COMMENTS: 1

Leaving aside the seriousness of lawlessness, and the corruption of our civic culture by the professionally pious, this past week has been amusing.

Links to news and happenings around the world with a Granite State connection updated daily.

0 Grant Bosse: Granite Staters crowd-source new UNH logo for free

0 Portsmouth Herald: Air Force tanker fuels optimism for future of base

0 Valley News: N.H. Medicaid option; A chance to help the working poor

0 Fosters: UNH logo - Why all the anger?

0 Arthur Caplan: Stop critiquing the DSM 5

0 Grant Bosse: Anyone remember Shaheen rushing to defend Ayotte from out-of-state special interests?

0 Daily Kos blogger decries glee of liberals heaping scorn on victims of deadly tornadoes

0 Fosters: SB 152 a bad bill, plain and simple

0 Keene Sentinel decries parking meter Robin Hoods

0 Organized labor decries Keene parking meter Robin Hoods, calls on government to crush movement

0 Judd Gregg: The irony of energy

0 Jeff McLynch: Tax exemption for tips eats away at fiscal stability

0 Jim Rubens: N.H. would lose a casino border war with Massachusetts

0 Greg Moore: NH must end war on energy consumers

0 Danielle Curtis: In education, money counts: NH’s top schools often have the lowest amounts of poverty

0 Jim Kenyon: Award winning dairy farm for sale

0 John E. Sununu: U.S. workforce continues to dwindle

0 Judd Gregg: The perils of populism

0 NH Nurse Assoc. president: Medicaid expansion spreads coverage, reduces costs

0 Jim McAleese on Sequestration and the Future of the F-35 Program

0 Reese Ramponi - Hierarchies: Examining class at Dartmouth

0 Forbes - Tim Worstall: The Liberator plastic gun and The export regulations take down of it

0 Sen. Jeanne Shaheen: NH taxpayers can afford to help vaccinate children all around the world

0 Grant Bosse: New Hampshire politics in the age of professional outrage

0 Judd Gregg: Ex-governors hold the keys to progress on debt deal