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A Great Night’s Sleep Made In NH by Brendan Smith Weirs Times Editor

A little bit off the beaten path of Rte 28 in Ossipee, NH, is an inconspicuous building where sweet dreams have been made for the last sixtythree years. The Sunset Mattress Company, started by William Campbell in 1953, is now in the steady hand of the third generation, Michael Savage, who is single-handedly producing anywhere from eight hundred to one thousand

mattresses a year, many of them custom made. William Campbell was originally from Boston where he learned the trade by sewing mattresses for the Red Cross in the 1930s and 40s. Also an avid gardener, Campbell would often get on a train to New Hampshire and scout for land with good soil to purchase. In the early 1950s, he bought the property where Sunset Mattress operates today. It was See sunset on 21

Charles Henry Sawyer Exhibit in Dover

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ed Photography ( 1900 – 1940 ) using large wooden cameras and glass plate negatives to capture his images. A period camera and examples of Sawyer’s original glass negatives will be featured. The Keefe House Gallery is located in the 1825 Keefe House at 15 Summer Street. Call 742-1038 or visit www.woodmanmuseum.org for additional information.

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Michael Savage, owner and sole mattress maker at Sunset Mattress Factory in Ossipee, holds up a recently completed mattress. Savage makes about 800-1000 mattresses a year, many custom made, carrying on the business started by his grandfather 63 years ago.

The Keefe House Gallery at the Woodman Museum in Dover, opens the Centennial Season’s first exhibit on Saturday April 2 with “The Hand Painted Photographs of Charles Henry Sawyer.” The exhibit will run through June 5th. A reception, open to the public will take place from 5 – 7pm. Meet curators John Peters, Carol Gray and Thom Hindle. See examples of Sawyer’s New Hampshire, Maine and Art titles on display. Charles Sawyer (1868-1954) worked as a photographer and photographic painter during the Golden Age of Hand-Paint-

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March Thurs. 31st – Sat. 2nd 60th Anniversary Convention of the National Federation of the Blind NH Affiliate

Holiday Inn, Concord. Th. Noon-5pm, Fri. 9am-4pm, Sat. 9am-5pm. There will be tech exhibits on Thursday and Friday along with Parents of Blind Children and children’s activities on Friday. Saturday will be the meeting and banquet. $15pp registration fee. 603-937-0296

Thurs. 31st – Sun. 10th ‘The Miracle Worker’ – Three-Act Play

Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. Tickets range from $14-$16. www.rochesteroperahouse. com or 335-1992

April Friday 1st Lakes Region Art Association’s Drop-in Painting and Drawing Group

Lakes Region Art Association Art Gallery, Tanger Outlets, suite 132, Tilton. 10am-noon. Group is open to the public for those 18 years and older. There are no fees, no instruction, no structure; just bring your own supplies, set up, paint or draw and enjoy the camaraderie of hanging out with fellow artists. 528-0013

‘The Phantom Tollbooth’

Jean’s Playhouse, 34 Papermill Drive, Lincoln. 7pm. Live performance based on the book written by Norton Juster. 745-2141

‘Into the Woods’ – Winnisquam Regional High School Drama Production

Winnisquam Regional High School, 435 West Main Street, Tilton. 7pm. ‘Into the Woods’ is a combination of several fairy tales. These stories have taught children morals and lessons for hundreds of years. This production is no different. As you watch your favorite characters battle things such as love, loss, successes and more, you will find that nothing is ever as it seems and that “no matter what you say, children will listen”. Tickets range from $7-$10 and can be reserved by calling 848-7979

Hooking Up with The Second City

Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. Tickets range from $20-$24. www.rochesteroperahouse. com or 335-1992

Ameranouche Gypsy Jazz

Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. 8pm. $15pp. BYO venue. 527-0043 or www. pitmansfreightroom.com

Saturday 2nd Regional Italian Cooking Class

Great Hall of the Wolfeboro Town Hall, Wolfeboro. Nadine San Antonio will share her food-based travel experiences, inspired cooking techniques and several small plate

samples from regions of Italy. Space is limited. Please call 569-2428 to reserve a spot.

‘The Phantom Tollbooth’

Jean’s Playhouse, 34 Papermill Drive, Lincoln. 7pm. Live performance based on the book written by Norton Juster. 745-2141

Passport to the World Travel Show

Pheasant Ridge Country Club, Gilford. 10am-3pm. Multiple presentations and door prizes! See ad on page 3 for presentation schedule. Free admission. First 50 attendees receive a custom slingpak. 524-2500

JP Soars and the Red Hots

Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. 8pm. $20pp. BYO venue. 527-0043 or www. pitmansfreightroom.com

‘Into the Woods’ – Winnisquam Regional High School Drama Production

A Day in This Life Live

The Flying Monkey, Main Street, Plymouth. www.flyingmonkeynh.com or 536-2551

Danbury Winter Market

Danbury Grange Hall, 15 North Road, Danbury. 9am-1pm. The farmers market offers farm products, specialty foods and craft items as well as a hot breakfast and lunch. The market accepts SNAP benefits with a cost match up to $20. 768-5579

Sat. 2nd – June 5th “The Hand Painted Photographs of Charles Henry Sawyer” Exhibit

The Keefe House Gallery at the Woodman Museum, 15 Summer Street, Dover. Charles Sawyer (18681954) worked as a photographer and photographic painter during the Golden Age of Hand-Painted Photography (1900-1940) using large wooden cameras and glass plate negatives to capture his images. A period camera and examples of Sawyer’s original glass negatives will be featured along with some of the tools used in the painting process. www.woodmanmuseum.org or 7421038 Sunday 3rd

‘The Phantom Tollbooth’

Jean’s Playhouse, 34 Papermill Drive, Lincoln. 2pm. Live performance based on the book written by Norton Juster. 745-2141

‘Into the Woods’ – Winnisquam Regional High School Drama Production

Winnisquam Regional High School, 435 West Main Street, Tilton. 2pm. ‘Into the Woods’ is a combination of several fairy tales. These stories have

taught children morals and lessons for hundreds of years. This production is no different. As you watch your favorite characters battle things such as love, loss, successes and more, you will find that nothing is ever as it seems and that “no matter what you say, children will listen”. Tickets range from $7-$10 and can be reserved by calling 848-7979

Lakes Region Symphony Orchestra – Violinist Jonathan Lee

Inter-Lakes High School, Route 25, Meredith. 3pm. The concert will feature a performance by the Moultonborough Central School Select Chorus and LRSO’s second place concerto competition winner, high school violinist Jonathan Lee performing ‘Symphonie Espangnole’ by Edouard Lalo. Admission is free for children and students and only $5 for adults. Doors open at 2pm. www.lrso. org Wednesday 6th

‘Robert Wadleigh, Wadleigh Falls and the Royal Province of NH” Program

The Lee Safety Complex, Lee. 7pm. Program presented by Dr. David Meeker, retired UNH professor of mathmatics who moved to Wadleigh Falls in Lee in 1977. Dr. Meeker has developed a keen interest in 17th century NH History. Few know that at one time, NH became an independent English royal province. Dr. Meeker reviews our history. Free and open to the public. 659-8119

Thursday 7th 75th Anniversary of Attack on Pearl Harbor Presentation – “Songs and Stories that United a Nation”

The Great Hall of Wolfeboro’s Town Hall, Wolfeboro. 6-7pm. ‘Ramblin’ Richard’ commemorates the anniversary with some of the most beloved songs that were popular during the war years. ‘Ramblin’ Richard’ Kruppa is a retired professor who studied Gospel and American folk music, and is an active musician who makes more than 200 performances each year. Richard sings the songs popular from 19391945 accompanying himself on guitar, 5-string banjo, baritone ukulele, and tells fascinating and unfamiliar stories about the songs’ origins as well. Admission is free, but a suggested donation of $5pp to the Wright Museum of WWII would be gratefully accepted.

Teach Our Children Well

The Flying Monkey, Main Street, Plymouth. www.flyingmonkeynh.com or 536-2551

Joe Satriani

Casino Ballroom, 169 Ocean Blvd, Hampton Beach. www.casinoballroom. com or 929-4100

“Books in Bloom” – Opechee Garden Club Flower Show

Gilford Public Library, 31 Potter Hill Road, Gilford. 9am-8pm. Free and open to the public.

Northern Grafton County Republican Committee Meeting

Topic of the Town, 25 Main Street, Littleton. 6pm. The Committee plans to discuss the Republican candidates running for office in the area.

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Red Sox author at Annie’s Book Stop Carl H. Johnson will be discussing and signing copies of his new book, ‘The Baseball Buff’s Bathroom Book’ at Annie’s Book Stop, 1330 Union Avenue, Laconia on Saturday, April 2nd from noon to 3pm. The book is a collection of articles about major players, games, series and other events in Major League Baseball, both historical and contemporary. It contains entertaining and informative stories about the Gas House Gang, Babe Ruth, The 2004 Red Sox Comeback, The Williams Shift, New Hampshire’s Own Sam Fuld and many more. Mr. Johnson will also have copies of his popular book “From Beer To Beards, Boston Baseball’s 2011-2013 Roller Coaster Ride” available.. That book chronicles the ups and downs of the Red Sox from 2011 when they lost a seemingly insurmountable lead and missed the playoffs, through the debacle which was the 2012 season under Bobby Valentine and captures all the excitement of 2013, The Year Of The Beards, when they came back to win the pennant and world series. Mr. Johnson writes a column entitled Baseball World, covering the Boston Red Sox for the Biddeford, Maine, Journal Tribune. He is also a columnist with the Insider Sports Network Online and manages a blog on Major League Baseball at baseballworldbjt.Com. He Has Lectured On The History Of Baseball, Teaches Classes In Baseball At The Community College Level And Is A Lifelong Student Of The Game.

The Hit Men At Rochester Opera House The Hit Men, featuring Former Stars of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, will perform at the Rochester Opera House on Friday, April 15 at 8pm. Take a one-of-a-kind trip through the glory days of rock’n’roll with The Hit Men. Immerse yourself in the sounds of your favorite mega-hits of the era: tunes from The Four Seasons’ songbook like Rag Doll, Walk Like A Man, Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You, Marianne and Sherry; plus Cat Stevens’ Peace Train, Jim Croce’s Leroy Brown, Carly Simon’s You’re So Vain and Tommy James’ Mony, Mony. Tickets are $30 and $34 and can be reserved online at RochesterOperaHouse.com or call/stop by the box office (603) 335-1992, M/W/F from 10am to 5pm and two hours before the show. Doors generally open one hour prior to the show start. Cash bar, under age 18 must be accompanied by legal guardian. Rochester Opera House is located in City Hall, 31 Wakefield Street.

Children’s Museum of NH 5k Road Race The Children’s Museum of New Hampshire will hold its annual 5K Road Race & Children’s Fun Run on Saturday, April 30th starting at Henry Law Park. Post-race activities, including an awards ceremony and refreshments following the race. All 5k participants who register by March 31 as participants will receive free race T-shirts, and the race is capped at 1200 runners. The 5K registration fee is $22 in advance and $25 on the day of the race. A link to online registration can be found at www.childrens-museum.org under Things To Do / Annual Events. Walk-up registration for the 5k will be available at The Children’s Museum on race day starting at 7:30 AM up until 15 minutes prior to the start of the 5k. Registration for the Fun Run starts at 9am. Information on the Seacoast Road Race Series can be found at www. proportsmouth.org.

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On Sunday night, my wife came out of the bathroom to tell me that the handle on the toliet had broken. I had no idea these things could break. Like the rising and setting of the sun, I believed its constant, uninterrupted motion would never have to be considered. The moment this news hit my ears a slight panic set in. Would I need to call a plumber? Possibly go to the bank to get a small loan to cover the expense? These are normal, conditioned thoughts that run through my head whenever I hear such news. It can be brought on by anything from a collapsed sewer line to a loose door handle. Once the reality of the gravity of the problem sunk in, I realized, as usual, that I may have overreacted in my mind and I go to look at the pending problem. Removing the toilet tank lid I peeked in. At first glance it seemed like it might be a bit complicated. There was all sorts of intricate moving parts that were in play. Each one serving some function needed to properly have the contents of the toilet make its way to places I would never want to visit. It seemed the handle was connected to a plastic stick which was connected to small chain which was connected to a rubber flap which forced upwards when the handle was pushed exposing a giant hole where water rushed down which made

the toilet flush. It was very Rube Goldberg like and I was fascinated. All I would need to do, I surmised after minutes of careful consideration watching with fascination the process over and over again (which consisted of using my hand as the handle and stick and pulling the chain upwards myself), was to somehow find and attach another handle and stick. I turned to my old friend the Internet who not only keeps me amused with mindless videos of insignificant things that have no bearing on my life but also, on rare occasions, helps me in situations such as this. I quickly learned that the piece I was looking for was called the toilet lever and that it could be purchased at the local hardware store. Not only that, the installation seemed easy and seamless and I should be able to complete it in one afternoon (if not slightly into the evening as well). Early the next morning I drove down to the store and, after ten minutes of searching, finally found the section where things like toilet levers waited for someone to purchase them. Not wanting to call attention to myself and ask for help in selecting the proper one and exposing my ineptness with such things, I used my best judgement, which with my level of expertise is merely a guess, and grabbed the one I thought might work and paid for it. I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have time to attempt the installation until after work. No matter how hard I tried during the day, I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stop thinking about what the night would bring. Had I purchased the correct piece? (The package claimed it would fit any toiletâ&#x20AC;ŚI had fallen for that scam before.) Would it be a quick and easy in-

stallation as was claimed? Would I fail and need to go back to the store tomorrow and search for a human to help me, meanwhile my wife and I having to submit ourselves to another night of plunging warm hands into cold water to pull up on the flapper? These are the things than can strain an otherwise happy marriage. At lunchtime I watched an Internet video over and over on how to install the lever (okay, I watched a couple of cat videos as well). It seemed easy enough, but these guys were seasoned pros when it came to installing toilet levers. Finally it was time to face my demons. I arrived home and went right to work. There was no sense trying to find other things to occupy my time instead of getting to the project. After all, this was the toilet and there could be no procrastinating. I took a deep breath and removed the lever from its package. I bought it into the bathroom, stopping first to give my wife a kiss for good luck. I removed the tank lid, unscrewed the old handle, removed the flapper chain from the broken lever, and then made my first attempt to attach the new one. I am proud to report that the attachment of the toilet lever went flawlessly, every thing worked exactly as I had been shown. I could now add another project to my very short list of home projects I could successfully accomplish. Sometimes it feels good not to know how to do many handy things because when you finally do something handy, no matter how small and maybe not really even considered handy, it feels good. Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hope things around here stay quiet for at least the next twenty years.

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Freedom Of The Press? To The Editor: Is freedom of the press in jeopardy under the Governor Hassan administration and law enforcement upside down? Does the Hassan Administration follow a partisan approach to enforcement of our election law based on the party affiliation of the law breaker and that of the whistle blower. The facts in this case are as follows: Mr. Hugo Palma Jr., a regional field director for the Berni Sanders presidential campaign, registered to vote in the Democrat primary on November 3, 2016 and also took a democrat ballot to vote that same day. Mr Palma filled out an affidavit under penalties of perjury that claimed 345 Cilley Road in Manchester as his domicile. That was the address of his office. It is against State law to claim one’s office as a domicile. The investigative reporter, James O’keefe, who uncovered and reported on this violation of New Hampshire law, was served with a subpoena from Dick Tracy, a lawyer working for, and paid by New Hampshire taxpayers in the office of the Attorney General’s office. Attorney Dick Tracy did not answer, when journalist O’keefe asked whether he had also

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served a subpoena on Mr Hugo Palma who violated state law. If the policy of the Hassan administration is that whistle blowers are harassed while those who break the law are not investigated, we are going down a very dangerous slope, that will lead to one party rule and tyranny. David Scott Dover, NH.

Nuts! To The Editor: We’ve had an “Executive in Absentia” for the last 7 years. Mr. Obama has been on a perpetual, Presidential vacation running our federal government by executive action, and subsequently not abiding by the checks and balances between the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches set forth by our Founders in the US Constitution. Now, with the sudden death of Supreme Court Justice, Antonin Scalia, Mr. Obama suddenly wants to adhere to the Constitution and fulfill his Constitutional role by nominating a replacement for the deceased brilliant and Honorable Justice. We are in the heat of a domestic revolution with the up-coming political elections! The US Senate should be in no rush

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to confirm Mr. Obama’s sudden nominee since whomever becomes the next Supreme Court Justice will have a significant impact on the High Court and the lives of US citizens for many years and countless generations. We Americans, through our representatives in the US Senate, are being asked by the Democrat Establishment in Washington, DC to surrender our voice in the selection process. In the words of Brig. Gen. Anthony McAuliffe, acting division commander of the 101st. Airborne Division troops defending Bastonge, Belgium, during World War II’s Battle of the Bulge, when given a surrender ultimatum by overwhelming numbers of German troops, I say, “Nuts!” to this hypocritical Democrat demand. I stand with Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) and the other members of the US Senate who propose to give the people of New Hampshire and the people of America a proper and necessary voice in the vetting process of the next Supreme Court Justice through the election of our new President. Nick De Mayo Sugar Hill, NH

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ories, memories that still haunt anyone around 60 years of age or older. PRESIDENT SLAIN BY ASSASSIN. Even 53 years later, the memory still sears, as the President of the United States belongs to all of us, regardless of party. Hopefully our country will never go through such a trauma again. After revisiting the thenfresh details of the president’s murder, I naturally turned to the sports pages. The main story was about Harvard-Yale football. The Boston Patriots were 5-5-1 in the AFL East—they’d finish 7-6-1 to make their only AFL title game, where they were crushed by San Diego Chargers. But that weekend’s game against Buffalo would be postponed, out of deference See moffett on 32

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Post-Jihad Gesture Theater: Je Suis Sick of It While homicidal, suicidal and genocidal jihadists are busy plotting the next soft-target terror attacks on the West, docile Westby Michelle Malkin e r n e r s a r e Syndicated Columnist busy shedding cartoon tears and doodling broken hearts on social media. European artists rushed to fill Twitter and Instagram with images of Belgian comic book character Tintin weeping after vengeful Muslim terrorists left the Brussels airport and subway system buried in rubble and dead bodies. Residents of the besieged city -which recklessly opened its doors to mass Muslim immigration and criminalized the vocal dissent of those who’ve objected over past decade -- meekly protested the Quran-inspired violence by leaving pastel-colored chalk messages pleading for “peace no war.” Echoing the “Je Suis Charlie” and “Je Suis Paris” rallying cries that followed the January 2015 Charlie Hebdo jihad attack and the November 2015 jihad massacres in Paris and Saint-Denis, tens of thousands of people spread the “JeSuisBruxelles” message with their thoughts, prayers and memes. And, of course, there will be flags lowered and monuments lit up all over the world this week in the national colors of Belgium to show “solidarity” with Tuesday’s victims of The Perpetrators Whose Religion Shall Not Be Named. To borrow a useful phrase coined by British journalist James

Bartholomew last year, we have reached the oversaturation point of post-terrorism “virtue signaling:” Hashtags, avatars and animated GIFs ad nauseam. These are the easy advertisements and maudlin displays of one’s resolute opposition to an unidentified something that must be stopped somehow by unspoken means. Virtue signals are “camouflage,” Bartholomew explained. They are sincere-seeming shows of collective unity that disguise the millennial-age indulgence of publicly patting one’s own back for supposed moral courage. “No one actually has to do anything,” he opined. Virtue now “comes from mere words or even from silently held beliefs.” Pre-Twitter, outraged Americans all donned “Never forget” magnets and ribbons on our cars and lapels after 9/11. I was one of them. But after 15 years of hapless homeland security theater and bipartisan pandering to terror-coddling “Islamophobia” shriekers, I’m so, so sick of noble gesture paraphernalia. I’m sick of preening celebrities who tell me to “PrayForTheWorld” and celebrate diversity while indiscriminate floods of Muslim refugees across Europe and America corrode the pillars of peace and freedom. I’m sick of Silicon Valley moguls who pretend to champion free speech while muzzling the speech of those who use the Internet to criticize the very open door immigration policies that fertilized European and American soil for jihadists. I’m sick of all the same old emasculated politicians who declare that “justice will be served,” “this must end” and “we stand against terror,” while refusing to

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The time is fast approaching when folks will need to sign up to serve in our local legislature. Sign up deadline is in June but everyone by Jane Cormier who has a dream to join in the poHooksett, NH. litical discussion here in Concord, should be making plans now – it is never too early to get informed and prepared. Having served in the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 2012 – 2014, I can attest to the fact that the job is absolutely worthy. I learned more than I could have ever imagined, on many different levels, in these two short years. And, I know for those citizens who are concerned about what is happening in Concord, serving in our legislature would be no less rewarding. Of course, we know New Hampshire has a citizen legislature and though many may spew that far too many bills pass through our legislature, I believe New Hampshire See malkin on 34 holds a very special place in the po-

litical process. In New Hampshire, ANY bill can be discussed on the floor in the House – any Representative call pull a bill off the Consent Calendar, and initiate a discussion on the floor of the New Hampshire House. This is pretty impressive stuff in my mind. As we look ahead to elections, I have always believed state politics can be the most powerful to the communities at large. If you have the time and ability, you should take up the call to serve in our citizen legislature. Especially if you believe your representative is not serving YOU! What better way to institute change than to empower local citizens to serve in their own legislative body? No paid politicians here. And, I can tell you – anyone who is willing to give it try, will not be sorry they threw their proverbial hat into the ring! If you are someone who has held a silent wish to serve, I say you need to get out there and sign up. Be part of the discussion. This is YOUR state and YOUR voice needs to be heard. We have 400 representatives in the NH House. See cormier on 35

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Ice, Ice Lady Hassan’s Heroes on the Board of Education struck a blow for mediocrity last week, denying the application for by Ken Gorrell a K-4 charNorthfield, NH. ter school focusing on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Two of the three votes against came from Hassan-appointees Bill Duncan and Emma Rous; the other came from Helen Honorow, a Lynch appointee. Democrats’ love of “choice” turns sours when it comes to public education, unions, and the best interests of children

– or more specifically, children of parents who can’t afford the education options exercised by wealthy men like Duncan. Until we elect a governor who will put the interests of children first, we’ll have to live with our bad decisions. It’s not like STEM education is all that important, right? According to Stay Work Play NH, a nonprofit dedicated to attracting and keeping young professionals in our state, high technology accounts for about 9% of the workforce, but those workers account for 30% of the gross income. While a career in a STEM field isn’t for everybody, encouraging our state’s children to explore options in STEM is good for them and everybody else who benefits from a strong economy.

Belgium Latest Target Of Jihadi Terror UNITED NATIONS—The tide

of hate has come to Brussels with three terrorist attacks in the Belgian capital. Islamic State (ISIL) jiby John J. Metzler hadi militants Syndicated Columnist carried out coordinated bombings on the Brussels Airport as well as the Metro killing at least 31 people and wounding hundreds of civilians. Coincidentally just days earlier, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry conceded the obvious, that the so-called Islamic State was committing genocide against minorities, especially Christians and Yazidis. French President Francois Hollande stated the challenge most succinctly; “Terrorism has hit Belgium, but Europe was targeted, and the whole world is concerned.” After the dust settled we were again reminded that the assault on yet anther European city formed part of the gruesome tableau of terror which has included Paris, London and Madrid. This is hardly the end but part of a continuing

thread of terrorist networks which runs throughout Europe and yes, into the USA as well. Some commentators have suggested a shrugging inevitability, a kind of “new normal” where such attacks are just part of the global landscape. “If its Tuesday this Must Be Belgium,” to cynically paraphrase a 1960’s comedy about Americans touring Europe in a swirl and arriving in little Belgium presumably on a Tuesday. Tuesday was the day of the attacks; the recent November outrages in Paris came on a Friday. But by succumbing to the philosophy of inevitability we are feeding the self-fulfilling prophesy and thus willing to contain, but not to seriously confront and defeat, the emerging threat. Why Belgium? I fondly recall visiting Brussels on a pretty regular basis back in the day. There’s NATO headquarters, the headquarters of the European Union (EU), not to mention some amazing historic cities, Antwerp, Bruges, Ghent, and naturally Brussels. The Kingdom of Belgium was always worth a visit. Centrally located and with open borders, Belgium offers easy access to the rest See Metzler on 34

Unfortunately, it’s not just Democrat appointees standing in the way of STEM. The field itself is under attack. The acronym has already mutated into STEAM with the addition of “Arts,” and this last bastion of logic and reason in education is

being assaulted by the woollyheaded hoards that overran liberal arts education, laying waste to what had once been serious fields of study. Many liberal arts majors and See gorell on 35

Black and White, Left and Right Much is made of the fact that liberals and conservatives see racial issues differently, which they do. But these differences have too often by Thomas Sowell been seen as Syndicated Columnist simply those on the right being racist and those on the left not. You can cherry-pick the evidence to reach that conclusion. But you can also cherry-pick the evidence to reach the opposite conclusion. During the heyday of the Progressive movement in the early 20th century, people on the left were in the forefront of those promoting doctrines of innate, genetic inferiority of not only blacks but also of people from Eastern Europe and Southern Europe, as compared to people from Western Europe. Liberals today tend to either glide over the undeniable racism of Progressive President Woodrow Wilson or else treat it as an anomaly of some sort. But racism on the left at that time was not an anomaly, either for President Wilson or for numerous other stalwarts of the Progressive movement. An influential 1916 best-seller, “The Passing of the Great Race” -- celebrating Nordic Europeans -- was written by Madison Grant, a staunch activist for Progressive causes such as endangered species, municipal reform, conservation and the creation of national parks. He was a member of an ex-

clusive social club founded by Republican Progressive Theodore Roosevelt, and Grant and Franklin D. Roosevelt became friends in the 1920s, addressing one another in letters as “My dear Frank” and “My dear Madison.” Grant’s book was translated into German, and Adolf Hitler called it his Bible. Progressives spearheaded the eugenics movement, dedicated to reducing the reproduction of supposedly “inferior” individuals and races. The eugenics movement spawned Planned Parenthood, among other groups. In academia, there were 376 courses devoted to eugenics in 1920. Progressive intellectuals who crusaded against the admission of immigrants from Eastern Europe and Southern Europe, branding them as genetically inferior, included many prominent academic scholars -- such as heads of such scholarly organizations as the American Economic Association and the American Sociological Association. Southern segregationists who railed against blacks were often also Progressives who railed against Wall Street. Back in those days, blacks voted for Republicans as automatically as they vote for Democrats today. Where the Democrats’ President Woodrow Wilson introduced racial segregation into those government agencies in Washington where it did not exist at the time, Republican President Calvin Coolidge’s wife invited the wives of black Congressmen to the White House. As late as 1957, civil rights legislation was sponsored in Congress by Republicans and opposed by Democrats. See Sowell on 38

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Turn Your Cluttered Closets Into Cash! Owls Head on Cherry Mountain (looking towards the Presidential Range). ley who operated a farm in the meadows beneath Cherry Mountain. Five weeks prior to the landslide, Mr. Stanley had lost his house to a fire and with the help of Moses and Cliff McDonald of Whitefield was in the process of building a new one, starting with the â&#x20AC;&#x153; Lâ&#x20AC;? section, probably the custom in that era. His wife and children were staying with her father who lived half a mile away while Stanley and a hired man, 24 year old Don Walker, were sleeping in the barn. The barn was an impressive structure, 40 feet wide and 75 feet long, and was home to a horse, four cows, a calf, three swine, and an undetermined number of poultry. Some furniture that was saved from the house when it burnt was stored in the barn. A heavy rain shower had poured onto the mountain that morning, and one witness reported seeing two heavy cloud formations come from different directions and join at the top of a prominence on Cherry Moun-

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of Europe. As UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon asserted, “The despicable attacks struck at the heart of Belgium and the center of the European Union.” Precisely so because on the darker side security experts point to Belgium becoming a nexus for Islamic extremists and homegrown jihadi radicals whose

sophisticated terror web extends to the recent Paris attacks as well as serving as a recruiting base for foreign fighters for Syria’s civil war. Tiny Belgium hosts one of the highest per capita contributors of jihadi fighters to Syrian terrorist groups and thus highlighting the globalization of terrorism. Let me be blunt, contrary to the French police, the Belgian security networks

and counter- intelligence are a pale shadow and simply not up to prime time. Haphazard and often uncoordinated intelligence sharing is another hindrance. Turkish police had warned the Belgians that they had earlier deported one of the Brussels bombers but no action was taken by Belgium. Then of course in Brussels there’s a large Muslim community, 25%

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of the population which is not well integrated, some of which is radicalized and “off the grid,” and marginalized in an increasingly multicultural society. Back to the important genocide declaration by the State Department. Secretary of State John Kerry at long last admitted the obvious; that the gruesome and targeted killings of Iraqi and Syrian Christians, the rape and enslavement of the Yazidi women, and the ongoing campaign by Islamic State is responsible for committing genocide. Broadly defined, genocide refers to the specific State targeting of racial, ethnic or religious groups for liquidation. For the past few years we wept while seeing ancient Christian communities in Iraq and Syria subjected to wanton killings and torture. The religious segregation of Christians as “apostates” by the ghoulish guardians of Islamic State in Mosul Iraq, the desecration of churches and smashing of Syria’s rich religious mosaic, and the trashing of cultural artifacts dating from ancient times are part of this sordid legacy in the contemporary Middle East. In the depths of the security bureaucracy there’s probably someone saying, “we can keep Islamic State terrorism to an acceptable level of violence.” But now it’s not only Brussels for which we pray for and stand in solidarity with. In the last few weeks, Belgium stands with Ivory Coast and Turkey as among the targets of terrorists. The list is growing but the western world seems unwilling to accept the long term threat as thousands of foreign fighters who fought in Syria have returned to threaten Europe. The thread of terror which runs through Beirut, Baghdad, Jerusalem, New York, London, recently added new cities to the litany: Paris, Brussels, and ??? John J. Metzler is a United Nations correspondent covering diplomatic and defense issues. He is the author of Divided Dynamism The Diplomacy of Separated Nations: Germany, Korea, China.

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take even the smallest baby steps to register and track Muslim refugees already here, stop new ones from coming in and tying up our overwhelmed immigration bureaucracy, and drain the jihad swamps inside our own borders. We’ve had enough piles of memorial flowers. We’ve heard enough hollow lip service paid to resolve. Where is the world’s active resistance to the sharia-imposing soldiers of Allah? We need Tintin to wipe his nose, man up and remember Belgium’s once proud history. When German invaders attempted what they thought would be an easy romp through the tiny neutral country in 1914 on their way to Paris, resistance fighters who were outnumbered 14 to 1 took a brave stand in defense of their sovereignty. Bracing for an onslaught, King Albert addressed his people: “One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance. In these solemn circumstances two virtues are indispensable: a calm but unshaken courage, and the close union of all Belgians. ... It is the moment for action. ... [A] country which is defending itself conquers the respect of all; such a country does not perish!” How far the West has fallen. Farewell, steeled wills. You’ve been replaced by an army of sad-faced emojis. #WesternCivilizationRIP Michelle Malkin is author of the new book “Who Built That: Awe-Inspiring Stories of American Tinkerpreneurs.” Her email address is malkinblog@ gmail.com.

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courses are beyond parody. What job options open to you with your BA in Puppetry or one of the various fill-in-thedisadvantaged-group Studies majors? What marketable skills does one gain sitting through “The Sociology of Miley Cyrus: Race, Class, Gender, and Media,” (Skidmore) or “Gaga for Lady Gaga: Sex, Gender, and Identity” (UVA)? How do you explain to your parents that you were forced to endure – and they paid for – “Aesthetics in Context: The Artistic Impulse,” a core course at Roger Williams University that uses as a text book a novel graphically depicting the professor’s own “unusual” sexual encounters? (It will shock no one to learn that this tenured professor uses class time “disparaging capitalism and free enterprise.”) STEM majors used to be immune from such course offerings, or could at least pick and choose their humanities electives, passing up “Queer Musicology” in favor of a decent literature or history course. In their major courses, STEM students focus on facts, data, and the scientific method. Driving across a bridge or ascending in the elevator of a skyscraper, you don’t care about the class, race, gender, and identity concerns of the engineer as much as you do his skills as an engineer. Calculation correctness takes precedence over political correctness. The job market reflects this reality. A Career Builder survey of 2014 college grads found that 51% of those working are not in jobs that require a college degree. Not surprisingly, STEM and health care majors were more likely to be employed in full-time jobs requiring a degree in their major field of study. But the wall between serious STEM and often frivolous Humanities is cracking. A University of North Dakota doctoral candidate asks the ques-

tion “Are STEM Syllabi Gendered?” Her “Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis” asserts that “Grading on a curve is one way that the literature has found to be competitive and discouraging to women and minorities,” and suggests the use of “less competitive teaching methods” to “improve the experience of female students.” How long before STEM students are choosing between “Lady Gaga and the Physics of Gender Identity” and “One, Two, Many: Aboriginal Calculus”? This doctoral student described STEM courses as “chilly” to women in part because of their “competitive environment,” “individualistic culture,” and “comprehensive exams.” Consider that the next time you board an airplane. What kind of education did that aeronautical engineer have? Hopefully not one based on the type of thinking that produced “A feminist glaciology framework for global environmental change research.” This exploration of “the relationships among gender, science, and glaciers” merges “feminist postcolonial science studies and feminist political ecology,” “leading to more just and equitable science and human-ice interactions.” You can read all about it in the journal Progress in Human Geography. Providing children with great STEM learning opportunities is critical to our state’s economic well-being, but we must not allow academia’s penchant for gender, race, and political lenses to cloud the teaching of STEM. Ken can be reached at kengorrell@gmail.com

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Maybe this is the time for YOU to be seated in that chamber? In my opinion, New Hampshire has never needed Constitutional Conservatives in office more than now. Our state has embraced and is currently implementing so many Progressive stances, our New Hampshire Advantage is turning into a mere phrase of empty words.

We need CONSERVATIVE legislation and we need to educate our citizens on what this actually means for THEM. I believe there is no better legislator than the “regular” citizen who has the desire to make their voice heard. Life-long politicians are not what we need. We need new blood to invigorate the process. WE NEED YOU! For anyone who would like information or has a

35 question regarding possibly running for state office, you can visit http:// sos.nh.gov/Elections.aspx. And, I am also happy to try to answer a question/ concern if you so desire. I can be reached at jane4newhampshire@gmail.com. We need to bring Conservativism back to New Hampshire. YOU are the answer. And, together, we can get the job done!

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