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VOLUME 29, NO. 21

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Live Free Or Die:

Death Is Not The Worst Of Evils.

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Climb To The Clouds Rescheduled

The 2nd New Hampshire Regiment Fights in the 1st Battle of Bull Run.

The National Crisis Of 1861 And New Hampshire’s Response by Robert Hanaford Smith, Sr. Contributing Writer

In May 1868, General John A. Logan, issued a decree that May 30 should become a nationwide day of commemoration for soldiers killed in the recently ended

Civil War. This weekend we remember all our soldiers who have died in battle on Memorial Day. History writer Robert Hanaford Smith, Sr., writes of NH’s initial entry into that war. “... There is no crisis but

an artificial one...I repeat, then, there is no crisis, except such a one as may be gotten up at any time by turbulent men, aided by designing politicians. My advice to them, under the circumstances, is to keep cool.”

Abraham Lincoln was on his way to be inaugurated as the President of the United States and he stopped in some cities and towns and spoke to the people who came out to greet him on his journey. He said the See SMITH on 14

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The Consequences Of Wearing Masks To The Editor: The 2020 pandemic has caused countless issues throughout the world. Anyone responsible for providing food for themselves or a family is no stranger to the shortage of certain items available in stores. Flour is rarely found and baking yeast is missing from the shelves entirely. Bread bakers have taken to creating sourdough starters to replace yeast when baking bread. The two ingredients needed are flour and water, which are placed in either a glass jar or bowl, stirred together, and covered with a cloth. After adding additional water and flour for a six-day period, the starter is ready to use. How does this make a leavening agent for bread baking? Simply by drawing the yeast normally present in our air into the flour and water mixture. I have made this, and it can be used as a replacement for store-bought yeast quite successfully. However, this innocent kitchen experiment proves that a yeast substance covered with a cloth quickly multiplies. The results become better with a tight-fitting cloth and warm temperatures. With every breath we take, we naturally pull this same yeast into our mouths and respiratory system. If we wear masks (even loosely) across our mouths, we will be aiding

in the quick multiplication of yeast. This can cause Oral Thrush, a contagious yeast contamination that can develop in the mouth and throat. It can also cause Trench Mouth, which is a severe gum infection caused by a buildup of bacteria in the mouth that can spread to the cheeks, lips or bones of the jaw. However, yeast is not the only type of fungus found on used masks. A very quick internet search revealed a large number of studies done on the bacteria and fungi levels found on the inside and outside of used surgical masks. All of these studies can be found and read on the U.S. National Library of Medicine: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih. gov/pmc/ The four most common types of bacteria and or fungi found inside and outside masks worn by humans are (and they are some of the deadliest): Staphylococcus, Aspergillus, Streptococcus, and Psuedomonas. We have to ask ourselves if we TRULY understand the consequences of wearing masks and most importantly, do we know what we are doing when we insist on having retail workers wear masks for their entire shift? It is scientifically proven that the masks are ineffective in blocking a virus since their weave or fibers are placed too far apart. Why are the “authorities” offering this as a major solution, and why is the medical profession not at the very least,

informing us about the dangers of trapping and breeding yeast, bacteria, and fungi against our faces with a mask, especially as the temperatures increase? Wouldn’t we need and deserve that information to make a good decision? Tragically, it appears that the bread bakers of the world have far more superior knowledge than those who are supposedly “in charge” of our well-being. Carol Anderson Gilford, NH.

Tax Increases Are Coming

To The Editor: Are the voters in Meredith & Gilford ready for large increases in taxes? Well, they are coming! And they will be like pouring salt on the wounds we have all suffered during the virus shutdown of nearly all activities, private and public. Although prior sessions of our state’s legislature lowered business taxes, which have a major impact on small businesses in our community and state, with state revenues this year being down because of the reduced business activity caused by the shutdown over the virus, there is a very high likelihood that our state will be faced with a significant budget deficit. There already exists an automatic increase in our two business taxes that See MAILBOAT on 27

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It feels as if it were months ago and the weather has certainly taken a turn for the better, but the May 9 snowfall created some unique opportunities for birdwatchers and photographers. I mentioned in last week’s column that we rarely see our late migratory birds in the snow. In fact, I can count on one finger the number of times in my memory it has snowed when these migrants were around — and that one time was last week. The snow was predicted to fall during the night so I was fairly certain it would already be gone by the time I woke up. I got up early and, to my pleasant surprise, snow blanketed all surfaces. I jumped out of bed and headed to the nearest park. How much snow you got depends on where you are in New England. I had only a slight covering where I am and the morning sun was already rising so I had to hurry if I wanted to see these birds with a snowy background. The first bird I was able to see was an ovenbird, a warbler that more resembles a small thrush. He belted out his signature “teacher teacher teacher” call and

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Out Of Ideas T h i s Coronavirus thing has been going on a lot longer than I expected I thought, what, maybe a month, two if things by Brendan Smith were really Weirs Times Editor stretched out? But now we are into the third month and I am starting to get nervous. I mean how long can I keep coming up with ideas for columns about this thing? I’ve done the handshaking, the toilet paper, the social distancing, the handwashing, the whole Flatlander angle and I’ve even used my running for governor routine with the Coronavirus as the theme. This morning I sit here, fresh out of ideas and it doesn’t seem like this thing is going away for awhile. Sure, I could easily just write about a different topic, but no one would be interested in that at all. Everyone just wants to talk about the virus. How many new cases? Is someone working on a cure? Are masks effective or do they do nothing? Should we throw more money at this thing or have we spent way too much already? We have people who aren’t too worried about it and go about their lives while others stay locked in their homes with masks on and their shades drawn too scared to step outside. The biggest issue is about whether or not all businesses should be allowed to reopen. Some say we need businesses to open now before they won’t be able to ever open again. Others say (mostly the ones at home with the shades drawn) that if we open them too soon we will all pay the price.

These are the arguments we hear every day on the news and the ones that we scream about at each other on social media as if they might actually change the mind of those with views opposing ours. (In case you are wondering, they won’t.) Still, with all these arguments, not one time have I ever heard anyone talking about how much of a toll this virus has taken on humor columnists like myself. Maybe I am being selfish, but I’m talking about my livelihood. I can’t simply shut down, put on my mask, stay six-feet away from others, go inside and wash my hands till they crack and peel, and then do nothing. I have a responsibility to sit at this keyboard each week and come up with new humorous ideas about the virus to give people at least some small things to laugh at. It’s a lot easier for those more serious columnists, they have plenty of material to choose from. There’s a left side and a right side to this just like there is to any issue. All they have to do is write about any of the many subcategories of the virus, either defending what’s been done or criticizing what the other side did or didn’t do. This provides them with years of material if the need it. Humor columnists like myself, have a much harder job. We can’t just simply depend on the facts and figures that best suit our agenda, we have to have much more integrity than that. We have to make stuff up. Those of you not in the biz probably think this would be easy. I am here to tell you it is not as it seems. A serious columnist can write about the same subject over and over again when it comes to the virus, but a humorist only gets one shot. Take for example testing, which everyone talks about, but no one really understands. A serious columnist can write one week about lack of testing

and then the next week about inefficient testing and then again about new testing procedures. The humor columnist, on the other hand, can write a funny column about testing one week and he’s done. If he writes about it the next week the readers will say,“He wrote about testing last week. He must be running out of ideas.” So, you see my dilemma. I have already used up all of the good ideas about the virus and I’m left with nothing this week except a whole bunch of other great column ideas that no one will want to read about since it isn’t about whatever this thing is. I have a really good one about the murder hornets, but why waste it? I came up with what I thought would make a really funny yet poignant column about the spiritual implications on the expansion of the universe, but everyone’s too busy yelling back and forth at each other on social media or hiding behind their curtains to pay attention. So, I am sorry to say, I have nothing this week. If you were expecting another witty column from me about the virus, you are out of luck. I am hoping for some new developments over the next week to poke fun at, but not holding my breath. It’s hard to do with a mask on anyway. See you next week. Brendan is the author of “The Flatlander Chronicles” and “Best Of A F.O.O.L In New Hampshire”. His newest book “I Really Only Did It For The Socks -Stories & Thoughts On Aging” will be available later this year. Brendan has also entertained audiences around New Hampshire with his storytelling presentations. To find out more visit his website at BrendanTSmith.com

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How the Obama Administration Protect Your Family Shattered the Rule of Law From Fearmonger Fauci

by Michelle Malkin Syndicated Columnist

This Mother’s Day weekend, my family defied government pandemania. We drove out east from Colorado Springs to the tiny town of Calhan for a lovely little hike in the purple-and-gold-hued Paint Mines archeological district. Unmasked, we basked in the sunshine, fresh air and freedom. The park was teeming with moms like me who put family bonding over “social distancing.” We were not alone -- and that was a

glorious thing. There is nothing public health fossil Dr. Anthony Fauci can do or say to stop me from making the best choices for my children’s health, sanity and resilience. He appeared before the Senate on Tuesday to heckle states like Colorado not to get back to business -- back to life -- too soon and too quickly. “Needless suffering and death” will occur, he told The New York Times. “I think we better be careful (that) we are not cavalier in thinking that children are completely immune from the deleterious effects,” he testified. Irked by Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul’s very necessary reminder that no federal infectious disease bureaucrat is the “end-all” decider of our fate, Fauci warned against reopening schools because children in New York are “presenting with COVID-19 who actually have a very strange inflammatory syndrome, very similar to Kawasaki syndrome.” How dare you accuse us parents of being “cavalier” with our children’s health, Fauci, when you are scaring them with dubious, unverified claims connecting a few cases of an alleged mystery pediatric disease to the coronavirus? How dare you toss around so cavalierly the uncorroborated specter of “Kawasaki syndrome” (a rare but treatable disease) while untold numbers among the 57 million K-12 students suffer from the effects of panic-induced anxiety, depression, phobias and isolation? Here are some actual facts about Fauci’s Kawasaki hype: Peer-reviewed studies over the last several years have identified multiple theories of the inflammatory disease’s etiology, including genetic factors, environmental triggers, superantigens, bacterial infections and viruses. A blinded, case-control retrospective study on kids at Children’s Hospital in Denver investigating whether one strain of human coronavirus infection was a factor among Kawasaki syndrome patients See MALKIN on 28

This week, former President Barack Obama reemerged from hibernation to lecture Americans about the threat to rule of law posed by the Trump administration. After Attorby Ben Shapiro ney General Bill Barr Syndicated Columnist announced that the Department of Justice would be dropping its case against President Donald Trump’s former national security advisor Michael Flynn, who had pled guilty to one count of lying to the FBI, Obama told his former aides, “our basic understanding of rule of law is at risk.” He explained, “There is no precedent that anybody can find for someone who has been charged with perjury just getting off scot-free. ... And when you start moving in those directions, it can accelerate pretty quickly as we’ve seen in other places.” In reality, of course, Flynn was never charged with perjury. He was charged with lying to the FBI in the course of an investigation, a separate and far lesser offense, particularly given the fact that his alleged lie was immaterial to any underlying crime. In fact, as America found out over the past two weeks, Flynn wasn’t supposed to be the subject of any investigation at all: The FBI had decided to close an investigation into Flynn in January 2017, even after supposedly nefarious calls between Flynn and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Disgraced former FBI agent Peter Strzok -- the same man who pledged to lover and former FBI attorney Lisa Page that Donald Trump would never be president and suggested an “insurance policy” against that possibility -- then intervened to keep the investigation open. The next day, during an Oval Office meeting,

President Obama himself asked then-FBI Director James Comey about the FlynnKislyak communications. Next, Comey upped the ante: He avoided following normal FBI-White House protocols in order to interview Flynn, and Comey’s deputy director, Andrew McCabe, avoided informing Flynn of his rights. Nonetheless, the FBI agents who conducted the interview suggested that they did not think Flynn was lying during that interview. As it turns out, notes between top FBI officials at the time said, “What’s our goal? Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?” Flynn would later plead guilty to one count of lying to the FBI -- at least in part because the FBI was threatening his son with prosecution. This should be a massive scandal. It should be a massive scandal because, at the very least, it demonstrates the nation’s chief law enforcement agencies, prompted by political actors at the very top of the government, racing to bend the rules in order to pursue a case they were convinced they would make: the case that the Trump campaign had conspired with the Russian government. From the purposefully botched Carter Page Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant to the absurdly conjured prosecution of Flynn, the most powerful institutions in American life violated the protocols meant to restrict abuse, firmly secure in their own feelings of moral rectitude. That’s the best-case scenario. The worst-case scenario is far darker: that by early January, with no evidence of Russian collusion, leaders of the nation’s political and law enforcement agencies decided that guilt was irrelevant, and that the Trump administration had to be strangled in the crib. This seems like a major stretch, but in a highly partisan era, such a narrative will have legs. See SHAPIRO on 29

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You’ll Freeze In The Dark! Last Sunday, Mother’s Day, made me think how my mom warned me, as a young teen: “Work hard! Or you’ll freeze in the dark!” by John Stossel Sometimes, the Syndicated Columnist w a r n i n g e n d e d , “Or you’ll starve in the cold.” She grew up during the depression. She and her peers were sensibly worried about freezing in the dark. The message scared me, and I worked hard in school.

When I got my first job, I always put some pay in a savings account, even when (OK, it was long ago) I made only $132 a week. I feared a bad future, and I wanted to make sure I could support myself. This wasn’t all good. I’ve probably been too anxious all my life. I missed out on things. I didn’t contribute to charities until I was in my 40s. But fear of “freezing in the dark” made me persevere. I studied when I didn’t want to. Then I took a job that frightened me. I’m a stutterer. Stuttering is now among disabilities covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act.

I wonder, had the ADA been law when I started in TV news, would I have struggled as hard to overcome my stutter? Would I have had the career I’ve had? Probably not. The TV station wouldn’t have hired me. Once the ADA passed, my stutter makes me a member of a “protected class.” The station, reasonably, would have viewed me as potential poison. That’s because if they fired me because I didn’t work out, I might sue. I could have accused them of failing to “accommodate the disabled,” as the law requires. Even if I didn’t win, the lawsuit would be expensive. It’s safer for employ-

ers to avoid members of “protected classes.” Far-fetched? Look at the stats: Before the ADA passed, 59% of disabled men had jobs. After it passed, the number fell to 48%. Today, fewer than 30% have jobs. Once again, a law that was supposed to help people did the opposite of what politicians intended. I think about that when I read about today’s $600/week federal unemployment check subsidies for the coronavirus. Added to average $378 state payments, unemployment now often pays better than working. See STOSSEL on 29

Global Economy Facing Dangerous Shocks After years of consistent economic expansion and growth throughout much of the world, the global economy is by John J. Metzler f a c i n g t e c t o n i c Syndicated Columnist shocks from the COVOD-19 pandemic. For developed states such as the United States and Western Europe, the “unseen enemy” of the virus has shattered economic forecasts and international commerce; for developing countries, the after-shocks of this crisis can be even more lasting as they will fall victim to steep drops in demand and investment.

The global economy is projected to contract sharply by -3.2 percent this year, according to the UN’s World Economic Situation mid2020 report. This sharp contraction, the greatest since the Great Depression of the 1930’s, follows a lackluster original forecast of 2.1 percent growth at the beginning of this year. The Report estimates that GDP growth in the developed economies will plunge to -5.0 percent in 2020. A modest 3.4 percent recovery is expected next year. Significantly, “world trade is forecast to contract by nearly 15 percent in 2020 amid sharply reduced global demand and disruptions in supply chains.” These are stunning statistics and reflect the cruel reality that nearly 90 percent of the world remains on

pandemic lockdown causing catastrophic job cuts and threatening a quick economic revival. There’s an ongoing debate between saving lives and saving jobs. Dr. Elliott Harris, Assistant Secretary General for Economic Development warned that, “The pace and strength of the recovery from the crisis not only hinges on the effect of public health measures in slowing the spread of the virus, but also on the ability of countries to protect jobs and incomes.” Moreover UN officials warn the increase in global economic inequality can lead to instability. Due to the pandemic, the United States has gone from having robust economic growth and historically low unemployment to negative growth and surging

unemployment all in a space of a few months! U.S. growth of 2.9 percent last year is except to fall to -4.8 percent this year but rebound to 3.9. in 2021. The European Union’s growth of 1.8 percent last year will slip to -5.5 this year and only inch up to 2.8 percent in 2021. Equally Japan whose growth in 2019 was a anemic 0.7 percent will fall to -4.2 percent but will then jump to 3.2 percent next year. Looking at East and South Asia, which grew 5 percent on average last year, there’s still a prediction of some growth this year albeit 0.8 percent. China’s growth of 6.1 percent last year is expected to still maintain 1.7 percent this year and then theo- See METZLER on 29

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Most salmon anglers come to Lake Winnipesaukee looking forward to two very distinct times of year for salmon fishing, early spring and late summer. The salmon season runs from April 1st through September 30th each year, and if you ask most any salmon angler when the best months to catch salmon are, you’ll undoubtedly be told April through mid-

The author hopes to get back to guiding salmon anglers by mid-summer. June, and mid-August through September. For most anglers, it’s the ice-out period that drives them to the lake in search of Winnipesaukee chrome. Although the salmon season opens on April first, ice-out isn’t typically declared on Lake Winnipesaukee until around the third week of April. Anglers begin targeting salmon from bridges and docks until there is enough open water for water craft, first kayaks and canoes, and then smaller boats, followed by larger boats. Each day, as more water opens up, more boats take advantage. By May 1st, the lake is taken over by anglers all vying

for their chance at one of New Hampshire’s plump and healthy landlocked Atlantic salmon. Spring is many anglers’ favorite time of year because the salmon are running shallow, following smelt runs and looking to fatten up on concentrations of food. The salmon are hungry, the bite is good, and local bait shops are usually still carrying smelt, which is the preferred bait of most spring salmon anglers. Slowly trolling a live or sewn-on smelt near the surface is a deadly tactic early in the morning. Salmon find them almost irresistible. Some anglers prefer

to troll streamer flies, and those in the know catch as many or more fish with flies as those using live bait. Add a light wind that creates what anglers refer to as “salmon chop” and you’re in for a treat. My guided trips consist almost entirely of trolling live bait early in the season. We catch more fish trolling or drifting smelt than we do with flies, so that’s what I stick with. Our clients come to catch big fish, but they love to see the rods pop out of the downriggers regardless. When only trolling a few feet below the surface, a rod popping out of the downrigger is almost always immediately followed by aerial acrobatics that keep the blood pumping. The limit on Lake Winnipesaukee is two fish, which could easily be filled by 8am most mornings, but many of our clients prefer to catch and release so they can keep fishing. They can’t resist seeing those salmon jumping on the end of their lines, and can’t bear the thought of quitting early. This year things are on the slower side in general, with one year-class of fish making up the bulk of them. We are in a rebuilding phase with the salmon, meaning that efforts are underway to increase the size and numbers of See MOORE on 9

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MOORE from 8 salmon being out into the lake, so the outlook is very promising. As water temperatures increase, a thermocline sets up on the lake and the salmon begin to run deeper in search of cooler more stable water temps. Eventually live smelt become unavailable in the bait shops and we switch to trolling spoons on downriggers and leadcore line. Many anglers love trolling spoons because they can be trolled much faster, allowing you to cover a lot more water, but some will stick with streamers and play with size, pro-

file, and color. Until ice-out is declared, we take bookings as early as May 1. If the lake is free of ice earlier, we start running trips right away. With COVID-19, we still aren’t running trips, but I hear the state reopening task force is working on guidelines for fishing guides that might allow us to reopen and salvage some of the season. Anyway, they say the early bird gets the worm, and that couldn’t be truer on most days of salmon fishing. The fishing is often excellent and when you mix in a few rainbow trout in the

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Stories abound about farmers getting paid by the governments to NOT grow crops—for a variety of reasons. Subsidies abound. Got ethanol? Still, the notion of receiving public money for doing nothing rankles many. Trillions of dollars will be distributed in response to the COVID pandemic. There’s no way it all can be effectively disbursed. Some will receive money who don’t need it. Others in desperate need will miss out. Efficiency is a casualty of emergency. All this is important because we should be very concerned about how much money is suddenly printed and distributed—efficiently or not. The national debt can only grow so much before terrible consequences accrue. And putting trillions of new dollars into the economy can create terrible inflation down the road, with all its associated economic pathologies. Which brings us to our NFL, NHL, NBA, and MLB heroes—none of whom are struggling financially, and most of whom (at this writing) are still being paid. That’s even more intriguing than ethanol support. At least Iowa farmers still have to grow corn to get those subsidies. Los Angeles Dodger

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SMITH from 1 words just quoted at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. At Columbus, Ohio he had said: “It is a good thing that there is no more than anxiety; for there is nothing going wrong...We entertain different views upon political questions; but nobody is suffering anything.” At Independence Hall in Philadelphia Lincoln spoke of the Declaration of Independence that gave liberty to this country and declared “Now in my view of the present aspect of affairs, there need be no bloodshed or war. There is no necessity for it...and I may say in advance, there will be no bloodshed, unless it be forced upon the Government...” But there was a crisis and the country was in a precarious situation with several southern states having withdrawn

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from the Union after the election of President Lincoln and the refusal of northern states to agree to the demands of states which endorsed slavery. The war and bloodshed that the newly elected President thought we could avoid would soon take place. In April of 1861 the President issued a proclamation calling for the states to provide 75,000 men into active military service for the United States of America. New Hampshire’s quota was to be one regiment of 780 men. In response to the instructions delivered to him, New Hampshire Governor Ichabod Goodwin ordered the Adjutant General and Inspector-General of the New Hampshire militia, Joseph C. Abbott to assemble the requested regiment of militia. The order asked for 10 companies of infantry “to See SMITH on 18

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SMITH from 14 be held in readiness to be mustered into the service of the United States for the purpose of quelling insurrection and supporting the government.” The regiment was to include one each of the following officers: Colonel, Lieutenant-Colonel, Major, Adjutant, Quartermaster, Quartermaster-Sergeant, Paymaster, Surgeon, Surgeon’s Mate, Chaplain, Sergeant-Major, DrumMajor, and Fife-Major. Each Company was made up of a Captain, First-Lieutenant, Second-Lieutenant, four Sergeants, four Corporals, two Musicians, and sixty-four Privates. The enlistment period was for 3 months and at that time no one apparently expected that the disagreements between North and South would result in a full-blown war with the devastating loss of lives in what came to be known as the

War of the Rebellion or the Civil War, not because there was much civil about it, but because it was a war of one nation divided and fighting among itself. If we look at the results of a Constitutional Convention held in New Hampshire and the adoption of a new State Constitution in 1792 we find within the Bill of Rights some statements concerning the military. Article 24 said: “A well-regulated militia is the proper, natural, and sure defense of a state.” Article 25 added: “Standing armies are dangerous to liberty, and ought not to be raised, or kept

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up, without the consent of the legislature.” This was followed by the Article 16 assertion that “In all cases, and at all times, the military ought to be kept under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power.” The army regiment that was being raised in New Hampshire was for the defense of the United States, but initially paid by the State at the federal level of eleven dollars per soldier per month besides being “uniformed, armed, and

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Five hundred and twenty-five additional men who enlisted arrived at Fort Constitution between May 26th and 30th. Meanwhile the men of the First NH Volunteer Regiment left Concord on May 25th “bound for the seat of war” further south. They left on a train which consisted of 18 passenger cars and 18 freight cars. The equipment the 1st Regiment had, as they traveled by train to New York and then to Baltimore by boat before going to Washington, D.C., included 16 4-horse baggage wagons, one hospital wagon, 116 horses, uniforms, tents, camp supplies, medical supplies, and 1847 era Springfield muskets. They were commanded by Colonel Mason W. Tappan of Bradford and Lt. Colonel Thomas J. Whipple of Laconia. The national crisis of 1861 caused a lot of excitement in New Hampshire, though its citizens probably did not realize the cost that was going to be paid to bring the unrest in the nation to an end. The people of the State were seemingly generally very supportive of the soldiers who were sent off with cheering and joyous celebrations along with the sadness because of separation from family and the unknowns of the mission. Flags were said to be everywhere, patriotic songs were sung, and in the words of one writer,“bells rang, ministers preached and Christians prayed.” The 1st NH Regiment would be mustered out in August, 1861 as scheduled, though some of their number re-enlisted and served in other regiments.

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interview because it would “make people ‘feel’ a little bit better, and it might even block a droplet, but it’s not providing the perfect protection people think that it is.” Now, he says, face coverings must be a “should be a very regular part” of our daily lives Dutiful reporters ignore the flip-flop, slavishly acting as stenographers for Fauci and the rest of the dishonest “deep state.” “Masks are here to stay,” The Washington Post Lifestyle section chirped last week. To which I say: Hell, no. As a responsible parent and citizen, I will not let terror rule my children’s lives. I speak from heart-wrenching personal experience over the past five years

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nomic free fall in Venezuela, and serious economic contractions in Argentina, Brazil and Chile. Closer to home, Mexico expects a negative growth of -5.4 this year. Poor growth prospects for Mexico and Central America can cause a surge in migration towards the USA as the American economy is expected to robustly recover next year. Without a strong U.S., European Union, and Japanese economic recovery along with vibrant free trade, global growth will stagnate and poverty will increase. Trade, investments and free markets will then begin to turn the tide lifting all boats. 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.

STOSSEL from 7 Incentives matter. “We have not seen an application in weeks,” says Steve Anthony, CEO of the Anthony Timberlands sawmill in Arkansas. He’s offering jobs that pay $800/week. But in Arkansas, federal and state unemployment benefits reach $1,051/ week. Anthony told my TV producer Maxim Lott, “If Congress elects to extend this $600 unemployment bonus, it will simply support a higher level of unemployment.” Lott also interviewed Otis Mitchell Jr., who quit his job transporting hospital patients once he learned about the increase in unemployment benefits. “My little girl is loving it,” said Mitchell, because he has more time to spend with her. But it’s bad for hospital patients who need transportation. Shame on the U.S. government for making unemployment pay better than work. People who lose jobs because government won’t let them work do deserve help. I’m giving more to charities because of that. Charities are able to discriminate -- to discern who really needs help while ignoring

freeloaders. But government is a blunt instrument. Its checks go to people whether or not they try to find work or overcome disabilities. Over time, as people depend on handouts, they often feel that their lives are no longer within their control. They become passive. They don’t push through obstacles. They wait for government help. Social scientists call this “learned helplessness.” It’s the struggle to overcome obstacles that brings fulfillment. When government programs “take care of us,” they kill off some of the best of life and make us much less productive. They don’t even make people happy. If we keep giving the state more power over our lives, we will freeze in the dark. John Stossel is author of “Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media.” For other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www. creators.com.

SHAPIRO from 6 Meanwhile, blithe in the knowledge that they were on the side of the angels, members of the Obama-era government continue to chide Attorney General Bill Barr for ending a charade of a case. Their incredible inability to see how their conduct looks beyond the echo chamber of sycophantic media sources only undermines their credibility further. As it turns out, President Obama isn’t wrong -- at least not entirely. Our basic understanding of the rule of law is at risk, not because Bill Barr stepped in to prevent an unjust prosecution but because our institutions under the Obama administration were politicized in ways that should shock the American conscience. Ben Shapiro, 36, is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of “The Ben Shapiro Show” and editorin-chief of DailyWire. com. He is the author of the No. 1 New York Times bestseller “The Right Side of History.” He lives with his wife and two children in Los Angeles.

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