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We know you anglers are getting anxious to see some more ice on the lakes for this season of ice fishing. You know it will be here, but to get you in the mood our newest column by “A Guide’s Life” columnist Tim Moore provides a few tips on making the most of the experience. Enjoy reading and happy fishing!!

One of the first lessons I teach new anglers and those looking to increase their catch is how to prop-erly match your rod and reel to your line and lure. A properly matched setup allows you to get the most out of the equipment you are using, maximizes the potential of your equip-ment, and allows you to get the most out of it. Will you catch fish with an im-properly matched setup? Sure you will, but you’ll catch more fish, feel your lure, detect more bites,

and ultimately become a better angler if your gear is well-balanced.

Selecting line for use in cold weather presents a unique challenge. Even the best monofilament line has memory, espe-cially when it gets cold. When your line comes off the spool it is going to want to coil. These coils act a springs and can dampen the action you are attempting to produce with your lure. Line coils also prevent you from detecting bites. Your line should be light enough

Ice Rod MatchIngby Tim Moore“A Guide’s Life” Columnist

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Polish up your ice fish-ing skills by taking ad-vantage of two free ice fishing seminars with New Hampshire f ish-ing guide Tim Moore being offered in Con-cord this January at the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department. Moore is the owner of Tim Moore Outdoors.

Moore has ice fished in New Hampshire for more than thirty years and has been featured on NH’s Wildside TV and New Hampshire Chronicle.

Moore is an Ice Team Pro, as well as a mem-ber of Clam Outdoors, Vexilar, Maki Plastics and Daddy Mac Lures

Free Ice Fishing Talks At Fish and Game

Pro Staffs. The talks will begin at 7pm at Fish and Game headquarters, 11 Hazen Drive in Concord, NH.

No pre-registration is necessary.

The schedule for the two classes are: Catch-ing Winter Panfish -- Wednesday, January 20th, at 7pm. Ice Fishing for Lake Trout on Win-nipesaukee -- Wednes-day, January 27th at 7pm.

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Meet Curious George At The Children’s Museum

A mischievous monkey and his tall, faithful friend will be in Dover, NH on Saturday, January 30 from 10am-2pm. Curious George and the Man with the Yellow Hat will be vis-iting the Children’s Museum of New Hampshire to greet young fans and help promote the love of reading.

At the Books Alive event museum staff will be read-ing Curious George stories by Margret and Hans “H.A.” Rey throughout the day. The friendly costumed monkey character, accompanied by the Man with the Yellow Hat, will be popping in and out to greet children, exchange a hug or high-five, and pose for photos. There will also be a variety of monkey-inspired literacy, math and creative activities for children in the mu-seum’s large classroom.

All Books Alive activities are included with regular paid admission to the museum: $10 for adults and children over the age of 1 and $9 for seniors. Museum admission is free for Children’s Museum of NH members and children under 1 year old.

The not-for-profit Children’s Museum of New Hampshire is located at 6 Washington Street in Dover. For more informa-tion, please call the museum at (603) 742-2002 or visit www.childrens-museum.org

Rin Tin Tin In Campton He couldn’t speak. But that was

no handicap for a star during the silent film era. He was Rin Tin Tin, the legendary German Shepherd dog whose popularity rivaled that of any human performer when the movies were brand new.

See for yourself on Saturday, Feb. 6, when the Campton His-torical Society screens a double

feature of vintage Rin Tin Tin silent adventure films with live music by Jeff Raspis.

The evening begins with a pot luck supper at 5 p.m. The film program, which is free and open to the public, will start at about 6:15 p.m.

In ‘Clash of the Wolves’ (1925), Rin Tin Tin plays a wild wolf who befriends a prospector; together they hunt down a criminal intent on jumping the prospector’s claim and stealing his girl.

In ‘The Night Cry’ (1926), Rin Tin Tin is unjustly accused of killing sheep in ranching country; this forces him to flee for his life and hunt down the true killer on his own.

For more details, visit www.camptonhistorical.org. For more info on the music, visit www.jeffrapsis.com.

The Last Waltz In RochesterOn Saturday, February 13 at 8pm, The Rev Tor Band brings

The Last Waltz LIVE, An All-Star Recreation of The Band’s Clas-sic Concert, to the Rochester Opera House stage.

The Last Waltz supplies the perfect soundtrack to bring musi-cians together and strengthen the common bond of music. This show is a community-based event that celebrates the diversity and unique energy of the local music scene. This performance features local favorites like Brett Willson of Roots of Creation, members of High Range and Wellfleet, plus Joe Biedrzycki, Patrick Curry, Doug Decker, Lou Eastman, Tara Greenblatt, Arthur James, Jon King, Rob Kneeland, Mike Morris, Craig Roy, Tom Schena, and Andrea Szirbik.

Tickets are $22-$26 and can be purchased online at Roch-esterOperaHouse.com or call/stop by the box office (603) 335-1992, M/W/F from 10am to 5pm and two hours before the show. Cash bar, under age 18 must be accompanied by legal guardian.

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Laconia Rotary Club’s Indoor Golf Tournamentthe Golf club at Patrick’s Place, 18 Weirs road, Gilford. teams can register for the 4-person scramble event by calling Golf Pro Dan Wilkins at 387-2597. $160 per team, payable by cash or check to Laconia rotary club. open and senior divisions are available.

Thursday 21sT Happy Hour for the Mind and Bodyriverfront Place, 2nd Floor, tilton. 6:30pm-8pm. Life Development strategies invites you to take a break from your busy week to rejuvenate your mind, body, soul and business. to create a more comfortable experience, please bring a pillow and a blanket. Pre-register by calling 724-3417 or email [email protected]

Storytelling Dinnercorner house Inn, 22 Main street, sandwich. 6:30pm. Full dinner and entertainment for just $19.95pp (plus tax and gratuity). Includes; salad, entrée, glass of wine, dessert and coffee. 284-6219 or email at [email protected]

Holycow! Music Triviaholy Grail of the Lakes, downtown Laconia. 6pm-8pm. the addicting tavern game for all ages. each week featuring 50 new artists from all music genres. test your musical knowledge (and luck) while winning cool prizes! [email protected]

Date Night! With Complimentary Babysitting Service during Dinnerthe Wolfeboro Inn, 90 North Main street, Wolfeboro. 5pm-9pm. enjoy dinner at the Inn and enjoy complimentary babysitting while you dine!569-3016

Friday 22nd Holycow! Music TriviaJuniors crush house, Gilford. 8:30pm-10:30pm. the addicting tavern game for all ages. each week featuring 50 new artists from all music genres. test your musical knowledge (and luck) while winning cool prizes. [email protected]

Speed Datingthe Wolfeboro Inn, 90 North Main street, Wolfeboro. 7pm. 8 minute dating. register at www.8minutedating.com 569-3016

The Mallett Brothers BandPitman’s Freight room, 94 New salem street, Laconia. 8pm. $15pp. ByoB. 527-0043 or www.pitmansfreightroom.com

saTurday 23rd David Bromberg Quintetthe Flying Monkey, Main street, Plymouth. www.flyingmonkeynh.com 536-2551

Snowshoe SaunterPrescott Farm, White oaks road, Laconia. 10am-11:30pm or 1pm-2:30pm. $10pp/non-members, $8pp/members. Price includes snowshoe rental. 366-5695 or www.prescottfarm.

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The Fuzzboxx Band – Live Musicthe Wolfeboro Inn, 90 North Main street, Wolfeboro. 8:30pm. 569-3016

Franklin Indoor Community Benefit Yard SalesBargain shop for gently-used, ‘recycled’ items at three locations in Franklin. Franklin high school, 115 central street, compass classical Academy, 15 elkins street and twin rivers Integration Program center, 12 rowell Drive, Bessie rowell community center, all in Franklin. 8am-1pm. 934-8343

Moonlit WalkPrescott Farm, White oaks road, Laconia. 6-7:30pm. $10pp/non-members, $8pp/members. Price includes snowshoe rental. 366-5695 or www.prescottfarm.org

Public Breakfast and Bake Salethe Masonic Building, 410 West Main street, tilton. 7-9:30am. Full breakfast including eggs cooked to order. $8pp. 524-8268

sunday 24Th 19th Annual Robert Burns Nightcorner house Inn, center sandwich. 5:30pm. Join the corner house Inn for a fun evening of verse, song, piping and highland dancing, as well as a delectable scottish dinner! For more information and reservations, call 284-6219 or online at [email protected]

Monadnock Humane Society’s 140th Birthday Celebration!Mhs Guinane training center, 101 West swanzey road, swanzey. 2-3pm. refreshments will be served including homemade cupcakes and whoopee pies. Games for children, live DJ, photo booth and more! A mid-year community update will follow the party at 3pm. 352-9011

Monday 25Th That Reminds Me of a Storyhavenwood Auditorium, 33 christian Ave, concord. 2:15pm. rebecca rule will tell some of her favorite stories of New hampshire and invite the audience members to contribute a few stories of their own. 229-1185

Three Rivers Singers Rehearsal – New Singers WelcomeInspiration Music, river street, Franklin. 6:30pm. three rivers singers would welcome new sAtB voices. this budding group has performed for local events and is eager to grow it’s membership. rehearsals take place every Monday. 934-7163

Wednesday 27Th Friends of the Meredith Library MeetingMeredith Public Library, Main street, Meredith. 3pm. the mission of the Friends of the Meredith Library is to promote library involvement in the community and community involvement in the library.

AAltrusa of Meredith Roast Pork Community DinnerMeredith community center, Meredith. Doors open at 5pm. Dinner served at 5:30pm. the cooks of Altrusa will be preparing a special dinner of succulent roast pork, southern style yam casserole (a member’s treasured family recipe), broccoli and rolls.

Dessert of ice cream and cookies will compliment the meal. All are welcome to attend, donations are greatly appreciated. seating is limited; call 279-9918 to reserve seats.

Welcome Wednesdays at Sant Bani Schoolsant Bani school, 19 Ashram road, sanbornton. 9am-10:30am. Families interested in an independent, child-centered education are invited to come tour the facility, drop in for Q & A , coffee and cookies. 934-4240

Weekly Cribbage TournamentPatrick’s Pub and eatery, Gilford. 7pm. every Wednesday night through May 25th. $10pp with weekly cash prizes. 998-1418

Thursday 28Th The Stampede feat. Donna the Buffalo & Ben Cohenthe Flying Monkey, Main street, Plymouth. www.flyingmonkeynh.com 536-2551

Happy Hour for the Mind and Bodyriverfront Place, 2nd Floor, tilton. 6:30pm-8pm. Life Development strategies invites you to take a break from your busy week to rejuvenate your mind, body, soul and business. to create a more comfortable experience, please bring a pillow and a blanket. Pre-register by calling 724-3417 or email [email protected]

Storytelling Dinnercorner house Inn, 22 Main street, sandwich. 6:30pm. Full dinner and entertainment for just $19.95pp (plus tax and gratuity). Includes; salad, entrée, glass of wine, dessert and coffee. 284-6219 or email at [email protected]

Holycow! Music Triviaholy Grail of the Lakes, downtown Laconia. 6pm-8pm. the addicting tavern game for all ages. each week featuring 50 new artists from all music genres. test your musical knowledge (and luck) while winning cool prizes! [email protected]

Network with FusionPatrick’s Pub and eatery, Gilford. 5:30-7:30pm. this event is a great way to form new relationships and strengthen existing ones in a fun environment with a dynamic group of individuals that are making a difference in the communities they serve. $15pp includes; delicious buffet style hors d’ oeuvres, beer and wine samples, giveaways and the incredible opportunity to expand your social and business circles. reservations requested. register at www.fusionnh.org

Friday 29Th Holycow! Music TriviaJuniors crush house, Gilford. 8:30pm-10:30pm. the addicting tavern game for all ages. each week featuring 50 new artists from all music genres. test your musical knowledge (and luck) while winning cool prizes. [email protected]

Music Trivia with Jeff Linesthe Wolfeboro Inn, 90 North Main street, Wolfeboro. 8pm. 569-3016

saTurday 30Th Candie Tremblay – Live Music

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Christine Rudolph and her family. Standing (L to R) Roy Edgar Roy, Michael Campione, Frank Rudolph, Christine Rudolph, David Rudolph, Jessica Rudolph, Dominic Rudolph (baby). Kneeling: Londynn Campione, Kimberly Rudolph, Remzey Campione, Josiah Estrada, Justine Campione and Sophia Rudolph.

On December 16th, 2015, Christine Cam-pione-Rudolph and her family received unexpect-ed and earth shattering news, Christine had pos-sibly only a few days to live as she was diagnosed with stage four lung can-cer which had already spread to her liver, vocal cords and skull.

Christine decided on a course of chemotherapy which wasn’t to be a cure but to give her the extra time she needed to get her affairs in order at her business, at home and with her work within the community.

The news of Christine’s illness and now short win-dow of life has shocked the Belmont communi-ty where Christine has owned Brookside Pizza and The Tap Public House for the past sixteen years.

Her unyielding compas-sion and benevolence to-wards so many in the town has changed lives.

“She’s our mom,” said her daughter, Kimberly Rudolph. “But really she has mothered so many more people than just us”

Christine moved to New Hampshire from Brook-lyn, New York in 1984 when she was seventeen years old with her son, Michael Campione. In 1985 she married Frank Rudolph and over the next few years, Kimberly and brother David completed the family.

In 2000, Christine took a job at Brookside Pizza where she eventually be-came a partner and then owner. The successful business expanded when a video store next door closed and the space was used to expand the busi-ness and open the Tap Public House.

But it wasn’t Christine’s excellent business sense that will mark her legacy in Belmont, but what she did to change so many lives and truly make a dif-ference.

“She hired a lot of the younger kids in town from middle and high school and gave them their first jobs,” said Kimberly. “She really helped them get their feet wet in the job market and learn good work ethics. Many of them still stop into the restau-rant to thank her for the one on one training and encouragement she gave them, making sure they did better in school so they would do well once they graduated.”

Christine made it a pri-ority to help low income families in the area, al-ways providing jobs to those who needed one and making sure that there was food for those

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To The Editor:I fear for our country.The absentee ballots are

in the mail for our First In The Nation presiden-tial primary to be held on February 9. Seldom in our country’s history has who is to be the nominee been more important.

The late famous conser-vative thinker and writer, William F. Buckley, once wrote what later became known as the “Buckley Rule,” which said some-thing to the effect that a conservative should vote for the most conservative candidate in a primary who can actually win in a general election. That has never been more true than at this time.

There is seldom, if ever, an election in which one is able to find a candidate with whom the voter and the candidate agree on every issue. It is usually a matter of voting for the lesser of the evils.

We have an “open” pri-mary in which voters who have registered as unde-clared as to political party can request a primary bal-lot for either party. Thus, the wise political strategy in this election cycle is for supporters of Hillary Clinton to register as un-declared, request a Repub-lican primary ballot, and vote for the Republican candidate who is least likely to beat Hillary.

If the Republican nomi-nee is unable to beat Hil-lary Rodham Clinton in the General Election in No-vember, imagine what her presidency will be like:

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point (for life) several Jus-tices to the US Supreme Court, for several of the existing Justices are ill and old. Imagine whom she will appoint: How about that well-known constitutional law pro-fessor, Barack Hussein Obama? How about one or more of her closest confidants and advisors, Huma Mahmood Abedin (wife of the infamous ex-congressman and serial sexter Anthony Weiner), or Sidney Blumenthal? How about John Kerry or even William Jefferson Clinton (a disbarment should not stand in his way)?

What would her cabi-net look like? Take some guesses. No matter how improbable, you will prob-ably be fairly close to what would actually happen.

These are only some of the issues that cause me great fear and should con-cern every American.

Although Donald Trump may have touched several chords by voicing a num-ber of statements that reflect what many typical Americans actually think and feel, his nomination as the Republican nomi-nee to run against Clinton will insure a victory for her.

Trump was a Democrat before he was a Repub-lican, and he espouses numerous viewpoints that are at odds with conser-vative and/or libertarian American values. For ex-ample, he has, on national television, said that he “loves” eminent domain,” which is when the govern-ment takes your private property, supposedly for

public use, but sometimes to turn over the property to private real estate develop-ers, like Trump, for private for-profit development.

No matter how much Trump supporters might fantasize about a Trump win, in reality Trump sim-ply cannot win in a general election, because to win the candidate must have sufficiently broad appeal to attract votes from the so-called “middle of the road” voters, who are nei-ther doctrinaire Democrats or Republicans. Trump has the highest negatives of any candidates, mean-ing that he has the highest number of people answer-ing polls who say that could never vote for him.

Thus, I urge my fellow Republicans, declared or undeclared, and my fellow Americans who would not like to see another Clinton administration and what it would do to our great country, to refrain from selecting Trump as the Republican nominee, and pick a candidate who is a true conservative with the personality and tempera-ment to have broad appeal to all voters.

My candidate is my former law partner and friend, Marco Rubio. He is not a bully. He is not a reality show star. He does not take great pleasure in shouting out to someone on national TV that they are fired. Not only is he a true conservative but he plays well with others.

Norman J. SilberGilford, NH.


I have a really great idea for a very funny col-umn about the upcoming presidential primary, but as I sit down to write it’ll know I am totally at the mercy of my laptop.

Will it perform as it is intended, to turn on and make me wait a few seconds; a few seconds I can use to get my ideas I order, or will it decide that it’s time for one of its obnoxious updates and put a kink into my writing schedule?

Will all go smoothly without a hiccup or will I have to spend the next ten minutes to a half hour or more watching the circle in the middle of my laptop’s screen endlessly chasing its own tail, and if so, will I be able to retain the ideas that are in my head for this column or will I lose them?

There is not much I can do when my laptop needs to update. I look at it as my laptop’s elec-tronic call of nature. The urgency of the update is something that I can’t feel, but I start to think that maybe the laptop can and needs to act im-mediately.

What are these updates anyway? I would assume that their purpose is to see to it that my laptop is running more smoothly; that it is able to pro-cess things smoother and faster. (Except, obvi-ously, the updates them-selves.)

When the update no-

tice rears its ugly head, I sigh. I know it could be quite a while until I am allowed access to my laptop’s function. Still, it implores me that under no circumstances what-soever am I to turn off the computer during the process of the update.

I comply, even though at times I am frustrated enough to do so. I am ready with my ideas and, with a cup of hot coffee in hand, excited to do battle with words, but it often won’t let me go to work immediately. When this happens, I am often tempted to go against the orders I see on the screen and just turn the thing off anyway.

Still, I stop and think. It’s a habit of mine.

I assume that my lap-top is receiving its orders from a place far away. A place I envision that is full of wires and electric-ity and people with coke bottle glasses who are telling it it is time for its update. I could be wrong, but it I like the scenario.

So, I think, it is not nec-essarily the fault of my laptop. It is possible that my laptop isn’t thrilled about the updates either. Maybe it feels some sort of weird electrical pain as the updates happen and, if interrupted and needed to be started over again, the pain is even worse. So, it implores me when I turn it on, not for any reason whatsoever turn it off because it will only be worse for the laptop.

If I turn it off, maybe I will be acting selfish and heartless and not think-ing of my laptop but only of myself. So, I don’t. Instead I watch it chase its tail and start to think crazy things like maybe my laptop has feelings and I need to be consid-erate of what may or may not be real.

Then these b izarre thoughts carry to oth-

er electronic devices as well. Did my tablet feel pain when I accidentally dropped it on the floor? Did my keyboard at work suffer greatly when I in-advertently spilled hot coffee all over it? Was my cell phone feeling dis-tress when I was forget-ful and left it behind at the restaurant only to be confiscated by the host-ess and placed in a dark box with other forgot-ten things until I came back the next morning to claim it?

Then it occurs to me that maybe life was eas-ier when we didn’t have all of this technology. Sure, the way we do some things might be slower but the psychological pressure we might begin to feel if we were to think crazy thoughts like there is a different plane of existence for our gadgets might not be worth it.

Of course, I may be the only one who is thinking this way and, of course, I would never even have these thoughts cross into my head if my laptop didn’t have to go through its obnoxious routine of its random updates and if I had never seen 2001: A Space Odyssey.

So, I press the on but-ton and wait a few sec-onds. All seems to be fine, but I’ve fallen for this trap before. I know better than for get too confident or smug. Plus, all this thinking has giv-en me a headache and I need to lie down for a bit.

I guess my great col-umn about the primary will just have to wait un-til next week.

Brendan welcomes your comments as [email protected]. His website is www.BrendanTSmith.com

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On Thurs-d a y , C N N will host a t o w n h a l l with Presi-dent Obama as part o f h is “ f ina l -year push to make gun control part of his lega-cy.” In addi-

tion to sitting down with liberal anchor Anderson Cooper, the network says Obama will “take questions from the audience.”

Uh-oh. Get out your best prun-ing shears and trowels. In an age of micromanaged partisan stagecraft and left-wing media enablers, there is no such thing as a spontaneous question.

CNN has a long history of al-lowing political plants to flourish in its public forums.

At the cable station’s Demo-cratic debate in Las Vegas in 2007, moderator Wolf Blitzer introduced several citizen ques-tioners as “ordinary people, un-decided voters.” But they later turned out to include a former Arkansas Democratic director of political affairs, the president of the Islamic Society of Nevada, and a far left anti-war activist who’d been quoted in newspa-pers lambasting Harry Reid for his failure to pull out of Iraq.

At a CNN/YouTube GOP debate two weeks later, the everyday, “undecided voters” whose ques-tions were chosen included:

--A member of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transexual Americans For Hillary Clinton Steering Committee.

--A young woman named “Jour-ney” who questioned the candi-dates on abortion and whom CNN failed to properly identify as an outspoken John Edwards

supporter.--A supposed “Log Cabin Re-

publican” who had declared his support for Obama on an Obama ‘08 campaign blog.

--A supposedly unaffiliated “concerned mother” who was actually a staffer and prominent Pittsburgh union activist for the United Steelworkers -- which had endorsed Edwards for presi-dent.

--A supposed “undecided” vot-er who urged Ron Paul to run as an independent, but who had al-ready publicly declared his sup-port for former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson’s Democratic presidential bid.

--A staffer for Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.; a former intern for Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., and a former intern for the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

Once a manipulative gardener, always a manipulative gardener. During the push for Obamacare, Democrat plants spread like kudzu across town hall propa-ganda events. At White House “citizen town halls” in 2009, Team Obama hand-picked not-so-random “random” question-ers who included:

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I w a s r e a d -ing the Union Leader on Janu-ary 11 and came across a submis-sion from Keith Howard, Execu-tive Director of Liberty House in Manchester, NH. His article really

struck home for me and I sus-pect for many other small gov-ernment loving folks as well.

In this article, Mr. Howard tells the story of how his nonprofit or-ganization turned down funding from the federal government. It seems HUD (Housing and Ur-ban Development) used to fund Liberty House approximately $40,000 per year as Liberty House provides housing, food, and clothing to vets and others in dire need. As Mr. Howard writes, “NONPROFITS don’t often turn down money. When they do, it deserves explanation.” Indeed.

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how it was necessary for Liberty House to decline the funding as “…it is the right thing to do, and necessary to maintain our core principles.” Wow. Imagine that. Standing up for core principles. Kudos to Liberty House. Good for you.

As many of you know, when you take that “free money” (our own tax dollars, mind you) you also have to abide by the many federal stipulations of this mon-ey. Under HUD’s “Housing First” program, Liberty House would have been unable to enforce its “clean and sober facility”. Mr. Howard explains, “Liberty House provides housing for 10 vets, food for 100-150 people per month – veterans or not, and clothing for anyone who comes to our door in need…As a formerly homeless vet myself, I am proud to spend my days working with men and women trying to return to the mainstream. I’m also a recover-ing alcoholic and heroin addict, and Liberty House is a clean and

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I n r e c e n t years, a small but g rowing number of peo-ple have advo-cated a conven-tion of states to propose amend-ments to the

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The political left has been espe-cially vehement in its denuncia-tions of what they call “messing with the Constitution.” A recent proposal by Governor Greg Abbott of Texas to hold a Constitutional convention of states has been de-nounced by the Texas branch of the American Civil Liberties Union and nationally by an editorial in the liberal “USA Today.”

The irony in all this is that no one has messed with the Consti-tution more or longer than the political left, over the past hun-dred years.

This began with Progressives like Woodrow Wilson, who openly declared the Constitution an impediment to the kinds of “re-forms” the Progressive movement wanted, and urged judges to “in-terpret” the Constitution in such a way as to loosen its limits on federal power.

It has long been a complaint of the left that the process of amend-ing the Constitution is too hard, so they have depended on fed-eral judges -- especially Supreme Court Justices -- to amend the

Constitution, de facto and piece-meal, in a leftward direction.

This judicial amendment pro-cess has been going on now for generations, so that today govern-ment officials at the local, state or national level can often seize pri-vate property in disregard of the 5th Amendment’s protections.

For nearly 40 years, the Su-preme Court has been evading the 14th Amendment’s provision of “equal protection” of the law for all, in order to let government-imposed group preferences and quotas continue, under the name of “affirmative action.”

Equal rights under the law have been made to vanish by saying the magic word “diversity,” whose sweeping benefits are simply as-sumed and proclaimed endlessly, rather than demonstrated.

The judicial pretense of merely “interpreting” the Constitution is just part of the dishonesty in this process. The underlying claim that it is almost impossible to amend the Constitution was be-lied during the very years when the Progressive movement was getting underway in the early 20th century.

The Constitution was amended four times in eight years! Over the years since it was adopted, the Constitution has been amended more than two dozen times. Why, then, is the proposal to call a convention of states to propose -- just propose -- amendments to the Constitution considered such a radical and dangerous depar-ture?

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In a preachy and often pedantic address, the President often fol-lowed the path of poignant parti-sanship as if this was not a policy address but a political campaign speech. Set to the backdrop of the ongoing U.S. presidential cam-paign, the speech naturally re-flected the Democrat/Republican divide but let’s face it, the President himself has encouraged much of this political and group balkaniza-tion.

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people’s genuine frustrations over the economy, global terrorism, do-mestic security and Washington’s political gridlock were overlooked.

Interestingly, President Obama’s final State of the Union address marked a new record low in TV and cable viewership, according to Nielsen ratings.

Thus when the President moved from his self-congratulatory “happy talk” about the American economy and stubbornly defended his con-troversial Obama Care medical insurance policies, the fog of for-eign policy enveloped parts of the discourse.

“In today’s world, we’re threat-ened less by evil empires and more by failing states,” he intoned.

“Priority number one is protecting the American people and going after terrorist networks. Both al Qaeda and now ISIL pose a direct threat to our people,” but then echoed his Republican predecessor by saying, ”When you come after Americans, we go after you. It may take time, but we have long memories, and our reach has no limit.”

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“ R e s i s -tance is fu-tile!” Any-one famil-iar with the Star Trek universe will r e c o g n i z e that threat as coming f r o m t h e Borg (and

will know that for some reason, in the 24th century, it’s pronounced FEW-tile). For non-Trekkies: Borg are an evil collective race with a single queen directing billions of cybernetic warrior drones. Their goal is to assimilate other species in order to increase their own power. Under the Borg, free will, self-determination, and

choice do not exist. All resistance is crushed.

While the Department of Educa-tion isn’t as powerful as the Borg queen, and the leaders of the NEA and AFT unions only sometimes resemble cybernetic drones, they all work against the educa-tion choice movement, intent on crushing resistance. Thankfully, in 21st century America, resis-tance to the Big Education col-lective is not futile. Next week is National School Choice Week (24 – 30 January), a celebration of choice and the self-determination of families looking for the best educational opportunities for their children.

Choice Week is billed as a “nonpartisan, nonpolitical public awareness effort.” And it should be, since the focus is on the needs

of children. Yet in 2015, of the 21 governors who issued proclama-tions recognizing the celebration, only one was a Democrat. In D.C. and in Concord, support for edu-cation choice is generally split along partisan lines.

A simple idea: Parents should be free to choose how their chil-dren are educated, and the edu-cation options should not be

biased in favor of one method or organization. To the education collective, that statement is her-esy and a threat. The individual needs of children don’t matter as much as the needs of a particular system. Power matters. To the collective, competition bred by choice is an anathema. But to parents, education isn’t a power


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The clearing of farmland and rapid urbanization in the United States elimi-nated thousands of natural nesting sites which led to the decline in purple mar-tin populations. Fifty years ago, J.L. Wade launched a program to educate the public about the benefit of providing purple martin houses in towns and cities to combat mosquitoes with-out the customary spraying that was standard in many metropolitan areas. The Nature Society was formed in Griggsville, Illinois which can now proclaim itself as the purple martin capital of the world.

Martin migration starts from Brazil around late January, depending on which part of the North-ern Continent you live in. Mature male birds, known as scouts, usually are the first to reach their proven breeding grounds from the previous year. Legend has it that these scouts determine the food supply and housing in an existing area and fly back to South America to guide the return of the flock. In reality, the first arrivals simply know the value of selecting the best nesting site for suc-cessful breeding purposes.

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On January 6th in the year 1800 a meeting was held at the home of Cap-tain Peter Hanaford in ru-ral New Hampton, NH and a church consisting of 64 members was founded. This was the result of re-vival meetings that were held in the neighborhood in the fall of 1799 by Rev-erend Winthrop Young, a Baptist preacher from the town of Canterbury, NH. Rev. Young, also a teacher and militia cap-tain, was well-known for his speaking abilities, aided no doubt by his deep voice, tall figure, and admirable manners. His revival meetings were held in the neighborhood homes and the district school-house.

Rev. Young was of the Freewill Baptist denomi-nation, a group that was founded in New Durham under the leadership of Elder Benjamin Randall in 1780 and quickly spread throughout New England as revival meetings were held in different loca-tions. The New Hampton church continued to grow as the revival continued and even though there was no church building the New Hampton church persuaded the Freewill Baptists to hold their Quarterly Meeting in their town, using the building

used as a church by the Congregationalists and a town house for town meetings by the town offi-cials. Today and for many years past it serves only as the town house.

“Freewill Baptist History ” by Rev. I.D. Stewart tells us about that May meeting in the Spring of 1800. A group of about 40 Christians on their way to the Quarterly meeting ar-rived at Meredith (now Laconia) at the home of Samuel Crockett just be-fore noon and stopped for two hours where they engaged in “…cooking, eating, prayer, singing, and devout conversation.” They then continued to Meredith where a meeting was held in the orchard of Deacon Pease. The next morning they continued on their journey number-ing a hundred people, all on horseback, and rode for a couple hours until they reached their des-tination. Stewart wrote: “As they approached all united in a song of praise. The hills and woods re-sounded with the song and the effect upon them-selves and those at the house of God who bade them welcome was pe-culiarly impressive. The business of meeting soon commenced and the most beautiful of order was ob-served through the whole audience of 500 in num-ber. As they reassembled

the next day it is said the glory of God so filled the house that there was no room to enter upon busi-ness for the space of two hours and upwards. The scene was indescribably glorious.”

In July of 1802 a lot was purchased for the purpose of constructing a meeting house for the Freewill Baptist Church and the building was first used in December of that year when the first elders and deacons were ordained. Simeon Dana was one of those elders. Dr. Dana was a graduate of Dart-mouth College; he was a physician and when he arrived in New Hampton at the age of 22 to practice his profession he also of-fered to teach in the dis-trict school. He became such a prominent man in the community and the church that the church building is now known as the Dana Meeting House and the road that goes by it is now called Dana Hill Road. He was converted and baptized at the time of Winthrop Young’s re-vival meetings and has had his life summed up by the words, “ He went about doing good.” His home was a mile above the church at the top of the hill and it has been said that every evening a candle was placed on

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It seems that “Housing First” is a policy to supply housing to the homeless with NO expectation of sobriety, treatment, com-pliance or mandated ser-vices. Once these folks are housed in Liberty House, they can continue to use drugs and alco-hol.

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So, once again, the be-hemoth of bureaucracy within HUD knows what is BEST – even when they are clearly WRONG. The success of Liberty House has been based on taking addiction issues seriously and meeting them head on. In fact, as Executive Director, Mr. Howard has taken a 50% cut in salary until that $40,000 fund-ing loss has been made up. Quite a gentleman – quite an organization.

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the other day that they’d rather go al l in with Trump than nominate Ted Cruz. They hate him. They think that Trump is an opportunist they can cut a deal with while

Cruz is the true blue con-servative. And it is. They know it.

“The Politico ran a story the other day that report-ed House Republicans fear Cruz would destroy down ballot races. Why? Because they took a poll on Donald Trump and it showed Donald Trump would destroy the GOP down ballot. Perverse-ly, they read the poll to mean Cruz would be terrible for them.http://theresurgent.com/this-is-how-much-the-gop-e s t a b l i s h m e n t - a n d -donor-class-hate-ted-cruz/?utm_source

The Iranian degrada-tion of our sailors in the Persian Gulf is only the latest military, and po-litical coup by our en-emies over a feckless and disgraced POTUS. After the Iranians obtain their $150 billion dollar payout, the Ayottollah Khameni has, all but told us, Iran will disrupt the oil lifeline in the Straits of Hormuz. Why do you think Iran is shooting missiles near the USS HARRY TRUMAN?

Chinese Communist continue to build an iso-lated island in the South China Seas militarily de-signed to interfere with a significant percentage of world trade and to stra-tegically restrict our ac-cess to defend one of the most crucial sea lanes in global commerce.

Vladimir Putin is biding his time and conspir-ing with the Iranians and Chinese to unleash a coordinated strategic strike against the US which may involve a Rus-sian Communist take-over of Ukraine when Iran moves to close the Straits of Hormuz. The Chinese Communist at the same time will allow North Korea to engage in highly provocative mili-tary movements against

South Korea.All this will occur while

POTUS releases the worst terrorist in the world back into society and turns Guantanamo over to the Castro brothers. ISIS will probably strike Disney World and/or the Mall of America at the same time. Obama will be on another apology tour and campaigning to be Sec-retary General of the UN between rounds of golf. After all, he has fulfilled his promises to Putin, the Ayottollahs and the Chinese. We hope we are wrong, but all of this is very plausible.

******** Friday 1/15: Last

night, Chris Christie real-ly told a lot of lies. Some were small, but some were whoppers, like say-ing New Jersey dumped Common Core.Christie said, “And on Common Core, Common Core has been eliminated in New Jersey.” All Christie did in New Jersey was set up some committees to re-view Common Core. One main committee has 24 people on it and there are several subcommittees with around 70 people on them. One can safely bet that the only thing to come out of this commit-tee is a rebranded version of Common Core. Let’s take a walk though time on Chris Christie’s shift-ing positions on Common Core, shall we? http://stopcommoncorenc.org/christie-outright-lied-about-common-core-at-the-gop-debate/

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an bobsledder and former Olympic Champion Kail-lie Humphries— wearing socks bearing the phrase “girl power” — recently became the first person to drive an all-female team against men in a four-person World Cup bobsled race at Mount Van Hoev-enberg near Lake Placid, N.Y.

The sports world is be-coming ever-more fem-inized. Consider centu-ry-old photos of crowds at baseball venues like Fenway Park. The stands were almost entirely filled with male spectators, most of them wearing ties and quaint straw hats. Modern photos of Fenway Park now show crowds that are about 40% female, with those ubiquitous pink caps.

The feminization of sports continues unabated. Even NFL players regularly don pink apparel to show support for breast cancer awareness. And the most recent Sports Illustrated “Sportsperson of the Year” was female—Serena Wil-liams.

Being of a certain age, I’m tempted to say “You’ve come a long way, baby!” to sports women every-where. But that might be considered a touch con-descending, as that was a 1968 marketing slogan to celebrate thinner Phillip Morris cigarettes for wom-en. Virginia Slims sup-posedly allowed women to smoke without losing their femininity. Virginia Slims eventually became a prime sponsor of its namesake women’s tennis tour.

Billy Jean (Moffitt) King was a prime mover behind that tour. That pioneering tennis star did more than anyone else to promote women’s sports.

As a freshman at UNH in ’73 I watched King and Bobby Riggs tangle in the “Battle of the Sexes” tennis classic. The men of Alex-ander Hall congregated in from the dorm lobby TV, hoping to see Riggs domi-nate King. A young woman walked through the lobby just before the event and was good-naturedly booed. (“There’s the enemy!”) I’m sure the situation was re-versed in the women’s resi-dence halls.

King, of course, crushed Riggs and the world was forever changed.

Congress earlier passed Title IX and that legisla-tion resulted in billions of dollars of investments in women’s sports.

It may be hard for fe-males today to imagine a time without NHIAA girls tournaments, but girls could not compete for state titles until the seventies, although there’d been boys’ tournaments since 1922.

Women have also gone on to own professional sports teams, drive in NASCAR events, serve as television sports anchors and write sports columns. On and on.

The San Antonio Spurs made history in 2014 when they hired Becky Hammon as the first full-time NBA assistant coach.

A n d w h i l e K a i l l i e Humphries’ bobsled team finished last in the afore-mentioned competition,

the fact that the team was competing at all made his-tory. Someday Humphries and company will likely tri-umph, and that’s OK with me. May the best bobsled-ders win!

And someday we will also have a woman president of the United States. And that’s fine too.

Just so long as it doesn’t happen in 2016. Or I’ll eat my straw hat!

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The list of donations and sponsorships that Chris-tine has been involved with includes: Belmont Police Department, DARE Program, Belmont Explor-ers, Belmont Football, The Santa Fund, Belmont Library, Belmont Summer Reading Program, Bel-mont Elementary, Middle and High School Func-tions (Movie Nights), Year-book and Spanish Club,

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Since Christine’s diag-nosis, and with the added time that the chemother-apy treatments are giving here, she has been orga-nizing the details of her business, which will be run by her son Michael, while spending most of her time between her home and the hospital.

She has even taken it upon herself to plan her own funeral, write her own obituary and pick out her own burial plot so as not to have that be a bur-den on her family.

“The support system that she has here in Bel-mont is amazing,” said Kimberly. “So many peo-ple have been reaching out to help and to have last words and time with her, but it has been al-most impossible to meet everyone. We are all going to miss her”

One of the customers has created a GoFundMe account which Christine insists not be used for her benefit but to instead go to towards her scholarship fund. Anyone wishing to donate can go to www.go-fundme.com/b2frr752

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Partly as a result of the Administration’s nuclear “deal” with Te-heran, the Arab states led by Saudi Arabia remain fearfully ner-vous about American commitment and their political future.

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While Obama pushes his Trans Pacific Part-nership (TPP) trade ini-tiative with East Asia,

the wider context of Far Eastern security was left unanswered; namely Washington’s clear and unambigu-ous commitment to defense in South Ko-rea and Japan.

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Obama gave himself a political pat on the back for opening dip-lomatic relations with Cuba, one of the entire Hemisphere’s last dic-tatorships.

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sowell from 7vention of states among the ways that amendments can be officially proposed. It has not yet been done, but these proposals will have to be put to a vote of the states, three-fourths of whom will have to agree before any amendment can become law.

Is it better to have the Constitution amended de facto by a 5 to 4 vote of the Supreme Court? By the unilateral actions of a president? By administra-tive rulings by anonymous bureaucrats in federal agencies, to whom federal judges “defer”?

The idea that a conven-tion of states could run amok and rewrite the Con-stitution overlooks the fact that it would take the votes of two-thirds of the states just to con-vene a convention, and then three-fourths of the states to actually pass an amendment.

Far from proposing radi-cal departures from the Constitution, most of Gov-ernor Abbott’s proposed amendments would re-store Constitutional pro-tections that have been surreptitiously eroded by unelected federal judges and by unelected bureau-crats in administrative agencies, who create a major part of “the law of the land,” with the help of “deference” from federal judges.

Why are “We the People” to be kept out of all this, through our elected repre-sentatives, when these are the very words with which the Constitution of the United States begins?

Despite the left’s portray-al of themselves as cham-pions of the people, they consistently try to move decisions out of the hands of the general public and into the hands of officials insulated from the voters, such as unelected federal judges and anonymous bureaucrats with iron-clad job protection.

No wonder they don’t want to have a conven-tion that would restore a Constitution which begins with “We the People.”

Thomas Sowell’swebsite is www.tsowell.com.

play, and children should be at the center of the education universe. For NH’s children, competition aided by our education tax credit scholarship pro-gram provides choices…and hope.

In a 2010 New York Times op-ed, author and political scientist Charles Mur-ray wrote: “There are mil-lions of parents out there who don’t have enough money for private school but who have thought just as sensibly and care just as much about their children’s education as af-fluent people do. Let’s use the money we are already spending on education in a way that gives those parents the same kind of choice that wealthy people, liberal and conser-vative alike, exercise right now. That should be the beginning and the end of the argument for school choice.”

As logical and compel-ling as Murray’s point is, it is neither the beginning nor the end of the argu-ment because in politics, power plays trump logic. Nowhere is that more clear than in the poor neigh-borhoods of Washington, D.C., just blocks from the White House. President Obama has long opposed the District’s Opportunity

Scholarship Program that, since its creation under President Bush in 2004, has provided hope to hun-dreds of families locked into the most expensive yet most clearly failing public school system. Sadly, the funding didn’t make it into the budget deal passed in December, so parents in our nation’s capital must fight for the ability to exercise “the same kind of choice that wealthy people” – includ-ing the President – exer-cise now.

In NH, the usual drones remain opposed to our ed-ucation tax credit schol-arship program. Putting the interests of a system ahead of the people it is meant to serve, they work to keep the playing field tilted in favor of parents wealthy enough to exer-cise choice. On the cam-paign trail Sen. Ted Cruz called education choice the “civil rights issue of the 21st century.” He’s right. And in this struggle, it’s mostly the GOP stand-ing with lower-income families who wish to exer-cise the same choices the rich take for granted.

Economist Stephen Moore recently wrote that “a quality education is the best anti-poverty pro-gram ever invented” and “the best path to reduc-ing income inequality.” Choice advocates believe that parents should be the arbiters of what is best for their kids educa-tionally; opponents think that decision should be left to the education “elite” and opportunities should be circumscribed by Zip Code.

National School Choice Week events are planned across the state. The goal is to raise public aware-ness of education options and to help parents exer-cise their options. Even if you don’t have school-aged children, this civil rights issue is worth your time and attention. As we approach Primary Day, ask those asking for your vote if they stand with children and choice.

Ken can be reached at [email protected]

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daughter of a coordinator of Massachusetts Women for Obama who had do-nated thousands of dol-lars to the campaign, as had her law firm em-ployer.

Using young people as horticultural conduits to shape narratives wasn’t an Obama invention, of course. Last week, Hil-lary Clinton’s town hall events featured two chil-dren reading scripted questions on gender pay equity and guns. The campaign balked at ac-cusations that they would exploit kids and manu-facture questions.

But this is the campaign of the former secretary of state whose staff bragged in emails released last fall that it had “plant-ed” questions with CBS News’s “60 Minutes” in 2011.

And this is the woman whose 2008 presidential campaign staff admitted to providing prefab que-ries to a Grinnell College

Malkin from 6 gorrell from 7student in Iowa. Muriel Gallo-Chasanoff exposed how a senior Clinton staffer approached her with “a binder with pre-written questions.” She told CNN -- attention, CNN! -- that the “top one was planned specifically for a college student. ... It said ‘college student’ in brackets and then the question.”

Gallo-Chasanoff con-ceded to asking the ques-tion, which read: “As a young person, I’m wor-ried about the long-term effects of global warming. How does your plan com-bat climate change?”

Upon reflection, Gallo-Chasanoff felt ashamed of her cooperation with Democratic Kabuki the-ater and condemned the charade as “dishonest.”

If only more self-re-specting journalists felt the same way.

Michelle Malkin’s email address is [email protected].

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Johnny Cash tribute artist Harold Ford will be at the Rochester Opera House on Saturday, February 20th at 8pm (Doors 7pm). Ford, with a deep baritone voice and striking resemblance to the beloved Man in Black, is inspired to keep the torch burning for the beloved country music icon. With great reverence, Ford says: “The human struggles and challenges which Johnny sang about are as prevalent today as they were throughout his career. He moved us all to look deep with greater passion and understanding at ourselves and others.

“The members of The Cash Band and I strive to remain true to the hu-manity that was such an important part of Johnny Cash’s music.”

The mission of Harold Ford & The Cash Band is to carry on the spirit message and music of Johnny Cash.

In The Spirit of Johnny Cash, Ford and his Cash Band recreate the sound of Johnny Cash and The Ten-nessee Three. Laura Lucy joins Mr. Ford and the band as the captivating June Carter Cash. Ford possesses the stage presence and charisma

reminiscent of Johnny Cash, lend-ing the feel of a performance at the Grand Ole Opry.

No doubt, Johnny Cash is the most iconic Country Artist of all time and with Nashville’s country music press hailing this show as a must see/hear to believe, we believe you’ll be talking about this one long after you stand and applaud for an encore. If you call yourself a fan of Country Music, you can’t afford to miss this show.

Tickets are $$22 and $25 pre-mium) and can be ordered online at Rochester Opera House.com or call/stop by the box office (603) 335-1992, M/W/F from 10-5 and two hours before the show. Cash bar. Patrons under age 18 must be ac-companied by an adult. Rochester Opera House is located in City Hall, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester, NH. The season continues with La Santa Cecilia on Feb. 27, The Irish Comedy Tour on March 5, and Rave On! The Buddy Holly Experience on March 10. The Rochester Opera House is located in City Hall, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester NH.

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