Tim Horrigan's endorsement letter for Edwards in the NH Primary
(I still have a great fondness for Kucinich as well.)On December 27th, 2007 (and also on New Year's Day 2008), I sent out a letter endorsing John Edwards for President to several New Hampshire papers....
View ArticleNight Rally... or Dawn Rally... for Edwards
Many of you will be envious when you hear that I was able to be at the 6:15 am "Welcome Rally" for John Edwards in Manchester, NH. About a dozen of us gathered in deep-frozen Dover, NH and headed...
View ArticleOne NH Voter's Primary Eve
After W. Mitt Romney failed to show up in Durham, I spent Election Eve campaigning and rallying for John Edwards. The day closed with a great rally at the Dover Elks Lodge. --Timothy Horrigan:...
View ArticleOne NH Citizen's Primary Day and the Day After
I probably should have stayed up and written a posting on Primary Night itself. I got back home (after a fairly long day in Durham, Dover and briefly Manchester) a not-too-bad hour (11:48pm.) But I...
View ArticleI didn't make into the FCC hearings at Harvard but I have some comments anyway
There was a dramatic FCC "en bank" hearing about net neutrality yesterday (Feb. 25, 2008) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, hosted by the Berkman Center at the Harvard Law School. I didn't get in the room...
View ArticleMcBush says he is using ex-cons to staff campaign.. and that we are winning...
John McCain said today (Tuesday July 22, 2008) that most of his paid campaign workers were ex-cons on work release. This is not true: he was just joking (in response to a statement by a local...
View ArticleIt will be: George Voinovich
John McCain is announcing his VP choice in Ohio Friday afternoon. This is a clear sign that the nominee will be... Sen. George Voinovich. He has strong appeal to working-class Democrats... as Mayor...
View ArticleBoo Hoo: Dem Mean Old Liberals are Mocking McCain's War Wounds!
I occasionally like to slum on the rightwing blog "BlogsForVictory.com" (formerly "BlogsForBush.com") It is a good source for checking out the palecons' memes... this blog has rather demented spin,...
View Articlea couple of random questions about Hurricane Ike
I will keep this brief. I am 2000 miles from the Gulf Coast and even though I live in an area (New Hampshire's Seacoast Region) which is hurricane-prone, I am not an expert on this sort of thing.I...
View ArticleCarol Shea-Porter (NH CD#1) debates Jeb Bradley
Carol Shea-Porter, the Congresswoman from NH's 1st Congressional District (Manchester, the Seacoast Region and the Mount Washington Valley) gave her first and probably only debate of the 2008 campaign...
View ArticleBlasphemous, Lascivious and Liberal Author Tries to Get Sarah Palin to Ban...
Sarah Palin is coming to Dover, NH--- which is of no interest to most of you, but it is to me because I live in Durhan, NH, the next town over.I helped spread the "Sarah Palin's Banned Book List"...
View ArticleLiveblogging Obama's Infomercial
Obama bought 30 minutes on Fox TV (not to be confused with FoxNews) before Game 6.5 of the World Series. (It will be available elsewhere if you missed it.) Let's comment away!My first comment is: the...
View ArticleBefore you can get a job, you must pass the Unicru Test? Strongly Agree!
Many of us these days find ourselves in need of whatever dumb job we can get. And one dumb job which is still reasonably abundant even in these bad times is "Big Box" Retail. Yes, Circuit City and some...
View ArticleConventional Wisdom almost loses Super Bowl for Pittsburgh Steelers
The Pittsburgh Steelers had a 4th and goal at the 1 yard line early in Super Bowl XLIII. Instead of going for the touchdown, Coach Mike Tomlin played it safe and went for the "sure" III. He left IV...
View ArticleNewsmax Sponsor says Al Franken, George Soros & All Us Vile Liberals Just...
I somehow managed to get on the Newsmax.com mailing list. Today I got a rather amusing urgent message from their sponsor (i.e., a spammer who pays something to send the spams), the Republican Lawyers...
View ArticleGM wants more money so it doesn't have to file for bankruptcy... but
You probably saw the news stories today which referred to press releases which referred to a "Securities and Exchange" filing which General Motors released today (Thursday March 5, 2009). The filing...
View Articledownsizing a local McDonald's while expanding the drive through
Here is an enjoyably trivial topic for us Kossacks to speculate about. The McDonald's in Rochester, NH (about iles from my hometown of Durham, NH) is ostensibly about to be downsized, according to a...
View ArticleNascar & the economic slump
I was sitting at home on a rainy Sunday afternoon looking at what was happening on DailyKos. Next to my computer, I have a device called a "television" which delivers many channels of streaming video....
View ArticleKarl Marx couldn't be prouder
I accidentally got an email from Michael Steele, the head of the Republican National Commitee. Steele tells us that Karl Marx couldn't be prouder of Obama... which is presumably a very bad thing not...
View ArticleMom was wrong: 2 Wrongs Do Make a Right; and Namecalling is OK
I subscribe to NewsMax.com's email list, and usually I am too queasy to actually open it, but today my stomach was strong. The first bulleted item was:Pelosi Nazi Remark Ignored, Rush Limbaugh...
View Articlebrief eyewitness report on POTUS in Portsmouth
I was at President Obama's healthcare town hall on Tuesday afternoon. I had a very good seat, in the bleachers off to stage right of the speakers dias. It was an effective piece of political theatre,...
View ArticleI have my doubts about the Jackson Lee cellphone video
This horse is almost dead, but I will beat on it anyway. As we all know, there is an uproar over an incident at a town hall somewhere in the Houston area. Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee supposedly...
View ArticleLooking ahead a little after Ted Kennedy's passing
On August 22nd, I commented on a thread about the process of choosing a successor to Senator Ted Kennedy, and I said that the point was moot because "Sen. Kennedy is very much alive at the moment."...
View ArticleGeorge Stephanopoulos proves GOP media bias
George Stephanopoulos is certainly no Republican and no right winger. At one time, he was a very effective progressive activist: as a younger man, he did yeoman work on the trenches for Mondale and...
View ArticleSo-Called Conservatives Say "No Civil Rights for Terrorists"
I got an scary spam from a rightwing zealot named Drew McKissick, who calls himself a "conservative." (BTW, I checked, since Drew is a unisex first name: he is a he.) I say "who calls himself a...
View ArticleShocking: "Unquestionably Authentic" Kenyan Birth Certificate
We liberals are frequently accused of regarding Barack Obama as our "messiah." And recently, dozens of Kenyan birth certificates have turned up, purporting to show that our "messiah" was born not in a...
View ArticleBreitbart Blasts Liberal Hypocrisy in NH after His Stooge Gets Busted in NOLA
A right wing group called Steward for Prosperity had an ostensibly nonpartisan event in Manchester, NH. It was in fact totally partisan, but I went anyway. I am one of NH's 400 state reps, and the...
View ArticleSantorum Will Be Coming to New Hampshire
One of the good things (although it is sometimes a bad thing) about living in New Hampshire is that you get to see all the Presidential candidates before anyone else does. The Democrats, even though...
View ArticleDo businesspeople really strive to maximize payroll?
There is an interesting hidden assumption behind the current debates over taxes and healthcare. That assumption is that the first and foremost goal of corporate executives is to hire as many workers...
View ArticleChelsea Clinton to Be Married in New York State
I accidentally became an expert on Presidential progeny and their nuptials in 2007. I happened to have a picture of Jenna Bush's boyfriend on my Bush Twins page along with a fleeting mention of his...
View ArticleNH Senate Candidate Kelly Ayotte Runs Anti-Attack Ad Attack Ads!
New Hampshire U.S. Senatorial candidate Kelly Ayotte does not come across as someone who is very interested in literary theory. Nor does she come across as someone with much of a sense of irony. But...
View ArticleA Constitutionalist View of the "Burlington Coat Factory Mosque" Issue
The First Amendment says that Congress shall make no law regarding the establishment of religion. Islam is protected by the First Amendment like any other religion. The Tenth Amendment gives the states...
View ArticleTweets of Wisdom from my friend Sarah Palin
In spite of what my fellow NH Democrat Keith David Halloran and I said about her last month, I am still Sarah Palin's Twitter friend. Her Sarahness dropped a couple of noteworthy tweets today. The...
View ArticleFalse Flag propaganda techniques used in real life as well as politics
We saw a lot of what I call "False Flag" propaganda during the recent political campaigns: innocously-named groups with innocuously named web sites whose real agenda diverged sharply from their nominal...
View ArticleBrenda Speaks evidently speaks for all progressives, but who is she?
A local New Hampshire Teablog called GraniteGrok ran a strange blog posting today called "An example of the low esteem in which Progressives hold others".It was based on a paragraph (quoted from an...
View ArticleTea Partiers misuse socialist library book
Ovide Lamontagne was the opening speaker at the much-hyped but relatively little-attended (4 Presidential candidiates, 246 or so other people) Concord, NH Tea Party rally. If you are not from New...
View ArticleNH State Rep. Timothy Horrigan on the federal debt crisis
This may be overkill, since I am an obscure member of the 400-member New Hampshire General Court, but here is a press release I have been sending out: Press Release from Rep. Timothy Horrigan Re:...
View ArticleMore on the Debt Ceiling crisis from NH State Rep. Timothy Horrigan
(This is adapted from the intro to my webpage about Obama's July 31 messages. I am a member of the currently notorious NH House of Representatives, and I was famous for a few days about a year ago.)I...
View ArticleOccupying the Workplace
Back in 2006, a group of pranksters called "ImprovEverywhere" pulled an amusing stunt at a Best Buy store in New York City. A large number of people, supposedly 80 of them, bypassed the usual...
View ArticleTimothy Horrigan's Run-In with the Google Ad Police
Many Kossacks are buying lifetime subscriptions (or being given them) which will (amongst other benefits) hide the ads. I didn't buy one because it wasn't in my budget. Those ads are provided by...
View ArticleMitt & Medicare back in 1983
I have access to a research library which has a database of Wall Street Journal articles going back to the 19th century. Just for laughs, I decided to see what if anything may have turned up in the...
View ArticleChatting with Jeanine ["Bake Sale" Notter]
Jeanine Notter is a first-term Republican New Hampshire state representative. Just weeks into her first term, she became legendary for suggesting that cancer patients should hold bake sales to pay for...
View ArticleRomney thinks it is unpatriotic & stupid to heal the planet
This 30-second clip from Willard M. Romney's acceptance speech on August 30, 2012 is the only 30 seconds I have seen of his hour-long speech. I boycotted his speech at the time, although I watched...
View ArticleStella Tremblay: not quite ready to shut up
I am a New Hampshire state legislator, and I will make this diary short because we have a "session day" today. One of our colleagues made some extraordinarily distasteful remarks about the Boston...
View ArticleCool Shooting by a New Hampshire legislator
John A. Burt (R-Goffstown) and I both serve in the New Hampshire House of Representatives. He has many good qualities, and he is far from the worst member of that august body. Indeed, he is much...
View ArticleNew Hampshire's Other Out of State Candidate: Walt Havenstein (R-Bethesda)...
Scott Brown's US Senate race has attracted national attention. Not long after he failed to be re-elected in 2014, he moved to New Hampshire and immediately started running for one of New Hampshire's...
View ArticleThe Free Planet Project
On Earth Day, President Obama stated that the earth is "the only planet we got." Obama was apparently unaware of the fact that there are millions of earth-like planets just in the Milky Way Galaxy, not...
View ArticleDonald Trump: Telling It Like It Is
My fellow liberals love to claim that Donald Trump is a liar--- but that would mean he's not telling it like it is. But look at how he talks...
View ArticleThe Free Planet Project (updated)
On Earth Day, during the socalled pro-science marches, many unarmed liberal protestors carried signs whining that “There IS No Plan(et) B." They were apparently unaware of the fact that there are...
View ArticleTrump Plans Unprecedented May Day Parade! (#FakeNews)
This is a memo which was supposedly leaked from the White House this week discussing the President’s plans to celebrate his victory over COVID-19. I can’t vouch for its authenticity…(Or actually I can...
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