The New Hampshire Gazette

2013—The Supreme Court rips out the guts of the Voting Rights Act. 1998—The Fed OKs the Travelers/Citicorp merger: the fuse is lit. 1996—Al-Qaeda kills 19 U.S. servicemen in Saudi Arabia and wounds 372. Saudis and the CIA blame Iran. 1973—Ex-White House Counsel John Dean, on live TV, blows the big whistle on his crooked former boss. 1971—ITT lobbyist Dita M. Beard writes a me...

2022—The Court aborts Roe v. Wade. 2021—Rudy G’s law license finally gets suspended for Rudy-ish behavior. 1994—Hot-dogging during air-show practice, U.S.A.F. Lt. Col. Arthur Holland crashes a B-52 at Fairchild AFB in Washington State. 1986—New York finally disbars Roy Cohn for acting like Roy Cohn. 1971—Nixon’s Special Counsel Charles Colson circulates the first White House…...

2016—To memorialize W.Va.’s worst flooding in 100 years, a burning house is filmed as it floats down a creek. 2008—James Hansen warns Congress about global warming—again. 2005—Roller coaster safety expert Richard H. Brown, 64, dies of injuries received in a fall in his own driveway. 2001—“Dark Winter”—a war game simulation of a smallpox outbreak in the U.S.—shows lack of prep...

2005—Undeterred by futility, the Republican-led House passes a Flag Protection Amendment.® 2004—On the floor of the Senate, Veep Dick “Dick” Cheney tells Sen. Pat Leahy, “Go fuck yourself.” 2004—Yet another cash-laden C-130 lands in Iraq; this one carries the biggest load of them all: $2,401,600,000. 2002—Enron execs admit they hid $1.5 billion in illegal profits gouged from…...

2006—Fox News, citing Senator Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), reports that WMD have been found in Iraq. 2005—Edgar Ray Killen, 80, is found guilty of manslaughter in the case of Schwerner, Goodman, and Chaney. 2004—SpaceShipOne reaches an altitude of 100 kilometers; Mike Melvill becomes the first civilian astronaut. 1989—The U.S. Supreme Court rules that it’s legal to burn the U.S. fl...