From susanthebruce: Today’s Union Leaderhas an op-ed by former NH GOP Chair Fergus Cullen. Fergus is going with the silly “I did it MY WAY with no gummint help” that our friends in the GOP clown car seem stuck on. It’s a silly meme that is going to continually bite them in the buttocks – [...]
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He Did it Without Help…Except For All the Help He Got
By susanthe on August 4, 2012 in
Tags: anti gummint, Fergus Cullen, He built it himself, Marion Noronha, Obama, silly GOP meme, Turbocam, Union Leader
Union Leader: Release the tax returns, Mitt
The Union Leader, a newspaper not likely to make Bill O’Brien’s list of Democratic Party propagandists, has joined the chorus calling on Mitt Romney to release his tax returns. “It’s time to get the inevitable over with,” concludes today’s editorial. “Release the tax returns, explain them, take the heat, and move on.” Maintaining the secrecy [...]
Is this the case of the Pot calling the Kettle black- UL slams Maggie for Clinton. Explain NEWT.
They are sooo funny that Union Leader, imagine attacking Maggie in today's editorial july 25 for being embraced by Bill Clinton…hmmmm! (Womanizers for Maggie) They must have forgotten the serial adulterer they endorsed for the Republican nominee for President…but for their benefit and yours, check out the nice piece done by the Huff Post back [...]
Those in glass houses… should not throw newspapers.
By Nora F. on March 14, 2012 in
Tags: collective bargaining, labor union, O'Brien, Right to Work, strike, Union Leader
As we gear up for another RTW vote tomorrow, it’s worth noting that the Union Leader finally decided to run its first editorial endorsing anything similar to a RTW law last week, just in time for the RTW-vote-that-wasn’t. In the spirit of reason, the Union Leader Editors at the Union Leader settled on HB 1677, [...]
Will Vice President Biden Stand With Labor?
Political Scoop: Vice President Joe Biden is scheduled to be the keynote speaker at a First Amendment Dinner for a non-profit foundation with ties to the Union Leader newspaper. Biden will speak in Concord Nov. 10 at a fundraiser for the Nackey S. Loeb School of Communications, according to a press release. It will be [...]
Union Leader Gets Schooled in Civics
From a Union Leader editorial: “I think we can solve our budget problems with a commitment to do that,” she said last week. “In New Hampshire, we don’t have a balanced budget amendment, but we do have a history and tradition of balancing the budget. I did that three times as governor. We don’t need [...]
Union Leader web site replaced with parking page
The Union Leader’s website went down sometime in the last day or two. The home page (like all other pages) has been replaced with a generic “parking page” with rather random links on it. The information for unionleader.com in the standard “WhoIs” database has been mostly hidden. I have been able to determine that a [...]
NH House Too Extreme for Gingrich and Union Leader
By William Tucker on April 7, 2011 in
Tags: New Gingrich, NH State House, nullification, Union Leader
Last week, the New Hampshire House passed HCR 19, a Tea Party-backed resolution asserting the state’s authority to nullify federal laws it deems unconstitutional. Yesterday, the bill that 242 New Hampshire state reps supported was disavowed by Newt Gingrich and a Union Leader editorial. Newt Gingrich: “I think Andrew Jackson dealt with that” during the nullification [...]
The Top Ten Bogus Attacks Against Carol Shea-Porter
By Dean Barker on January 2, 2011 in
Tags: #NHGOP, Carol Shea Porter, Dave Weigel, FOX and Friends, Frank Guinta, George Pataki, Jeb Bradley, Jeff Zeleny, media matters, New York Times, NHJournal, Now!Hampshire, Patrick Hynes, Politics Daily, Rayn Williams, Real Clear Politics, Revere America, Sean Mahoney, Shawn Millerick, The Hill, Tim Fernholz, Union Leader, Wall St. Journal, Wayne Semprini
Carol Shea-Porter is the first woman to hold national office in New Hampshire’s long history. In her two terms in office she provided the first line of defense against the administration of George W. Bush, a president regarded by historians as one of the worst in our nation’s history. She subsequently participated in one of [...]
Union Leader Ignores WMUR, Loses Credibility
By Dean Barker on December 30, 2010 in
Tags: Carol Shea Porter, NHJournal, The Hill, Union Leader, WMUR
Faced with the decision to get the facts straight, or stick it to Carol Shea-Porter one more time at the cost of its credibility, the Union Leader chooses the latter: She’s right that she didn’t specifically say that the Chinese cost her the election. But she’s wrong that it was only “right-wing bloggers” (another liberal [...]
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