News from the Northwoods

This blog posts about aviation, automobiles, electronics, programming, politics and such other subjects as catch my interest. The blog is based in northern New Hampshire, USA

Saturday, June 30, 2018

Abolish ICE?

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Democrats, led by their newly elected New York rep Ocasio-Cortez, are calling to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Plan ...

College didn't used to be so darned expensive

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Way back in 1968 I got out of the Air Force and went to University of Delaware. I got an electrical engineering degree that served me well ...

Friday, June 29, 2018

Looking after their own, NEA

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Word seems to get around. I have been a candidate for NH Senate for a little more than a week. Today I got a letter from the National Educ...

Thursday, June 28, 2018

Strict Construction versus the living Constitution

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The late Supreme Court Justice Scalia was famous for his belief that cases should be decided upon the original intent of the founders. Sin...

Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Representative Government

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The ancient Greeks invented democracy. In those days all the citizens of the city state would meet and vote on public issues. This was clu...

Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Chevy Equinox

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I had to leave the Buick at the dealer for some heavy duty and super expensive repair work. The dealer loaned me a brand new (2018 1880 mil...

Monday, June 25, 2018

A newsie writes about engineering history

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Saturday's Wall St Journal had book review of Richard Rhodes "Energy a Human History". The reviewer was Charles R. Morris. R...

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