About: Jack Kenny
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Newt Gets “Union Leader” Endorsement; Santorum Strikes Out in New Hampshire
The folks who call Ron Paul dangerous — like Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich and the Union Leader — can't be counted on to defend the nation and its Constitution...
Senate Bill to OK Indefinite Detention of U.S. Citizens Without Charge, Trial
In what may be a tale too bizarre to be believed by millions of Americans, the U.S. Senate appears ready to pass a bill that will designate the entire...
Mitt Romney: Tom Dewey All Over Again
They arrive now with monotonous regularity. Another day, another announcement by a New Hampshire politician of his or her endorsement of Mitt Romney for President. Former Governor John Sununu....
Give Thanks — and Act Thankfully
On Monday, November 21, I was chatting with a longtime acquaintance about the anniversary that would fall the next day, on November 22. On that date 48 years ago,...
N.H. Judge Upholds Right to Record Police in Public
A District Court judge in Goffstown, New Hampshire has dismissed a criminal charge against a Weare man for recording his conversation with a police officer during a traffic stop....
U.S. Foreign Policy: Seeing and Believing
Millions no doubt have read or heard the Hans Christian Andersen tale of how some alleged weavers of long ago convinced their emperor that the new clothes they were...
Robert Taft: Count Him Conservative
If Robert Taft had been a baseball player instead of a United States Senator, he might have led the league in left-handed compliments. As it was, he was often...
Post Calls GOP Presidential Candidates “Unified” Against Iraq Pullout
A news story, remarkable for its readily apparent inaccuracy, surfaced from theWashington Post on Friday under the headline: "GOP presidential field unified in opposition to Iraq withdrawal." The story...
Bachmann Caught Unaware as N.H. Staff Quits
At least four members of the five-person paid staff of the Michele Bachmann presidential campaign in New Hampshire have resigned, the New Hampshire Union Leader reported Saturday morning, but...
“Fast and Furious” Was Plot Against U.S. Gun Rights, NRA Chief Says
The U.S. government's Operation Fast and Furious was a plot to subvert gun rights in America, National Rifle Association president Wayne LaPierre (pictured at left) charged October 14 in...
Drubbed by Dick Cheney
It was mid-February 2002, and after a full year as America’s most powerful and controversial Vice President and five months of operating out of any number of undisclosed locations,...
Sarah Won’t Run
Unlike Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey, former Alaska Governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin did not threaten to commit suicide to convince the nation's news media that...
Media Gatekeepers Limit Debate
By fiat of the Fourth Estate, all current GOP presidential candidates but two have already been effectively eliminated in the year preceding the first vote in any caucus or...
Watched Now More Than Ever
A building superintendent in New Brunswick, New Jersey, opened an apartment door and was startled to find terrorist literature strewn about on a table and a computer and surveillance...
Romney Has Shovel-ready Rhetoric for Schools
It's amazing that most of the presidential candidates manage to find time to run for president when they're so busy running for national superintendent of schools. Republican candidates typically...