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THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, March 18, 2010
Ou r
Fe a t u r e s
Po l i t i c a l/oP i n i o n
The Mail Boat.... 4
Michelle Malkin .... 6
Oliver North ....... 6
Thomas Sowell...... 7
stead, we get S.787, which tors in America’s already is a form of tyranny as
John Stossel ........ 7
Clean Water Act
Advocates ....... 9
would delete “navigable” struggling economy makes bad as any that have been
To The Editor: from the Clean Water Act any sense at all. imposed on humankind?
li f e s t y l e /Hu m o r
I suspect that the Weirs entirely, thereby subject- Need I mention any more
A FOOL in New Hampshire.. 5
Times would agree that a ing all “waters of the United Donald R. Spalding history than the murder-
Home Improvement 101.... 13
major problem with govern- States”, and thus the ad- Whitefield, N.H. ous Roman Crusades, the
Renovation Psychology... 15 ment in America is that it joining land, to vastly ex- Spanish Inquisition, the
Here There & Everywhere... 19
has become too preoccu- panded and unwarranted
Church Meditations.... 23
Religion & Politics
New England witch-hunts,
On The Trails & Summits.. 25
pied with simply creating Federal regulation, and or the never ending per-
more government. Take with it, the increased threat To The Editor: secution of the Jews by
sP e c i a l se c t i o n s
legislation circulating in of the bureaucratic ex- Your March 11, 2010 edi- Catholics? Pearson is free
Wedding Guide............. 8
Congress misnamed “The cess and abuse that cre- tion included a letter from to believe what he wants.
Home & Garden Guide.. 11-17
Clean Water Restoration ated this situation in the Earl Pearson, Jr. encour- He should be content to
Home Services.... 18 Act” (S.787), which has
first place. S.787 does aging “Conservatives” to leave others with the same
Out On The Town... 24
little to do with cleaning or exempt groundwater, but speak out. In many ways freedom. If he believes cer-
Your Money........... 26-27
Real Estate Guide.... 33
restoring anything. It’s an since most surface water the letter was sensible (I tain passages in his Bible
attempt to nullify two Su- intersects the groundwater especially liked the quote require proselytizing then is
mi s c e l l a n e o u s
preme Court decisions that table, the bizarre process of Margaret Thatcher, “The he any different from Mus-
Classifieds ........ 34
slapped down overreaching whereby gravel pits and only thing wrong with so- lims who believe we must
The Puzzler Page .... 35
bureaucrats for claiming swampy patches became cialism is that you run out believe what they believe?
Photo Caption Contest... 36
that gravel pit puddles in those “navigable” waters of other people’s money”), Yes, mystifyingly the bril-
The Funnies ....... 36-37
one case and isolated in- makes that and the land but in one sentence the liant founding fathers of this
land swampy patches in containing it, which is most letter degenerated into ter- nation, the creators of the
the other were the “navi- of that in the U.S., a target rifying nonsense. Pearson amazingly intelligent U.S
Ou r st O r y
gable waters of the United also. took the position (incor- Constitution, did largely
States,” federally regulated What S.787 doesn’t do rectly) that the grassroots behave as if they were be-
The Weirs Times was first published
under the 1972 Clean Wa- is explain why States and TEA (Taxed Enough Al- holden to a Christian spirit,
in 1883 by Mathew H. Calvert. The ter Act; cases which wasted communities aren’t ca- ready) movement “stands but they had the sense to
newspaper, then named Calvert’s
Weirs Times and Tourists’ Gazette, was
hundreds of hours of court pable of managing their for putting prayer back officially carefully separate
published until Mr. Calvert’s death in 1902. time and millions of tax- own internal and local wa- in public school, the Ten church and state to preserve
One of the most remarkable features payer dollars. ter resources without this Commandments back in free choice of faith for any
of the publication was a map of Lake
A logical legislative re- gratuitous Federal inter- court and public places, individual in American soci-
Winnipesaukee which occupied the
center spread of the paper. Readers sponse to all this would ference, or why imposing and the Manger etc. back ety. Sensible conservatism
will find the same map reprinted on the
have been to force bureau- more deadweight cost and in the town square.” is one thing. Regressive
center pages of this, and every issue.
crats to recognize that navi- regulatory burdens on both How can Pearson not see zealotry is entirely some-
The new Weirs Times was re-established
in 1992 and strives to maintain the
gable means navigable. In- the public and private sec- that imposing his one true thing else. Religion must be
patriotic spirit of its predecessor as well
god on other members of left out of politics.
as his devotion to the interests of Lake
Winnipesaukee and vicinity.
humanity, including inno-
cent children who are not David M. Zebuhr
G
yet armed with the sensibil- Gilford, NH.
O O d st u F F ity to reject his fantasies,
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