by Ken Gorrell, Weirs Times Contributing Writer E pluribus unum. It’s one of the few Latin phrases kids learn in school – or used to. Given the sorry state of civics education, perhaps the motto…

by Ken Gorrell, Weirs Times Contributing Writer Philosophers and theologians have debated for millennia what happens to us when we die. I am supremely unqualified to contribute to their search for the material or spiritual…

by Ken Gorrell, Weirs Times Contributing Writer One of the lesser works on 1968’s The Beatles (a.k.a. The White Album) was The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill, a song mocking an American who went on…

by Ken Gorrell, Weirs Times Contributing Writer Last week, we got our first glimpse of the eight border wall prototypes vying to replace the inadequate – or non-existent – barriers along our nearly 2,000 mile…

by Ken Gorrell, Weirs Times Contributing Writer Had she lived, Margaret Thatcher would have celebrated her 92nd birthday last week. I wonder how many in the U.K. would prefer the Iron Lady’s ghost to their…

by Ken Gorrell, Weirs Times Contributing Writer Using public polling as a political weapon is nothing new. A recent bought-and-paid-for-by-the-AFT poll simply lowers the bar. The leaders of the American Federation of Teachers, a public-sector…

by Ken Gorrell, Weirs Times Contributing Writer When I wrote my last essay I was preparing for a week-long camping trip with a Boy Scout troop. That trip has joined a long list of camping…

by Ken Gorrell, Weirs Times Contributing Writer By the time this edition hits the stands, it’s possible that Republicans in Congress will have passed a health care bill that saves us from the sinking ship…

by Ken Gorrell, Weirs Times Contributing Writer Has somebody ever said something to you that hit you full in the face like the wind coming off a freshly manured field? I experienced that sensation last…

by Ken Gorrell, Weirs Times Contributing Writer My wife and I live in “the projects.” That’s how I refer to our 18th century farmhouse; a lovely property but one that requires near-constant maintenance and remodeling.…

by Ken Gorrell, Weirs Times Contributing Writer “But I’d only need one hundred of you.” That line silenced the crowd of teachers listening to a high-tech titan talk about the future of public education. I…

by Ken Gorrell, Weirs Times Contributing Writer Black’s Law Dictionary, the most widely used law dictionary in the US, defines domicile as “That place in which a man has voluntarily fixed the habitation of himself…

by Ken Gorrell, Weirs Times Contributing Writer March roared in like a lion at Vermont’s Middlebury college, where students chose to riot rather than debate the estimable political scientist Dr. Charles Murray. If only we…

by Ken Gorrell, Weirs Times Contributing Writer When Sir Walter Scott wrote of tangled webs woven to deceive, he could not have imagined the tangle of Gordian knots modern man would create trying to fool…

by Ken Gorrell, Weirs Times Contributing Writer It’s time to name names. It’s time to take off the gloves and fight back against those who hurt our state. It’s time for the NH GOP to…