Republicans: Darwin Was Right - When It Comes To Society

Ken O'Brien

According to the National Journal, “On evolution, just 23 percent of Republicans said in a 2009 Pew poll that human life had evolved solely through a natural process, while another 26 percent said evolution had occurred under divine guidance and 39 percent said life has always existed in its present form. When Gallup phrased the choices slightly differently last December [2010], just 8 percent of Republicans said they believed human life had evolved without assistance from God, 36 percent said evolution had proceeded under divine guidance, and a 52 percent majority said God had created “human beings pretty much in their present form.”

What Happened to New Hampshire?

Ken O’Brien

Years ago I spent a couple of years living in New Hampshire. This was while I was attending graduate school.

Now, I’ll quickly concede that Hanover is not typical of most of New Hampshire. However, while I went to school in Hanover, I lived in West Lebanon which was a little closer to the grass roots of life in rural New Hampshire.

While there has always been a fundamentally conservative and libertarian streak in the state, the last few years have seen the emergence, some would say predominance, of extremist fringe elements in New Hampshire politics.

With the New Hampshire Presidential Primary scheduled for this Tuesday, January 10, I thought the following synopsis of what has been going on in the state over the last two years would help to put that event in perspective.