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BRENTWOOD, NH (WMUR/CNN) - A New Hampshire homeowner is under court order to clean up his yard that's littered with thousands of boxes. If he doesn’t, the town will do it for him and stick him with the bill. Meanwhile, his neighbors are hoping their community will finally go back to normal. Michael Bates found himself back in court after failing to clean up his property in Salem, MA. The town estimates that there are some 2,000 boxes containing printers in the yard.

It’s like déjà vu all over again,” noted philosopher Yogi Berra is credited with saying. And so it is. A liberal Democratic president has his heart set on pushing through a proposal strongly unpopular with most Americans. Enjoying substantial Democratic majorities in both the House and the Senate, he intends to win. So it was in September, 1977 when Jimmy Carter signed the Panama Canal treaties to relinquish United States control. An Associated Press opinion poll conducted that month found that only 29 percent of Americans favored the pact. A solid 50 percent opposed it and 21 percent expressed no...

It strikes me that the Democrats seeking their party’s presidential nomination for next year’s election aren’t receiving the attention they warrant. Kobe’s making the headlines. Uday and Qusay. Now the distressing revelation of the breakup of Liza Minnelli and David Gest is dominating the news. How could a made-in-heaven marriage with Michael Jackson as the best man and Elizabeth Taylor Hilton Wilding Todd Fisher Burton Warner Burton Fortensky as the maid of honor have gone so wrong? The Democratic presidential contenders are having difficulty getting out their message and basic information about themselves. Being the strictly nonpartisan observer that your...