A state commission in New Hampshire that has regulatory jurisdiction over the tallest mountain in New England is asking the state Attorney General to decide which entities own which portions of the summit.
The Cog Railway could be in trouble because since the summer of 2017 it hasn't given the nearby observatory $1 for each customer it brings to the top, which is part of a renewable agreement in place. The railway owner told the commission that 119,000 people road the railway up and down the mountain in 2017, according to The Union Leader.
On September 11, 1960, with nearly one hundred like-minded intellectual activists and agitators in the living room of his Sharon, Connecticut home, William F. Buckley Jr. created Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), his third seminal contribution to conservatism, after having written God and Man at Yale (1951) and having founded National Review (1955). It is an event long lost on a generation of high-minded young conservatives now raised on short memories. And low battery power.
Much of the "The Sharon Statement," the YAF foundational document, concentrated on economics. It declared: "That liberty is indivisible, and that political freedom cannot long exist without economic freedom." Buckley understood that individual liberty is inexorably linked to economic liberty. And when government interferes with the market economy (as it is doing now), "it tends to reduce the moral and physical strength of the nation." The statement is also notable for what was absent. Nothing was said about social or cultural issues of the day.
