WASHINGTON — New Hampshire U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte, currently engaged in a heated campaign to win a second term and keep the Senate's balance of power tilted in favor of the GOP, is beginning to show a willingness to break from her party to confront controversial gun issues.
On Tuesday the Nashua Republican along with a bipartisan group of senators introduced a proposal that would bar citizens from buying firearms if they are on the TSA's No-Fly List or Selectee List for extensive airport screening. The day before, Ayotte referenced the proposed legislation on the Senate floor.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow once called music "the universal language of mankind." Many literary and musical men and women from all ages and cultures have similarly pointed to music as the great unifier, as "naming the unnamable" and "communicating the unknowable" (Leonard Bernstein); as "speaking where words fail" (Hans Christian Andersen), and as "a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy" (Ludwig van Beethoven).
