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Radio Free NH: This Year’s Chanukah Column Is Different
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The reaction to Israel’s invasion of Gaza has been profoundly disturbing to many in the Jewish community, myself included.
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The reaction to Israel’s invasion of Gaza has been profoundly disturbing to many in the Jewish community, myself included.
Autumn brings a sweet mix of melancholy and genuine new beginnings.
John Erlichman would know. He was one of those tragic figures from the Watergate scandal, a decent enough man with liberal tendencies who committed crimes while serving as an assistant to President Nixon.
Robin Hood made his depredations against the usurper Prince John, not against his monarch, Richard the Lion-Hearted. Pretty Boy Floyd robbed the same banks that were taking the homes of poor farmers.
The floppy hair, the red tie, the over-sized suit. (Trump) has become an American icon, as instantly recognizable, as two-dimensional, and as silly as Mickey Mouse.
He is a mash-up of every nightmare America has suffered through, as if a dim-witted computer had stumbled across the collected works of Joe McCarthy, Father Coughlin, Charles Lindbergh, and Huey Long, put them into a blender, added a dash of smut, and vomited the results.
“These are the stakes,” Lyndon Johnson intoned. “To make a world in which all of God’s children can live, or to go into the darkness. We must either love each other, or we must die.”
By 1954, Joseph McCarthy had reached the limit of his usefulness to the Republican Party. His colleagues had long supported his red-baiting because he had been doing his damage to the Truman administration, in particular to the State Department. Eisenhower’s election changed that calculus, though, so McCarthy’s act was beginning to wear thin.
Ron DeSantis washed up on these shores a few days ago. He soaked up some sun, snapped at a reporter or two, then slithered away