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Radio Free New Hampshire: The Real Thing
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The liberalization of any society is an intoxicating, spiritually challenging, and heart-breaking process.
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The liberalization of any society is an intoxicating, spiritually challenging, and heart-breaking process.
American politics has long had a big green wall of its own, called the New Hampshire primary. Just like Fenway’s monster, it came from a quirk of history.
David Duke was born in Oklahoma, but he grew up in New Orleans. His mother was an alcoholic, as sometimes happens. His father left when his son was eleven and didn’t come back.
An oyster farmer named Graham Platner came out of nowhere to run for the Senate against Susan Collins, the last moderate Republican still surviving in the wild. He entered the primary as an angry progressive and he handily defeated the establishment’s preferred candidate.
November beckons, our nation’s best chance to correct the course set by Donald Trump. We get new congress members, we get new governors.
Presidents didn’t always build libraries after they finished their terms. When they did, the results tended to underwhelm.
The news cycle will not slow down, and it’s ironic to think of poetry when considering the presidency of Donald Trump, the least poetic president our country has ever known. But Yeats has a way of applying in these harsh modern times. “Turning and turning in the widening gyre / the falcon cannot hear the falconer.”
I secured a second mortgage on our home last weekend so my family could see the latest Star Wars movie.
After signing the Civil Rights Act in 1964, Lyndon Johnson remarked that the Democratic Party had just lost the South for the next generation. He was wrong about that. They lost the South for the next three generations, and counting.