Radio Free New Hampshire

Radio Free NH: This Year’s Chanukah Column Is Different

The reaction to Israel’s invasion of Gaza has been profoundly disturbing to many in the Jewish community, myself included.

Radio Free NH: Where Have All Those Homesick Republicans Gone

Autumn brings a sweet mix of melancholy and genuine new beginnings.

Radio Free NH: The Changing Face of Politics, Again

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.

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Radio Free NH: Why I like Ike, Not Trump

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.

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Radio Free NH: Montreal is Lovely, Except When Silly Trump Is On TV

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.

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Radio Free NH: So Maybe a Baseball Game Will Suddenly Break Out

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.

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Radio Free NH: Are We Friends or Enemies This Independence Day

“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.”

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Radio Free NH: Donald Trump, Have You No Shame?

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.