Archive for the ‘History’ Category
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History and The Path Forward for Paul Ryan if Hillary Clinton Wins the White House
Posted on November 1, 2016
How should Paul Ryan engage Hillary Clinton, should she win the White House and he keep his Speakership? There are no obvious pathways forward. The country is bitterly divided. The...
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Trump As the Defender of the Faith
Posted on January 19, 2016
On 17 October 1521, Pope Leo X declared King Henry VIII the Fidei Defensor or Defender of the Faith. The Pope was more than a bit desperate. Martin Luther had...
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The Honest Contrarian
Posted on November 27, 2015
It’s a helluva thing to not be able to eat on Thanksgiving because the Parkinson’s disease makes it impossible to swallow. Thanksgiving was always a big event in the Feehery...
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America’s Existential Crisis
Posted on November 13, 2015
I wasn’t smart enough to major in Philosophy when I was in college. I was never patient enough to wade through Hegal or willing to take the vow of poverty...
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Boehner Exits
Posted on October 29, 2015
(Published in The Christian Science Monitor) Buzz Lukens helped to make John Andrew Boehner. Lukens was a Republican lawmaker from the Cincinnati area who was accused of paying a mother...
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