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A Trip to Ireland and Its Past
Posted on August 15, 2018
Coming home is such sweet sorrow. Of course, it’s great to see Clark Kent the Wonder dog. He makes any homecoming so much better. But reentry back to America from...
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The Long Game
Posted on July 17, 2018
This originally appeared in The Hill. Feehery: The long game Washington plays host to the 89th annual MLB All-Star game later today. The nation’s capital has a long, if complicated, relationship...
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Irish Need Not Apply
Posted on July 10, 2018
My grandfather (on my Dad’s side) voted against FDR four times. But as an Irish American, he was an anomaly. My mother’s side of the family was much more typical....
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SCOTUS Pick Proves that POTUS is Smarter Than You
Posted on July 10, 2018
“I was with the Americans when they blundered into Berlin in 1918.” So said Claude Rains in the immortal Casablanca. Donald Trump is the epitome of the blundering American, looked...
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The Ugly American
Posted on June 12, 2018
Donald Trump is not “The Ugly American.” Not in a literary sense. “The Ugly American,” a book written by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer in the 1950’s and often confused...
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