Archive for the ‘Democracy’ Category
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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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Democracy Unbalanced
Posted on February 10, 2015
(This originally appeared in The Hill) Where is Robert Byrd, now that the Senate really needs him? The former long-serving senator from West Virginia was a stickler for congressional prerogatives....
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President Obama’s Path Less Traveled
Posted on January 30, 2015
For over a year, Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton has worked with Committee Democrats to craft legislation to make it easier for industry to bring to market life-saving medicines....
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