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Prodding the Irish Peace Process
Posted on October 20, 2014
Late last month, a group of concerned Irish-Americans (me included) released a letter, urging all parties in Northern Ireland to move forward on implementing the Good Friday accords. I thought...
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The Other Issues (Outside of Ebola and ISIS)
Posted on October 17, 2014
As previously mentioned, two issues dominate the headlines: Ebola and ISIS. But they aren’t the only issues that are driving this election. The two most under-rated issues, in my humble...
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Low Expectations for Congress’s Lame-Duck Session
Posted on October 16, 2014
(This originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal’s Think Tank) There are two schools of thought about the coming lame-duck session. The Optimist School believes that Congress will work on...
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The Angriest Month for Investors
Posted on October 15, 2014
October is misnamed. And maybe that makes it an angry month. It’s the 10th month, but October, in Latin, means the 8th month. The Romans had initially slated October to...
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Will ICANN Turn Into ICAN’T?
Posted on October 14, 2014
Two weeks after Germany declared war on Russia to start the First World War, the Panama Canal was completed by the Americans. For thirteen years, in the last 19th century,...
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