Hail to the Chief
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Donald Trump delivering the State of the Union address, Washington, D.C., January 2018
Soon, according to a June report in The Washington Post, the moment of truth will arrive. Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating the president, his administration, and his campaign, will deliver his verdict on whether Donald Trump obstructed justice.
Trump’s Chaver in Jerusalem
Bibi: The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu
by Anshel Pfeffer
Perhaps it’s now impossible to read any political biography without thinking of Donald Trump. The forty-fifth president of the United States looms so large in the global imagination that the impulse to measure all other politicians against him has become almost involuntary. But in the case of Benjamin Netanyahu, the grounds for comparison are stronger than most.
my mother, mary kate mitchell, from sligo, told me stories like the following essay, She also confided in me: the cruelty she and her sister Bridget (my Godmother) endured from the black adn tans when she was a teenager, circ 1915. After my mother's death, my Unclel Michael, aka Maick the Sarge, (my mothers oldest brother) confirmed the story. Also my first cousin, Thomas Mitchell, now a successful contractor in Dublin, took me to the flower garden on Kilmaccannon Road, about a mile west of the Mitchell homestead, to the palce where my molther and her sister, Bridget were attacked. There is more to this story which i will not share.
The following story is apparently controversial, at least to one of my grandsons. But I for one, as a student of Irish culture and Black Slavery believe the story.
i hope some of the poverty pimps get a chance to read this.
During the 1650s, over 100,000 Irish children aged 10 to 14 were taken from their parents and sold as slaves in the West Indies, Virginia and New England. In this decade, 52,000 Irish (mostly women and children) were sold to Barbados and Virginia.
