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by Patrick RobertsRSS 
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- No U.S Ambassador to Ireland in place until September at least say insiders - No envoy in Dublin for Barack and Michelle Obama trip to Ireland in June
- Sen. Marco Rubio support now makes certain immigration bill will pass Senate - Bipartisan immigration reform now has an excellent chance of becoming law - VIDEO
- Senator Chris Murphy, a political star is born over N.R.A. and gun issue - NY Times’ Maureen Dowd hails a new voice in the battle against more guns
- Hillary is definitely running for president says Maureen Dowd in her NY Times column - Urges Clinton to leave her troubling dark side behind for her 2016 run
- Is Senator Marco Rubio now trying to kill immigration reform after first supporting it? - Latest objections could mean he has turned rail on achieving immigration breakthrough
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Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly apparently have a bet today on the size of Beck's 'Restoring Honor' rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.
O'Reilly thinks the total will not top 40,000 while Beck is said to believe it could be 300,000.
I'm with O'Reilly on this one.
Immigration advocates are about to admit defeat on comprehensive reform and are looking at a much more incremental approach to immigration reform.
That comes after a soul searching analysis by many of the key figures and financial backers who now see that, given the country's mood, the prospect for comprehensive reform is pretty much non-existent.
John Hartnett, founder of the Irish Technology Leadership Group, has left his Silicon Valley job as CEO of G24 to work full time at the Irish Innovation Center in downtown San Jose.
Hartnett has left G24 to help grow the $100 million venture fund attached to the center which targets investments in Irish companies.
The Irish Technology Leadership group is an organization started by senior Irish executives in Silicon Valley to help with investment in Ireland.
In a major setback for Chicago prosecutor Patrick FitzGerald a jury was hung on 23 counts against former Illinois governor Rod Blagejevich.
He was found guilty on one count of lying to federal agents which may carry a prison sentence of up to 5 years
Yes, children Sarah Palin really can become president of the United States.
Take a look at yesterday's CNN poll.
It shows Mitt Romney just three points ahead of Irish American Palin right before the kickoff for the 2012 republican nomination which begins the day after the November mid-terms.
The Hillary for vice president seems to be gaining momentum with several leading pundits weighing in behind former Virginia governor Douglas Wilder who has called for Joe Biden to be replaced.
Howard Fineman on MSNBC said Hillary would take the job in a minute and Chris Matthews eagerly agreed.
In her memoir 'Going Rogue' Sarah Palin described how her Irish American mother Sarah Sheran whose grandparents came from Roscommon imbued her with family values and a deep respect for religion.
Alas, those values have not been handed on to her kids it seems, especially Bristol who recently broke off her engagement again to bad boy Levi Johnson.
Don't count the Kennedys out of running for elected office is the message loud and clear from one of the most promising young pretenders.
Anthony Kennedy Shriver, 45, said Friday. “I don’t count anybody out. I’m still young. But the time’s got to be right.”
Shriver,pictured above,is the founder of the highly successful Best Buddies International which fosters one-to-one friendships between people with and without intellectual disabilities may seek office in Florida in the near future friends say.
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