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The annual Police Week, first dedicated by President John F. Kennedy in 1962, has passed without much fanfare.
That was a sharp break with past years when President Donald Trump turned the White House blue with lights at night, and President Barack Obama repeatedly spoke at the National Law Enforcement Memorial.
President Joe Biden, once a champion of police officers, who helped President Bill Clinton fund 100,000 new police, issued a statement decried as rude by many police online because it fed the liberal line that police are racist killers.
More than anything, police representatives during Police Week asked for a better understanding in Washington and the nation for what they do.
25 bipartisan members of US Congress have issued a letter to President Joe Biden urging him to appoint a Special Envoy to Northern Ireland and to increase funding for the International Fund for Ireland.
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A mean Atlantic southwesterly howls up the sand dunes, blasting a wintry chill across the grassy headland. Out on the exposed hills a slow procession catches my eye. Leaning into the gale is a hardy knot of Arctic adventurers, pressing on and pausing, driving forward for all their worth. They’re buttoned from head to toe in woolens and waterproofs yet they’re out enjoying themselves, chasing after a small white ball. There’s no doubt golfers are a breed apart.
Do they ever look excited at the first tee? “Oh Jesus, yeah,” replies Martin Shorter, director of golf at the recently opened Doonbeg club in Co. Clare. “Shannon airport is in close proximity to us so American visitors will get off the plane and want to play here or Lahinch on the first day they arrive. It’s 8:30 in the morning and there they are, dead tired but they can’t wait to tee off. You see the sleep in their eyes but the adrenaline is kicking in and they can’t wait to go.”
Douglas Rooks
Craig Hickman, who won a state Senate special election on Tuesday, would be an unusual candidate in any political contest. Inevitably, though, he stands out through a category that – much more than most would like to admit – has long dominated American life.
The competing narratives were laid out recently in the New York Times’s “1619” project, which puts slavery at the center of European conquest of the “New World,” and the “1776” project, hastily assembled at the end of Donald Trump’s presidency, which presents the Founders as just, far-sighted statesmen – even if many of them happened to own slaves.