"Paul Ryan Never Learned"

"There is no comparison, of course, between the de facto genocide that resulted from British policy, and conservative criticism of modern American poverty programs.

"But you can’t help noticing the deep historic irony that finds a Tea Party favorite and descendant of famine Irish using the same language that English Tories used to justify indifference to an epic tragedy."

Timothy Egan in The New York Times compares Paul Ryan to Sir Charles Trevelyan.