The author, Micahel Patrick Leahy, works at Breitbart and was from New Hampshire.
His
facebook page says he's from Randolph, NY and lives in Nashville.
He also claims Randolph as his hometown
here.
and
here it states, "
Mr. Leahy, a descendant of Civil War and Revolutionary War enlisted soldiers, was born in 1955 in Oswego, New York. He grew up in upstate New York , graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1977, and received an MBA from Stanford in 1981."