The Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) wants Irish banks nationalized. On the whole, I have gotten reasonably pleasant and good, if expensive, service at my bank. Just wait until the people behind the counter and the manager are unsackable government employees, not worried about losing money if you pull your account. That will be just a joy.
Gun silliness The Irish Times (motto: We are most expensive than the Wall Street Journal, but we make up for it with lower quality) has ...
A wee bit of good news The Irish Independent (you think you can get there without registering; think again) has reported that at a meeting ...
Why I am Really Really Glad Bush Won Leon Fuerth, Gore's foreign policy advisor, is again in the Washington Post. He is critical of plans ...
This is way cool Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander is being turned into a movie, starring Russell Crowe. Okay, so I'm worried. A very good ...
The state of the Irish economy is at issue at TechCentralStation. I am not at all sure I understand the article. The author, Benjamin Powell, ...
Talking to my neighbors and the like, I know a lot of people who are worried about the recession and the spreading flu virus. I ...
The old British Labour Party was beaten by Margaret Thatcher's Tories after the famous Winter of Discontent, when the labor unions shut down things at ...