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It's the end of an era in Ireland with the sad news that Irish broadcaster Gerry Ryan (above) has died.
Ryan breathed new life into the staid national broadcaster RTE with his irreverent brand of humor which served him well in his early years.
Oh well. There'll be no Grand Canyon for this legal immigrant as long as Arizona stays a police state.
As Linda Greenhouse says in today's New York Times the new law is the same as the internal passports systems which were so despised in apartheid South Africa and the former Soviet Union.
How are the police in Arizona going to decide who they think should be holding these internal passports?
Talk about trying to shoot the messenger!
The New York Times is being attacked from all sides over its coverage of the sex abuse scanadals in the Catholic Church.
The federal government would appear to be on a collision course with the state of Arizona after Gov. Jan Brewer signed the controversial bill into law.
What's going on with Glenn Beck's ratings?
Looks like his viewers are dropping off like the proverbial flies.
Figures from Nielsen show that the TV host has lost some 795,562 viewers since January.
So this is what passes for considered thought these days.
Samuel "Joe the Plumber" Wurzelbacher (above) gets an ovation from Tea Party people attending a convention in Cincinnati.
"We're not giving up on immigration reform," vowed Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) as he addressed an event hosted by the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform.
Schumer was a surprise speaker at the packed immigration meeting which was held at the community services center in Sunnyside Thursday night.
He outlined the challenges facing the Senate bill which he has co-authored with South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham.
A staggering 100,000 people will leave Ireland between this year and next year according to the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI).
A staggering 100,000 people will leave Ireland between this year and next year according to the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI).
The ESRI says this exodus is the biggest element in helping keep the jobless figures down.
But where on earth is everyone going?
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says the Senate will begin work on immigration reform when members return from recess this week.
"We need to do this this year," he told an immigration rally in Las Vegas Saturday. "We cannot wait."
His speech has stirred hopes in the hearts of many who were let down in the collapse of the 2007 "grand bargain," negotiated by the late Senator Edward Kennedy.
We can expect Ryanair to announce that there will be two tiers of fee-for-pee if they go ahead with their ludicrous plan to charge passengers to use on-board toilets.
Just this week, the penny-pinching Irish airline blamed women for the new baggage fees which are rippling through the industry.
One in five Irish home-owners is now under water.
The anti-immigrant group Alipac is making a nasty effort to frighten undocumented immigrants from filling out the census forms.
The anti-immigrant group Alipac is making a nasty effort to frighten undocumented immigrants from filling out the census forms.
At least that's the only conclusion I can draw from their calls for Census data to be used to detect and deport undocumented immigrants.
This flies in the face of eveything the Census is intended to achieve.
Maureen Dowd has singled out Irish Archbishop Diarmuid Martin as a "hero" in an Easter week which has seen very few heroes emerge from the Vatican.
She'll probably get in more trouble for also recommending that a "sexorcist" be called in to the Church.
But there is something rotten in the State of Catholicism.
