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- Bobby Kennedy should be ashamed of himself over his dead wife -- Successful effort to keep her remains from her family was disgusting - VIDEO
- Liberal media slamming Mitt Romney unfairly for actions in high school -- What’s next a demand that he apologizes for passing gas?
- Why do Irish media lynch mob want Cardinal Sean Brady to resign?-- Brady acted in good faith at the time investigating a notorious pedophile priest
- A crazy mixed up world in American politics -- Who can really tell left from right these days?
- Can Christine Quinn keep Gays and Irish Catholics happy in her run for NY mayor?-- Her outreach to Catholics and holding on to her core gay vote is a major multitask
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Bobby Kennedy should be ashamed of himself over his dead wife -- Successful effort to keep her remains from her family was disgusting - VIDEO
Can Christine Quinn keep Gays and Irish Catholics happy in her run for NY mayor?-- Her outreach to Catholics and holding on to her core gay vote is a major multitask
Being both gay and Irish in New York is a difficult role for City Council Speaker Christine Quinn.
Now the runaway favorite to be the next mayor, the 46-year-old will have major issues on both her ethnicity and her sexuality to resolve.
Happy St.George’s Day to all the English out there -- But he’s really not a patch on St. Patrick now is he?
Happy St. George’s Day if you are English. He’s the patron saint of England and his red and white crossed flag has long stood for England’s supremacy.
Why I don't want to win the mega millions jackpot ever
So what would I do if I won the mega millions lottery.
Nothing.
If nothing else with age comes blessed grace and the ability to distinguish between a dream and a reality.
French teacher called for minute's silence for terrorist killer
The French lefties were the main pushers of the fiction that 9.11 was an American conspiracy and a set up.
They were widely dismissed at the time but now comes another incident where a French schoolteacher asked for a minute’s silence for the Al Qaida killer who shot dead a young eight old Jewish kid and was later killed himself.
The teacher called for a minute’s silence from her class in the city of Rouen and stated that the serial killer Mohamed Merah was a victim.
Romney and Obama will be neck and neck in close White House race
So it will be Mitt Romney versus Barack Obama in November.
Romney's runaway win in Illinois made it certain that he will be on the starting blocks when the Republican primary concludes.
It will be a fascinating race. Don't believe those who tell you it is Obama's to lose.
New poll shows 40 per cent of Irish emigrants do not want to leave home -- Hard times force tens of thousands to depart Ireland’s shores unwillingly
If you ever wanted to see how results of a survey can be fashioned in such a way as to reinforce the answers the survey organizers sought, the latest Irish Times poll on emigrants fits the bill.
The paper trumpeted its findings that the majority of those emigrating were doing so voluntarily. They noted that 59 per cent said they were voluntary emigrants while 41 per cent were involuntary.
Rush Limbaugh’s McCarthy moment at last
Rush Limbaugh has four wives, the latest a thirtysomething year old who I’m sure loves him dearly for his extraordinary physique, and not his oceanfront Palm Beach mansion.
Obama's special St.Patrick's Day offer --- Contribute to his campaign and get a 2012 O'Bama T-shirt
President Obama has begun his campaign to have Irish Americans support him in November with a special St.Patrick's Day offer.
Catholic bishops should have declared victory on contraception -- now look like tools of the GOP
The refusal of the Catholic Bishop's Conference to accept the Obama compromise on birth control and contraception is a grave mistake.
It once again pitches the Catholic Church as right wing supporters, following a Republican agenda, a fact made clear by the move by 36 Republican senators to side with the church position and force a bill through Congress.
There is a time to declare victory before the hypocrisy emerges.
Mitt Romney needs Donald Trump like a fish needs a bicycle
Mitt Romney needs Donald Trump like a fish needs a bicycle.
The sight of the vaudeville buffoon endorsing Romney will do the GOP front runner no good at all.
Grassroots spurs Gingrich to victory as Romney stalls again in South Carolina
Mitt Romney is in deep doo doo after South Carolina.
Moderates by their very nature are never as enthused as those further to the right or left of the political spectrum.
Thereby lies Mitt Romney's greatest fear, as he surveys the damage down to him by Newt Gingrich in South Carolina.
Stopping abusive behavior at St.Patrick's Parades can be done -- New York and Chicago parades point the way forward
In the past few days, the Hoboken parade, one of the largest in New Jersey, has been canceled while the South Side St.Patrick's Parade in Chicago is being held again after an absence of a couple of years
In both parades, the abuse of alcohol was a major issue.
Pope Benedict snubs Dublin's Archbishop Martin for new cardinal list
Surprise, surprise, no red hat for Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, the outspoken head of the Dublin Archdiocese, in Pope Benedict's latest list of new cardinals.
Martin is far too honest, straightforward and unable to play the Vatican game to be made a cardinal of course.
1901 Irish census reveals a long lost missing relative in my family
The 1901 census recently up on line providing an incredible insight into the Ireland so many of our ancestors left.
It’s at http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie
Are you ready for Obama's re-election? get your bets on now
Paddy Power the leading Irish bookmaker has Barack Obama at 8/11 to win the 2012 presidential election.
That means you put down eleven dollars and win eight.
I suggest you run don't walk to take those odds.
Donald Trump finally loses it -- says he'd beat Obama by winning black voters
Donald Trump reminds me of one of those Middle East dictators who has lost contact with reality-- or like North Korea's late great leader, Kim Yong Il.
It's what happens when you only listen to sycophants and idiots and have a propaganda machine praising you at every turn.
Secret $350 Million gift to New York by Irish American billionaire Chuck Feeney -- Will go to build new Silicon Valley
Irish American billionaire Chuck Feeney has been named as the person who donated $350 million to building the new hi-tech graduate school on Roosevelt Island in New York.
Cornell University, Feeney’s old college, beat out Stanford University and other top schools to build the institute.
De Valera was the Irish equivalent of Korean dictator Kim Yung Il
Watching the North Korean news announcer weeping as she revealed the death of Dear Leader Kim Yong- Il in North Korea reminded me of the crocodile tears we shed in Ireland many years ago after the death of Eamon De Valera.
Like Kim, De Valera was our dear leader, a mythical figure when I was growing up in Ireland.
Irish media claims that Sinn Fein live it up in the US are far off the mark
Sometimes you have to laugh at the Sunday Independent in Ireland and their attempts to continuously denigrate Sinn Fein.
Murdoch journalist says phone hacking of private phones "a perfectly acceptable tool."
If you want to know how low journalism sank at the British tabloids owned by Rupert Murdoch just read the following evidence given today by John McMullen, one of Murdoch's top tabloid reporters at the News of the World.
The key sentence he uses is " I think phone hacking is a perfectly acceptable tool."
Anti-Catholic insults rife in 'A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas'----lesbian nuns, topless angels, playboy Jesus all add insult to injury
I'm not one to scream anti-Catholic too often but the new movie "A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas" screams insult at every turn.
It is unfortunately on your screens now.
Worse, the main actor Kal Penn, who plays a stoner, is a former senior official in the Obama administration -- I kid you not. Penn was associate director of the White House Office of Public Engagement.
Regis Philbin is a proud son of Ireland, Notre Dame and a Bing Crosby devotee
So farewell to Regis Philbin from morning television but here's hoping he sticks around for a very long time.
I met Regis Philbin on several occasions. The last was at a Notre Dame game last year where he was chatting with Commissioner Ray Kelly in the press area.
Watch for the Newt Gingrich surge after Perry brain freeze and Cain mutiny
Poor Rick Perry.
When you are thrust in the national spotlight you better know your stuff.
Perry had already raised questions about his competency when he endured a lengthy brain fart at a Michigan debate and could not remember which department he was supposed to cut.
'Glee' show with leprechaun Damian McGinty a disgrace - Creator Ryan Murphy owes fellow Irish an apology
I've had it with 'Glee' and the leprechaun.
The Fox TV top rated series 'jumped the shark' last night when Heather, the cheerleader, really thought that new Irish exchange student Damian McGinty was a leprechaun.
Let's electrocute all Irish who come to the US illegally --Well Herman Cain wants to do it to Mexicans
Timothy Egan writing in The New York Times asks what would the reaction be if a leading American presidential candidate advocated an electric fence that would stop immigrants coming in from Ireland by electrocuting them.
Herman Cain, the latest name of the month in the Republican field suggested just that twice this week, not for Irish but for Mexicans coming across the border.
He said it twice after first apologizing for it.
The shocking indictment of Robert Finn, Bishop of Kansas City --Why did a bishop choose church over children?
Will Catholic church leaders ever learn that child abuse is a vile crime?
The latest episode is where the Bishop Robert Finn the Irish American conservative bishop of Kansas City was indicted for covering up a pedophile priest in his diocese
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