In the film Wag the Dog America invented a war with Albania so as to divert media attention from a scandal. The Iranian President must have watched that film as well. The countries economy is in a poor state and it is the main issue for many Iranians. But unemployment is 25% and even with [...]

Auds over on RealityCheck(dot)ie makes a great point.
In her discussion about Equality Legislation she says.
Legislating against speech is a bad idea - for the most part it’s subjective and the test of reasonableness is hard found.
Crimes are crimes regardless of who they’re committed against or why - the thug who beats up a homosexual [...]

I’m not very good at Irish so this was pointed out to me by a friend who is.
Seemingly Trevor Sargent was interviewed in this weeks Foinse. He outlined in Irish that he is very pro-Irish and that he thought that Enda Kenny’s proposal to make Irish non-compulsory at Leving Cert level would make it an [...]

Free Thoughts on Iran blog has an interesting article about the current crisis.
How an Israeli Attack would further Iran’s Nuclear Intentions
Also David McWilliams has an interest article in the Sunday Business Post and what effect sanstions would have.
The nuclear nightmare that looms over the Middle East
This conflict is difficult to judge and I don’t [...]

I have been getting some hits about cheesecakes recently so I thought I should share my easy method of making tasty cheesecake. This recipe is idiot proof.
First take some chocolate chip cookies. About 2 packets of chocolate chip cookies. (about 400g) and crush them.
To make the base
Then melt about 50g of butter in a saucepan [...]

Interesting post by Freestater about CIA flights into Baldonell.
The PO box given is indeed the address of the US embassey in Ghana.

John Bowman made an excellent point on questions and answers the last night. Brian Cowen was going on about how many roads are on time and under budget and yet the media doesn’t cover that. What Bowman said but it is not news that is what they are suppose to do. If a train crashes [...]

Sinn Fein released their tax plan there last week. As expected from Sinn Fein it is a million miles away from what they said the year before. One policy was that Northern Ireland should have the Euro. About a month ago Gerry Adams was calling from Ireland to leave the Euro. Why Sinn [...]

Recent opinions Polls in Britain have found that 60% percent of Muslims want Shariah Law. 40% support al-Qaeda and 27% approve of the attacks on the Twin Towers. This is a shocking statistic. And Kevin Myers is quiet right to say that In Ireland the question do we want to take in 100,000 Muslims [...]

Here is a list of my favourite songs of all time this week next week they will probably change.
6. Rocky Racoon The Beatles . A friend of mine in college use to do a great version of this song. So always brings back good memories. Not a bad moral lesson either.
5. Speed of the [...]