Screen legend Charlton Heston has died at the age of 84.
The actor passed away at his home in Beverly Hills last night with Lydia, his wife of 64 years, by his side.
Heston had been battling Alzheimer’s disease since 2002. After being diagnosed, he had said: “I must reconcile courage and surrender in equal measure.”
A statement […]

Listening to Willie O’Dea on RTE seems that they are blaming the resignation on the fact that the Mahon Tribunal is distracting the government from operating successfully and thus for the benefit of the country he resigned. Interesting way of putting it playing the Martyr card.
Certainly seems that this might not be over and that […]

From Ireland.com
Obama, an Illinois senator, said all McCain offers “is four more years of the same George W. Bush policies that have gotten us into this pickle.”
He noted McCain’s support for extending Bush’s tax cuts, which Mr Obama said would help the wealthy, and his support for trade agreements that Mr Obama said do not […]

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I posted before about the pitfalls of Nuclear power. The FT highlights the largest. The cost of storage of waste.
Energy companies cannot be charged a fully commercial price by the government for disposing of nuclear waste without “killing the prospect” of a new generation of reactors, a government adviser will […]

Really this guy is a twat.
A Medway councillor has resigned after claiming on his website that there should be compulsory sterilisation for parents on benefits.

Dick Cheney puts what I can only call an ‘ugly’ spin on this milestone in describing the US army as an all volunteer force, heralding Bush as the person carrying the biggest burden in the midst of this disaster. No word of course of the civilian cost to the people of Iraq. Read more here.

This is an excerpt from an add for the Atomic Weapons Establishment
AWE promotes diversity in employment. We welcome applications from women and men, regardless of disability, sexual orientation, racial or ethnic origin, or age. Applications from women and ethnic minorities are particularly encouraged.
So  “AWE promotes diversity in employment” thats great. Even better “We welcome applications […]

Richard Waghourne is back blogging always good to get more diverse voices out there. For a while now decent voices of the right have been lacking while decent voices on the left all about the place (Michael Taft I ran out of words to underline so you get your own brackets). So with Richard back […]

Being in the UK it can be easy to miss some of the stories back home. One such story is that of Cathal Ó Searcaigh now I do know what it is about but I think I missed the overall reaction and emotions invoked by this. For my non-Irish readers basically Cathal Ó Searcaigh is […]

I’ve walked the halls of the Legislative Office Building in Albany, New York and though never meeting Governor Spitzer, there was never a shortage of suggestion, allegation and rumour about many of the elected representatives. Behaviour of such questionable standards lead to a ban on interns attending events where alcohol was served and a strict […]