I haven't heard Bob Dylan's radio show yet. This week's show is definitely one I wish I had heard. Dylan devoted this week's...

Off to Co. Cork this Saturday with the youth team. I haven't been down in that part of the country in a long time. Staying in Blarney, w...

I was thinking about all the nonsense over the government's planned "decentralisation" and you know what should be done? Move...

Entertaining article about the England World Cup squad from today's NY Times . One sentence from the Times article sums up all the ridi...

Is it inappropriate to find this story amusing? I hope not because it's got me chuckling. A family feud broke out into a fully-fledged f...

The other day my children came home from school with a flyer from the INTO . It's easy to overreact to these sorts of things, but it...

The front page of today's Irish Times includes an article about the new schedule on RTE Radio 1. {Talk about your slow news day.} The ...

Just stumbled onto a blurb about last night's American Idol final . I now know who won and they don't. They're just not with it ...

Shocking, just shocking. Supposedly 92% of seniors in my old high school claim that they can acquire marijuana easily. I would imagine tha...

I really loved the idea of little people – a different species – living on an island in today's Indonesia up to as recently as 20,000 y...

According to a recent study, American Catholics have not abandoned the Church after the sex abuse scandals. In fact, the only truly measura...

Soccer's not that big in Australia and Kylie Ladd's husband is more of a cricket fan than soccer fan, but nonetheless she's see...

Sure takes me a long time to finish a book sometimes. I get sidetracked, mostly when the pile of newspapers tops 3' in height. Anyway, I...

Unbelievable front page story today in the Irish Times . Someone in the GAA has really blown it - BIG TIME. The Irish Times isn't the o...

This is from today's New York Times . The design and construction of the New Orleans hurricane protection system, a project spanning mor...

I heard the children talking about the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday morning, but it hadn't occurred to me that there would be a ...

I only just realized that it was exactly 20 years ago - May 18, 1986 - that I graduated from college . Can't be that long ago. I demand ...

I've heard and read many references to the old right of sanctuary in a church with regards to the Afghan refugees . (You can see some of...

One more thing about Samuelson's article. He says that high-skilled immigrants assimilate more quickly than low-skilled immigrants. Is t...

Robert J. Samuelson believes that the President missed the "true nature" of the immigration problem - that there are two "i...