Month: May 2009

I do not believe in coincidences. Not when they are this blatant I don’t.                   This convenient. Four incompetent fools (or more likely three fools and a government...

It’s can be a very simple process to identify who wants to be the Republican candidate for President in 2009. Just look for people who are doing incredibly stupid things to hurt the people in their own state. Example? I...

Today, Dick Cheney gave a speech at the American Enterprise Institute. It’s well worth a read because it probably does represent about the strongest defense of Bush and Cheney’s post-9/11 policies as could be...

A few months ago I would not have been aware of the late economist, Hyman Minsky (1919-1996.) His theory, known as the “Financial Instability Hypothesis (FIH)” was not a matter of public discussion as we watched our...

So why should the world care about institutionalised child abuse in Ireland? Because it was widespread, systematic and endemic and woven into the very fabric of an authoritarian religious culture.  This wasn’t a case...