The US Presidential debate was about winning over the undecideds, not satisfying the faithful, and so Obama took the line of least resistance in many instances. Many Democratic partisans will be unhappy with the very centrist...
Read MoreCross-posted from the European Tribune. Some may call it irrational antipathy to rich bankers who gambled huge fortunes of other people’s money and lost – but not before they had paid themselves $Billions in bonuses....
Read MoreThe USA has always traded heavily on its founding myths – the hard-bitten, self-reliant frontiersman in the log cabin who overcomes all odds and establishes himself in hostile territory supported by God and Guns and with...
Read MoreThe Ireland of the Celtic Tiger era is often held up as a prime example of the success of the “Free market” or “Anglo-Disease” (take your pick) model of economic development. Reduced taxes, de-regulation,...
Read MoreThe Irish Government has now published the results of the opinion poll and focus group research it commissioned into the reasons why the Irish people voted no in the Lisbon Treaty Referendum. Donald Rumsfeld is famous for...
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