Opinion

The Republicans are gathered in Tampa this week for their convention and we can expect all the usual razzamatazz and ballyhoo that goes with such g...

I know little about the Great Famine. Obviously I'm aware of how it drastically reduced the Irish population by killing one million people and forc...

The obscure "Fast and Furious" investigation of the Justice Department and Attorney General Eric Holder's actions in response to the probe of Chair...

Obamacare, Romneycare, blahblahcare. Some were loudly cheering the 5-4 Supreme Court decision last week, some were describing it as the greatest bl...

In his vigorous dissent from the Supreme Court's recent ruling on Arizona's immigration law, Justice Antonin Scalia argued that if the 13 original ...

Summer if off to its usual eventful start. There have been soaring and dipping temperatures in the Midwest and East, A tropical downpour that has f...

History will record that on the 27th day of June, 2012, Martin McGuinness of Sinn Féin shook the hand of Queen Elizabeth, with the president of the...

Graeme McDowell didn't win the U.S. open last Sunday, and neither did Padraig Harrington. But they combined for the kind of Irish performance in a ...

There's more than a shade of E3 about the break that President Obama delivered last week for an estimated 800,000 young people in the U.S. who have...

Father Sean McManus ("Silence on North a grave moral lapse") seems to have a very one sided call for justice. He forgets the IRA victims (civilians...

Is a job, any job, preferable to the dole? For most people, the question probably is a no-brainer. Of course it's better to be working than to be o...

[caption id="attachment_71826" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Up goes a sign urging a "no" vote on May 31."][/caption] A great many thing...