I admire people who have absolutely no shame about going public with their proposals, no matter how weird, strange and utterly nonsensical those proposals might be. Such people don’t care whether they appear foolish; they are in too much of a hurry to get their little pearls into print. They must feel enormous [...]

Good lord - is Master Batt O’Keefe in danger of turning into a modern-day Huey Long, a radical redistributionist who wants to confiscate wealth from the rich and give it to everyone else?  He seems to have recently discovered the fact that there are lots of millionaires running about the place and he is using that [...]

You’d think from listening to the employers of the land that every business in every sector is in danger of bankruptcy, liquidation or receivership.  They are all teetering on some ill-defined brink whose location is undisclosed - but it is real nonetheless, or so we are told to believe.  This poor-mouthing can be so passionate, almost persuasive, that [...]

It seems that nationalisation is all the rage these days. The takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, if it does not put paid to the notion that housing finance is too important to be left to the private sector, at least suggests that it needs that proverbial ‘heavy hand’ of the state. [...]

In a previous post, I suggested Turlough O’Sullivan suffered from an unfortunate quirk - he couldn’t bring himself to saying the words ‘low-paid’ with inserting the rider ‘so-called’. I proposed the appropriate therapy - read the facts. But a reader of my blog, Yvonne, has diagnosed another malady Turlough suffers from - innumeracy.
Prior to re-entering [...]

IBEC’s Turlough O’Sullivan has an unfortunate ideological quirk but it is treatable.  It seems he can’t say the words ‘low-paid’ without inserting ’so-called’ before them.  In fact, he has trouble using the actual words ‘low-paid’, only managing to say ‘lower-paid’. Still, his condition dictates that he still inserts ’so-called’ before them.  Mark Hennessy describes this condition [...]

From the American political blogosphere - an interesting concept (actually the religious-political-progressive blogosphere). Yes, American religious-progressive.
With all the European media focused on Governor Sarah Palin and her supporters (Rush Limbaugh calling on all those who believe in ‘babies, guns and Jesus’ to support her), it’s important to keep in mind that religion in America [...]

You probably missed this piece on RTE:
RTE Reporter (on the rooftop of a manufacturing plant, helicopter in the background): We are with Tuck McGrath, CEO of Irish Enterprises. Mr. McGrath, why are you closing your company down and moving to the Far East.
Mr. McGrath: We had a great company - high [...]

It must be great to be a spokesperson for employers. You can just plonk yourself in front of a microphone and say anything that comes into your head, no matter how outrageous or unsubstantiated. On Thursday’s Morning Ireland Mark Fielding of ISME was being interviewed together with UNITE’s Jerry Shanan. Mr. Fielding [...]

It was only a matter of time before the business sector opened up another front in the recession wars. Hamburger king Pat McDonagh of Supermac has accused the Government of ’strangling entrepreneurship’ and ‘criminalising business’. And just how is the vile Government doing this?
‘Bureaucracy, legislation and regulation’.
But Mr. McDonagh is just getting started.
McDonagh [...]