Cross-posted from Telegraph Brassneck:
Samantha Power, the Irish-born foreign policy adviser to Barack Obama and self-proclaimed “genocide chick”, expects she’ll get the “guillotine” from the Obama campaign today after calling Hillary Clinton “a monster”, she told an interviewer on state-owned RTÉ radio in Dublin this morning.

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Contrary to some reports, Herself and I did make it down to the Alexander to catch some of the Blog Awards - though the vicissitudes of bedtime cannot be rushed, we opted to come late rather than not come at all. And I’m glad we did, because we got to see something important happen - [...]

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Wishful thinking or new science? A little boomlet of data showing that average global temperatures DROPPED last year, with the largest snowpack across North America in 30-odd years and the thickest Arctic sea ice since 1966. Snow in Baghdad, Jerusalem, Greece…

One researcher suggests that the drop in global temperature in 2007 was so great that [...]

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What is up with Irish pundits and Barack Obama?
Since Super Tuesday we’ve had more than a few appearances on Irish radio and TV from Niall O’Dowd, the Irish-born publisher of the NY-based Irish Voice, explaining - quite bluntly - that a black man simply can’t win an American presidential election.
Today’s Indo brings us [...]

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This column first appeared in the Sunday Tribune, on 1 April 2007 - months before the new Irish Seanad was returned with FIVE columnists or presenters, including the Sindo’s Eoghan Harris, who joins Sindo Business Editor Shane Ross, Irish Daily Mail columnist Rónán Mullen, as well as Newstalk presenter David Norris and once and [...]

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This column originally appeared in the Sunday Tribune in April 2007.
Richard Delevan
There’s a lot of senseless tragedy around, which is good for the media business. Memories are short. So media outlets that one week could condemn America’s “God and guns” culture as the rational explanation for a slaughter can the following week simply emote about [...]

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I’m about to go on RTE to debate discuss this with Sam Smyth and Tom McGurk - but that means the bonhomie level will be at redline. So forgive me for venting.
“Irish Independent moves the story forward” said RTE Morning Ireland this morning in its paper review. In the story, the Indo “reveals” that US [...]

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Harry McGee of the Irish Examiner reports that Fine Gael are poised to launch a poster campaign that uses the image of a happy looking PD leader, Tainaste and Minister for Justice Michael McDowell alongside statistics about rising levels of reported crime.
Cian over at Irish Election calls it “negative campaigning” - anticipating I’m sure the [...]

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