October 30, 2020

The Sad and Sorry History of Election Predictions

It's no secret that the predictions of so-called "scientific polls" have been very wide of the mark over the past five years. Remember the 2016 election in the USA and Brexit in England? Both polls were wrong. Amid all the loud vocif...

October 9, 2020

Trump and TR: Presidential Parallels

The corporate media has made a fundamental mistake in dealing with President Donald J Trump. Day after day Trump is attacked with made-up conspiracies and personal innuendo and when the president defends himself, they say he doesn't look "pr...

June 19, 2020

Vote by Mail: Turning the Clock Backwards

Concerns about corruption in voting are not a new phenomenon. During the Constitutional Convention of 1787, James Madison worried about the abuses that might occur under the new Constitution. Our federal system of government is predicated on the f...

March 17, 2020

Celebrating Ireland

Looking out to sea one sunny day in Carna, Connemara, County Galway, Ireland, my uncle Micheal Breathnac quipped in Gaelic that Boston was the "next parish" — because so many had emigrated there.  Our house stands in th...

June 7, 2019

Peggy Noonan and snob rule

I always peruse Peggy Noonan's "Declarations" column in the weekend Wall Street Journal.  I read it not to be informed of the political issues facing our country or for sage political advice.  Nor do I find much inte...