Last Wednesday, after Robert Mueller’s terse and sometimes halting congressional testimony, conventional wisdom quickly congealed: Mueller’s performance had made Donald Trump’s impeachment far less likely. “Robert S. Mueller III’s disastrous testimony has taken the wind out of the sails of the Democratic impeachment drive,” wrote Marc Thiessen in The Washington Post. CNN’s Chris Cillizza declared […]

In response to growing criticism that the state of immigrant detention centers at America’s southern border is inhumane, President Trump this month tweeted a sweeping dictum meant to deter migration from Central America: “If Illegal Immigrants are unhappy with the conditions,” he wrote, “just tell them not to come. All problems solved!” But the two […]

Here’s a little quiz. When was the last time a significant social media network was founded in the United States? And what about a competitive search engine company? An online ad network? And what about a truly wide-ranging e-commerce start-up? Here are the depressing answers. The social network Snapchat, in 2011. For search, Microsoft’s Bing […]

HONG KONG (Reuters) – China Renaissance Holdings Ltd (1911.HK) said it has raised over 6.5 billion yuan ($945 million) for its latest yuan-denominated fund, as the investment bank prepares to invest further in sunrise industries in the world’s second-largest economy. The firm in a statement on Monday said its private equity arm Huaxing Growth Capital […]

Brexit has been a potential Irish economic calamity since June 2016. But since late 2017, it has been safe territory for this Government because of public confidence in its response. In recent months, the Government has lost a deal of public confidence due to cumulative problems like runaway-spending on the children’s hospital and rural broadband; […]

A teen is trying to climb the notes to country stardom since he was five-years-old, his music flowing from his home studio in Kelowna. “I grew up around music,” said Beamer Wigley, country musician. “When I was five-years-old I saw the music video to Brad Paisley and Keith Urban’s Start A Band and a light […]

To those who had seen former Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s interactions with Facebook officials during his time in power, it was no surprise when an internal company document referenced the Mayoman’s “great relationship” with the company. The memo, reported on in the UK and US earlier this year, labelled him a “friend of Facebook”. Now, it […]

Last Thursday, Leo Varadkar rhetorically dug up Famine graves in a last desperate attempt to distract from the following frightening truth. Unless we bin our fraudulent backstop, Boris Johnson will crash out of the EU, leaving our economy in ruins and our relations with England, our nearest neighbour, in rag order. Leo Varadkar and Simon […]

Boris Johnson’s elevation to the position of UK prime minister by the members of the Tory Party has many implications – for the state of politics, the future of the UK as an economic power and, importantly, for diplomacy. Brexit and the associated rise of Johnson have occurred at the expense of diplomacy, most recently […]

You have to answer! There’s a possibility that it’s your dream job. There’s also a possibility that it’s a “promotion” that pays the same, but gives you more responsibilities. You won’t want to pass this by! Having a chance to give our corporation feedback on the efficiency and service of our self-checkout lane is an […]