Breathtaking

broadsheet.ie 3 hours ago

Wonderful twist in Shattergate - Mattie McGrath claims Shatter refused a breath-test at Garda Checkpoint...— rabble(@wearerabble) May 23, 2013 Inde

 
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This Kid Just Died. What He Left Behind Is Wondtacular.

upworthy.com 20 May

If you know you are gonna die before you turn 19, you might as well do this. RIP, Zach.

 
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Sen. Ted Cruz Refuses to Play the Game: ‘Let Me Be Clear, I Don’t Trust the Republicans’

theblaze.com 12 hours ago

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Wednesday made it crystal clear that he is not in Washington, D.C...

 
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Taste

broadsheet.ie 3 hours ago

Rory Gallagher on Tuckey Street, Cork, this morning. Thanks Maidhcí

 
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You’re Dead To Me Now

broadsheet.ie 2 hours ago

Jennifer's clearly bitter ex-partner adjusts his tatt before never really moving on. 22words/huffpo

 
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Woolwich: a knife crime, not an act of war | Brendan O’Neill | spiked

spiked-online.com 3 hours ago

In overreacting to the frenzied stabbing in Woolwich yesterday, politicians and the police risk doing the killers’ dirty work for them.

 
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Despite momentum, GOP leadership still against special Benghazi committee

dailycaller.com 2 hours ago

WASHINGTON -- While momentum has been building inside the House Republican conference for a special congressional committee to investigate last year’s terrorist attacks in Benghazi, the GOP leadersh

 
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David Mcwilliams

davidmcwilliams.ie 6 hours ago

David’s new book The Good Room is available now

 
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Dear Graduates: Tyranny Is Right Around the Corner

reason.com 2 hours ago

The case of Fox's James Rosen.

 
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Tesla Motors Pays Back Energy Department Loan 9 Years Early

thinkprogress.org 16 hours ago

Electric automaker Tesla Motors just announced that it has paid back the nearly half a billion dollars the Department of Energy lent it in 2010...

 
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Japan's Words Of Advice To Doomsayers: "Please Do Not Worry" And "Maintain Fiscal Discipline"

zerohedge.com 2 hours ago

Six months ago , Japan's message to the Kyle Bassians of the world - was simple: Q. If Japan has a financial collapse, what will happen to its government bonds? A. Please do not worry...

 
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Boba Fettishist

broadsheet.ie 2 hours ago

Artist Tommy Filth's modified KitchenAid mixer. Sez he: "I asked for a Kitchenaid mixer for Christmas, I pointed my wife toward a broken one on eBay so that I

 
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‘We’re Not Going to Tolerate It’: Colo. Sheriffs Unite to Block ‘Unenforceable’ Gun Control...

theblaze.com 14 hours ago

In the wake of the tragedy in Aurora, Colorado passed some of the strictest gun control measures in the country...

 
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The Tense Exchange Between Rep. Trey Gowdy and the Former IRS Head You’ve Been Waiting for…and It...

theblaze.com 19 hours ago

South Carolina Congressman Trey Gowdy showed up to Wednesday’s House hearing on the Internal Revue Service scandal in a fighting mood (as noted here on TheBlaze) and he only became more fired up as...

 
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Japan Stock Market Crash Leads To Global Sell Off

zerohedge.com 3 hours ago

Yesterday afternoon, following the rout in the US stock market, we made a spurious preview of the true main event: So selloff in JGBs tonight? — zerohedge (@zerohedge) May 22, 2013 We had...

 
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Daily Kos: 9-month-old Florida firm donates $140,000 to Scott and state GOP, gets $52 million state...

dailykos.com 14 hours ago

Florida Gov. Rick Scott If this isn't crooked, it's only because we've defined crookedness down so much that it doesn't exist anymore : Two ...

 
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Why Do I Teach?

opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com 12 hours ago

We should judge teaching not by the amount of knowledge it passes on, but by the enduring excitement it generates.

 
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Living In Two Worlds, But With Just One Language

npr.org 6 hours ago

Elysha O'Brien calls herself a "Mexican white girl." Not just because of her ethnically ambiguous appearance, she says, but also because she can't speak Spanish...

 
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Weekly Unemployment Benefits Tumble

theblaze.com 59 mins ago

It’s been seven days, but now it’s time for our weekly jobless benefits update...

 
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How To Talk Like A Most Creative Person

fastcompany.com 2 hours ago

At the center of every great projectwhether Google Maps a podcast or Nashvillelies a conversation. Just ask Daniel Graf Connie Britton and Marc Maron...

 
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Swedishness

broadsheet.ie 7 hours ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8_7yPocGPg In case you missed it: the utterly brilliant mockumentary about Sweden (aired during last weekend's Eurovision)

 
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No Way: 14-Year-Old Girl Shows Off Her Otherworldly Guitar Skills With Van Halen Cover

theblaze.com 11 hours ago

If there are any up and coming bands in need of a lead guitarist, take a look at this 14-year-old girl. We're not being sarcastic or being overly complimentary. This girl's guitar skills are unreal...

 
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Report: No IRS Workers Have Been Disciplined & Union Says It Hasn’t Been Contacted on Personnel

theblaze.com 20 hours ago

Despite the Obama administration’s repeated promises to get to the bottom of the Internal Revenue Service's political targeting scandal, nothing has been done...

 
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Pickering, Issa reach agreement on testimony

hotair.com 45 mins ago

Wonderful thing, subpoenas.

 
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Why the IRS Went After the Tea Party Instead of Establishment Republicans

breitbart.com 12 hours ago

As the old saying goes, beware of Greeks bearing gifts; but as the new saying goes, beware even more of Republicans bearing bribes...

 
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Attn DC Reasonoids: Nick Gillespie Discusses Kevin Williamson's New Book at Cato Today (Free Lunch)

reason.com 2 hours ago

That headline above is a classic case of burying the lede. In any case, I'm excited to be one of the discussants of Kevin Williamson's new book, The End

 
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Colbert's Graduation Speech Rips On Everything From Immigration To Safety. The Students Loved It.

upworthy.com 14 hours ago

I can't imagine a better way to spend my college graduation.

 
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Grace Dent: I’m not sure how these people can avoid being called ‘bigots’. And the more ‘civilised’,...

independent.co.uk 19 hours ago

Whatever one’s views are on David Cameron, I have respect for his firmness during the gay marriage debate in standing up to party bigots...

 
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Some good rules for life in general | Neurobonkers | Big Think

bigthink.com 2 hours ago

Daniel Dennett has posted a fantastic set of " seven tools for thinking " in an article in the Guardian that has gone so viral that if you haven't seen it yet, then you must be doing the internet...

 
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Reporter Who Alleged Possible IRS Targeting After Tough Obama Interview Has Been Fired

theblaze.com 16 hours ago

Larry Conners, the St. Louis reporter who alleged the IRS may have unfairly targeted him after his tough interview with President Barack Obama, has been fired, KMOV-TV announced Wednesday...

 
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A Limerick A Day

broadsheet.ie 2 hours ago

Our Taoiseach has jetted to Greece, To talk talk about tactics to fleece, More cash from the Hun, Which seems like great fun, Until Angela calls in the le

 
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In the wake of the Woolwich attack, let's not blindly follow the EDL

independent.co.uk 18 hours ago

As the EDL lace up their heavy-set boots and head for the streets of Woolwich, their leader, metaphorically carrying with him his long list of criminal convictions, will be preparing his fascist...

 
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Cocaine scandal: No matter how it seems on Planet Ford, it’s over: DiManno

thestar.com 1 hour ago

After Rob Ford's duck-the-reporter farce and Doug Ford's staggeringly bad attempt at damage control, it hardly matters if the video is authentic.

 
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End now the old pretence that we want to deal with the past

sluggerotoole.com 3 hours ago

Another conference, another raking over old ground?  Perhaps - but the DPP Barra McGrory made an interesting speech  at the well-cast transitional justice conference in Belfast...

 
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