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...got e-mails calling me the anti-Christ and saying I'm going to hell, but we want to make the law just as strong as we can," says Hoyle. "We feel it is a good law. When a person takes advantage of a child, I don't worry about their constitutional rights...
...first black President to fail - which won't endear him to a league dominated by black athletes who probably don't share that sentiment about President Obama. Nor does the country that elected him. And as a commentator for ESPN in 2003, Limbaugh made a racist remark that quickly got him benched: he disparaged Donovan McNabb, arguing that the Philadelphia Eagles QB got higher marks than deserved because of his color. Philadelphia fans were outraged - mostly at being accused of grading anyone on a curve. In Philly, nobody but nobody gets a pass, except the wideouts. (Read a two-minute...
...obviously haven't got out of that work ethic. You wrote your autobiography in record time. Last summer when I left office a lot of publishers asked if I'd write my autobiography and I said, 'Yeah, I'd like to do that, but don't ask me when.' Then exactly a year ago I fell downstairs and smashed my ankle badly. I was a lousy patient. It was bad enough not being Taoiseach and now to be told that now I had to hang around with a cast and crutches. So I got a notebook and started...
...Ireland has changed dramatically during your time in politics. If you go back to the mid-'80s, unemployment was 20%. The debt-GDP ratio was higher than Ethiopia's. Emigration was massive. The new Irish [immigrants] were 1% of the workforce. Before this recession we got to full employment, 7% growth every year. Most of the young Irish that wanted to came back. The working population of the new Irish is now 15%. We've been able to put huge money into infrastructure, to attract foreign direct investment to set up new industries. We brought in legislation decriminalizing...
...looked like a success story, and then the recession came. Did we make mistakes? Of course we did. The property boom got too big, the banks borrowed too much. Our regulation system, and we all have to take responsibility for this, wasn't picking up everything it should. When I tried to bring in a property tax, the media killed me. Then the media killed me saying I didn't bring in the solutions. I am sorry so many people have lost jobs...