Topic: St. Patrick's Day

Obama vs. Romney: Who's most 'elitist' and out of touch?

Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are both Harvard graduates. Both are wealthy, although Romney is much richer. Each campaign is trying to paint the other as a candidate for American's wealthy, not the ordinary voter.

Nutella Rice Krispies Easter baskets

A holiday chocolate basket to hold all those mini Cadbury eggs.

Spring into summer: Unseasonable heat helps pave way for violent weather

Spring is just beginning, but in many parts of the country it already feels like summer. As a storm moves into especially warm humid air in the center of the country, Texas is under the gun for violent storms.

Recipes for St. Patrick's Day

Whether you are Irish or not, corned beef and cabbage, Irish colcannon, Irish soda bread, and grasshopper pie will help you celebrate the arrival of green.

The quest for hidden eggcorns

These quirky expressions may shed light on what people think they're trying to say.

With Harry Houdini doodle, Google has a curious new patent up its sleeve

Today's Harry Houdini logo is the first to appear after Google received a very interesting patent. The "Google doodle" – which shall forever after be known as the 'System and Method For Enticing Users To A Web Site' – has been approved by the US patent office.

Five fun facts for St. Patrick’s Day

Here are five things about St. Patrick’s Day that you may not have known.

Corned beef and cabbage slaw sliders: A St. Patrick's Day recipe

Corned beef and cabbage slaw sliders on St. Patrick’s Day are quick enough to let you come home from work and have enough time to throw a party.

St. Patrick's Day recipe: Irish Colcannon

Irish Colcannon is potatoes mashed with boiled kale or cabbage.

St. Patrick's Day: 5 great books that celebrate Ireland

What should you read on St. Patrick's Day? If you're hoping to celebrate Ireland with a book in hand, the hardest part will be figuring out which one, as the Emerald Isle has long been a wildly prolific source of inspiration to writers. And so to my earlier list of 10 best books about Ireland (which I still stand by), I can easily add five more.

Ides of March: what to read on March 15

Each year when March 15 rolls around, many of us grope mentally backward to 9th-grade English class and do our best to remember who exactly who it was that warned Julius Caesar to "Beware the ides of March" and why. But in the years since Shakespeare first coined the phrase in 1599 the fatal date has become well ensconced in literature. To bring yourself up to speed on "ides" literature, here's a beginner's list.

'Los Suns' Cinco de Mayo statement: protest on a tank top

The Phoenix Suns players decided to wear their Spanish 'Los Suns' jerseys to tonight's Cinco de Mayo playoff game to protest the new Arizona immigration law. It's the latest example of America's often-contradictory views on illegal immigration and the Hispanic community.

Irish bishop John Magee resigns, apologizes to abuse victims

Pope Benedict XVI accepted the resignation of Bishop John Magee, a former papal aide who stands accused of endangering children by failing to follow the Irish church's own rules on reporting suspected pedophile priests to police.

After papal rebuke, Ireland takes stunned stock of battered church, economy, and nation

Many in Ireland are stunned that the once high-flying 'Celtic Tiger' is now just another battered economy – and by fresh revelations of coverups of sexual abuse of children in the Roman Catholic church as Pope Benedict XVI apologized directly to Irish abuse victims.

As Ireland breaks for St. Patrick's Day, Ulster Unionists turn to Flash Harry for votes

The Ulster Unionist Party, once the powerful voice of pro-British activism in Northern Ireland, has turned to Freddy Mercury impersonator Flash Harry to improve its political standing.

Ten best books about Ireland

There is no shortage of great books about Ireland. Here's a sampler to help you celebrate St. Patrick's Day.

St. Patrick's Day 2010: It was about church, not Guinness

Guinness sells 10 million glasses of beer daily (but no green beer) and far more on St. Patrick's Day. That's a new phenomenon. Not long ago, all pubs in Ireland closed on St Patrick's Day.

St. Patrick's Day: Why do we wear green?

On St. Patrick's Day, a look at how three well-known traditions came to be.

St. Patrick's Day at the White House. Obama welcomes Irish PM.

President Obama celebrates St. Patrick's Day with Ireland's Prime Minister Brian Cowen.

Grinch of St. Patrick's Day? Worker suspended for shamrock pride.

A Staten Island Ferry worker was suspended for showing his St. Patrick's Day cheer.

Talk Like a Pirate Day 2009 - arrrrrrr you ready?

Leading indicators: US recession nearly over