Sunday, May 01, 2005

External Bureaucracy

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The supergovernment trade journal, the European Voice reports on the formation of a euphemistically named Ministry of External Affaires: ...

Shhh! Everything's fine!

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Cool überblogger Carine clues us in to the success of the French economic model. If it's so "humane" why are so many trying ...

A Book Critical of Le Monde Is Mentioned in the Daily ...Surreptitously, and …One Year After Its Publication

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I have been reading Le Monde for years [writes François Jourdier]. Le Monde is always right, it is the events who are wrong. The fact...

Self-loathing twit...

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With thanks to LGF we find this supporter of a human rights travesty who's trying to hate people into loving her. Yet another proud gr...
Saturday, April 30, 2005

People of Ohio! Start writing those letters!

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«Gentle folks at the Guardian, In your plea to get your non-American readers to write to voters in Clark County, Iowa, you are correct that ...

Hoowah!

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I think we can finally call it the end of the beginning. Heartening too is Vaclav Havel’s open letter to the Lebanese. An excerpt: «Let me...

Mass grave found, European press marginally impressed

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Deutsche Welle actually reports bad news about Iraqi Ba'athists with the straightforward air of actual reporting. «Investigators in sou...
Friday, April 29, 2005

The French Military "Draw Up a Critical Evaluation" of 30 Months of American Operations in Iraq

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Experts with the French military have discovered the reason for America's failings in Iraq. It's the Protestant religion… It...

Searching for Villain; Surprise! Up Comes Uncle Sam

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When Google challenges Europe . Overnight, the headline in the daily Le Monde turned the popular search engine into a new villain write...

Abu Ghraib proven an overhyped story, not a whitewash

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…where are the whistleblowers? There would have been a widespread outcry in the military if senior brass and civilians really were trying t...

Loser-palooza

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Top of the pin to Natalie Solent for calling to our attention a fine compendium of leftist cognitive over-reach: The Gallery of 'Bush =...

Today in history

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Today in 1945 American soldiers of the 45th I.D. liberated the Dachau concentration camp. 60 years later : In Britain today leftist British...

It’s like a blackboard jungle...

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Only in Europe where something as basic as capitalism is only understood by the few who aren’t resentful about their lives - would the succe...
Thursday, April 28, 2005

America Is So Hopelessly Puritan

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If this had happened in the United States, it's a sure bet that Europe's intellectuals and pundits would be besides themselves in...

A pearl necklace: the passive-aggressive network behind the Oil-for-Food scandal

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Il Sole 24 Ore ’s Claudio Gatti writes in today’s FT on the links found between Charles Pasqua and the Ba’athists in Iraq. The UN’s Volcker...

Derailed…

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Although I have written a long essay on how to respond to anti-Americans and anti-capitalists , there are times when I have to admit I am t...

Luddism as a Hobby of the idle rich

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The only “acting locally” greenies will be doing is shilling for their politicos. « Should anyone bring up the fact that the world is a cle...

The Blunt, Bad-Tempered Republican and the Frank, High-Principled Rastafarian

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John Bolton is blunt where others would be self-protective. This is bad? wonders Peggy Noonan , while the WSJ editorial asks Who...
Wednesday, April 27, 2005

Syria and its' prisons: Fearmongering like it's 1499

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Scroll to the bottom of the page . Then tell me why you think the likes of A.N.S.W.E.R. are backing Syria . Hatred, pure and simple.

Lebanon still infested with Syrian spooks

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Here's an unfortunate wet blanket to throw on all the orgasmic adulation of the European press wonks about Syria's military exitin...