Saturday, November 06, 2010

"Pas une victoire pour les Républicains, mais une sanction pour les Démocrates"

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Je ne suis pas sûr qu'Obama va avoir la même souplesse que Bill Clinton a eu en 1994 Lucie Nuttin welcomes Republicans Abroad's T...

France24 and the US Mid-Terms: America Decides

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While the counting of America's mid-terms was going on, France 24 decided to seek out the voices of America (or, at least those Americ...

I Guess they’re Running out of New Material

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Having long run out of fresh hateful tirades about the United States, one crank in Sweden (who wonders why Americans stop being so eternall...
Friday, November 05, 2010

The Republicans Ride In

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Change, Mutual Respect, and Russian-EU Relations: When the Obama administration stamps its foot, no one any longer snaps to attention

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…“the Russians now have far more leverage in the U.S. relationship [with Europe] than they should” John Vinocur quotes a former senior...

A Festival of Self-Delusion

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Don’t be mislead by the American mainstream media, or anything else you may have seen or heard. Observing Hermann points out that that Germ...

The Nanny State: First, They Came for…

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While Valerie writes from Hawaii, saying "They'll have to pry my McDo meal from my cold, dead hands", Damien Bennett adds: Fi...
Thursday, November 04, 2010

Riots, Looting, and Chaos in France: How Societies Perish

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The Obama administration's policies and projects bear a strong resemblance to those that led Europe — especially France — to founder on...

The left has failed to come up with anything resembling a novel strategy to turn the economic switch back to full speed

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Europe's left adrift in its inconsistency is how John Vinocur 's IHT article reads in the paper version — perhaps bearing something...

To Hell with the Numbers, Give me my Candy!

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About 100 protesting airport workers played music, chanted slogans and blocked cars from accessing one of the terminals at Paris' Charle...

Are you Feeling Simpel ?

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Ein ganz normaler Deutscher , no different that the louts at Die Welt .
Wednesday, November 03, 2010

Package Bomb: The Trap of Democratic Elections

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In an odd Le Monde cartoon combining the current scare regarding Greece's package bomb plots (the literal translation of colis piégé ...

I Guess they Really ARE who They’ve Been Waiting for

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And judging by the turnout, they’ll have to keep waiting, because our mildly deranged friends of the left just won’t get out of bed unless t...
Tuesday, November 02, 2010

At 4 am, French Time, I Will Be Commenting America's Mid-Term Elections Live in French and English

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Tonight, at 4 am French (continental) time, I will be covering America's mid-term elections on the France 24 cable news channel, both ...

Postcards from Pétainistan

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Europeans speculating on Tuesday’s vote in the US fall into the old trope: either way they will pity themselves, either way Americans are wr...

In Order to Change the Political Landscape, Who Is the Hero That America Needs?

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(Thanks to Valerie)
Monday, November 01, 2010

A Generational Choice

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A Generational Choice

Selfish, Inequitable America at it’s Very Worst

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A man who immigrated to the US in 1924 made a gift to his town of origin in Sweden. While Americans would see this type of posthumous gene...

In how many other countries would a powerful populist movement demand less of government, rather than endlessly and expensively more?

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After the clobbering Lexington got for calling Tea Partiers infantile , The Economist 's senior America commentator had to acknowledge ...
Sunday, October 31, 2010

Opposition to Barack Obama does not arise from fear, from anger, from hatred, or from racism; Opposition to Barack Obama arises from love

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As I always tell whoever is willing to listen (be they American or foreign ), opposition to Barack Obama does not arise from fear, or from ...