Saturday, June 11, 2011

Droit du Dirty Old Man

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SINCE … Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the head of the International Monetary Fund, was arrested on sexual assault charges in New York, French po...

Kameradschaft, 1931

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The film was a landmark in cinéma verité stylization, but that’s not what’s interesting about it. What’s interesting about it was that it wa...
Friday, June 10, 2011

I Call it Terroirism

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Behold the monomaniacal European mindset on display. The French government regulates speech for no reason other than commercial purposes. ...

The Reference Book That Has Been Missing from Your Bookshelves

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…cet énorme dictionnaire coordonné par Christophe Bier et requérant les compétences d'une petite trentaine de rédacteurs entend consti...
Thursday, June 09, 2011

Chirac at the Helm of the Republic: 12 Years of Solitude

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At 78, Jacques Chirac is publishing the second part of his memoirs, writes Béatrice Gurrey in Le Monde , that take us from the end of Franç...

Weiner Caption Contest

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(Thanks to Frank)
Wednesday, June 08, 2011

MSM in France: French Citizens Remain with That Bad Taste in the Mouth of Always Reading, Watching, or Listening to the Exact Same Information

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There was a time when the officials of the 8pm newscasts were waiting for the afternoon appearance of Le Monde on the newsstands in order t...

Suicidal Dissemblement is the New Black

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In a convoluted juxtaposition, the childishly scholastic world view of European “strategic thinking” is on broad display here . First off, ...
Tuesday, June 07, 2011

College students' judgment of Obama has cooled significantly — sometimes to the point of disillusionment

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Oberlin is one of the United States’ most traditionally — read doggedly — liberal and distinguished small colleges. As the Ohio school is ...

So where are the “Peace Protesters” in Orange Jumpsuits Now ?

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And were they so fond of comparing Gitmo to a concentration camp, when this kind of thing is perfectly normal in much of the Arab world? Ha...
Monday, June 06, 2011

Zukunft? Nein danke!

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Thanks to Observing Herrmann for pointing this out: Europeans have been carrying around prejudices of one another around forever, despite ...

Many Men Are Tired and Weary…

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The story of D-Day.

So I Belong in the Crowbar Hotel... What’s it to Ya?

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Sunday, June 05, 2011

Even Swedes think All Swedes Look Alike

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It turns out that Ingmar Bergman (not the famous ventriloquist , nor his dummy,) is not Ingmar Bergman . Ingmar Bergman, the famed Swedish d...

EU's Human Rights Budget Being Used to Promote Left-Wing Causes in the U.S.

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So in which of the world's troubled hotspots and seats of oppression do you think that the European Union is advocating human rights and...

France restricts mentions of Twitter and Facebook on the airwaves

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French regulators have forbidden broadcasters to direct their audiences to Twitter or Facebook the Global Post quoted CBS News as reporti...

Bring a Pair of Hookers and Some Smack, and We’ll Talk Business

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Saturday, June 04, 2011

Some of My Friends Call me Maurice

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Friday, June 03, 2011

Luc Ferry : « Virez-nous ces vieux pervers ! »

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The French prosecutor's office opened a preliminary investigation Wednesday after a former government minister alleged that another ex-m...

Obama's general approach to foreign policy — selling out our allies to curry favor with our adversaries

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The only thing surprising about Barack Obama's latest blow against Israel is that there are people who are surprised writes Thomas Sowe...