Saturday, January 07, 2012

Parisian Truffles

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I'll bet you thought I was done speaking glowingly of the city of lights...

According to One (Disgusted) Leftist, 90% of Frenchmen Support the 18-Year-Old Mother's Killing of an Oklahoma Burglar

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According to one outraged and disgusted leftist responding to Corine Lesnes 's post on the Sarah McKinley shooting, almost 90% of Fren...
Friday, January 06, 2012

On the One Hand, a Dictator Who Starved His People; on the Other, a Freedom Fighter Like Walesa — And Whom Does Le Monde Choose for Its Main Headline?

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In the wake of reading the issue in which Le Monde announced the deaths of Vaclav Havel and Kim Jong-il, a Le Monde reader protested in a ...
Wednesday, January 04, 2012

It is unconscionable to recommend marriage to any man under a legal regime in which he has no protection under the law

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Echoing Stephen Baskerville , Vox is quoted by Instapundit as saying: Nancy French asks what marriage has to offer men and decides that so...
Tuesday, January 03, 2012

A Nuremberg-scale trial for all the corporate agents and treasonous capitalisto-fascist architects of our democracy’s current and most pressing misery

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“The scale of Right Wing sociopolitical sabotage necessitates a Nuremberg-scale trial for all the corporate agents and treasonous capital...

While there have always been differences about how proactive government should be, few Europeans question the basic premise of a welfare state

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Most Europeans associate democracy with a social safety net writes Katrin Bennhold in The Female Factor in an International Herald Tribun...
Monday, January 02, 2012

In Iraq, once-dead streets now bustle with Thursday night shoppers and acres of razed buildings have been replanted with palatial new houses

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In Iraq, the [war's] legacy will be lived, day by day, with fatalism and frustration at the country’s intractable political crises wr...

Well? Should It?

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Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot and days of auld lang syne? (Thanks to Du...
Sunday, January 01, 2012

That Old Meme: We WOULD Support You, You Understand, exCEPT for Your "Set of ideas" ("That are Cranky, Extreme, and Backward-Looking")

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It is a sad commentary that this late in the day “the right Republican” does not even seem to be running yet. Again, The Economist — wh...
Saturday, December 31, 2011

Happy New Year to One and All

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Gandhi: “If you can’t retain your principles, take out your sword and fight”

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In its 50 Years Ago section, the International Herald Tribune mentions a Gandhi quote that is not often referred to, reverently, by the wa...
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Friday, December 30, 2011

Will Obama Lose Iraq the Same Way that Carter Lost Iran?

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In 1979 President Carter "lost Iran" Gérald Olivier reminds us, as even French commentators (!) start noticing the good tidin...

What Gingrich's liberal critics have always found insanely maddening about him is a reputation for intellectual depth

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While Thomas Sowell again endorses Newt Gingrich , the New York Times Magazine publishes an interesting portrait of Newt. The money quote...
Thursday, December 29, 2011

Can we just take a month or two to contemplate Obama the way we might a painting by Vermeer or any other astounding, ecstatic human achievement?

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And the winner of the Media Research Center 's Obamagasm Award is (dramatic pause)… …Stephen Marche! “Can we just enjoy Obama for a m...
Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Because of Bush, "Iraq Has Been Deprived of Part of Its History" as Well as of Its "Stability" Under Saddam

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Because of George W. Bush, editorializes a Le Monde editorial , Iraq has been deprived of the… "stability" that it apparently enjo...
Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Raúl & Fidel: The Tyranny of the Enemy Brothers

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Several books about the Castro brothers have been published in the past year, including one by the Cuban liders' own sister and one b...
Monday, December 26, 2011

Save the Date

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Act of Valor will be released in U.S. cinemas on 17 FEB 2011
Sunday, December 25, 2011

Merry Christmas

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After all your obligations are done for Christmas day, and you've done all the reflecting that you can do, might I suggest you settle in...
Saturday, December 24, 2011

Food for Thought On this day in History

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There was no room at the inn for Mary. Just as would happen today, the innkeeper didn’t announce, “Folks, we have a woman among us who is ab...
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When iPhoto's Faces App Gets It Wrong

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To its credit, iPhoto's face recognition technology does get it right, most of the time. However… Look who iPhoto confuses with an Ara...