Saturday, September 01, 2012

Health insurance would be a lot less expensive if it covered only the kinds of risks that can involve heavy costs

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Insurance is all about risk writes Thomas Sowell . Yet neither insurance companies nor their policy-holders can do anything about one of t...
Friday, August 31, 2012

Attack Ads: It was actually Democrats who proved how little electoral success an abundance of riches could buy in 2004

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[The Democrat] complaint runs, conservative groups will have enough money to flood the airwaves with attack ads, drowning out more represent...

Where’s you Cape? I don’t See your Cape?

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The Boy Who Cried Warming is an independent film featuring scientists taking the mickey out of the zealots who “want to save us from Global...

The Le Monde Reader Who Uses Catty Caricature "United Stateser" Is Published 3 Times in 2 Weeks

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Two weeks ago, Le Monde Watch revealed a Le Monde reader who, because of his haughtiness towards the United States and its people, had two ...
Thursday, August 30, 2012

Mitt and Paul Caricatured as Usual by Le Monde

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As expected from Le Monde , lots of caricature about Mitt Romney as well as about Paul Ryan …

Which Armstrong Are We Talking About Anyway?

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• A virtuoso with the jazz trumpet… • who takes off to walk on the moon… • only to win the Tour de France seven times! • How could we let ou...

But Apart From That Pesky Little Detail, Europe's Health Care System Is Unquestionably a Model for America to Follow

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Run-of-the-mill complaints about inadequate health services only add to the prevailing disenchantment in Norway, reports The Economist .
Wednesday, August 29, 2012

When America’s 4th Estate Becomes America’s 5th Column

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The voice behind the camera od an ABC News crew covering the Republican National Convention is heard saying: They are happy to have a party ...

Gaffes Blown Out of Proportion and Gaffes Unreported or Under-Reported, Not Worthy of Media Interest

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… the way the media focus relentlessly on gaffes and ignores substantive issues when covering one side, while ignoring gaffes and issues cr...

We Want to get, like, Totally Decarbonized, Man

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Europe's resistance to shale gas could boost renewables We are cheerfully told that blindingly expensive and unreliable “resistance” wi...
Tuesday, August 28, 2012

François Hollande Channeling Neil Armstrong

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Regarding the expulsion of gypsies (or Roma) by France's new socialist-humanist©-tolerant™-generous© government, Plantu is back at it ...

A Though for the Day

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"The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance." - John Philpot Curran, 1790
Monday, August 27, 2012

Humans as a Useful Political Cudgel

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Whe he’s not abusing the church and the papacy, he uses it as a political beratement device against those whose politics he finds distastefu...
Sunday, August 26, 2012

The problem is the false consensus propagated by the chattering classes that the ruling government elite knows best what is good for France

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Guy Sorman is an oddity—some might say a walking contradiction quips Matthew Kaminski in the Wall Street Journal. The French economis...
Saturday, August 25, 2012

François Hollande, Man of Mystery?

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The French have never been passionate about François Hollande , their new president. A professional politician, never a government ministe...
Friday, August 24, 2012

Chided by our Tubercular Lesson-Givers

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Stuck in a never-ending monotone of being prone to both endless mockery of the non-French, and self-congratulation, the likes of the French ...

The Busiest Job in the Whole World

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A Smithsonian article on the invention of deodorant linked by Instapundit features an ad from 60 years ago in which a the main pitch star...
Thursday, August 23, 2012

A Hotel Ad, Wherein we Ask a Nation: Where Did the Love Go ?

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The Day Le Monde Published an Article by a Holocaust Denyer

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"En quatre ans, il a écrit 29 fois au Monde au sujet des chambres à gaz", recensera en 1980 l'historienne Nadine Fresco dans...

De Gaulle fell back on a classic from his days in London: maximizing his nuisance value — Bribe me, or else!

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In the New York Times, Die Zeit's Josef Joffe is duly impressed with Jonathan Fenby 's The General : Charles De Gaulle and the Fr...