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Behind the Façades in France: What expats and the mainstream media (French and American alike) fail to notice (or fail to tell you) about French attitudes, principles, values, and official positions…

Saturday, March 09, 2013

50 Years Ago: Plotters Who Tried to Kill de Gaulle on Trial

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February 4 : 1963 Plane Ready to Bomb Elysée PARIS — The man who led the machine-gun attack on President Charles de Gaulle last...
Friday, March 08, 2013

Guest Writer: Sarah A. Hoyt on Being American

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Being American By Sarah A. Hoyt [ website ] I read No Pasaran for years, while I hid in ignominious duplicity.  Or, if you prefer – ...
Thursday, March 07, 2013

Statutory law in America has expanded to the point that government’s primary activity is no longer to protect, preserve and defend our lives, liberty and property, but rather to stalk and entrap normal American citizens doing everyday things

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Statutory law in America has expanded to the point that government’s primary activity is no longer to protect, preserve and defend our live...
Wednesday, March 06, 2013

No one talks about legal immigrants who are hard working men and women, who wait for the frustratingly slow process that seems to discriminate against those who want to do it by the book

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… from personal experience, regardless of how welcoming and friendly the American people were, and are, the immigration system is severely...
Tuesday, March 05, 2013

Breaking: Hugo Chávez Dead

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Hugo Chávez has gone to meet his maker, according to Venezuela's vice president…
Monday, March 04, 2013

French Minister Condemns Islamo Fascism, Using the Same Expression that Brought George W Bush So Much Opprobrium a Decade Ago

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France's minister of the interior has condemned "an Islamic fascism that is on the rise just about everywhere." The words of ...

Kim Jong-un Treated with More Respect Than Any U.S. Conservative

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That is the world we live in — and one that Obama obviously lives in: one where Kim Jong-un is treated with more respect, and with more und...
Sunday, March 03, 2013

Plantu Compares "General" François Hollande to Charles de Gaulle

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Plantu has "General" François Hollande channel Charles de Gaulle's free Paris speech from 1944 • François Hollande: Mali...

"Jacques Chirac's Foreign Policy" Re-Visits France's Opposition to Bush During the Iraq War

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In a book review of Christian Lequesne and Maurice Vaïsse's La Politique étrangère de Jacques Chirac (Jacques Chirac's Foreign Pol...
Saturday, March 02, 2013

Even Russians Are Leaving France for Tax Reasons

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The lack of trust of the socialist government and its tax policies has grown so much, muses Cécile Prudhomme , that even Russians are star...
Thursday, February 28, 2013

Russians Complain About the Purchase of French Helicopter Warships

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Reporting from Moscow, Marie Jégo explains that France's sale of its Mistral helicopter carriers to Russia has turned into a nightmar...

9 to 10 Years' Jail Time for Italy's Secret Service Honchos for Helping Bush White House 10 Years Ago

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The international left's fight against the Bush Administration in particular and against conservative America in general continues. As...
Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Speaking French in Paris, John Kerry Takes Dig at America's Clueless Conservatives (VIDEO)

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In Paris to consult with France on Mali and with France, Britain, and Germany on Syria, John Kerry switched to French during a press confe...

When to Bring Up Human Rights Issues? Only When Dealing with (Conservative) America and the West, Never with True Despots, Like Russia

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"One cannot condense the French-Russian relationship down to the human rights issue. That is extremely reductive and simplistic....
Sunday, February 24, 2013

Conservatives lose institutions by allowing the minnows to eat the whale

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We lose institutions by allowing the minnows to eat the whale writes Legal Insurrection's Professor Jacobson (via Instapundit ). It...
Saturday, February 23, 2013

Romanticizing Taxation: government is good at breaking our legs then making a big show out of distributing crutches

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In the debate over avoiding the "fiscal cliff"—especially over whose taxes should and shouldn't be raised—I detect an annoyi...
Friday, February 22, 2013

Russian Blogger Uncovers Corruption, Brings Down None Other Than the Chairman of Parliament’s Ethics Committee

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A senior lawmaker from Russia ’s governing party, who was also the chairman of Parliament’s ethics committee, resigned from the legislatu...

Yankee Capitalists vs. French Socialists: Who Is Telling the Truth?

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Le Monde's Maxime Vaudano plays fact-checker as he wonders who, between Arnaud Montebourg and Maurice Taylor 's charges and coun...
Thursday, February 21, 2013

“Incendiary!” “Insulting!” “Scathing!” French Vow to Retaliate Against Taylor's Titan International

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Following the eruption of a furor in France after the blunt letter of a Yankee capitalist to a Socialist government minister — it made ...

American Capitalist CEO to French Socialist Politician: "How Stupid Do You Think We Are?"

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A huge scandal has erupted in France as an American tycoon answers bluntly a socialist government's call for a take-over of a French fac...
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