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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 30, 2013

France, the Eldorado of America's Fast-Food Chains

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La France est le pays où les KFC sont les plus rentables, avec un chiffre d'affaires par restaurant de 3 millions d'euros en moye...
Thursday, March 28, 2013

Marriage has always been a forward-looking institution aimed at nurturing the next generation of children, not a love license for the adults of the present

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Before the judiciary settles [the same-sex marriage] question — or perhaps leaves it unsettled — it would behoove us to pause in this rush...

Those Wicked, Wicked Bankers! You Know Where All Those Bastards Are From, Dont'cha?

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Xavier Gorce : • So many bank charges for one tiny overdraft?! • I hate bankers! • They're all Krauts! • So they're not J...

The Tsunami's Japanese Ghost Town

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Le Monde carries Google's virtual visit of Namie, a ghost town a few kilometers from the Fukushima nuclear plant.
Tuesday, March 26, 2013

It Ain't Easy Livin' with a Femen Protester!

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Ukraine 's bare-breasted female protesters from the Femen movement with messages written on their (not unattractive) bodies have insp...
Monday, March 25, 2013

Rest in Peace Hugo Chávez, Says a Mural in Paris Filled with Portraits of Venezuela's Caudillo

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This Maria Thunholm photo of a mural from the Northwest of Paris saying "Rest in Peace Hugo Chávez" adjoining a massive portra...
Sunday, March 24, 2013

Obama is going to use the same tactics Communists used to control public opinion

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Obama is about to launch a new campaign that will pick up where the old one left off writes Thomas J. Basile in Forbes. He’s going ...

Illegal immigration is to immigration what shoplifting is to shopping

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Arresting people for illegal activity is scandalous?!  … Robbers are real people too, but we don't rush to their defense with the arg...
Saturday, March 23, 2013

Remembering (would-be) black slave-owners in Africa

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Kathy Shaidle mentions some things that would never appear in the mainstream media (or only in the last section, in the next-to-last paragr...
Friday, March 22, 2013

A political bombshell? Merkel's election campaign paradigm change might be "so enormous that no one in Berlin will talk about it publicly”

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FOR Angela Merkel to get re-elected on Sept. 22, notes John Vinocur , the most conservative commentator working for the New York Times, ...
Thursday, March 21, 2013

France Much Less Civilized And Much More Savage Than the French Like to Admit

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The whole wild-violent-America vs. civilized-benevolent Europe spiel? It's a flat-out lie, says The Daily Telegraph's Henry Samue...
Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Evangelical Christianity Called "Radical Religion" by the HuffPost, Presented as Clear and Present Danger in an Army Story Titled "Bombing for Jesus"

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In a Huffington Post story entitled Bombing For Jesus — you can just hear the lefties snickering at their own cleverness — "evangelic...
Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Uncle Sam Portrayed as an Evil, Bloodthirsty, Gun-Crazed Monster With No Love for His Fellow Man

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In Le Monde's Serguei cartoon on the gun lobby, Barack Obama is again shown as a Messiah-like outsider — a messiah bringing (or trying ...
Monday, March 18, 2013

Superb Illustration of the Left's Devious Ways of Reporting the News in General and About Conservatives in Particular

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I wish to extend my deepest gratitude to the Huffington Post for the article about Steven Crowder's alleged inane CPAC comment about r...
Sunday, March 17, 2013

Revisiting the Extent of Stalin's Terror Régime

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To commemorate the 60th anniversary of Stalin's death, Le Monde 's Nicholas Werth has assembled a portfolio of faces of priso...
Saturday, March 16, 2013

If the "Costs of the War" Study Proves Anything, It Is That the Left's Numbers of Iraqi Dead Through the Years Were Highly Inflated

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If the findings of a Brown University project are to be believed, the U.S.-led war in Iraq claimed 190,000 lives and will cost the U.S. gove...
Friday, March 15, 2013

A Pope from… the "Southern Hemisphere"?!

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Plantu 's take on the (s)election of Franciscus I to the papal office is to give the event a definite anti-racist bent of the (habit...
Thursday, March 14, 2013

Lure of Islam Grows in France; and Western Converts Represent a Critical Element of the Terrorist Threat in Europe

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French antiterrorism officials have been warning for years that [Western] converts [to Islam] represent a critical element of the terrorist...
Wednesday, March 13, 2013

One Black Nobel Peace Prize Winner Complains About the Decisions of Another

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From Desmond Tutu comes opprobrium , the kind of which can always be counted on being leveled against America alone, and perhaps the West ...
Tuesday, March 12, 2013

French Cartoon Has Snickering Devious Yanks Thrilled to See "Their War" Being Fought by Their Unsuspecting Victims, the French

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While Selçuk pens a strange (and gratuitous?) "clash of the titans" in Le Monde between a foreboding American eagle and a p...
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