Saturday, January 04, 2014

Is life easy in the Land of the Free?

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How easy is life in the Land of the Free, asks the Telegraph , especially from the British expat's perspective…
Friday, January 03, 2014

Dieudonné and His Inverted Nazi Salute, the Quenelle

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Update : French comic Dieudonne 'must pay racism fines' says French interior minister Manuel Valls. France is, as we all kno...
Thursday, January 02, 2014

"The Lesson That Mandiba Gave History": Le Monde's Nelson Mandela Tributes

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Needless to say, Le Monde has been overflowing with Nelson Mandela tributes, from Plantu (with his black Madiba/whit...
Wednesday, January 01, 2014

The light bulb ban provides a useful window into the mindset of liberals: the debate has nothing to do with which bulb is better, but rather who gets to decide

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The bulb debate has become a flash point between conservatives and their progressive opponents writes Benny Huang of the new law making i...

Simplified Blogging

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(merci à Carine)
Tuesday, December 31, 2013

In the Wake of the NYT's Benghazi Report: What, At This Point, the Newspaper of Record Must Be Hoping Will Not Happen

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Stilton Jarlsberg's Hope'n'Change blog takes on the New York Crimes (thanks to Duncan): After an in-depth 15 month invest...
Saturday, December 28, 2013

Leftists clearly don’t mean what they say when they sing the praises of nondiscrimination statutes

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[The A&E] network is clearly petrified of the tolerance bullies  laments Benny Huang . The homosexual left claimed another scalp … w...
Friday, December 27, 2013

The Map of France, as Seen by a Parisian

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La carte de France vue par les Parisiens (Four similar maps available in the right margin — obrigado para OT)
Monday, December 23, 2013

Smart Diplomacy: Boeing's Super Hornet Banned From Brazil's Fighter Sales Because of Fury Over NSA Scandal

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From the annals of Smart Diplomacy : In Le Monde articles by Nicolas Bourcier and Dominique Gallois , whose main point is that France...
Sunday, December 22, 2013

Vive la Raison d'État: French Readers Send Broadsides Against Capitalists Like Mikhail Khodorkovsky

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In reaction to Piotr Smolar 's Le Monde story on Vladimir Putin 's liberation of Mikhail Khodorkovsky (along with 20,000...
Saturday, December 21, 2013

Racist! Le Monde's Mandela Cartoon

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 Xavier Gorce • Hey, d'ja wanna buy a Mandela mug? • Nope • How 'bout a Mandela towel? A Mandela tablecloth? • Hold on, I...
Sunday, December 15, 2013

D-Day and the Bridge of Hope

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The first place on French soil liberated by the Allies on D-Day was the Gondrée café by Pegasus Bridge . Five months after the British gli...
Friday, December 13, 2013

The Etiquette Manual for the Modern Métro Traveller

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… there’s a fun new French e-book just out  writes Stephen Clarke , and it is specifically designed to be read on public transport. ...
Monday, December 09, 2013

Too many kids aren’t motivated to learn and too many teachers aren’t motivated to teach; It’s a baby-sitting service

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American students are slipping further behind their peers from overseas, according to a study from the Organisation for Economic Cooperatio...

Mandela and the ANC: A Look Back

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The Diplomad has a good piece on Nelson Mandela and his African National Congress: Certain informal "off the record" meeting...
Friday, December 06, 2013

The Americans in Paris tend to fall into three categories

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I’m aware that there are worse things to be than an American in Paris writes Pamela Druckerman "who took the ultimate expatria...
Thursday, December 05, 2013

Europe's Superior Society? Over 1 Million Frenchman Have Trouble Getting Food on Their Dinner Tables

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 This is what America's Democrats do not tell you when vaunting Europe's more generous, more humane, and more generally superior s...
Wednesday, December 04, 2013

Le Terroir: is the holistic combination of soil, geology, climate and local grape-growing practices real or mysticism?

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"American wine growers have long expressed varying degrees of skepticism about [the] ineffable concept" of terroir, asks Nichola...
Sunday, December 01, 2013

Color Photographs of World War II

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Check out Jalopnik 's World War II color photos (thanks to Instapundit ). More from the Library of Congress on Flicker …
Friday, November 29, 2013

No other place on earth where you can get such a tear jerking and ass kicking mix of solemnity, emotion, respect for vets, and flat out amazement at what this old man can still do

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I just watched this video and it really made my day  writes a French expat in Texas about a Youtube video with a World War II veteran ca...