Saturday, March 29, 2014

Le Figaro Director Shot by Finance Minister's Wife and Killed

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M. Gaston Calmette, director of the ‘‘Figaro,’’ was yesterday shot and killed by Mme. Caillaux, wife of the Minister of Finance, in his bu...
Friday, March 28, 2014

Racism on French Campuses on the Rise

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 … [French] campuses are more and more the targets of bullying actions from extreme right groups; racist, homophobic, and nationalist gra...
Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Huffington Post's AOL Uses Airliner Tragedy Story to Make a Sarah Palin Joke

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Credit a leftist organization like Huffington Post and/or AOL to use the main, "front-page" article currently on the site (1st ou...
Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Sending a Strong Signal to Russia

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Master of the Universe by Alex in La Liberté (Switzerland) Xavier Gorce  • Okay, let's take a vote: Who's in favor of ...
Monday, March 24, 2014

Smart Diplomacy: what is happening in Eastern Europe now is as much Obama’s fault as it is Putin’s

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Now we know just how little Vladimir Putin and the government behind him cares about what the world thinks  writes Onan Coca regardin...

Fox Butterfield, Est-ce Vous? "Coincidentally, perils in Ukraine are on the rise at a time when the U.S. is announcing a reduction in military personnel"

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"Coincidentally" are the first words of Corine Lesnes 's article, as the Le Monde writer seems to be channeling Fox Butterfie...

Tenth Anniversary of My First Post for No Pasarán

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A few weeks after the founding of No Pasarán , 10 years ago , I was invited to join as the blog's fourth blogger (after Douglas, Jonatha...
Saturday, March 22, 2014

The Two Big Losers in the Crimea Crisis Are Merkel and Obama, Writes Le Monde Columnist

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Putin 1, Merkel and Obama 0 is Alain Frachon 's verdict in Le Monde. The West checkmated. SuperPutin triumphs. … There are two bi...
Friday, March 21, 2014

Exactly who or what will take over the DNS from the US government? And will it make the Internet better or worse?

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On March 14, 2014, the United States announced its intention to turn over control of the Internet’s Domain Name System (DNS) to someone el...
Thursday, March 20, 2014

Here’s the unfortunate truth: There are a number of problems with Rand Paul’s formula for a GOP victory

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Senator Rand Paul thinks he has a recipe for a GOP comeback writes Benny Huang — Republicans should agree to disagree on social issues...
Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Russia — a producer of almost nothing except for hydrocarbon, weapons, and vodka

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Putin has every reason to be satisfied writes a Le Monde editorial , which calls Russia a producer of almost nothing except for hyd...
Monday, March 17, 2014

The U.S. and the Venezuelan administrations couldn’t be more similar: Chávez was the Obama of South America, and Maduro was his Biden

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Joe Biden almost sounded like he meant it when he rebuked Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro over his government’s repressive reaction to the recen...
Sunday, March 16, 2014

Tourists like to complain that Parisians are rude and unfriendly, but, of course, this is nonsense

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  Tourists like to complain that Parisians are rude and unfriendly, but, of course, this is nonsense writes the International Herald Trib...
Saturday, March 15, 2014

You do not install one mistress at the Élysée when you have another mistress; That is simply bad form

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  … we face another Gallic paradox, like the one about red wine and foie gras keeping you thin writes Maureen Dowd in the New York Time...
Friday, March 14, 2014

The only subjects schools seem to be good at teaching are environmentalism, critical race theory, and queer studies

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There’s a reason why only one out every thousand Americans can name all five rights guaranteed by the First Amendment  writes Benny Huang ...
Wednesday, March 12, 2014

“Every stone and every tree in Sevastopol is drenched in blood," claims Sevastopol tour guide, "with the bravery and courage of Russian soldiers"

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Sevastopol constantly feeds thoughts of war and its agonies writes Andrew Higgins in a New York Times story on the historical aspects ...

Religious liberty belongs to all of us, not just to clergy and churches; Forfeiting constitutional rights is not the price of going into business for yourself

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The reason the [religious liberty] bills are controversial is because a generation of Americans reared in a statist society and taught fals...
Tuesday, March 11, 2014

That’s what nondiscrimination laws are—involuntary servitude laws; 150 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, Democrats are still fighting for involuntary servitude and the party of Lincoln is still fighting against it

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The Employment Nondiscrimination Act (ENDA) … which would ban discrimination based on the amorphous and ill-defined concepts of sexual orie...
Monday, March 10, 2014

Payroll Tax in France Is Almost Double That Paid in the UK, Complains a British CEO

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“There is a great fear about taxes” [in France, said Ian Cheshire, the group chief executive of Kingfisher, a British do-it-yourself ret...
Sunday, March 09, 2014

Lance Armstrong and the Riders of the Tour de France: It’s not cheating if everybody is doing it

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Throughout the 1990s, [John Thomas Neal] was [ Lance Armstrong ’s] main soigneur at some domestic races and at national team training cam...