Saturday, August 30, 2014

The wise, disinterested experts of the regulatory state will deliver progress for our own good, whether we understand it or not

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Government requires trust. Government by progressives, however, demands such inordinate amounts of trust that the demand itself should pro...
Wednesday, August 27, 2014

From now on France can forget recovery, forget unemployment, it’s all about politicians’ egos

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Monday, Stephen Clarke heard that Arnaud Montebourg, the economy minister, has resigned; it turns out that he has been saying a bit too ...
Tuesday, August 26, 2014

White Americans avoid speaking the truth aloud for reasons of racial guilt and black Americans avoid saying it for reasons of racial solidarity, but no one is really fooled

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The tragic death of Michael Brown, an eighteen year old black man, at the hands of the police, has sparked days of rioting and looting i...
Monday, August 25, 2014

French-Speaking History Professor: Say No to Pro-Russian Propaganda and Do Not Engage in Moral Relativism

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Depuis le début de la crise ukrainienne, un discours structuré de défense systématique des actions de la Russie est très dynamique sur les ...
Sunday, August 24, 2014

Almost impossible for anyone to set up their own business in France because the administrative costs are so high

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The French economy is not in a great place right now writes Mark Johnson , but my heart still sinks when I see that yet another local ...
Saturday, August 23, 2014

What irritates Stephen Clarke is that so little happens in Paris in August

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I know lots of people who say that they love to be in Paris in August, when all the Parisians are away But Stephen Clarke does not agree...
Thursday, August 21, 2014

Wait a Minute! The WMD Spiel Was All a Lie by Dubya, So Stop Bringing Unpalatable Facts Into the Equation

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Obama is currently meeting privately with his cabinet to discuss the news from Iraq that ISIS has discovered scores of Weapons of Mass D...
Wednesday, August 20, 2014

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President Obama complained last week in an interview with the New York Times’ Thomas Friedman that American politics is increasingly d...
Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Police Officers Love To Say That They Are at War, But There Is No Excuse For Abusing Language That Way

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Re the petition to stop the “national militarization” of police departments (thanks to Instapundit ): Police officers like to say that ...

With a misconceived sense of benevolence, progressive socialists make the populace believe they truly care, when in all actuality this is about the subjugation and destruction of the individual will

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 … this is how liberal government works explains Allen West : A program is begun with good intentions, then politicians realize they c...
Monday, August 18, 2014

Europe's Disunity in the Face of Putin's Russia: “Old Europe” is not threatened, and so it can focus on its own economic interests, while “New Europe” is reminded of the nightmares of its past

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Eastern Europe, which beginning with Poland is celebrating its 25th anniversary of freedom from Communism, has suddenly awakened from a b...
Sunday, August 17, 2014

False Friends in English-French Discourse

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 … some of the Google translations previously used by the owners were somewhat off the mark. For example, their starters included cr...
Saturday, August 16, 2014

Britain’s Family Doctors Call for End to Free Treatment

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Britain’s family doctors have decided to press for an end to free treatment for patients under the socialized health service reports the H...
Friday, August 15, 2014

Mingling With the Crowds

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Serguei 's take on the Assad bathtub in Syria — replete with sarin, mustard, and chlorine…
Thursday, August 14, 2014

“Everything — everything — stems from Algeria”: France's unavowed forgetting of the Algerian war

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Benjamin Stora arrived in Paris in the summer of 1962, a boy exile swaddled in as many layers of clothing as his parents could fit on his...
Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Robin Williams: Good-Bye, Friend

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Art by Dan Greenberg

The Day During the Iraq Crisis in 2003 When Le Monde Came Under Fire and Became Its Own Main Subject

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 … une mauvaise nouvelle : «  L'Express a avancé sa parution de vingt-quatre heures et publie demain les bonnes feuilles du livre de P...

Jewish Commando Boldly Infiltrates Bradford's Israeli Free Zone

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After George Galloway declared Bradford an Israel Free Zone (where no Israeli services, goods, scholars or tourists are welcome), an Isrea...
Tuesday, August 12, 2014

British MP Galloway Declares His City an "Israel-Free Zone"

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Remember George Galloway? The QMI Agency (merci à Carine) reports that the pro-Palestinian British MP has declared a northern city in ...
Monday, August 11, 2014

The Le Monde Editor During the Iraq War Is a Former Stalinist and Trotskyist

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Judith Perrignon has an article in Le Magazine du Monde on a former editor of the newspaper of reference. [Adolescent à Alger, Edwy Plen...