Friday, May 01, 2015

How electoral “firsts” work: The modus operandi is for the media to constantly harp on the fact that their preferred candidate suffers a handicap because he or she is different, which requires them to malign America as a very dark place

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Chelsea Clinton thinks America should elect her mother president because she’s a woman writes Benny Huang . She’s setting the tone fo...
Thursday, April 30, 2015

France to investigate sex abuse claims against soldiers in Central Africa

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A Parisian prosecutor says an investigation is under way into claims French soldiers in the Central African Republic sexually abused ch...
Wednesday, April 29, 2015

South Vietnam's Fall 40 Years Later: America had been humbled in 1975, even humiliated, and the Left… threw a party!

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The image was heartbreaking writes Benny Huang of a war that ended 40 years ago, with out the stars and stripes flying high —soldiers...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015

None Shall Pass — No Pasarán

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A professor threw a Texas-sized tantrum flunking his entire class mid-semester and quitting after complaining that students mocked, thre...
Friday, April 24, 2015

No one at Rolling Stone apparently found it curious that Erdely stumbled upon festering rape scandals at the 3 institutions that comprise the trifecta of left-wing hate objects—organized religion, the US military, and that bastion of male privilege, fraternities

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Allow me to offer some unsolicited advice to Rolling Stone and the journalistic community at large begs Benny Huang regarding the utterly...
Thursday, April 23, 2015

Graphic Novel Anthology on the German Occupation of Denmark

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One week from now, coinciding both with the 75th anniversary of Adolf Hitler's invasion of Denmark and with the 70th anniversary of th...
Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Visiting Cuba, leading Democrat asks for "a dialogue on the issues that we agree with and the issues that we disagree about"; this is what the Cuban people has wished for for the past 60 years

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Andrew Cuomo has become the first US state governor to visit Cuba since a thaw in relations began last year  reports the BBC . A num...
Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Lafayette Ship Replica Sets Sail for America

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With champagne, fireworks and a presidential blessing, a painstakingly built replica of the frigate once used to bring French troops and...
Monday, April 20, 2015

Contempt of Congress? These Days, It’s No Big Thing

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In a sane world, destroying subpoenaed evidence would end a politician’s career notes Benny Huang . What Hillary Clinton did was a crim...
Sunday, April 19, 2015

Poisson d'Avril: The French Sense of Humor

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The French have a wonderful sense of humour writes Stephen Clarke . Of course they do. Anyone who’s seen the film La Cage aux Folles , a...
Saturday, April 18, 2015

A tradition of disguising policy with woolly or euphemistic turns of phrase

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From The Economist comes this handy guide:  “Lost in Translation: a glossary of new French doublespeak” … offers a handy guide to decod...
Thursday, April 16, 2015

The Other International Brigade of the 1930s/1940s; The One That Your History Teacher Knows a Whole Lot Less About…

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The title of this blog is a takeoff of the cry immortalized during the Spanish Civil War when the Republican camp tried to fight against t...
Wednesday, April 15, 2015

When government interventions backfire, harming those people they’re supposed to help, the state responds like a dog chasing its own tail with even more interventionist “solutions” to the problems it created itself

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BBC reporter Daniel Pardo … of the Latin America-centric BBC Mundo, spent four hours [in Caracas] waiting in long lines, searching in vai...
Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Freedom in a cage is a sham, a transparent attempt to soothe us while our rights are being stripped away

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ABC News’s George Stephanopolous seemed to have Indiana Governor Mike Pence up against the ropes   writes Benny Huang as he pounded him ...
Monday, April 13, 2015

The New York Times Rounds Up All the Criticism of Radio and TV Martí Without Ever Mentioning Reliability of Cuba's Own Media

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Radio and TV Martí are at a crossroads, writes Lizette Alvarez in the New York Times, scrambling to stay relevant as the relations...
Sunday, April 12, 2015

The absence of an independent French media may explain why French politicians do not need to tell the truth to voters: it is because no one else will

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Years ago, a number of Frenchmen wrote to The Economist to set a few things straight. This helps to explain why Fox News is hated, and re...
Saturday, April 11, 2015

The Great Confusion

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Changing the name of the World War II comedy from "The Great Hike" to "The Great Muddle", a Frenchman has photoshopped ...
Friday, April 10, 2015

The intolerant students of the 21st century: Have you met the Stepford students?

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… at one of the highest seats of learning on Earth [Christ Church, Oxford], the democratic principle of free and open debate, of allowi...
Thursday, April 09, 2015

The French have finally lost their patience for, and love of, socialism

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Over the past few years the gripe of many expats living in France has been the nation’s dogged attachment to socialism, and all the misery ...
Wednesday, April 08, 2015

A Concert Poster Is Censored When Paris Metro Hears It Is for the Benefit of "Christians of the Middle East"

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A poster for the famous Singing Priests trio was censored by the Paris métro authorities, writes Mehdi Pfeiffer in Le Parisien, because t...