Bookworm on Jan 01 2008 | Filed under: Anti-Americanism, Bush Derangement Syndrome, Europe, Leftist morality
While idly browsing the shelves at our local public library, I stumbled across a fascinating book — one that is fascinating on a couple of different levels. It’s called Uncouth Nation : Why Europe Dislikes America, and was written by Andrei S. Markovits, a Jewish man who was born in Romania, and raised during [...]
Bookworm on Dec 26 2007 | Filed under: Europe
I’ve traveled in America, Canada, England, Western Europe, Israel, Mexico and North Africa. My experience about driving (and walking) in these countries, is as follows: In America and Canada, roads are really exceptionally well-organized, with clear rules, and the drivers, for the most part, following those rules. In England, roads are fairly well-organized, with clear [...]
Bookworm on Dec 19 2007 | Filed under: Europe
Dennis Prager wrote an article examining the common complaint that religion is the source of all evil and that, if you just got rid of religion, the world would be at peace. This argument is always framed in terms of historical references to the Crusades, the religious wars that ravaged Europe in the 17th [...]
Bookworm on Dec 19 2007 | Filed under: Anti-Americanism, Europe
It’s a good day at American Thinker. In one of my preceding posts, I quoted at length from Kyle-Anne Shiver’s article about Mike Huckabee. Now, I’m about to quote from Soeren Kern’s article about the reflexive anti-Americanism that characterizes Europe.
Kern’s starting point is Bill Clinton’s announcement that, if Hillary wins, he and George [...]
Bookworm on Dec 13 2007 | Filed under: Europe
This is the beginning of James Lewis’ excellent summary of Democracy’s death in Europe, and I know you’ll want to read the rest:
With the signing of the Lisbon Treaty on December 13, 450 million people are now under a new, single government, called the European Union, headquartered in Brussels. Individual countries like Britain and France [...]
Bookworm on Nov 16 2007 | Filed under: Anti-Americanism
Kerry assured us that, because he spoke French and loved the UN, he would have Europeans eating out of America’s hand if he were to become President. How great must his chagrin be with the fact that it is during Bush’s watch that the Europeans are coming back to us. And it is [...]
Bookworm on Oct 15 2007 | Filed under: Europe, Immigration, Multiculturalism
As you may recall, about 10 months ago, when I returned from a European vacation, one of the things I blogged about was Switzerland as part of a larger post I did about Europe’s changing face:
A train conversation with an unusually sweet lady in Switzerland resulted in my learning (correctly or not) that Switzerland, the [...]
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