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This is supposed to be a “news” story about the Obama family trip to Paris.  It strikes me as coming much closer to a bad bodice ripper, with scary Messianic overtones: People gawked and cameras clicked as the Obamas cut a wide figure through the French capital even while confined to a presidential motorcade. It [...]

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The French Foreign Ministry has taken umbrage at the notion that Israel claims sole proprietorship over its capital city, Jerusalem.  Never mind that those who wish to share Jerusalem with the Israelis (a) deny that Israel even exists and (b) would like to see all of Israel’s Jewish citizens dead. You know, if we’re going [...]

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I love this story:  a movie starring John Travolta was set to be filmed in a French suburb, so as to highlight the suffering of the young suburbanites.  Unfortunately, these same suburbanites, clearly unaware of the liberal honor accorded to them, rioted so badly that filming had to stop: Filming of a new John Travolta [...]

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Terry Sater writes about the fact that, coddled by loving euphemisms, Americans are marching headlong into the same dreadful socialist experiment that failed all over Europe — a failure that took place within the lifetime of every single American voter.  This is not a case of a few centuries or even decades having dimmed the [...]

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