Since France, protecting it's colonial investments, invaded Ivory Coast, it's only fair that the citizens of Ivory Coast should invade...
The Australian: Despite attempts by the French Defence Ministry to block the case, Jacques Baillet, the prosecutor at the army...
Unliked the BBC, the French press provides positive coverage to the US tsunami relief effort. That's a shock! Or is it? Instead, I believe there's another, hidden, and typically French motive behind the French media's sudden about-face...
I have a French friend whose little brother was unjustly (she testifies, in tears) accused of rape by a fellow...
I've been sitting on this story since it first came out, probably over a week now (I have no idea...
July 30: The UN gives Sudan 30 days to end the violence of face sanctions. France agrees. Now it's September, and it seems France has had a change of heart. Or was that an oil change?
If I recall correctly, the current leftist narrative in vogue (it's hard to keep track of these things, since they're...
Quoth Deacon at Powerline: Chirac's party was hammered in regional elections at the end of March. As the Washington Post's...
The French government pursues foreign policy with goals and techniques which would be wholly unacceptable to most US citizens. Gabrielle says US critics who characterize French opposition to the US as moral have no idea what they're talking about...
In which France teams up with China to do to Taiwan what al Qaeda did to Spain.
Reuters: A shadowy group is threatening to blow up sections of track in France's SNCF state railway network if it...
Sabine Herald: In France right now there's actually a political debate about whether civil servants should be paid depending on...
In which Air France chooses murderers, bouncers, dog handlers, and those having received training in radical Islamic countries to guard its passengers.
A man gets stuck in an airport for over a decade. Urban legend? Sadly, unbelievably, no...
A Dane was just sentenced to 8 days in jail for discrimination: Seems he won't serve pizza to French and...
Check out Dissident Frogman's report about some interesting co-incidences at the Memorial Museum at the Battle of Normandy. I feel...
It's 2AM. Dozens of French police assemble to confront the threat to their fair city. They have the tear gas cannisters primed for the assault. Steathily, they assemble to storm the building and lob the tear gas to overcome, with no warning... scores of wounded and disabled British war heros gathered on the last night of their religious pilgrimage! A mistake? Not in France...
Deb and Vinny discuss an internal LA Times memo which documents the paper's biases; Maureen Dowd is under fire for putting her own altered quote into the president's mouth and then criticizing him for it; and the Weekly Standard discusses revelations that Al-Jazira (and other Mulsim news outlets) were on the dole from Saddam; and AIM covers Scott Ritter and French media delusions.
How can we Americans learn to shed our
simplesse and adopt a more vigorous, moral international role? Today we look to France for much-needed guidance in this area! (I've never been more proud to be an American. Or at least not someone who voted for Chirac.)
Jane Galt asks what Chirac's motivations were for threatening to unconditionally veto any use of force against Iraq by the U.N. Why indeed?
The U.N. seems to be typical
big government: inefficient, sluggish, unaccacountable, and often immoral. The "Oil for Food" program being revived exemplifies this...
Is the French government truly opposed to what's going on in Iraq because, as they maintain, they are committed pacifists, or is it rather because Paris is adopts a military approach when it's convenient French economic or political interests, and flaunts a cynical pacifist or humanitarian veneer otherwise? A look back at French involvement in the Rwandan massacre five years ago sheds some light on this question.
I was flattered to have a French visitor respond to my post about French strategic decisions in Yugoslavia. He's a...
Frequent visitors to Random Observations (both of you) know that I like to do a series of posts on related...
Ask yourself, "Why do they hate you?" Back in December, with little media coverage, France sent 2,500 troops to quell...
This is buried in the previous post, but just to be clear... Stephen DenBeste, probably among others, is on record...