CJ Burch points me to this interesting piece by Joe Gandelman at the Moderate Voice detailing how French Jews are fleeing France and flocking to Florida. Gandelman points to a 2003 Anti Defamation League assessment that concludes: We do not think we are living in France in a particularly anti-Semitic environment. It is obvious to us that there is a revival of anti-Semitism in several other countries. There are beyond

From the AP: Jacques Chirac left one question unanswered: Who will he back to succeed him as France’s president? Fellow conservative Nicolas Sarkozy expects to get Chirac’s nod—despite a longtime rivalry—after the French leader announced Sunday that he will not seek a third term, ending four decades in politics. Advertisement Chirac’s emotive televised farewell to the nation, just six weeks before the election’s first round April 22, drew both praise

By the way, these are the same Democrats who didn’t raise a whimper when Bill Clinton’s Attorney General Janet Reno sacked all 93 U.S. attorneys in one unclean sweep upon taking office. Previous Presidents had kept the attorneys in place until they could replace each one. That was a more serious abuse than anything known about these Bush dismissals. Heh. Public sector peculation: In their favor-seeking, all of the lobbyists

Update: Over at the Belmont Club, a poke at the Leftist pc-prism: I have no idea whether 300 is a good movie, but Steven’s review is an entertaining example of how all events, including those which happened nearly 500 years BC, must be judged according to prisms of contemporary political correctness. Miller had to remember, for example, “that we’re in the middle of an actual war”. Did he not realize

Throughout this weekend, I’ve gone over to sites quite adamant in asserting that my fears for the breakdown in dialog on the role of strategic deterrent have been some sort of genocidal wish fulfillment.  I’ve tried and tried (in my own ham-fisted fashion) to see what the other half of the blogosphere thinks about these critical issues. What I’ve found is that right-leaning sites have tended to at least engage

Thanks to everyone who has contributed!  Today is the last day of my, “‘Gee, I sure could use some scratch,’ 2007 protein wisdom fundraiser.” For those of you interested in such things—or for those of you involved in some sort of office pool, the outcome of which depends upon such information —I’ve raised about 77% of my target goal.  I appreciate your continued support.  It looks like a few orphans

To Mark Hessey for The Last Samurai DVD.  Tom Cruise with a sword?  Hot. In the movie, I mean.  Probably a bad idea to let him carry a sword in real life.  Wouldn’t want him going around lopping off the heads of Hollywood starlets for taking Motrin to combat cramping or some such.  Not only would that be unseemly, but I believe that Brentwood has zoning ordinances that prohibit the

Don’t look back A new day is breakin’ It’s been too long since I felt this way I don’t mind where I get taken The road is callin’ Today is the day I can see It took so long to realize I’m much too strong Not to compromise Now I see what I am is holding me down I’ll turn it around Godspeed, Bradley. Stop by the Boston website and

In the comments to my previous post, there have been a number of extraordinarily good points made, so I am going to try to tackle a large number of them at the same time. I wrote a post in response to commentary to my earlier post.  While it was being written, I discovered that Jeff had posted a follow-up and that some folks had responded rather

Congrats, BRD!  You’ve graduated to war porn! Sad how, in a piece where you nod more to an Andrew Sullivan than, say, a Bill Quick, you are labeled with such a broad, blood-soaked brush by someone either intent on misunderstanding your or incapable of understanding you. Let me say that having written about this kind of thing myself here on several occasions, I’ve enjoyed the debate happening in the comments