July 8, 2008
What will be the deciding factor for the 2008 presidential elections, you ask: Race, Age, National Security, young people's involvement ? Money seems to be the consensus among French blogs that closely follow the 2008 presidential elections. They argue that the ability to sustain the important spending for ...
June 19, 2008
June 17, 2008
While Obama claims to seek the "transcending of race" in the United States, his campaign for the White House is having quite opposite effects elsewhere in the world. According to the New York Times, Obama's success is spurring African youth in France - where institutionalised laïcitÃ...
go to article »June 13, 2008
The bitter contest between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton has finally come to an end. Will the Democratic Party avoid following the example of France's Parti Socialiste and grow beyond its wounds? Barack Obama clinched the Democratic nomination yesterday, bringing to an end a bitter cont...
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This blog, being French, is gonna take its 5-week summer vacation. It will return around mid-July. In the meantime, I will be crossing the Jura Mountains and the Alps from Montbeliard near the Swiss border to Nice on the Riviera on a mountain-bike with an international group of friends consisting ...
go to article »June 11, 2008
Foreign Policy Magazine has produced a list of the worst countries in the world to be a terrorist. Contrary to its softy image in the U.S., France is number one. Jordan, Egypt, Singapore and Russia complete the top 5. Of course, the article does point out that in order to achieve this ranking, Fran...
go to article »June 7, 2008
Les Fleurs de la Memoire (the Flowers of Memory) is a French Association created to honor the memory of the soldiers, sailors and airmen buried in the American cemeteries of Normandy by placing flowers on their tombs. Members of the Association commit in writing to lay flowers on the designated gra...
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[Sorry about the lack of posting - Another storm, another 2 days without power…] CNN is putting us under the spotlight, as according to them we are “redefining [our] place on the world stage” (are we?) It’s called Eye On France and it’s all week until June 8. And to ma...
go to article »May 29, 2008
I was speaking to a friend of mine the other day in Massachusetts and the conversation went something like this (My Friend): My dad has been out of work for over a year and elects to pay the health insurance fine because it is actually cheaper than paying for health insurance in Mass. I was immediat...
go to article »May 28, 2008
[This is a guest post by Myriam Miedzian - It also appears in The Huffington Post. ] New York City Republican Congressman Vito Fossella has announced that he will not run for a sixth congressional term this November. The odds that voters would re-elect him are close to nil. The recent revelation tha...
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