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Bush’s jab at his G8 cohorts
George Bush gave his G8 colleagues a verbal kick in the rear as he left the meeting in Japan: The American leader, who has been condemned throughout his presidency for…
Nicolas Sarkozy
23rd president of the French Republic from 2007 to 2012
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Support Brigitte Bardot
When I lived near Paris in the ’60s there was a walled villa just down the road from our apartment in Marly-le-Roi. It was the home of Brigitte Bardot, or…
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Reagan & Thatcher
The most interesting sections of Nicholas Wapshott’s joint biography of two of the 20th century’s greatest leaders, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher: A Political Marriage (Sentinel, 2007), involve transcripts of…
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I like this guy
If you can stand the insipidity of Leslie Stahl, watch the CBS “60 Minutes” piece on Nicolas Sarkozy (click image to watch video), which tries hard to be a hit…
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Higher tax rates, fewer working hours
Research finds that taxes account for differences in working hours across time and countries. Maybe the French don’t really want to trade income for vacation and that’s why they voted…
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Editorial lectures
Don’t you hate it when newspaper editorial writers presume to lecture us on what needs to be done — especially when they’re on the losing side? The New York Times…
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The Triangle could use this prescription
Nicolas Sarkozy’s decisive victory in France today came in response to his prescription for curing what ails France: [T]hey had rallied round his cry to “liquidate the legacy of May…
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Update: Socialist bites the dust
Sarkozy cruises to a win in France over socialist Segolene Royal. There has already been some of the violence promised by Royal should Sarko emerge victorious, but, for the moment…
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Lefties are a Royal pain
This is typical of the left: Vote for the socialist or the world will end! That’s what Democrats were saying in 1994 but it didn’t spook the public. And that’s…