Obama Woos Angela Merkel

President Obama has by honoring Angela Merkel’s path and achievement tried to remind Germany to punch according to its heavyweight class. It is hard to judge whether Barack Obama is an avid Spider-Man fan or not, but with his latest humble reception of Angela Merkel, Obama indirectly underlined …

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Written by Robin Tim Weis on Tuesday June 7, 2011

French Socialists Stand Up for Privilege

With the French Socialist Party defending Dominique Strauss-Kahn, should they be renamed as the French Monarchist Party? Maybe they should just rename the French Socialist Party the French Monarchist Party? From the em> Telegraph

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Written by David Frum on Monday May 23, 2011

The Other French Sexual Double-Standard

Many in the French elite have sympathy for Dominique Strauss-Kahn. They weren't nearly so forgiving toward Paul Wolfowitz. Many in the French and European elite have expressed surprising sympathy for IMF president Dominique Strauss-Kahn, now under arrest for attempted rape. They were not nearly …

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Written by Tessa Berenson on Tuesday May 17, 2011