2012 May 24 |
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France

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By Steve Evans

You read it here first folks: I am against France’s ban of burqas. I cringed a little bit when I read about it last week, but recovered when I read about a poll that says 2/3 of Americans are against a burqa ban.

By now I’m sure many readers are asking, “WTF is this crap doing on a blog that proclaims to uphold common sense?” And I will say, “you must read into my subject line to understand the true purpose of this article.” I am not proclaiming that burqas are good things – they are in fact oppressive, morally repugnant pieces of clothing that showcase the backwards traditions of the fundamentalist societies that impose them on women. These traditions are fed by a fundamentalist reading of Islam that calls for the subjugation of women.MORE

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Europe’s finance ministers are panicking: they’ve done everything in their power – or so they believe – to save the Euro, yet the currency is becoming worth less and less. They don’t understand what’s going on, they’ve pumped billions into the Euro and into Europe’s failing economies, yet the European stock markets continue their free fall.MORE

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It took the French a while, but they are finally catching up with the rest of us (who worried about Iran’s nuclear project for months, years even):MORE

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French special forces rescued a pair of hostages kidnapped two weeks ago by Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden, and now President Nicolas Sarkozy is calling on the world to do more to fight the current rash of maritime terrorism. Via Fox News:MORE

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Michael Gerson explains why only the misguided believe Barack Obama to be the second coming of Franklin Delano Roosevelt:

Twice in his United Nations speech, Obama dares to quote Franklin Roosevelt. I have read quite a bit of Roosevelt’s rhetoric.MORE

‘A French military operation to free a yacht hijacked by Somali pirates backfired today when one of the hostages was killed, highlighting the perils facing US forces trying to free an American seaman being held captive in a parallel pirate standoff,’ the Guardian reports.MORE

Good news for those of us who love Keynes (which is guess is virtually no one):MORE

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