faustasblog.com - 1/5/2009
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Via Jeremayakovka, 1,147 torched cars and Yahoo news is trying to make it sound like so much fireworks:
France’s New Year’s Tradition: Car-Burning (emphasis added)
For much of the world, they became iconic of France’s worst social ills: the ...
michellemalkin.com - 1/9/2009
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My syndicated column today looks at the MSM
sneering over Joe Wurzelbacher’s trip to Israel sponsored by...
PJTV, recounts how The Fraternal Order of the Professional Journalist has squandered its own credibility, and exposes how liberal media ...
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Who’s afraid of Joe the Journalist?
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The Morning Scramble - 1/5/2009
No Runny Eggs —
... Fausta caught Time trying to make the torching of cars by France’s suburban youth “a regular form of expression”, with New Year’s Eve becoming the Froggy equivalent of Detroit’s Devil’s Night. Left unmentioned is the fact that the “youth” tend to bow to the southeast 5 times daily. ...
Coping Mechanism Type Rationalizations Likely to Follow Shortly
¡No Pasarán! —
... Sooner or later, someone will call torching cars a form of emotional release, politically meaningful, or even a form of noteworthy expression as a means of accepting hideous destrictiveness as normative or at least understandable. Fausta is up in the skybox with the play-by-play: ...
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