Newt Gingrich is at it again.

As notgruntled pointed out, Newt weighed in on the Ground Zero mosque (neither just a mosque nor at Ground Zero).

Now Newt is reading Obama's mind:
What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together [his actions]?" Gingrich ( Read more... )

Geez, I haven't written anything in a long time. Work and family life have monopolized my time. I have nothing earthshaking to report or profound to share so I will tell you what I am reading lately ( Read more... )

un poing américain (literally: an American fist) = brass knuckles

The past couple of months have been difficult ( Read more... )

Yesterday the Swiss voted. There is nothing surprising about this, the Swiss do it couple of months (think California ballot initiatives on speed) but this time they voted down minarets ( Read more... )

I drove through Saint Père Marc en Poulet. How Father Marc got into a chicken I'll never know.

There comes a time in every expatriate's life when he can't explain what the hell is going on with The Old Country ( Read more... )

I guess Lewis Hamilton has a get-out-jail-free card:
British expat and Formula One driving champion Lewis Hamilton reportedly runs a stop sign and crashes his Mercedes into a Peugeot driven by a woman, accompanied by her child, in the Geneva [Switzerland] suburb where he lives. The car struck is a write-off but Geneva police say they have no report ( Read more... )

From Martin Gilbert's "D-Day":
On April 7 [1944], German troops moved against French Resistance fighters in the hills around Gex and Oyonnax, in the Jura Mountains. Code-named Operation Spring, the sweep involved six German regiments and a regiment of Cossacks - Soviet citizens who, having been taken prisoner of war in southern Russia in 1941 and ( Read more... )

Sarah Palin is back in the news again.

After Alaska Republican Party Chairman Randy Ruedrich called for Senator Mark Begich to step down and a special election be held for his (rightfully won - ed.) seat, Sarah Palin weighed in:
In an email to POLITICO, Palin spokeswoman Meg Stapleton confirmed the governor’s position. “She absolutely agrees ( Read more... )