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If you’ve been watching the Tour de France, I don’t think it will be a spoiler to let you know that at today’s finish the three men standing on the podium were the ones who’ve been leading for the past week — Contador, Schleck, and Armstrong, in that order: Contador ...
Cycling, France, Tour de France, Lance Armstrong, Alberto Contador
The Tour de France is heading into the final stretch, and Lance Armstrong is still within striking distance of the win — but he’ll have to really dig deep to surpass Astana teammate Alberto Contador, who is looking incredibly strong this year, rocketing away from the pack on difficult climbs: ...
Cycling, France, Tour de France, Lance Armstrong, Alberto Contador
Today’s stage of the Tour de France started in Barcelona on a beautiful route that finished with one of the first real climbs, and this is where the eventual leaders started to take charge. Fabian Cancellara couldn’t hang with the climbers, and lost the yellow jersey: Feillu wins stage 7, ...
Velonews has a good account of today’s team time trial at the Tour de France, in which Lance Armstrong and his Astana team won the stage and came within a fraction of a second of taking the yellow jersey. If anyone still doubted Lance could make a comeback, he ended ...
The 2009 Tour de France opened today, with a time trial in Monaco. And yes, Lance Armstrong was there, riding with the Astana team — he came in tenth, 40 seconds behind winner Fabian Cancellara. The BBC has a blow by blow account of today’s race here, and a story ...
French President Nicolas Sarkozy is right in his analysis of the Islamic garment known as the burqa or niqab; while there are a few women who wear this clothing of their own free will, most of the time the burqa is a symbol of extreme fundamentalism and subjugation of women: ...
France, Nicolas Sarkozy, Burqa, Niqab, Women's Rights, Misogyny, Radical Islam
“I saw God before me.” President Barack Obama, wife Michelle and their two daughters touched lives in simple ways during a private stay in the French capital that closed out a six-day presidential tour rich in history, symbolism and giant messages to the world. ... When dining out Saturday ...
Those wacky, irrepressible French! What will they think of next? What could possibly go wrong? NANTES, France (Reuters) – Close to 200 prisoners will cycle around France next month, watched by scores of guards on bicycles, in the first penal version of the Tour de France, authorities said Monday. ...
It took them 67 years, but France is finally admitting their responsibility for the deportation of Jews in World War II. France’s highest court has recognised the state’s “responsibility” for the deportation of Jews in World War II. The Council of State said the state had permitted or facilitated ...
The French love stories like this. It gives them an excuse to look down their Gallic noses at Americans, and in this case, they’re infuriatingly right: Creationism going strong on Darwin anniversary. [Video] Forget about dinosaurs, the origins of life, and the birth of the universe. According to Ken ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Answers In Genesis, Ken Ham, Kentucky, creation museum, France
Former French President Jacques Chirac was rushed to a hospital after being viciously mauled by his clinically depressed poodle named Sumo. Nothing more need be said. Former French President Jacques Chirac was rushed to a hospital after being mauled by his pet dog who is being treated for depression, ...
Police have discovered five sticks of dynamite at Paris department store Printemps (with no detonators), after an AFP office received a warning letter. French news agency Agence France-Presse said it received a letter Tuesday morning from a group calling itself the Afghan Revolutionary Front saying that several bombs had ...
Sure, I could make a joke about this story, but why bother? It’s perfect just the way it is: Rather covers election for French TV. PARIS — Former CBS star reporter Dan Rather has been tapped by French pay TV group Canal Plus to cover the U.S. presidential election. ...
Rathergate, Dan Rather, CBS News, Killian Memos, Blogosphere, France
Barack Obama is doing a press conference in Paris with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and here’s a thread to discuss it ... UPDATE at 7/25/08 9:59:29 am: The presser’s done; how disappointing not to hear Obama attempt a “Merci beaucoup!” for the French media.
A giant glass Muslim headscarf in the heart of Paris.
LGF, France, Louvre, Islam, Headscarf, Hijab, Misogyny, Dhimmitude
Barack Obama: more defeatist than the French. French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said on Sunday that the security situation in Iraq was improving and reaffirmed France’s willingness to help rebuild the war-ravaged country. “I have the feeling that things are better. Statistics show a drop in security incidents,” Kouchner ...
France says it’s had informal contacts with Hamas. Are you surprised?
LGF, Hamas, Islamic Supremacism, Militant Islam, France, Europe, Appeasement
French fascist leader Jean-Marie Le Pen has fallen on hard times, and it couldn’t happen to a nicer crypto-Nazi: France’s Le Pen selling bullet-proof car on eBay. PARIS (Reuters) - French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen is looking to make a bit of extra cash by putting his old ...
LGF, France, Eurofascism, National Front, FN, Le Pen, Jean-Marie Le Pen
In France today, Jean-Marie Le Pen, head of the neo-fascist National Front, reiterated his belief that there were no gas chambers in Auschwitz. Far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen sparked a chorus of outrage in France on Friday by repeating an incendiary claim that the Nazi gas chambers were a ...
LGF, France, Eurofascism, National Front, FN, Le Pen, Jean-Marie Le Pen
Here’s Dissident Frogman on The problem with Brigitte Bardot.
LGF, France, Bardot, Islam, Eurofascism
“Youths” in the suburbs of Paris are escalating their intifada against French society, ambushing and firing on police. PARIS: Dozens of hooded attackers fired buckshot and nails at police this weekend, wounding four officers, France’s interior minister said. Michele Alliot-Marie called the Sunday afternoon attack an “ambush,” saying that ...
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has launched a massive raid on the Muslim housing projects in the suburbs of Paris. VILLIERS-LE-BEL, France - More than 1,000 police, some wearing black hoods, raided housing projects outside Paris in a massive sweep Monday, kicking open doors and detaining 33 people in a ...
Here’s a debate with no side worth rooting for: Le Pen wrangles with Muslim intellectual in rare Paris debate.
Things were pretty calm in Paris over New Year’s Eve—only 372 cars torched. PARIS (Reuters) - Vandals torched 372 cars as France celebrated the New Year, down on the figure last year after a night the police described as “relatively calm.” Cars are burned fairly regularly in France and ...
French President Nicolas Sarkozy says he’s had it up to here with the chinless ophthalmologist. “I have reached the end of the road with [Syrian President Bashar] Assad. Words alone won’t suffice, I want actions,” French President Nicolas Sarkozy was quoted as telling reporters Wednesday at the Champs-Élysées in ...