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We are all witness to a historic event, the beginning of the Islamic Jihad in France and the Netherlands, soon to be spread to the rest of Western Europe. As Paris burns, as the Christian infrastructure is being destroyed, as some of the most fundimental historical foundations of the Western world is now threatened, it is foolish to allow negative feelings for past deeds by the French or any other to cloud our collactive judgements. We should not snicker, we should not cheer, we should not jab them in the ribs. We are Christians, might I remind you, and the...

Stone Blames ‘Unsophisticated’ American Audience, Flees to Franceby William R Alford - Jan. 16, 2005 Apparently the ill-advised heat is coming to Oliver Stone from all sides in the United States, so he is abandoning us to our galling ignorance. Quoting the clearly exasperated director from a recent New York Post article: “The gays lambasted me for not making Alexander openly homosexual and in the Bible Belt, pastors were up in the pulpit saying that to watch this film was to be tempted by Satan.” It doesn't matter so much that Stone affixes a few arguably plausible character traits...

Kerry Tries to Improve U.S.-France Ties 1 hour, 40 minutes ago By ELAINE GANLEY, Associated Press Writer PARIS - Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites)'s French connection was treated as a liability during his bid for the U.S. presidency. On Friday, he used his popularity here to try to help rebuild strained ties between Paris and Washington, and expressed confidence that would happen. AP Photo The Massachusetts Democrat was in Paris at the close of a tour of Europe and the Middle East that included trips to Iraq (news - web sites), Syria, Egypt, Israel and the West Bank....

Pour La Release Immediateness DATELINE VERSAILLES: One day after Donald Rumsfeld made a surprise visit to Iraq, les tout France from Paris Nord to Versailles came to a halt to honor the surprise visit of Mrs. Teresa Heinz Kerry to this sleepy Parisian suburb and former home of the Ancien Regime (AKA "Kings and Queens of France"). Arriving on the personal jet that is not owned by her but by her family, Mrs. Teresa Heinz Kerry (or Mrs. Teresa Kerry-Heinz as she prefers to be known in Europe), was quick to make her way to Versailles II in order to...

"I love baseball. I love football. I love sports. French skiers. Franz Klammer…" (John Kerry as quoted in Michael Hainey, “A Beer With John Kerry,” GQ, 9/04) 

I have heard that JF Kerry has dual citizenship in France. Is this correct? If so is this not against current eligibility for US President?

Whenever John Kerry rips the Bush administration for "going it alone" in Iraq -- which he does with near-digital regularity -- I cringe. What must our friends around the world think of such Beacon Hill provincialism? Surely, the man's open disdain for allied forces in Iraq, great and small, conveys an alienating lack of diplomatic politesse. In Kerry's insistence that the commitment of our allies -- British, Italian, Polish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Australian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Japanese, Thai, Danish and others -- adds up to a big fat zero in a "unilateral" American adventure, he has shown himself bereft of all diplomatic...

John Kerry: Too French to be U.S. president? Guest Column Domenico Maceri - opinion@vg.pdx.edu May 21, 2004 James Garfield was a professor of classics before he became the 20th American president. Wanting to show his abilities with foreign languages, he amused friends by simultaneously translating an English document into Greek with his left hand and into Latin with his right hand. George W. Bush can't match the same kind of multilingualism, although he did make use of his limited Spanish in the 2000 election and, since becoming president, when addressing Latino groups. John Kerry, the likely Democratic nominee, may...

Much to the displeasure of certain American Republicans, the candidate John Kerry, on the road to the Democratic presidential nomination, proclaims his love for France in broad daylight (au grand jour). And for cause. The senator of Massachusetts, 61 years old, has French roots and has mastered the language of Molière. His mother, Rosemary, was one of the daughters of the wealthy Forbes family, and settled in Saint-Briac, the small crested whaling town on the Emerald Coast of Brittany. It was here, at the family’s grand mansion where Kerry still returns from time to time, at which young John spent...