France
July 1, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Western Europe has been sweltering under a heat wave, and quite a few people have died as a result. The heat wave is unusual, but the phenomenon isn’t: every year, lots of Europeans die from extremes of heat and cold, far more than in the United States. And European climate deaths vastly exceed deaths in the U.S. from gun homicides, which many Europeans like to decry. A sane response to
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May 30, 2026 — Bill Glahn
From the UK Sun, Chaos erupts in Paris as cars ablaze & flares set off with riot cops arresting over 235 after Champions League final. As the UK Daily Mail reported earlier in the day, the rioters didn’t wait for the final result, Riots break out in Paris within minutes of Champions League final kicking off. If you don’t know, and you shouldn’t, the “Champions League” refers to a European-wide
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May 25, 2026 — John Hinderaker
France’s Minister of Justice, expected to be a candidate to succeed Emmanuel Macron, is coming out against immigration: French Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin has called for a three-year pause on immigration, arguing that the country has reached its “limit” due to the mass influx of foreigners over the past few decades. *** Speaking to Le Journal du Dimanche, the Justice Minister said he rejects the notion that race prevents some
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May 1, 2026 — Bill Glahn
A tempest in a tea cup over baguettes in France on May Day (today, May 1). From the Irish Times, Vive le capitalisme? France allows flower shops and bakeries to open on May Day. Apparently, May 1 is the Labor Day holiday in France. Because they are communists. The Times reports, French people will find it easier to buy a fresh baguette and a bouquet of flowers on Labour Day
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April 16, 2026 — Scott Johnson
The State Department hosted a meeting earlier this week with the participation of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Counselor Michael Needham, United States Ambassador to Lebanon Michael Issa, Ambassador of Israel to the United States Yechiel Leiter, and Ambassador of Lebanon to the United States Nada Hamadeh Moawad. This meeting marked the first major high-level engagement between the governments of Israel and Lebanon since 1993. Can’t we all just get
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February 24, 2026 — Bill Glahn
I missed the significance of this story when scrolling headlines yesterday. From the Associated Press (AP), France moves to bar US Ambassador Charles Kushner from direct government access. Based on the headline, I thought it was just some anti-Trump pettiness. It goes much deeper. The AP reports, France’s top diplomat Monday requested that U.S. Ambassador Charles Kushner no longer be allowed direct access to members of the French government after
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February 20, 2026 — Bill Glahn
From BBC News, Killing of nationalist student leaves French far left in deep trouble as elections loom. It’s a long article full of speculation and hypotheticals, but I found this question interesting, Is the far left about to replace the far right as the pariah of French politics? The left wing is out there committing on a daily basis all of those horrible acts that mainstream parties fear from the
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February 17, 2026 — Bill Glahn
From BBC News, Nine arrested in France over death of far-right student. You will recall that I mentioned this case yesterday. BBC describes the young man as “far-right” so that you will think he deserved his gruesome fate. BBC reports, Nine people have been arrested in France following an investigation into the murder of a far-right nationalist student by suspected militants from the far-left. Those detained include a parliamentary assistant
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February 16, 2026 — Bill Glahn
Same incident, two headlines. From the U.K. Guardian, French police launch murder inquiry after far-right activist’s death in Lyon. From BBC News, Student death puts French far-left under pressure. Let’s be clear, the young man, Quentin Deranque, 23, was beaten to death by Antifa in the streets of Lyon, “by at least six masked individuals.” Our young student was on a sidewalk, peacefully protesting (not “mostly” peaceful, but actual peaceful)
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October 19, 2025 — Bill Glahn
From the U.K. Daily Mail, A gang of brazen thieves dropped the priceless Eugénie Crown outside the Louvre in Paris during a jaw-dropping daylight heist of the world’s most visited museum. Here is my No. 1 suspect, An early headline on the caper invoked the Mission Impossible franchise. But as I read the details, all I could hear in my head were the opening notes on the saxophone of the
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September 25, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been sentenced to five years in prison for a campaign finance violation: Nicolas Sarkozy has been jailed for five years for conspiring to finance his 2007 presidential campaign using funds from Muammar Gaddafi, the late Libyan dictator. Prosecutors said Sarkozy, 70, who led the country from 2007 to 2012, made a “corruption pact” with the Libyan state for millions of euros in exchange for
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September 7, 2025 — Bill Glahn
Tomorrow afternoon in the French parliament, a no confidence vote is scheduled on the current prime minister, Francois Bayrou. Bayrou is the 4th prime minister to serve under Pres. Macron in his 8 years in office. The cause of the current crisis is the national government budget, where cuts have been proposed, including two national holidays. From Sky News, France on brink of economic and political crisis as PM looks
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August 2, 2025 — Scott Johnson
on the way to London last night. My flight from Dulles was canceled. My wife’s two flights from Minneapolis were both canceled — one in the morning to meet me in DC, then one in the afternoon to get her to London from Minneapolis after the flight to DC was canceled. As one thing led to another, we gave up on the prospect of joining our group in London. All
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July 28, 2025 — Scott Johnson
I haven’t taken too many vacations that disrupt my early morning Power Line shift, but we are leaving on a structured World War II London/Normandy/Bulge tour this coming Friday that I am afraid will put me of out of commission for a while. The tour leader has assigned each of us parts to play for presentations at appropriate spots on our itinerary. General Philippe Leclerc, c’est moi, despite the fact
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July 26, 2025 — John Hinderaker
I knew and worked with Candace Owens early in her career, and thought highly of her. She is tremendously talented, and in those days was cordial and eager to learn. Maybe she still is, but Candace has left behind one association after another–Turning Point USA, Prager U, the Daily Wire–and now, wholly independent but with millions of followers, she seems to have gone off the deep end. She has largely
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July 15, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Beirut was once known as the Paris of the Middle East, but Islamic radicalism put an end to that. What will be the next Paris of the Middle East? The way things are going, Paris will be. Paris is already a good part of the way there. Its reckless importation of Middle Easterners has made sections of the city and its suburbs more or less off-limits to non-Arabs. Yesterday, France’s
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July 15, 2025 — Bill Glahn
It’s come to this: from the BBC, France’s Prime Minister François Bayrou has proposed cutting two public holidays as part of a 2026 budget proposal to slash overall spending while also increasing defense expenses. Bayrou suggested axing Easter Monday and 8 May, a day that commemorates the Allied victory at the end of World War Two in Europe. I’m sure that, somehow, it’s all Trump’s fault. I was amazed to
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