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A Friedman and a half and 42 - Open Thread | 64 comments (64 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

France was free and democratic before WWII. And before WWI. And postwar France was the IVth Republic, the opposite of an authoritarian regime.

by balbuz on Fri Feb 9th, 2007 at 04:12:41 PM EST

Re: Sloppy writing (4.00 / 1)

Meh. You should never try to confuse the pile driver point of a conservative fairy story by resorting to mere facts.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Fri Feb 9th, 2007 at 04:48:56 PM EST
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Worse than sloppy writing (4.00 / 2)

Firedman (nice typo) has been violently contemptuous of the French for a really long time, and, while it's just one more annoying thing in all that garbage he writes, it is, to me, one of the msot ridiculous bits of his whole persona.

I really need to unearth that article by the exile where they related the wonderful practical jokes they played on him in the late 90s...

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Fri Feb 9th, 2007 at 05:34:45 PM EST
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A Friedman and a half and 42 - Open Thread | 64 comments (64 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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