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PARIS – Former “Fox and Friends” weekend host turned War Secretary Pete Hegseth, recently had Pentagon brass fly into Quantico from all around the world to serve as bit players so he could act out his George C. Scott as Gen. George S. Patton fever dream.

If Patton had been ordered off the Temu app with free shipping.

His “no fatties”...Read more

PARIS — “We came. We saw. He died,” cackled then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during a CBS News interview back in October 2011, moments after she learned that then-Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi had been regime changed. Ah, the joy of foreign policy condensed into a morbid sound bite. Equal parts gloating, history and “whoopsies, we...Read more

PARIS — Late-night TV talk show host Jimmy Kimmel is guilty of wrong-speak about conservative influencer Charlie Kirk’s assassination. What he said doesn’t even matter. Nor should it, frankly. At least not inside a free speech zone.

But of course, that era is light years in the rearview mirror. These days, every offhand remark gets ...Read more

PARIS — Charlie Kirk’s work and mission will live on, said the late conservative influencer’s wife, Erika, reading from a script three days after her husband was assassinated on stage at a campus event in Utah. “They” have no idea what they’ve unleashed, she warned. And who might “they” be?

At the time of her speech, we knew ...Read more

PARIS — U.S. President Donald Trump got so fed up with the Pentagon calling itself the “Defense Department” that he decided it needed a makeover. Apparently “defense” sounded a little too yoga-retreaty for his taste.

“We had an unbelievable history of victory when it was Department of War. Then we changed it to Department of Defense...Read more

PARIS — Trump is clearly looking for an exit ramp in Ukraine, but someone desperately wants him to blow right past it. That someone needs a swift kick to the curb.

Word has it that U.S. President Donald Trump is now entertaining the notion of outsourcing America's role in the Ukraine war to private contractors. So says Britain’s Telegraph. ...Read more

PARIS — Exactly 105 years ago, on Aug. 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution finally gave women a say at the ballot box. You’d think that more than a century later, anyone still objecting would be relegated to mumbling on a street corner. But current Pentagon chief and former Fox News host Pete Hegseth apparently found time ...Read more

PARIS — When US President Donald Trump met with his Russian counterpart, President Vladimir Putin, at a U.S. military base in Alaska last week, the world united in hope.

Just kidding. They mostly just bickered over who “won” the peace smackdown.

You would think that the prospect of finally ending the Ukraine conflict, described earlier ...Read more

PARIS — Here we go again. Another round of “maximum pressure” against the leader of a country that won’t bend the knee to Washington. And this time, they’re letting the American public think that they can actually play along for a cash prize. What could possibly go wrong?

As always with Washington publicity stunts, it seems legit ...Read more

PARIS — Barbie’s performative womanliness has an equivalent, and it’s not Ken, who’s famously neutered by design. It’s Donald Trump and the rest of the bros virtue-signaling “manliness” like it’s a lost art.

Barbie dolls were once seen as the exaggerated feminine ideal, until they started dressing as doctors, lawyers, engineers ...Read more

PARIS — When it comes to Gaza, the Trump administration’s level of tone-deafness is on par with that of a leaf blower at a meditation retreat.

Palestinians are now starving, and while Trump acknowledges it, he then flicks it off like Big Mac crumbs, blaming Hamas.

Trump campaigned on avoiding foreign wars. Fair enough. But conveniently ...Read more

PARIS — A few years ago, at a panel in North Africa, a tone-deaf American diplomat sat before a room full of people from the global south, many from countries scarred by U.S.-led wars, and declared that he wanted to see America everywhere. Like some kind of global “McFreedom” chain, planted in every corner of the map, whose burgers don’t...Read more

AMSTERDAM — There’s a reason certain realities are buried by those powerful enough to do so. It’s because they’re radioactive. And as long as no one opens the container, most people live blissfully alongside it. This one is labeled “Jeffrey Epstein.”

Nope, nothing to see here. That’s the message that was recently conveyed, loud ...Read more