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The Year in Review: 2008 Highlights

January 1, 2009

I meant to get this out on December 31, but that didn’t quite work out, so HAPPY NEW YEAR!  And here are some highlights of the last year on AmiExpat: 2008 started for us in the United States We experienced a trip through Hell on Iberia Airlines while traveling back to Germany from Northern Virginia [...]

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How We Became the United States of France?

September 22, 2008

I guess the author of the Time magazine article How We Became the United States of France is trying to be humorous, but the more I read of the article, the more I was insulted.  What is so wrong with France, anyway?  I don’t get this (yes, I know it’s supposed to be a joke, [...]

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How do my views match up with the candidates?

January 27, 2008

86% John Edwards 83% Dennis Kucinich 82% Mike Gravel 82% Barack Obama 81% Hillary Clinton 80% Chris Dodd 75% Joe Biden 72% Bill Richardson 41% Rudy Giuliani 35% John McCain 24% Mike Huckabee 24% Tom Tancredo 23% Mitt Romney 13% Ron Paul 13% Fred Thompson 2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz Interesting… and in case you’re [...]

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Thoughts on Va Tech and gun control

April 18, 2007

According to a Reuters FactBox on Guns and gun ownership in the US, there are approximately 640 million guns in the world, 200 million, or 1/3, of which are in the United States, in 34% of households. I’d originally planned a long tirade on creating tougher gun control laws. I had graphs in here, statistics [...]

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UNICEF report on child well-being in rich countries

February 15, 2007

Yesterday, the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre released an illuminating report entitled “An Overview of Child Well-Being In Rich Countries.” Germany generally falls in the middle for all six measurements, but what is sad is that the USA and the UK are typically near the bottom of the lists, below poorer eastern European countries. The report [...]

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Election!

November 8, 2006

It’s a good thing I checked out the results before leaving the house this morning, because everyone and their mother has been asking me to give them the news, like I have some inside track on American politics. I don’t think I’ve spoken so much to my neighbors… ever. In Fairfax County results, Tom Davis [...]

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Hmmm…

August 10, 2006

So, a terrorist plot in the UK has been thwarted, MSNBC reports that: The plot targeted flights from Britain to the United States, particularly to New York, Washington and California on United Airlines, American Airlines and Continental Airlines Inc I’m traveling on Continental next week from Washington through New York, so that should be fun. [...]

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