Senior Administration Official, Luke The Drifter, and Insider all wish you the very best for this 4th of July holiday. I would include Inhouse JD but he’s gone AWOL on us. Hopefully he’s okay.

On this day of our nation’s birthday, and across our vast and beautiful country, Americans will be going to beaches, lakes, parks, and backyards to celebrate and to reflect on what this day really means to us as citizens of the richest and most dominant country in the world. We can think of nothing more appropriate, more American, to do on this day than to make fun of the French.

As our holiday gift to you, we thought we’d make this task especially easy by providing you with the French-fun-making links below. However, before you (or some guy named Francois) start a letter writing campaign against Independent Sources arguing that the French should be thanked on this day, above all, since it was with their support that we won our war of independence, please read on.

The French were certainly involved but their participation was driven exclusively by their hatred of the British and not to help America per se. They cared for us Americans about as much as Americans in the 1970s cared for whichever side it was that the U.S. government supported during the Angolan civil war. Let’s not forget that the French even sided with the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Read more about the many French transgressions against America in “France: With Friends Like This, Who Needs Enemies.”

Now, let’s turn to the social economics of France which we’ve covered in the following postings:

• Oui or Non, France Wants Its Cake and to Eat it Too
• The French: Like Watching Sea Monkeys
• It’s a Solution, But We’re Not Sure to What Problem
• EU Charter Vote and Why the French are so Darn Funny to Watch

It might seem like we are constantly harping on the French. This is not true (we spend far more time on Barbara Boxer, Ward Churchill and the Los Angeles Times). We love and are covering the Tour de France (though I guess we kind of like the fact that Americans are completely dominating the race much to the distaste of the French media and populace. Look at the “random” drug testing that thus far has tested exactly one person—Lance Armstrong if you want to see real Franco-bias in action).

Anyway, you won’t see us calling the French “cheese-eating surrender monkeys” or any other low-brow moniker. Nope, not here. With that said, we invite you to sit back, watch fireworks and bait your friends into a nice round of French bashing.

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