France Turns Left

Or should I say, further left?  After all, politics in France are kind of like a NASCAR race track where the road bends in one direction only.

Nevertheless, the ousting by the French voters of incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy for Socialist challenger Francois Hollande does mean something...just not as much a some observers might think.

With almost the entire of the West facing either bankruptcy or near-bankruptcy, a strange unity has emerged.  If you will, we are entering an Era of Ill Feelings where we're all fiscal conservatives now.

Or at least we are where property owners are still armed and, thank God, in the USA, we still are.