With the shock of the Notre Dame inferno wearing off ever so slightly and relief setting in that Paris's pompiers really did heroically save significant parts of the glorious cathedral, who should turn up now but the Western culture-hating left and its loathsome cultural tropes? Some of what its minions are saying is utterly repulsive.  Here are three examples. One, French billionaires are donating very large amounts of money, amounting to hundreds of millions — to the rebuilding effort.  This is a good thing.  People like their Paris the way it's always been, even the French billionaires.  Their generosity is very comforting, actually, because assuming the cash is not mismanaged, it reassures everyone else that the job is going to get done; funds aren't going to be an ugly obstacle.  I even like President Emmanuel Macron's probably overly optimistic declaration that...(Read Full Post)