Third Superpower

Why do conservative bloggers not report this story when the supposedly evil Guardian does? Because Liberals still care about this stuff. – “Anil Dash(the Guardian reports on immorality the right ignores)”:http://www.dashes.com/links/archives/20040111.php#008135 I can honestly say I haven’t seen this story on any conversative weblogs. But then I can honestly say that I have only seen [...]

bq. A great many of the difficulties that have faced the relationship go back to the profoundly different experiences that we had in the war, with, quotes, Britain standing alone, and quotes, France capitulating and surrendering to the Germans. – “Jack Straw(Straw accuses French of anti-American ‘neurosis’)”:http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=8&id=272376 bq. I’m probably the last person to see [...]

bq. This Bastille Day, I’d like the world to reflect on the glorious contributions of France’s Fifth Republic to peace and civilization across the globe. First and foremost in everyone’s minds is, I’m sure, France’s role in Iraq. Without their staunch opposition to, even obstruction of, American and British will to oust the bloody tyrant [...]

bq. 1,400 years after the post was first created, the role of the Lord Chancellor in the UK has been abolished. And, for the first time in hundreds of years, the political establishment and the judiciary have been forcibly separated from one another. This – obviously – is a tremendous move and almost certainly a [...]

bq. Neo-Nazis are using the Internet to attract and recruit young people to the scene and the number of far-right Web sites in Germany has more than tripled in the past four years, according to a study released Monday. – “Associated Press(Number of neo-Nazi Web sites has tripled in past four years)”:http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=294794&contrassID=1&subContrassID=8&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y bq. It’s not [...]

Jacques Chirac overplayed his hand with one specific sentence.

“I hope we are not aiming to create a superpower Europe, for that purpose I hope we will not copy other existing models, there is that danger. I say it partly jokingly, [but] we are aiming to copy the institutions of the president of the United States, the People’s Congress of China, and the Politburo [...]

David Howell “feels(A bigger Europe may not be any better)”:http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/geted.pl5?eo20030423dh.htm that the European Integrationists are unhappy with some of the new members being allowed admittance into the counter for the American Hyperpower, their European “Second Superpower.”