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Link Love All of these

by John Cole|  August 28, 200211:38 pm| Leave a Comment

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Link Love

All of these blogs are worth a look, and should now appear to the left in my permalinks:

The Sabertooth Journal

3 Bruces In Exile (this permalink is WAY overdue- sorry guys)

Cut on the Bias (which is merely overdue as a permalink)

The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler (which is uber-mega-way overdue- and by the way, would one of you cheap bastards by his banner? I would, but the last banner I paid for the person quit blogging so I am gunshy now).

The Weigh-In

Silflay Hraka

and Sasha Castel

That is all folks. But guess what? I start getting a real paycheck this Friday, so it should not be long until I have a nice new look and a new domain name. Ain’t that something?

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Just got my tickets to

by John Cole|  August 28, 200211:14 pm| Leave a Comment

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Just got my tickets to Puerto Rico in December. Take that, Global Cooling. Or thank goodness for global warming. Or something.

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Also priceless in the Fukuyama

by John Cole|  August 28, 200211:11 pm| Leave a Comment

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Also priceless in the Fukuyama speech is the litany of hypocricy on the part of the Eurocrats:

There are a number of areas where the Europeans have acted unilaterally in economic matters, and in ways that at times contravene the existing legal order. The EU resisted unfavourable decisions against them on bananas for nine years, and beef hormones for even longer. They have announced a precautionary principle with regard to genetically modified foods, which is very difficult to reconcile with the WTO

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Europeans in Our Midst? Francis

by John Cole|  August 28, 200211:10 pm| Leave a Comment

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Europeans in Our Midst?

Francis Fukuyama presented a speech that has been widely linked in the blogosphere. It was a balanced an interesting piece, but several parts stood out:

Robert Kagan, in a brilliant recent article in Policy Review, (3) put the current difference between the United States and Europe as follows. The Europeans are the ones who actually believe they are living at the end of history, that is, in a largely peaceful world that to an increasing degree can be governed by law, norms, and international agreements. In this world, power politics and classical realpolitik have become obsolete. Americans, by contrast, think they are still living in history, and need to use traditional power-political means to deal with threats from Iraq, al-Qaeda, and other malign forces. According to Kagan, the Europeans are half right: they have indeed created an end-of-history world for themselves within the European Union, where sovereignty has given way to supranational organisation. What they don

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No more posting until Sunday,

by John Cole|  August 23, 20022:30 pm| Leave a Comment

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No more posting until Sunday, most likely. I am off to another wedding.

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Gov’t Seeks to Ease Airport

by John Cole|  August 23, 20021:47 pm| Leave a Comment

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Gov’t Seeks to Ease Airport Hassles

They can not be serious.

Airline passengers soon may be able to board a plane without being asked whether they have kept a close watch on their bags. And starting right away, they can take drinks through security checkpoints.

I guess after failing to trip up a bunch of terrorists with those tricky interrogation techniques “Has anyone unknown to you asked you to carry an item on this flight?” and “Have any of the items you are traveling with been out of your immediate control since the time you packed them?”), they have now realized what the entire public has known since day one. These are needless hassles, not precautions. I guess mother’s will now be allowed to carry their breast milk through airports.

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Will Warren is back with

by John Cole|  August 23, 20021:37 pm| Leave a Comment

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Will Warren is back with another gem.

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