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The Corner on National Review Online —
... , better than I could have said it. My column today is about the pirates, and I try to take away the larger lesson here, which is about the so-called "rule of law." "So-called," I say, because transnational progressives, who are instinctively converting the Somali piracy into as Secretary Clinton put it yesterday mere "criminal activity," are perverting what the "rule of law" means. It's the same thing they've done with the challenge of radical Islam in general, the Muslim pirates being no different from other Muslim unlawful combatants who flout the laws and customs of ...
Captain tried to escape from pirates
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... has every reason to believe that he was unharmed in the incident, the official said. I’m hesitant to second-guess an ongoing operation, but why didn’t we react in time to rescue Phillips? It seems to me we should have anticipated an escape attempt, and had people ready to assist him if he broke free. Phillips must have thought so as well; surely he didn’t contemplate having to swim all the way up the side of the Bainbridge to make his escape successful. Meanwhile, Andy McCarthy at National Review says that piracy has returned because of an overweening desire for ...
Larwyn's Link Kerplosion: Pirates test the 'Rule of Law'
Doug Ross @ Journal —
... Petty Partisanship : Crittenden Piracy and the will to do something about it : Instapundit The Post-American President : Big Hollywood A view from the Saudi press : Dinocrat Obama as apologist : Shawarma The Ugly Un-American : Riehl When will the ice break? : Margo's Maid Obama's paid 'volunteers' : JWF Brits scramble to find 'Easter Bomb' factory : Gateway The Dichotomy of a Child Killer's Mug Shot : Eye Pirates Test the ‘Rule of Law’ : NRO (McCarthy) More on the F-22 and the Defense ...
FIGHT, FLIGHT AND THE PERSISTENCE OF EVIL-Part II
Dr. Sanity —
... of aggression entirely in its members in the name of the collective; and this leads to the group eventually becoming the victims of other societies or cultures that encourage aggression in the name of the collective. What is needed is a rational balance between the two behaviors coded for in our biology; and a rational cognitive capability which can make the decision when one strategy, or its behavioral equivalent, is likely to be more effective than the other. Andy McCarthy recently expressed this important insight: Civilization is not an ...
The American Prospect's Utopia: Perfect Worlds and Honest Terrorists
Generation Patriot —
... 3 years before they attacked us on our own soil. A war that has never been fought before in modern times and has no modern rules despite what internationalists say. Considering that the previous international consensus on groups like Al Qeada was extra-judicial execution, I think the rulebook the United States is writing ad hoc is a tad more humane than the one the British used against pirates and other such non-state entities. ...
