corner.nationalreview.com - 4/13/2009
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Following the freeing of American ship captain Richard Phillips from a band of Somali pirates Sunday, commentators have turned their attention to what can be done to control and prevent future piracy. The solutions suggested so far are what you might expect: Hit the Somali pirates at home with ...
abcnews.go.com - 4/12/2009
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abcnews.go.com —
The light wasn't good, the murky darkness of
night just starting to lift. The sea was rolling,...
making the targets move around as well as giving the shooters an unsteady platform. A miss could be disastrous. But the trio of Navy Seals who had been ...
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Somali Pirate Standoff Ended With Just Three Shots
rightwingnuthouse.com - 4/13/2009
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rightwingnuthouse.com —
So Captain Phillips is free and unharmed and
the pirates are killed or captured. Good news all...
around, although I think Michael Shear of WaPo gave new meaning to the phrase “gushing coverage:” It was one of the earliest tests of the new ...
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OBAMA PULLS THE TRIGGER: NOW HOW ABOUT SOME FOLLOW THROUGH?
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uggabugga —
The ultimate privatization scheme: Privatize the lotteries? Way too small. Privatize the highways? Nope. Privatize Social Security? Hah! Over at NRO's The Corner, we get this: Want to Prevent Piracy? Privatize the Ocean One suggestion that isn’t being considered, but should be, is to privatize the seas ... ... the absence of ownership of these waters means no one has had much incentive to prevent activities that destroy their value — activities such as piracy. The result is a kind of oceanic “tragedy of the ...
Okay, now my head hurts.
Blah3 Feed —
Over at Lollipop Land, the new Conservative Plan for fighting Piracy: privatize international waters. And it's only fucking Monday.
Not A Parody Headline
Oliver Willis —
National Review: “Want to Prevent Piracy? Privatize the Ocean”
No doubt the work of U.S. mercenaries in Iraq and the cowboys of Wall Street have shown us that this is a path sensible people should go down.
Seriously, come on. ...
Rum, Sodomy and the Nash redux
Crooked Timber —
... , feel free to chime in) and merely note that these views presents an interesting question for the Princeton people charged with publicizing his book. On the one hand, piracy and Somalia are surely topical issues, but on the other, professor Leeson’s views are likely to be unpopular with many people (his proposed solution for the Somalian piracy problem, by the way, is to privatize the ocean). ...
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From NBC's Kelly O'Donnell and Mark MurrayThe day after the daring rescue of Capt. Richard Phillips from Somali pirates, Reuters reported this disturbing news: "Somali insurgents fired mortars toward U.S. congressman Donald Payne as he left Somalia on ...
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