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		<title>Andrew Klavan: What Gender Are You?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2014 04:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><span style="color: #000000;">In this special episode, our always sensitive host takes a look at the exciting world of gender diversity, where the unusual is normal, even though that can&#8217;t be right and doesn&#8217;t make a lick of sense. See the video and transcript below. </span></strong></p>
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<p style="color: #000000;">I’m Andrew Klavan and this is the Revolting Truth.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Many of you may remember a time when women were tender and nurturing and modest and men were strong and protective and courtly.  Actually, you might be remembering the movie Meet Me In St. Louis&#8230; but I’m sure reality also used to be great.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Today, though, all across America, gender norms are coming under question, laws are being passed to allow people to choose their gender identities, and Time Magazine, always on the cutting edge of irrelevance, has declared transgenderism the new civil rights frontier.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">What’s it all about?  Let’s get at the revolting truth.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Gender theorists today believe that the different behaviors and capabilities of men and women are not a reflection of their natural propensities and desires but were imposed on them by the gender stereotypes of society which were created at the conference of the Gender Stereotype Society, held in 1817 at a secluded chateau on the shores of Lake Geneva.  It was there that it was determined by secret ballot that from now on, men would be able to invent things and lie convincingly about their sexual conquests while women would talk a lot about clothes and then make dinner.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">These oppressive and confining stereotypes were imposed on the population of the entire globe through repeated exposure to televised football and the movie Cinderella as well as Archie comics dropped from planes on primitive villages where, up to that point, people had been living lives of complete gender equality.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Once we remove these imposed stereotypes, gender theorists believe there will be no inherent differences at all between men and women so that, for instance, someone who felt he was a woman inside a man’s body wouldn’t actually be able to tell the difference and then he wouldn’t have to have his penis cut off and maybe these nightmares I’ve been having would finally stop.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">According to U.C. Berkeley’s Gender Equity Resource Center, there are actually a wide range of gender identities. There’s “cisgender,” a person who conforms to society’s expectations of his sex; “gender diverse,” which could include a boy who breaks free of gender norms in order to enjoy musical comedy and get punched in the face out in back of the gym; and there’s “transgender,” a person who changes from, say, male to female in hopes of sneaking into the girl’s bathroom or winning every race at women’s track meets.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">To insure respect for these otherly-oriented individuals — or “oddballs” — the Center provides gender neutral pronouns which can be used to refer to a person without giving away the fact that he’s just some guy in a dress.  For instance, instead of he or she, you can use “ze” and instead of him or her you can use “here”&#8230;  as in the sentence, “Ze is here&#8230;”  although actually it should be “ze is ze,” unless ze is actually here&#8230;  but that’s neither here nor zare.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Though some different gender identities are unusual, gender theorists consider them all normal, a word which the dictionary defines as “usual.”  So though to call something unusual normal would be unusual it’s not unusual among gender theorists who are abnormal.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">So I hope that’s clear. Or zere.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">[Sings plaintively:]  Meet me in St. Louis, Louie, meet me at the fair&#8230;</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">I’m Andrew Klavan with the Revolting Truth.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Don’t tell me the lights are shining anyplace but there&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>The Conversation We Won&#8217;t Have About Raising Men</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2014 04:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inconvenient questions raised by the Ray Rice abuse scandal. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/RayRicePresser.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-241126" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/RayRicePresser-397x350.jpg" alt="RayRicePresser" width="319" height="281" /></a>On Thursday night, the Baltimore Ravens took on the Pittsburgh Steelers. The event carried national significance thanks to the Ravens&#8217; public-induced decision to cut running back Ray Rice after tape emerged of Rice clocking his then-fiancee in the head, knocking her out cold. CBS sportscaster James Brown utilized his pregame show to draw attention to the problem of domestic violence — and suggest widespread culpability for domestic violence. &#8220;Our language is important,&#8221; Brown suggested. &#8220;For instance, when a guy says, &#8216;You throw the ball like a girl&#8217; or &#8216;You&#8217;re a little sissy,&#8217; it reflects an attitude that devalues women, and attitudes will eventually manifest in some fashion.&#8221;</p>
<p>Brown wasn&#8217;t the only commentator to blame &#8220;The Sandlot&#8221; for Ray Rice&#8217;s horrifying Mike Tyson-esque blow to his future wife&#8217;s head. ESPN commentator Kate Fagan explained, &#8220;This is behavior that is happening at the grassroots level that is born through years of our culture like raising men to want to not be like women and using language like &#8216;sissy&#8217; and &#8216;you throw like a girl&#8217; that demean women. &#8230; [We need to focus on] really reprogramming how we raise men.&#8221;</p>
<p>Naturally, this talking point was celebrated far and wide by a mainstream press more interested in perpetuating the tenets of political correctness than in actually fighting domestic abuse. The real solution to domestic abuse is twofold: punishing it to the greatest possible extent, and yes, raising young men differently. But to state that the greatest risk factor for future domestic violence is insulting other boys as &#8220;throwing like girls&#8221; is pure idiocy. No man has ever hit a woman because she &#8220;throws like a girl.&#8221; But plenty of young men have hit women because they had no moral compass and did not believe in basic concepts of virtue — and plenty of young men lack such a moral compass and belief in virtue thanks to lack of male role models.</p>
<p>Teaching respect for women begins with ensuring that solid male influences models fill the lives of young men — men who respect women, cherish them, treasure them, and believe in protecting them. This is an unpopular stance, because it suggests that boys require men to raise them. Which they do. But that truth doesn&#8217;t fit the logic of the left, which seems to think that lack of fathers counts less than rhetorically bothersome phrases.</p>
<p>For leftists, the answer to domestic violence isn&#8217;t to deal with any of the issues that could lead boys to become abusing men. The answer, instead, is to lecture Americans about the use of the word &#8220;sissy&#8221; — not because that solves the problem, but because it makes those on the left feel warm and fuzzy inside. Similarly, the left will tell Americans that the name of the Washington Redskins matters far more to Native-Americans than the nearly half of Native-American youths who drop out of high school; they will explain that &#8220;microaggressions&#8221; are the true problem faced by blacks in America, not lack of education, poverty or unwed motherhood.</p>
<p>We extol the language police even as we castigate moral authorities. And so our problems grow worse. But at least we feel better about them.</p>
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		<title>Checking My Privilege</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2014 04:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have checked it -- and I apologize for nothing.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/feb9e01dbe785d17fe46e8cfd73f881e.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-225140" alt="feb9e01dbe785d17fe46e8cfd73f881e" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/feb9e01dbe785d17fe46e8cfd73f881e.jpg" width="305" height="190" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://theprincetontory.com/main/checking-my-privilege-character-as-the-basis-of-privilege/">The Princeton Tory</a>.</em></p>
<p>There is a phrase that floats around college campuses, Princeton being no exception, that threatens to strike down opinions without regard for their merits, but rather solely on the basis of the person that voiced them. “Check your privilege,” the saying goes, and I have been reprimanded by it several times this year. The phrase, handed down by my moral superiors, descends recklessly, like an Obama-sanctioned drone, and aims laser-like at my pinkish-peach complexion, my maleness, and the nerve I displayed in offering an opinion rooted in a personal Weltanschauung. “Check your privilege,” they tell me in a command that teeters between an imposition to actually explore how I got where I am, and a reminder that I ought to feel personally apologetic because white males seem to pull most of the strings in the world.</p>
<p>I do not accuse those who “check” me and my perspective of overt racism, although the phrase, which assumes that simply because I belong to a certain ethnic group I should be judged collectively with it, toes that line. But I do condemn them for diminishing everything I have personally accomplished, all the hard work I have done in my life, and for ascribing all the fruit I reap not to the seeds I sow but to some invisible patron saint of white maleness who places it out for me before I even arrive. Furthermore, I condemn them for casting the equal protection clause, indeed the very idea of a meritocracy, as a myth, and for declaring that we are all governed by invisible forces (some would call them “stigmas” or “societal norms”), that our nation runs on racist and sexist conspiracies. Forget “you didn’t build that;” check your privilege and realize that nothing you have accomplished is real.</p>
<p>But they can’t be telling me that everything I’ve done with my life can be credited to the racist patriarchy holding my hand throughout my years of education and eventually guiding me into Princeton. Even that is too extreme. So to find out what they are saying, I decided to take their advice. I actually went and checked the origins of my privileged existence, to empathize with those whose underdog stories I can’t possibly comprehend. I have unearthed some examples of the privilege with which my family was blessed, and now I think I better understand those who assure me that skin color allowed my family and I to flourish today.</p>
<p>Perhaps it’s the privilege my grandfather and his brother had to flee their home as teenagers when the Nazis invaded Poland, leaving their mother and five younger siblings behind, running and running until they reached a Displaced Persons camp in Siberia, where they would do years of hard labor in the bitter cold until World War II ended. Maybe it was the privilege my grandfather had of taking on the local Rabbi’s work in that DP camp, telling him that the spiritual leader shouldn’t do hard work, but should save his energy to pass Jewish tradition along to those who might survive. Perhaps it was the privilege my great-grandmother and those five great-aunts and uncles I never knew had of being shot into an open grave outside their hometown. Maybe that’s my privilege.</p>
<p>Or maybe it’s the privilege my grandmother had of spending weeks upon weeks on a death march through Polish forests in subzero temperatures, one of just a handful to survive, only to be put in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where she would have died but for the Allied forces who liberated her and helped her regain her health when her weight dwindled to barely 80 pounds.</p>
<p>Perhaps my privilege is that those two resilient individuals came to America with no money and no English, obtained citizenship, learned the language and met each other; that my grandfather started a humble wicker basket business with nothing but long hours, an idea, and an iron will—to paraphrase the man I never met: “I escaped Hitler. Some business troubles are going to ruin me?” Maybe my privilege is that they worked hard enough to raise four children, and to send them to Jewish day school and eventually City College.</p>
<p>Perhaps it was my privilege that my own father worked hard enough in City College to earn a spot at a top graduate school, got a good job, and for 25 years got up well before the crack of dawn, sacrificing precious time he wanted to spend with those he valued most—his wife and kids—to earn that living. I can say with certainty there was no legacy involved in any of his accomplishments. The wicker business just isn’t that influential.Now would you say that we’ve been really privileged? That our success has been gift-wrapped?</p>
<p>That’s the problem with calling someone out for the “privilege” which you assume has defined their narrative. You don’t know what their struggles have been, what they may have gone through to be where they are. Assuming they’ve benefitted from “power systems” or other conspiratorial imaginary institutions denies them credit for all they’ve done, things of which you may not even conceive. You don’t know whose father died defending your freedom. You don’t know whose mother escaped oppression. You don’t know who conquered their demons, or may still conquering them now.</p>
<p>The truth is, though, that I have been exceptionally privileged in my life, albeit not in the way any detractors would have it.<br />
It has been my distinct privilege that my grandparents came to America. First, that there was a place at all that would take them from the ruins of Europe. And second, that such a place was one where they could legally enter, learn the language, and acclimate to a society that ultimately allowed them to flourish.</p>
<p>It was their privilege to come to a country that grants equal protection under the law to its citizens, that cares not about religion or race, but the content of your character.</p>
<p>It was my privilege that my grandfather was blessed with resolve and an entrepreneurial spirit, and that he was lucky enough to come to the place where he could realize the dream of giving his children a better life than he had.</p>
<p>But far more important for me than his attributes was the legacy he sought to pass along, which forms the basis of what detractors call my “privilege,” but which actually should be praised as one of altruism and self-sacrifice. Those who came before us suffered for the sake of giving us a better life. When we similarly sacrifice for our descendents by caring for the planet, it’s called “environmentalism,” and is applauded. But when we do it by passing along property and a set of values, it’s called “privilege.” (And when we do it by raising questions about our crippling national debt, we’re called Tea Party radicals.) Such sacrifice of any form shouldn’t be scorned, but admired.</p>
<p>My exploration did yield some results. I recognize that it was my parents’ privilege and now my own that there is such a thing as an American dream which is attainable even for a penniless Jewish immigrant.</p>
<p>I am privileged that values like faith and education were passed along to me. My grandparents played an active role in my parents’ education, and some of my earliest memories included learning the Hebrew alphabet with my Dad. It’s been made clear to me that education begins in the home, and the importance of parents’ involvement with their kids’ education—from mathematics to morality—cannot be overstated. It’s not a matter of white or black, male or female or any other division which we seek, but a matter of the values we pass along, the legacy we leave, that perpetuates “privilege.” And there’s nothing wrong with that.</p>
<p>Behind every success, large or small, there is a story, and it isn’t always told by sex or skin color. My appearance certainly doesn’t tell the whole story, and to assume that it does and that I should apologize for it is insulting. While I haven’t done everything for myself up to this point in my life, someone sacrificed themselves so that I can lead a better life. But that is a legacy I am proud of.</p>
<p>I have checked my privilege. And I apologize for nothing.</p>
<p><em>Tal Fortgang is a freshman from New Rochelle, NY. He plans to major in either History or Politics. He can be reached at talf@princeton.edu.</em></p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2014 05:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/121003074150-jerry-seinfeld-2011-story-top.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-218377" alt="121003074150-jerry-seinfeld-2011-story-top" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/121003074150-jerry-seinfeld-2011-story-top-450x336.jpg" width="270" height="202" /></a>How refreshing the sound of a top-flight celebrity fearlessly shrugging off the idiocy of political correctness! The other day, on </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">CBS This Morning, </i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">an interviewer</span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">pointed out to Jerry Seinfeld that most of the guests he&#8217;s had on </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, </i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">his online series on which he has automotive tête-à-têtes with fellow practitioners of the stand-up art (and the occasional just-plain-funny person), have been white males. “Oh, this really pisses me off,” replied a bracingly honest Seinfeld, who plainly saw where his fatuous interlocutor was headed. After a bit of back and forth, the comic spelled out just how he feels about the application of this kind of absurd bean-counting to matters of entertainment: “People think it&#8217;s the census or something. Its got to represent the actual pie chart of America. Who cares?&#8230;I have no interest in gender or race&#8230;.It&#8217;s anti-comedy&#8230;It&#8217;s PC nonsense.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The attacks on Seinfeld for these purportedly insensitive remarks began materializing almost at once. A contributor to the Gawker website, who </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://gawker.com/who-cares-about-diversity-in-comedy-says-jerry-seinf-1515412052">sneeringly</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> called Seinfeld a “maker of comedy for and about white people,” represented him as having indicated that he “isn&#8217;t interested in trying to include non-white anything in his work” and that in his view “any comedian who is not a white male is also not funny.” Having read the entire Gawker article, I strongly suspect that this characterization of Seinfeld, far from being deliberately deceitful, was in fact an honest reflection of the author&#8217;s utter inability to grasp the concept of colorblindedness. Charging Seinfeld with “downplaying the work” of all nonwhite comics, the man from Gawker made a point of demonstrating his own PC purity: comedy, he proclaimed, “should represent the entire pie chart of America, and the glorious, multicolored diversity pie should be thrown directly at Jerry Seinfeld&#8217;s face.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The funnyman also came under fire for a Canadian woman named Maya Roy, who, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/maya-roy/seinfeld-diversity-comments_b_4733365.html">writing</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> in the Huffington Post under the headline “Seinfeld&#8217;s Racist Comments Make Him the Joke,” accused him of “whitewashing New York” in his 1990s sitcom – only to chide him, in her next breath, for featuring on various episodes of that show “heavily accented Chinese food delivery boys” and an “inept Pakistani entrepreneur, Babu Bhatt,” among others. To nonwhite viewers like herself, railed Roy, these nonwhite characters “only existed to make &#8216;whitey&#8217; feel superior.” She contrasted the nonwhites on </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Seinfeld </i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">with Indian-Canadian comic Russell Peters and Korean-American comic Margaret Cho, both of whom, exulted Roy, “use humour to mock racists and homophobes, and make life just a little more bearable for the rest of us.” (Yes, indeed, they are moral scolds, which is surely part of the reason why I, for one, find both of them excruciatingly unfunny.)</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Half a century ago, an America in which people don&#8217;t have an interest in gender or race was Martin Luther King&#8217;s dream – the vision around which Americans of every color, eager to see their country live out the meaning of its creed, rallied enthusiastically. Today that kind of thinking is condemned as bigotry. Today a sitcom that doesn&#8217;t seek to mirror the population pie chart risks being called out for racism or sexism. Today a show that permits itself to include black or Chinese or Pakistani characters who, far from being role models and pillars of virtue prove to be every bit as hapless, goofy, mendacious, and/or self-absorbed as the white characters is by definition guilty of hate speech. Today, according to the PC sentries at the gates of American culture, comedy should exist not to amuse us by (among other things) treating received opinions with indifference and even irreverence but, on the contrary, to promote The Proper Values, as determined by, well, people like Maya Roy and the man from Gawker. Its focus should be on chiding the evil souls who harbor prejudice and providing comfort and affirmation to the virtuous innocents who are the objects of that prejudice. In other words, comedy, in this age of victimhood, of group identity, and of ubiquitous therapy, should succor the victims, go out of its way to affirm the unconditionally positive contribution of minority groups (especially those favored by multicultural dogma) to the wonderful mosaic of American society; it should serve, without exception, a psychically healthful, wholesome, and therapeutic purpose, while of course never doing anything that might stand the remotest chance of hurting or offending those who have already (in the PC view) been hurt or offended too mightily.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Even </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Time Magazine – </i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">yes, it still exists – piled onto Seinfeld after his comments on CBS, running a piece in which one Lily Rothman (a </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.lilyrothman.com/">self-identified</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> playwright and backpacker who studied at Yale and the Columbia School of Journalism) did her share of </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://entertainment.time.com/2014/02/04/jerry-seinfeld-diversity/">tsk-tsking</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> about “the homogeneity of [the] guests” on Jerry&#8217;s webseries – guests, mind you, who have ranged from Jay Leno to Howard Stern, from Carl Reiner to Colin Quinn. Ms. Rothman&#8217;s inability to view these performers as a remarkably diverse crew only serves as a salutary reminder that for some people, melanin would appear to be the only</span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">measure of difference. Color, in short, is all. It&#8217;s this kind of illiberal thinking that once was recognized as a genuinely serious threat to true liberal values, and that today, in the corridors of American cultural power – including those at </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Time – </i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">is, perversely, the very essence of what goes by the name of liberalism. Ms. Rothman concluded her harangue by expressing the hope that “public pressure” would force Seinfeld to enhance his show&#8217;s “diversity.” Not so many years ago such a sentiment would have been widely recognized as ignoble, despicable – indeed, totalitarian. No more.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">If anything is striking about this incident, it&#8217;s not the attacks on Seinfeld – who only a few months ago, by the way, said on </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee </i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">that his “Mount Rushmore” of stand-ups would consist of Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby, George Carlin, and Don Rickles (two blacks, two whites). No, the attacks are just the usual multicultural claptrap. What was striking – and gratifying, and heartening – were Seinfeld&#8217;s original remarks about “PC nonsense” – which, considering that they came from a man who is still the top-earning comedian in the U.S., raised expectations that the growing impatience of influential cultural figures with the poisonous influence of political correctness may yet help bring an end to the madness.</span></p>
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		<title>Review: Falcon 7</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Forsmark]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What would Obama do if U.S. fliers were attacked? Author James Huston tells the tale. ]]></description>
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<p>James Huston burst onto what used to be called the techno-thriller scene in 1988 with <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061703206?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=fronmaga-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0061703206" target="_blank">Balance of Power</a>, </em>a military/legal actioner about a constitutional crisis that erupts when a conservative speaker of the House takes matters into his own hands because a spineless president refuses to retaliate against Indonesian Islamist terrorists.</p>
<p>Rush Limbaugh loved the book, and many compared the novel’s characters to Newt Gingrich and Bill Clinton, then holding power in Washington. Huston, however, followed the time-honored tradition of veiling real people by adding notable differences, such as a Speaker who was a veteran.</p>
<p>Back when guys like John Buchan (<em>The 39 Steps</em>) and Joseph Conrad (<em>The Secret Agent</em>) invented the modern international thriller, the names of enemy countries and odious leaders were merely hinted at, not named. Even Geoffrey Household, author of the classic <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590172434?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=fronmaga-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1590172434" target="_blank">Rogue Male</a></em>, did not expressly name Adolf Hitler as the target of his hero&#8217;s big-game hunter protagonist&#8211; although he did deliver plenty of obvious hints.</p>
<p>In <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312364326?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=fronmaga-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0312364326" target="_blank">Falcon 7</a></em>, a thriller about two Navy fliers hauled before the International Criminal Court for dropping a bomb on the wrong target in Pakistan, Huston doesn’t bother creating pseudonyms or crafting a fictional president likely to genuflect before international institutions.</p>
<p>Instead, he tackles the question of what would happen if U.S. fliers were to face a radical anti-American ICC prosecutor while their commander-in-chief is none other than Barack Hussein Obama.</p>
<p>Doug Rawlins, an F-18 pilot, and his RIO Bill Duncan sit in a prison in The Hague, charged with war crimes after dropping a bomb on what was supposed to be an al Qaeda meeting place but turned out to be a clinic for refugees.</p>
<p>The Obama administration wants the fliers defended but doesn&#8217;t want to put the full weight of the Justice Department behind them.  So, through a back channel they call on criminal defense attorney and former Navy SEAL Jack Caskey to provide their defense.</p>
<p>Caskey smells a setup, and immediately focuses on the fliers’ dizzying &#8212; and suspiciously quick — capture and repatriation to the Netherlands.  The prosecutor, within a day, has his captives and depositions from tribesman in a remote and violent part of Pakistan in hand, thanks to a conveniently handy multi-million-dollar Falcon 7 jet that just happened to be hanging around the backward hellhole.</p>
<p>Knowing he needs bodies and talent to help him fight a possibly hopelessly stacked deck at the ICC, Caskey enlists Eric Holder’s former New York law firm by threatening to go on every news show and blast them for going out of their way to defend murderous terrorists but turning their nose up at America’s heroes.  But that’s nowhere near the biggest stunt Caskey has to pull in order to successfully defend his clients.</p>
<p>He knows the task may well be hopeless, so he undertakes a succession of Hail Mary plays, including a trip to the scene in the Taliban- and al Qaeda-infested mountain regions of Pakistan.</p>
<p>Caskey even publically challenges Obama to free his clients by force, invoking a little-known law passed by Congress after 9/11 in response to the possibility of the ICC trying American soldiers. The law states that the President is authorized to invade <em>any </em>country holding American military personnel, friendly or not.</p>
<p>This tactic doesn’t exactly meet with the approval of Caskey’s beautiful second chair, a law school almost-flame whose legal brilliance is almost matched by her personal liberalism and was much more comfortable working for the causes Holder championed at her firm.</p>
<p>But, for Caskey, the idea of a rescue mission is more than just a threat or rhetorical device &#8212; no matter what the president might think.  Even as he runs rhetorical and evidentiary circles around the prosecution, Caskey has no confidence that the airmen have any shot at a fair trial in The Hague and believes such a mission may be their only hope.</p>
<p>Huston, a former F-14 RIO himself and now a big-time trial lawyer, certainly knows his stuff, and <em>Falcon 7 </em>rings true at every turn, whether it’s a courtroom twist, an ambush on a Pakistani mountain road or, even worse, a political ambush by political appointees who just want the case to get out of the headlines.</p>
<p>More importantly, Huston is a superb storyteller, and <em>Falcon 7</em> rockets along at the speed of the F-18 in the opening sequence and hits its target with just as much power.  The result is a perfect summer read &#8212; a terrific, thought-provoking, suspenseful and thoroughly entertaining and highly educational thriller.</p>
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