From around the web today come a number of interesting stories. John Batchelor points to Janet Napolitano’s comments about the “criminal justice investigation” into the attempted terrorist attack on Christmas Day.

[H]er rejoinder to Candy Crowley’s not unsympathetic and hardly direct questions suggests that Janet Napolitano does not aim to speak to the facts of any of it. “That’s part of the criminal justice investigation that is ongoing…” Wrong answer. This was an attack against the national security of the United States. It was not the act of a lone criminal named Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.

Treating the attempted detonation of of an airliner as though it were no different than an attempted robbery of a 7-11 is the wrong approach to protecting the security and freedom of the United States.

We live amid a chaotic age.

As with the Age of Industrialization’s dawning, this Age of Globalization’s advent is a time of promise and peril, wherein many Americans’ cherished way of life is being “creatively destroyed” by a tsunami of merciless changes seemingly beyond control.  The very concept of a sovereign nation-state is besieged by the discordant forces of disorder – and without order, there is no justice or freedom for the people.