- "Your Tactical Training Scenario- Three Difficult Disarms"--Active Response Training. The author has posted three videos of actual armed robberies/attacks to illustrate that in the real world (as opposed to a dojo), it may be difficult to execute a disarm or muzzle redirect maneuver. Read and learn. Also, don't forget to check out this past weekend's "Weekend Knowledge Dump," which includes a link to a nice article summarizing Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature.
- "1,200-mile-long storm stretches across 17 Eastern states causing more than 2,000 car accidents and nearly 2,000 flight cancellations"--Daily Mail.
- "Saudis and Russia agree oil output freeze, Iran still an obstacle"--Reuters. Has Saudi Arabia decided to concede the American oil market to the frackers? We will know more after we watch the reaction from the Saudi controlled environmental groups operating in the U.S. If Saudi Arabia has given up on the American oil market, it will probably concentrate its lobbying efforts on preventing the U.S. from lifting the ban on the export of American petroleum, which would undercut its international prices.
- "American Idol"--Richard Fernandez at PJ Media.
With the next weeks certain to bring a foreign policy crisis, and the next months a likely economic crisis, the death of Antonin Scalia is a reminder of how few degrees of freedom the old order has left. With the presidential races now dominated in both parties by outsiders; with actual war drums beating on the international scene; with domestic politics galvanized around a fight over the Supreme Court, the inflexibility of Barack Obama himself will soon become the main issue. It's drained the system of the last degrees of flex.
He is like a great, deaf, stone god whose acolytes must either decide to continue worshiping or flee for their lives. His immobility is a great source of comfort to the Leftist faithful who see in their high priest the inevitability of the progressive project even as thunder and lightning gather over the temple. But it is also the source of unease among those who suspect the stone is just stone; that there is no there, there. Events will soon put his fitness as Leader of the Free World to the test even as he finds himself under pressure domestically.
Antonin Scalia's death has raised the volatility index on everything by one more notch at a time when there is precious little Design Margin left to spare. Ordinarily the death of a Supreme Court justice would not matter. However these may not be ordinary times.
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