Comments on: Lewis on NR

By: Lesser Bull

Lesser Bull — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 16:13:15 +0000

Look at where he’s published.

By: henrymarsau

henrymarsau — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 15:30:18 +0000

Well yeah, karate was outlawed under communism, so the young Putin had no chance to practice an illegal discipline while serving as a KGB officer. Judo, however, was legal, widely practiced and modified into various russian fighting styles (such as sambo).

By: Neener

Neener — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 12:22:36 +0000

Dude gets some things wrong. Putin practices Judo, not Karate. He even wrote a book on Judo, and did a demonstration and randori at the Kodokan (the home of Judo, with some of the most badass Judokas on the planet outside Europe), so it isn’t just symbolic. You can get to black belt in certain styles of Karate without knowing to how to break another human being physically and mentally (styles like Kyokushinkai not included). The same can’t be said for getting to dan level in Judo, as the training acts like a sieve for tough people who can be thrown over and over again (much like Boxing gyms being a sieve for tough people that can take a punch over and over). Anyone who has trained with a legit judoka knows that they gripfight like wolverines, and could smash your skull into the cement at will. Saying that he trains Karate, and then saying it is symbolic, is pretty ridiculous. Also, this is Putin’s favorite throw (Harai Goshi) in action in an empty hand environment: http://youtu.be/rRNHFuNL0mc?t=4m26s

By: VXXC

VXXC — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 12:09:55 +0000

We could move the capitol to Nebraska.

This CongressCritter thinks it’s a good idea.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/01/06/ben-sasse-nebraska-captial

As hysterically funny as this would be I don’t actually propose to move a mass of metasizing cancer into healthy organs.

But it’s still funny.

By: KarmaKaiser

KarmaKaiser — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 06:33:57 +0000

You do know Matt Lewis *is* a conservative right? Granted he’s not darkwing duck right wing but he’s to the right of the GOP.

By: Thales

Thales — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 06:24:24 +0000

ADDED: At The American Conservative, two (instantly forgettable) response pieces, by Noah Millman, and Rod Dreher. Le sigh...more defense of "democracy", when what we really face is cryptarchy, is bureaucracy and therefore these throw-aways merely constitute some kind of reverse-straw-men argument. "...the civilized man can only murmur: barbarus hic ego sum . . . what he really needs is a better grade of critics." Indeed.

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 02:20:11 +0000

I see that Anissimov has some points in common.

By: VXXC

VXXC — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 01:20:33 +0000

A Trial was coming if we were never born.

We just may happen to have a weapon, or be the weapon.

Reality finds its’ own gravity. For instance in terms of Finance we’ve been falling for years, we just haven’t hit yet.

By: peppermint

peppermint — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 01:19:01 +0000

because monarchy is the most sterile idea we have. If they opened with the Dark Enlightenment, that humans are really mutant chimps, and the sexes and races really are different, and dysgenics really is happening, they wouldn’t even be able to say it out loud. They most they could say is “scientific racism? am I in 1814? social darwinism? wow, just wow.”

In fact, progressives already reject democracy.

By: VXXC

VXXC — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 01:17:32 +0000

Point C – thank you. For instance the Constitution and democracy matter. Perhaps the new would be overlords could begin by explaining [briefly] that both were stolen during the New Deal, the Deal being Administrative Government. Which passed after one generation of the wise, just, and benevolent to the insane, evil and malevolently predatious.

When one convinces them of this – and their waking up – I would get out of the way.

Nor would I propose a King.