Bearish on the Blogosphere: A 2009 Forecast
In last Tuesday’s presidential debates, moderator Tom Brokaw asked the candidates a difficult question: will the economy get worse before it gets better? Arguably, it is the President’s job to inspire...
View ArticleThe Five Secret Purposes of War
Excerpted from The Report From Iron Mountain. Lasting peace, while not theoretically impossible, is probably unattainable; even if it could be achieved, it would almost certainly not be in the best...
View ArticleMad Libs With Jackie Chan And The Yellow Press
Last week, action movie star Jackie Chan gave a controversial speech to Chinese business leaders. What remarks caused such an uproar? According to Associated Press reporter Min Lee, Jackie is...
View ArticleSenate Proposes “Health Tax” on Fittest Americans
In a revamped health care system envisioned by senators, people would be required to carry health insurance just like motorists must get auto coverage now. The government would provide subsidies for...
View ArticleChuck Norris on God and Guns…Mostly Guns
From Chuck Norris’ recent column in World Net Daily… God and guns were so important to our founders that they established our protection to exercise them in the first two amendments to our...
View ArticleThe Martial Artist’s View of Freedom
You’ll never know what freedom really means, until you’ve been pinned against the wall with no hope for escape. Google defines freedom as “the condition of being free; the power to act or speak or...
View ArticleChuck Norris Gets His Facts Right?
Did you know? In 1982, Chuck Norris was choked out by the famous Gracie Jujitsu family. A decade later, everybody started copying him. We now know this phenomenon as the UFC. (pg. 57) On the set of...
View ArticleReal-Life Ninja Assassin Threatens Journalist
If you have to choose between seeing Ninja Assassin and Red Cliff this weekend, I recommend the latter–even if this abridged US release is not quite as good as the original 4-hour Chinese version....
View ArticleGoogle’s False Confessions
Inside the company’s daring plan to control the news The greatest trick that Google Corporation ever pulled, was to convince the world it didn’t exist. Although its shareholders know it as a profitable...
View ArticleDerren Brown Investigates The Bronnikov Method
A Martial Development Meta-Investigation I can see inside Vyacheslav Bronnikov’s head. Not because I possess the disputed X-ray vision skills–though if I did, I would probably keep quiet about it. No,...
View ArticleSarah Palin, Spirituality and Forbidden Knowledge
Can we talk about spirituality? I do not refer to a politely equivocating spirituality, to the New Age patter so heartily embraced in the Pacific Northwest and elsewhere. No, I refer to a spirituality...
View ArticleWhen the Powerful Copy the Weak: Eric Hoffer’s American Prophecy
Land of the Free, Home of the Brave? Trenchant and timely words from Eric Hoffer, one of Bruce Lee’s favorite philosophers: There is always a danger that the suppression of a specific clearly defined...
View ArticleMartial Arts in the News: Jedi Knight College, Youtube Violence Ban, and More
Recent news items from the world of martial arts… Enroll Now in Jedi Knight 101: Intro to the Jedi Order Source: Telegraph UK The UK’s first Jedi course is on offer at Queen’s University Belfast in...
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