Losing a ‘life-or-death skill’?
Proponents fight planned changes to combatives training
The elimination of combatives competitions and a directive to remove all references to competitions in combatives doctrine is a safety issue, the senior NCO said.
“We don’t allow certain techniques that are authorized in civilian mixed-martial arts because we deemed it too high-risk that soldiers may be potentially injured,” he said.
These techniques include elbow strikes or knees to the head.
The battlefield is not a playground, they are substituting playground rules.
If the globe isn’t warming, does that undercut EPA regulation of carbon dioxide?
Even so, I am reminded by a characteristically bracing blogpost by my former American Enterprise Institute colleague Michael Greve that the supposed consensus that global warming is a threat was the basis of the Supreme Court’s 2007 ruling in Massachusetts v. EPA requiring EPA to regulate carbon dioxide emissions. The Court ruled that carbon dioxide, which is non-poisonous and necessary for animal and plant life, is a pollutant subject to regulation under the Clean Air Act of 1970. But if carbon dioxide is not producing supposedly dangerous global warming, there is no basis for calling it a pollutant. Is it possible that Massachusetts v. EPA will some day be reversed?
It’s not about the science, it’s not about the warming (or the cooling) it is about the money.
And it’s a stick to beat the producers and consumers with.
In the comments at that site, someone suggested reducing the headcount 75% at the EPA to slow down the harm they do. I say, only if we are talking about real heads.
On the North River 