Dare you ride the luge?

From the Daily Caller:

Thanks to Mathew Mortensen, you can now see first-hand exactly what it looks like. In 2013, he strapped a camera to himself and tried out the Sochi luge track with his teammate. The video has recently been discovered online and his act of bravery has now been watched more than 350,000 times.

Very cool, very crazy.

“The Heroes Are the Ones In Camo”

From John Hinderaker at Powerline Blog:

Congratulations to the U.S. Olympic hockey team, which beat the Russians 3-2 in a shootout a few hours ago. The U.S. team’s hero was T.J. Oshie, who scored four shootout goals. Oshie, who plays for the St. Louis Blues, was born in Washington, went to high school in Warroad, Minnesota, and played for North Dakota.

He was mobbed by media after the game. When asked by a reporter how it feels to be an American hero, Oshie replied, “The heroes are the ones in camo.” Good for him.

This kid gets it.

T.J. Oshie plays hero in shootout for U.S.

The Olympics have spawned a new hockey hero for every young hockey player in the country.

An incomparable strategic weapon for the United States

From Thomas Lifson at American Thinker:

As Russia prepares to strut its stuff before the world at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, the economic foundation of Russian power and prosperity is crumbling, thanks to a strategic weapon developed by the United States. That weapon is fracking, and it is paying havoc with Russia's ability to exercise power on the world stage. Three articles lay out the devastating consequences of this technological revolution developed mostly not by a national laboratory, huge government initiative, or top scientists, but by guys out in the Texas and Oklahoma oil patches.

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Virtually no one in the political, journalistic, or academic elites saw fracking coming as a major American strategic weapon, until facts on the ground began making a difference. But the Saudis, the Russians, and every other oil oligarchy in the world now understand that their power is fading. The only thing that can save them is a political movement in the United States, headed by the environmentalist groups, that could cripple this strategic weapon. That central fact must be understood in evaluating the funding and activities of environmentalists.

It must be a coincidence that the Saudi's are financing several anti-fracking environmental groups.