Rising violent crime in rural areas, likely caused by an increasing use of drugs in those same areas, is stressing local police forces. Shibani Mahtani reports in The Wall Street Journal that local sheriffs and town police are being overwhelmed. This is all the more reason for Americans to get their guns and their training […]
Your Survival Guy: “My Car was Stolen”
Originally posted on April 27, 2017. “My car was stolen,” is the last thing I want to say to the authorities. Mine wasn’t, thankfully. But how vulnerable am I to car theft? Isn’t it cool that you can start your car with a push of a button? Technology is great. But what happens when the […]
Puerto Rico: Self Reliance is the Only Way
The only way Puerto Ricans are seeing their lives improved after the island was devastated by Hurricane Maria is if they do it themselves. I’ve written before that survivalists are seeing a real life worst case scenario playing out in Puerto Rico. The lessons that can be taken from Puerto Rico are innumerable. Anyone interested […]
Survival Tactics: One Hand Tourniquet Application
Wouldn’t it be terrible if you needed to self-apply a tourniquet with one hand? Of course, it would be terrible. But what would be worse is if you needed to do it and didn’t have one close by, or the know how to apply it. Here, my favored Sig Sauer Academy shows you how to […]
Report: Americans Stop 8 Armed Attackers
Teresa Mull reports at Gunpowder Magazine that 8 mass shooting suspects were stopped by American citizens in 2016 and 2017. She writes: “The FBI has designated 50 shootings in 2016 and 2017 as active shooter incidents. Twenty incidents occurred in 2016, while 30 incidents occurred in 2017,” the report says. Of the 50 mass shootings […]
Behind the Drums: Hal Blaine Playing Paul Simon’s: The Boxer
You know the artists who have the power to take you back in time by name. Paul Simon is certainly one of them. How did his songs come to life? “Some of the best sections of this book go behind the scenes at key recording sessions. Mr. Hilburn describes how percussionist Hal Blaine got that […]
A Code to Help Your Survival
Originally posted October 10, 2017. Over the weekend we were at our log cabin in New Hampshire. An article on the front page of the local paper, The Conway Daily Sun, caught my interest. It was about hiking safely in the White Mountains. According to the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department, hiker rescues were […]
The Mormons Cut Ties with the Boy Scouts
With an ever increasing focus on political correctness as opposed to scouting, the Boy Scouts of America organization has pushed away one of its strongest allies, the Mormon church. Brady McCombs of the Associated Press reports: For more than a century, the Boy Scouts of America and the Mormon church formed an ideal pair as […]
Is Neil Gorsuch to Blame for the Supreme Court’s Slow Pace?
Ilya Shapiro, The Cato Institute’s senior fellow in constitutional studies, writes that the court’s slow pace in decisions this Spring has less to do with its newest appointed justice, Neil Gorsuch, and more to do with the full slate of complicated decisions sitting before the court. Despite that, Shapiro says the decisions handed down thus […]
Is Your Hotel Key Hackable?
A group of savvy hackers has found a way to compromise one of the more popular hotel room lock systems, Vision by VingCard. The Swedish manufactured system is used in 42,000 properties in 166 countries. Zack Whittaker reports at ZDNet: These electronic lock systems are commonplace in hotels, used by staff to provide granular controls over […]
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