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Taking Back Your Community: School Boards

Sadly but truly, "everything is political." The first steps toward stopping and rolling back the Left in the culture war they have been waging for decades can be taken at the local level, and elected school boards are a great place to start.  Take back from whom? From the left-liberals with a mission, the activists and 'community organizers' w...

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Harden Digital Life – Part 1: Why You Should Possess a Faraday Bag

This series of articles will explain, in layman's terms, how all of us can improve our digital privacy via small but substantial steps. America is already a surveillance state and moves are being taken by big tech and big gov to tighten the noose further. Without sounding too dramatic, key steps to harden your digital life may save your freedom. Di...

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Billboards We Would All Like to See

When you fly into Cody Wyoming and exit the airport into town, you will be greeted by a billboard which says "Don't California Our Cody". It was put there by Erik Prince, of the private military contractor company Blackwater fame. His family own a ranch nearby, in the North Fork of the Shoshone River on the way to Yellowstone. Lots of out of stater...

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Firearms Training Versus Training to Fight

Much firearms training in the United States, including law enforcement and the military, misses the mark. It focuses too much on marksmanship and not on fighting with a gun. If you are seeking firearms training, you must be discerning in your choice. Let's start with some assumptions. A gun fight is combat; stopping your adversary means being willi...

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Why We “Prep”

Our rationale for "prepping" (preparedness) is to develop resilience in the face of emerging threats to our health, safety, and freedom – whether natural or manmade, intentional or unintentional – so that we are not distracted from the struggle for the soul of our nation.  The origins of the prepping movement Prepping in America grew out of th...

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Venezuela: Socialism Doesn't Work

"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." ― Margaret Thatcher Two decades after Hugo Chavez vowed to lift up the poor and promised a better future for all, Venezuela's once prosperous economy is in shambles, citizens pick through garbage looking for scraps of food, vital medicines are in short supply and m...

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The Present Crisis

The principles of individual liberty and of representative, constitutional government are at risk in today's America.   Thomas Paine wrote the first of his series of pamphlets later published as The American Crisis in December, 1776 when the morale of American revolutionaries was at its lowest point – the Continental Army driven from New York ...

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Men Who Wanted to be Left Alone

The Political Right has so many self-inflicted constraints it can be surprising that it ever gets to wield or keep any power at all. The so-called leadership wants to be courted by the Washington media and dinner party circuit such that it will do anything to avoid their rejection. They think the game is still the same, where the old rules apply an...

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The Tenth Amendment and Congress

The exact language of the Tenth Amendment bears repeating: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." Our federal congressmen and senators are often referred to as leaders, and this is a mistake. They are representatives of their...

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Lunatics and the Asylum

Most of us are familiar with one of the common definitions of insanity: doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result. By that definition alone, wannabe socialists can be certified insane as they try to replicate what has been done in country after country only to fail resoundingly. Residents of Florida are not building make...

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