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...

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...

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...

"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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Term Limits? Flat of Fair Tax? Voter ID? Defund National Public Radio? Balanced Budget? Abolish the National Firearms Act? Get rid of the Fed? Legalize drugs? Decimate the IRS?   If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.Modern Proverb with origins in World War Two Now more than ever each of us needs to know what matters, wher...