By Elizabeth Lawrence

During the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on what lawmakers described as “growing threats” against the Second Amendment, Chairman Rand Paul (R-KY) shone a spotlight on the State of Virginia’s “hypocrisy” related to recent legislation targeting gun ownership. Just one day before the session, Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger suggested an amendment expanding […]

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By Mark Angelides

A second round of negotiations between the United States and Iran is expected to take place before the two-week ceasefire runs its course. After the collapse of the weekend talks in Islamabad, President Donald Trump upped the ante by ordering a blockade of Iranian ports in the Strait of Hormuz. Did this rare maritime action […]

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By Liberty Nation Authors

Trump’s executive order on college sports is a major move that has a lot of support.

The Battle of Culloden was fought on April 16, 1746. Royalist troops under the Duke of Cumberland defeated the Jacobite army of Charles Edward Stuart in the final battle of the Jacobite Rising on British soil. — April 16, 1866: Nitroglycerine exploded at a Wells Fargo & Company office in San Francisco. This reportedly shattered glass in a half a mile radius. — April 16th is the birthday of libertarian novelist J. Neil Schulman. He was best known as author of the novel Alongside Night. — I just heard that famed mountaineer Jim Whittaker passed away, at age 97. — Today’s …

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(Continued from Part 4.) Preparations for Sons After spiritual preparation, the number one thing a parent can do is to prepare their son for life is to teach him how to make and control money. Money and resources create options. Lack of money limits opportunities. I have a collateral or lineal relative in every conflict from the Revolutionary War to the present. If you go back far enough in history, you will find multiple great-grandfathers at a distant generational level. For instance in the time period of the American Civil War, I have multiple grandfathers and collateral relatives who served …

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SurvivalBlog presents another edition of The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods. This column is a collection of news bits and pieces that are relevant to the modern survivalist and prepper from JWR. Our goal is to educate our readers, to help them to recognize emerging threats, and to be better prepared for both disasters and negative societal trends. You can’t mitigate a risk if you haven’t first identified a risk. In today’s column, some more troubling implications of AI and digital ID. Pictured above is the Dallas, Texas Fusion Center. The Digital Gulag of America: AI and Digital ID Despite its …

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“There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.” – Homer

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By Michele White

A Canadian bill aimed at expanding the country’s hate speech laws could criminalize religious speech, including quoting the Holy Bible, conservatives and critics warn. The House of Commons passed the measure, known as Bill C-9, on March 25. Now, it’s on its way to the Senate. The Canadian Department of Justice laid out the reasoning […]

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