The reemergence of Barack Obama on the political scene simply illustrates just how truly desperate Democrats have become. In a surprising move, they’re willing to once again roll-the-dice with Obama. History tells us that while Obama was personally able to be elected and then reelected to the ...

In a wilderness survival situation, knowing which plants are helpers and which are harmful can mean the difference between life and death. Remember Christopher McCandless, the young guy who camped out in a rusty old school bus in the remote Alaska tundra until he accidentally ate the wrong ...

The modern world depends on electricity to power our computer-based international communications systems. If something happened that interrupted all the electronic signals in a large area that disabled regional networks in charge of everything from traffic lights to public assistance debit ...

In March of 1995, members of a so-called “Doomsday Cult,” known as “The Supreme Truth,” released a toxin in a Japanese subway that sickened 6,000 people and sowed panic during the morning commute. The attack woke up a relatively safe country to the risk of urban terrorism, and the reality of ...

I am old enough to remember “duck and cover” drills in school, fallout shelters, and I had a father who was a “Civil Defense” Captain of our neighborhood. As I grew up, I came to realize that hiding under your desk was never going to help if there was ever a full-scale nuclear conflict between ...

Rioting, looting, warlike mobs hell-bent on destruction – they are a staple of any Hollywood post-apocalyptic movie. They are also the unfortunate aftermath of many real-world natural and man-made disasters. As recently as the aftermath of Hurricane Florence’s landfall in the Carolinas, there ...

No matter what part of the world you live in, you can feel the pressure of a potential world economic crisis. The European markets are still depressed, major world economies like Greece, Italy and Argentina are failing to rebound, Venezuela is in a state of total chaos. The U.S. economy, while ...

People always think that learning how to defend themselves in a survival situation means that I am going to teach them how to fight. Sorry, that is simply not the case. Actually, what I am going to do, is teach you how to avoid fighting whenever you can, and then give you some basic tips […]

Hopefully, this hasn’t happened to you. If it has, then you’ve survived one of the most disgusting, disheartening outdoor experiences—an encounter with white blooms of the forest. These polar-opposite-of-lovely paper “flowers” are a sign of incredibly poor woodsmanship. Whether you’re primitive ...

Catastrophic hurricanes and major winter storms are coming around almost once a year these days … But even with the constant threat of emergency and being cut off from supply lines, most Americans are still complacent when it comes to preparing for emergencies. According to one recent study, ...