One of the advertisers on Survival And Prosperity, Nitro-Pak Preparedness Center, Inc. (reviewed here), the largest mail-order company in the nation specializing in freeze-dried food and emergency preparedness supplies, is having a Pre-Memorial Day Sale. With savings up to 75% off, discounts in their Gear Up Sale! include: • Mountain House Camping Pouches- 15% off [...]

As I’ve mentioned before, I like to listen to a number of financial and personal safety podcasts on a regular basis. Recently, I’ve started listening to a new one. A couple of years ago, I happened to catch Eric King on the Financial Sense Newshour. I was pretty impressed by what he had to say, [...]

Remember that restrictive right to carry legislation that passed out of committee and was supposed to be voted on by the Illinois Senate yesterday? Well, House Bill 183, which would permit may-issue right to carry, giving local law enforcement veto power for permits and home-rule municipalities additional say over where people can carry a firearm [...]

Stop back tomorrow as I’ll be blogging a little bit Saturday, May 18. A new “Resource Of The Week” will be posted as well. Thanks, Christopher E. Hill Editor

Anyone remember those “Peter Schiff Was Right” YouTube.com videos that went viral right after the U.S. housing bubble popped and the global economic crisis really reared its ugly head in the fall of 2008? Here’s probably the most popular one out there. Well, I’m convinced a clip or more of Thursday’s installment of the CNBC [...]

Universal healthcare. A noble idea- if a nation can afford it. As for “ObamaCare,” the more time that passes since the Affordable Care Act was enacted on March 23, 2010, the more expensive the projected numbers are getting. Howard Sheppard reported on the website of Central Pennsylvania FOX affiliate WPMT FOX 43 yesterday: The gross [...]

On Tuesday, I blogged about the recent surge in strong solar flares popping-up on the Sun. Luckily, those X-class flares were not Earth-directed. If they were, well, things could have gotten ugly on the “third rock from the Sun” if those flares had been accompanied by a coronal mass ejection, or CME. From an August [...]

In Illinois, right to carry legislation emerged today from the state’s Senate Executive Committee, and could be voted on by the entire chamber as early as tomorrow. Lauren Leone-Cross reported on The State Journal-Register (Springfield) website this afternoon: A Chicago Democrat’s restrictive concealed-carry legislation made it through a Senate committee Thursday, with opponents vowing again [...]

In “Madiganistan,” the push for more gun ‘control’ has become a part of everyday life. These days, anti-gun legislators are looking to severely restrict legal concealed-carry that’s coming to Illinois in less than a month, as well as to impose a 10-round limit on CCW firearm ammunition magazines. From the National Rifle Association’s Institute for [...]

(Editor’s note: According to the Chicago news media tonight, the Chicago Police Department is saying the following robbery story is unfounded. How much is untrue still remains to be seen.) Here’s a headline that’s sure to make Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel cringe today: “Woman robbed of $200K worth of jewelry on Mag Mile” From the [...]