Please keep the pressure on your state’s two U.S. Senators, starting today (the Senate recess just ended) with at least two phone calls and an e-mail each week, insisting that they vote in favor of both the Hearing Protection Act (HPA) and the SHORT Act, as part of the Continuing Resolution budget bill.  Please phone the Capitol Switchboard: (202) 224-3121. Also, remind both your Senator and Elizabeth MacDonough (the unelected Senate Parliamentarian) that The Byrd Rule (limiting Continuing Resolution amendments to only budget-related and tax-related bills) DOES NOT apply. This is because the previously expected $1.7 Billion in suppressor registrations …

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We’ve announced the winners of Round 118 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. The top three prize winners will each receive some great prize packages. The winners for Round 118 are… First Prize Winner: First Prize goes to R.T. for: The Repair Teardown. See Part 1 and Part 2. It was posted April 12-13, 2025.  He will receive as prizes: The photovoltaic power specialists at Quantum Harvest LLC  are providing a store-wide 10% off coupon. Depending on the model chosen, this could be worth more than $2000. A Gunsite Academy Three Day Course Certificate. This can be used for any …

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Coolfab is a custom metal-fabrication shop in Zeeland, Michigan. They are putting out some of the most innovative rocket stove designs that I have seen anywhere, at quite reasonable prices. I recently had a chance to test one of Coolfab’s Flaretop stoves. It is a real beast of a rocket stove, with its cooking surface standing 27.5 inches above the ground and weighing in at 52 pounds. The flaring at the top of the stove allows for a respectable 12 by 12-inch cooking surface. This larger surface area enabled me to simultaneously roast hot dogs and boil a half gallon …

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The following recipe for Chicken-Pasta Salad is from SurvivalBlog reader Joanna E. Ingredients 3 cups cooked, cubed chicken 16 ounces pasta  (I usually use farfale or rotini.) 1 pound asparagus or green beans 3⁄4 teaspoons kosher salt 1⁄4 cup finely chopped red onion 1 red bell pepper 1 pint cherry or grape tomatoes 4 ounces ounces mozzarella pearls 1⁄4 cup cup olive oil 2 cloves garlic minced 1⁄2 teaspoon Dijon mustard 1⁄2 teaspoon dried oregano 1⁄4 teaspoon ground black pepper 1⁄8 teaspoon red pepper flakes 1⁄3 cup chopped fresh basil Directions Cook and cube (or shred) the chicken.  This can …

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Today’s graphics:  Light Pollution, Around the World. (Graphics courtesy of Reddit.) The thumbnails below are click-expandable.  We usually post just one graphic each week, but this set of color images was so fascinating that we chose to post the full set. In the image of East Asia, note the dark spot, for North Korea. Truly, a picture tells a thousand words. – JWR                                       — Please send your graphics or graphics links to JWR. (Either via e-mail or via our Contact form.) …

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“An experienced, industrious, ambitious, and quite often picturesque liar.” – Mark Twain, from ‘Private History of a Campaign that Failed’ in Century Magazine, December 1885

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On June 1st, 1936 the “Lux Radio Theater” moved from New York City to Hollywood. — June 1st, 1947: The Office of Price Administration (OPA), which had issued U.S. wartime rationing coupons, was disbanded. Rationing continued in England until 1954. — Today’s feature article is a guest post by our friend and long-time SurvivaBlog article contributor Hub Moolman, of South Africa. — We are now seeking entries for Round 119 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. More than $950,000 worth of prizes have been awarded since we started running this contest.  Round 119 ends on July 31st, so get busy …

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The US dollar banking system is in the midst of a bank run by the measures that I will illustrate here. Since the 1879 gold standard was established in America, the US dollar could be directly redeemed for gold within the banking system. This continued even after the Federal Reserve was created and until it was ended for citizens in 1933. In such a system, the measure of actual gold held by the banking system ( the true monetary base) versus the gold certificates (paper dollars but measured as the monetary base) with which gold could be redeemed is a …

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A meme created by JWR, a couple of years ago, that is worthy of reposting: Meme Text: First, It Was Pride Day Then, It Was Pride Week Now, It Is Pride Month First, They Demanded Tolerance Then, They Demanded Acceptance Now, They Demand Participation Notes From JWR: Do you have a meme idea? Just e-mail me the concept, and I’ll try to assemble it. And if it is posted then I’ll give you credit. Thanks! Permission to repost memes that I’ve created is granted, provided that credit to SurvivalBlog.com is included.  

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“Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward …

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