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You have probably heard about it by now. The president thinks we are all getting too much bad information from the Internet. Supposedly most of the information is stuff that doesn’t always “rate high on the truth meter.” Wait – ...

A lot of survival is simply thinking ahead.  There are three primary areas of preparation to keep yourself and your family alive if the worst happens; water, food, and security.  Unfortunately, even the best of us may only think about ...

I recently overheard a conversation that reminded me of several mistakes many “preppers” or “survivalists” make. First, each guy was loudly telling the other one about all of his specific preparations and how they were better than the other fellow. ...

Record keeping is something many people prefer not to worry about. Unfortunately, life these days requires a lot of paperwork and information. Fortunately for us in the United States, we have not yet reached the point of a mandatory national ...

I remember studying in my economics class how the process of civilization ends when a government systematically violates property rights. You can see this of course under communist governments, but it is a characteristic of any dictatorship. Peaceful civilization involves ...

Privacy experts are expressing growing concern over the federal government’s ability to monitor virtually every act of our lives. In addition to monitoring every phone call, fax, email and click on the web, anti-terrorism legislation ensures that every financial transaction ...

There is a real downside to researching privacy issues and with each article you read, the more distressed and worried you become. It’s difficult to find an upside in even the most useful bit of information because each morsel of ...

I can still remember when it first became possible to screen incoming phone calls and decide whether I wanted to answer them or not. The federal “do not call” list had not yet been invented and the phone frequently rang ...