Jalalabad, Afghanistan —Violent protests against the foreign presence in Afghanistan continued on Monday as an apparent suicide car bomber took the lives of at least nine people. The attack on a military airport in Jalalabad (eastern Afghanistan) is the latest ...
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Making Brooms the Old-Fashioned Way
A cottage in the woods or a farmhouse kitchen wouldn’t really be complete without a broom in the closet to clear away dust, with another near the hearth for sweeping up ashes from the previous night’s blazing fire. And imagine ...
Read More »One-Minute Survivalist
One of the comments we often hear at Off the Grid News is a complaint that many of you find it hard to persuade your families to come on board in preparing for hardship and disaster. Is it possible that ...
Read More »The Ultimate Homestead Bird
The Muscovy duck is a bit of an oddball. They have an unusual appearance due to lumpy, heavy mottling around the eyes and beak. The male Muscovy can raise the mottled crest to attract females or warn other males and ...
Read More »U.S. Postal Service Raising Rates Again and Closing 223 Mail Processing Plants
WASHINGTON (CNNMoney) — The U.S. Postal Service unveiled new plans this Thursday to consolidate or close 223 mail processing plants, opening the door for as many as 35,000 employee positions to be eliminated beginning this May. The Postal Service continues ...
Read More »Federal Government Pulls Out All The Stops on Raw Milk
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the findings of their 13-year review on raw milk Tuesday, stating that fresh milk is 150 times more dangerous than pasteurized milk. They claim that states where raw milk is sold have ...
Read More »A Math Lesson In Budgeting
If you have a kid (or more than one) who loves math and can’t wait for the lessons to begin, count yourself lucky. Many children dread the task of learning math, most likely because it is difficult. Math skills can ...
Read More »Dividend Tax Rates Triple Under Obama’s 2013 Budget Plan
WASHINGTON D.C.—President Obama’s 2013 budget plan calls for a hike in the dividend tax rate from the current 15% it is now to a higher personal income tax rate of 39.6%. Once deductions and exemptions that are being phased out ...
Read More »Ron Paul May Still be a Force to be Reckoned with at the Republican Convention
WASHINGTON — Ron Paul has yet to win a single state, but he likely will have a say in what happens at the Republican Convention. By amassing delegates in the caucus states, Paul may have left the Republican leadership with ...
Read More »How To Make Your Own Soap
People have been making and using soap for nearly 5,000 years, and possibly much longer than that. At around 3,000 B.C. enterprising Babylonians, Mesopotamians, and Egyptians began making simple soaps to use for sanitizing cooking implements. These days, we rely ...
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