Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadImagine you’re relaxing at home when the sounds outside shift—from the quiet hum of your street to chaos. Tires screeching. People yelling. Cars are driving into yards and doing donuts on front lawns. Within minutes, the quiet safety of your neighborhood vanishes. In its place, a dangerous, violent mob, with total disregard for you and your family, has invaded and overrun your neighborhood like a horde of Mongol raiders. Although it should be, this isn’t the start of a Jason Statham action movie. It’s a reality that happened this past weekend in Queens, New…

This article was originally published by Tyler Durden at ZeroHedge.  Beijing has condemned the U.S. interception of sanctioned crude tankers off the Venezuelan coast after a China-bound oil tanker was seized on Saturday. Beijing said Venezuela has the right to conduct trade with other countries. Reuters cited China’s foreign ministry spokesperson Lin Jian at a regular press briefing, who said the US seizure of another country’s tanker was a serious violation of international law. Jian added that China opposes all “unilateral and illegal” sanctions. On Saturday, the U.S. Coast Guard seized the Centuries, which was loaded with 1.8 million barrels of sanctioned…

If you live in a small space, storing preparedness essentials can be tough. One of the biggest challenges is storing water, which is also one of the most important items you need on hand. You need to have extra water for everyone in the family in case of power outages, boil water notices, broken water mains, hurricanes, or winter storms that freeze the pipes. The good news is, you can store a good amount of water in a condo with a bit of creativity. I’ve lived in various small spaces over the years and have been able to store water…

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Of all the major disasters that could happen in the near future, a pandemic is one of the most likely. It’s a simple historical fact that pandemics happen on a regular basis, and scientists believe they are going to become more common in the 21st century.Why? Partly because we live in an urbanized world where someone with a contagious disease can hop on a plane and spread it to another country immediately. Not to mention all the gain-of-function research being done in labs around the world. What if a dangerous virus leaks out of the lab?Many experts believe that’s what…

With President Trump signing an executive order aimed at rescheduling marijuana’s classification as a Schedule I drug to Schedule III, medical marijuana will likely soon be legal at the federal level as well as the 40 states that already allow it. So what will that to to Section 922(g)(3) and its prohibition on gun possession by “unlawful” users of drugs?  In the case of Ali Danial Hemani, whose case will be taken up by the Supreme Court next year, not much. Hemani is accused of possessing guns as a recreational user of marijuana, and the…

The actor says the eight-hour prosthetics process sparked panic attacks and nearly ended the movie before a weekend “endurance” crash course.Jim Carrey has played a lot of larger-than-life weirdos, but in a recent look back at the live-action Dr. Seuss adaptation How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), he admitted the biggest villain on that set wasn’t Whoville. It was the makeup chair.In a Vulture oral history published Dec. 12, 2025, Carrey says the early prosthetics process was so punishing that he spiraled into panic attacks and told the filmmakers he was ready to walk, even if it meant returning his reported $20 million…

Once upon a time, the gun laws in Canada weren’t completely stupid. They weren’t as good as here in the United States, in most ways, but they also didn’t have anything like the NFA prohibitions on short-barreled firearms, either, so that was cool. Now, though, everything is stupid up in the Great White North, and Canadian gun owners are really getting shafted.While self-defense doesn’t seem to be moving the needle on people’s feelings about gun ownership, there are a lot of things happening that gun owners are upset about.It seems, though, that those concerns are…

There is a pattern that repeats itself in nearly every mass-casualty attack, regardless of location, weapon, or ideology: the violence ends when the attacker encounters effective resistance. Not legislation.Not media narratives.Not policy debates held months later. Resistance. The Bondi Junction attack in Australia underscores the reality that this is impossible to ignore. After being disarmed by a courageous bystander, the attacker wandered aimlessly, visibly disoriented. His dominance vanished the moment initiative was stripped away. Earlier in the attack, two other civilians had disarmed him as well. Tragically, he managed to rearm himself and murder the couple who stopped him. He…

The idea that hunting can be an important tool in managing flora as well as fauna isn’t exactly new. The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation has been around for darn near 150 years, and hunting is an integral part of the model.  Still, there are a lot of environmentalists who refuse to accept the premise that responsible hunting practices can be beneficial to wildlife populations,, which has led to opposition to bear hunts in states like New Jersey and even attempts to curb or limit deer hunting in some communities.As Claire Greenburger writes for…