My tent was on the snow, and the temperature had been hovering in the single digits for the past few hours. I had a 0-degree bag and was wondering if I’d need another layer to get through the night, at least comfortably. But I wasn’t worried about the cold coming up from the ground. This was my third single-digit night out with EXPED’s new Ultra 6.5R sleeping pad, and I knew what kind of insulation it offered. If you do any cold-weather camping, you know that some lightweight backpacking-oriented inflatable sleeping pads with a “heat-reflective” layer to boost the R-value…
As Tom reported earlier today, Everytown has a new “report” out focusing on straw purchases that insinuates employees of Academy Sporting Goods have willfully turned blind eyes to individuals who are helping to traffic firearms. I won’t repeat all of Tom’s criticisms of the report here, but it’s at least worth noting that apparently none of the Academy employees who sold any of the 250 or so firearms that were apparently trafficked over a three year period have been charged with anything. That is not the case, however, for an 80-year-old New Hampshire man who…
If you have any information about the vandals who defaced a Native American petroglyph site near Moab, Utah, the Grand County Sheriff’s Office (GCSO) wants to hear from you. On March 22, the GCSO posted to Facebook seeking information that would help them track down the people responsible for etching into a Native American cultural heritage site northeast of town. The petroglyph site is near Tusher Tunnel, northwest of town, which is known to contain extensive ancient rock art. “It appears a Baja race team may have defaced the site by advertising contact information directly on the rock wall,” GCSO…
As Cam noted on Tuesday, a Louisiana lawmaker pulled a campus carry bill, claiming that none of the students who asked for it would be able to testify before the legislature. While the measure had some problems, including allowing campus carry up until the classroom door, for some bizarre reason, the explanation for pulling it didn’t seem to fit. Cam wrote:Even if those students who’d originally requested the legislation be filed couldn’t testify in person, they could always have submitted written testimony, and my guess is that state and national Second Amendment organizations would have…
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has said that hundreds of thousands of people will be barred from returning to their homes in Southern Lebanon as Israel occupies the country. The occupation will continue until the Hezbollah threat is removed. Katz’s announcement comes just one day after another cabinet member, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, called for the annexation of southern Lebanon up to the Litani River. Israel began a military operation against Hezbollah in early March after the Lebanese-based militants launched waves of strikes against the Jewish state, in retaliation for the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in a…
Shenandoah National Park is known for its pristine mountain views. But last year, it was the site of an intense incident of domestic violence. The trial for the attacker ended this month, when a federal jury convicted a man of attacking his then-girlfriend at a campground within the Virginia park. The man was convicted on two assault charges, each of which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years, a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Justice told GearJunkie. Sentencing is scheduled for July 20. What Happened According to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District…
This article was originally published by Garrison Vance at Natural News. Simulation Models Impacts of Prolonged Strait of Hormuz Closure A simulation conducted by Austrian researchers has modeled the potential global economic impact of a prolonged closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a critical maritime chokepoint, according to a study released in March 2026. The research, which examined the flow of 10,000 tankers between 1,315 ports globally, indicates that $1.2 trillion in annual exports from five Gulf nations are at direct risk if Iran maintains control of the waterway for an extended period. The simulation found that blockages under two…
Everytown for Gun Safety isn’t really about gun safety so much as gun control. This isn’t exactly a startling revelation for you folks. We all know good and well that it is, no matter how they spin it. But the mainstream media likes to keep pretending they’re just some unbiased, nonpartisan organization that’s really only interested in doing what’s right, and in doing unbiased research to learn what that is.The group’s research is, basically, garbage, though. I mean, the fact that they’re a gun control group that keeps releasing studies showing guns are bad should…
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Jonathan Lowy, the former litigator for Brady who’s now the head of something called Global Action on Gun Violence, was on the receiving end of a 9-0 Supreme Court decision against his client in Smith & Wesson v. Mexico, where SCOTUS unanimously concluded that the Mexican government’s attempt to sue U.S. gunmakers for aiding and abetting cartel violence was not only foreclosed by the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, but was based on a number of implausible allegations that Lowy failed to prove. Lowy gets good money from anti-gun groups like Everytown to…
Sometimes the most consequential gun control stories don’t start with a bill banning firearms. They start with lawmakers trying to expand freedom — and discovering that the Constitution doesn’t bend the way critics expect it to. That is exactly what just happened in Montana. In an effort to strengthen the right to carry, Montana lawmakers may have effectively erased gun-free school zones everywhere except on school property itself. Not through activism. Not through litigation designed to gut federal law. But through their own permitless carry statutes — and a federal court noticed. The result is a ruling that has left…
It’s “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”The term “arms” is a broad category of pretty much anything that can be used as a weapon, but especially as our Founding Fathers understood them. From spontoons to artillery, the battlefield of 250 years ago was pretty strange to modern eyes. Rifles were there, which we understand, but swords were still commonly used as well. The arms of the Revolutionary War era were a lot of things. So you can imagine my feelings when I found out that among the…
Capt. Willibald C. Bianchi, an Army Medal of Honor recipient who survived many obstacles in World War II, only to be killed in a terrible mistake, will finally return home to receive proper burial 80 years after he was declared missing in action. Bianchi, whose remains were properly identified on Aug. 11 by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, will be laid to rest in his hometown, New Ulm, Minnesota, in May 2026, just in time for Memorial Day, according to Minnesota Public Radio. Bianchi’s journey through World War II was harrowing. He survived getting wounded twice, the notorious Bataan Death March, and…
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After over a decade of adding this specific mobility and flexibility routine to my life, to say it has been life-changing is no exaggeration. Not only have I been coaching it as a standalone workout plan placed in the middle of your training week, but it is also a supplemental plan that can be used as a warmup or cooldown session, requiring only a few minutes of time investment. If you are just getting started with working out again and have new goals for the new year, consider using the first few weeks to loosen tight muscles and joints with…
When you’re in the throes of a career change or job search, a new calendar year may just feel like another month in your efforts. However, the month of January (and capping off the holiday season) carries advantages that are worth looking at and planning for. As you turn the page on the calendar, prepare for a fresh new start with these tips:1. Update Your LinkedIn ProfileAmend any dates, skills, timeframes and mentions of dates on your profile. For example, if your separation date from the military is this year, you can consider changing it from “next year” to “available”…
While the staff of the Bloomberg-funded anti-gun website The Trace are scratching their heads over the “paradox” of steep declines in violent crime without steep reductions in lawful gun ownership, they’re also finding and embracing new gun control proposals that would cripple the firearms industry… and by extension, our right to keep and bear arms. In The Trace’s look back at gun control efforts this year, the site proclaims that one of the things that gives their reporters “hope” in 2026 is a “Chicago doctor [who] has started a policy experiment that would compel gunmakers…
As anti-gun activists call for multiple new gun restrictions following the brutal murder of two students in a classroom at Brown University, new reports indicate that security personnel were twice warned about the shooter “casing” the building. In fact, according to a report at redstate.com referencing a Boston Globe story, the murderer, whom we won’t name here, was seen by a janitor casing the building as many as 10 times since before the December 13 attack. And that janitor, Derek Lisi, told security about it on two different occasions. “He’d been casing that place for weeks,” Lisi said in an…
This article was originally published by Joshua Mawhorter at The Mises Institute. Due to wartime inflation of bills of credit (“Continentals”) during the American War for Independence and the predictable economic effects, an old American colloquialism developed, “not worth a Continental” (although this phrase may have come about much later than the Revolutionary era). This article argues that Continentals only temporarily retained some value largely because of an initial promise of future redemption in gold and silver—a monetary “bait-and-switch.” (Additionally, interventions such as legal tender laws and the acceptance of paper money for tax payments may have offered some temporary support, but…
