Day: July 7, 2023

Preparedness Notes for Friday — July 7, 2023

On July 7, 2005, the London transit system was struck by coordinated suicide bomb attacks that killed 39 people and injured more than 700. July 7th, 1907 was the birthday of science fiction novelist Robert A. Heinlein. He passed away on May 8, 1988, at age 80. — I’ve been incredibly busy hauling and stacking hay this week, so I won’t be posting my usual Economics & Investing column today.  Sorry, but I’ve got to make hay while the sun shines! — We are still in need of entries for Round 107 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. More than …


The American Redoubt: America’s Empty Quarter

A major part of my consulting work revolves around relocation and retreat property selection, for my clients. When I have conversations with clients from the eastern United States, they often have difficulty grasping just how empty The American Redoubt is. Their view of “The West” is often skewed by the teeming masses of California that they see on television. I’d like to quantify, describe, and anecdotally illustrate the American Redoubt in this brief article.  As our friend Joerg Sprave would say: “Let me tell you about its features.” Vast and Lightly-Populated First, let’s discuss basic geography. The American Redoubt consists …


The Editors’ Quote of the Day:

“The sexual liberation revolution of the 1960s set in motion a cascade effect: the reversal of the long-standing moral consensus around promiscuity (which separated sex from marriage) worked in tandem with the advent of birth control and the legalization of abortion (which separated sex from pro-creation), which moved to the legalization of no-fault divorce (which turned a covenant into a contract and separated sex from intimacy and fidelity), then to tinder and hookup culture (which separated sex from romance and turned it into a way to “get your needs met”), From there it’s moved on to the LGBTQI+ revolution (which …