Day: May 11, 2025

Preparedness Notes for Sunday — May 11, 2025

On May 11, 1310, Fifty-four members of the Knights Templar were burned at the stake in France after being declared heretics. — May 11, 1752:  The first US fire insurance policy was issued, in Philadelphia. — Just One Day Left! The special 10-day sale on all the Elk Creek Company percussion gun inventory ends tomorrow night. Most of these are revolvers for which cartridge conversion cylinders are readily available. This includes a group of five minty Ruger Old Army revolvers that I’ve not yet photographed. Many of those are “Pre-Warning” vintage.  We also have special pricing on all of our …


Field Fencing: Subdividing the Pasture, by Patrice Lewis

Editor’s Introductory Note:  This article is a guest post by our long-time friend and fellow blogger, Patrice Lewis. After first living in Oregon (from 1992 to 2003), Don and Patrice Lewis bought a ranch south of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and genuinely pursued a self-sufficient lifestyle. After their lovely homeschooled daughters both reached the “up and out” age, they moved again. This time it was to an undisclosed location elsewhere in North Idaho, ostensibly to slow down and lead a more sedate life. But, as irrepressible gardeners and dairy cattle ranchers, they’ve found themselves busier than ever. I highly recommend bookmarking …


JWR’s Meme Of The Week: 

The latest meme created by JWR: Meme Text: Dr. Stephen Hawking’s Visit to Epstein’s Island Has Prompted The Creation Of A New Legal Term: Nerdacious Moral Derpitude Some Related Links: What Unsealed Jeffrey Epstein Documents Say About Stephen Hawking. Legal Defintion of Moral Turpitude. Pam Bondi dismisses claim Epstein info is missing and defends delays in releasing files Pam Bondi Changes Her Tune After Covert Recording. Notes From JWR: Do you have a meme idea? Just e-mail me the concept, and I’ll try to assemble it. And if it is posted then I’ll give you credit. Thanks! Permission to repost …


The Editors’ Quote of the Day:

“Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth. For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them. But the righteousness which is of faith …