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Surviving Hollywood’s Backlash: The Price of Moral Conviction in a Corrupt Culture

What Happens When You Refuse to Bow to the Culture Surviving is about more than food storage and bug-out bags. It is also about holding on to your principles when the world around you demands you surrender them. Hollywood actor Neal McDonough learned this the hard way. Because he refused to kiss anyone but his wife on screen and would not perform intimate scenes, the industry shut him out. He lost jobs,… Read more

The Truth Behind School Shootings: It Was Never the Guns. It Was the Pills.

Back When Schools Had Gun Clubs Up here in upstate New York, there was a time when high schools had gun clubs. That was not seen as dangerous. It was a point of pride. Young men brought their hunting rifles to school, left shotguns in the back window of their pickup trucks, and no one blinked an eye. Guns were not feared. They were respected. Students shot skeet after school, then went… Read more

Protecting Your Family Starts Here: What I Learned from the LDS Way of Preparedness

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints quietly does some of the most impressive preparedness work I have ever seen. I have always been big on disaster preparedness. Not because I live in panic, but because I love my family and believe in being ready for anything. Over the years, I have looked into all kinds of prepping strategies, but one group has consistently impressed me more than anyone else. That… Read more