For you folks that are fighting the polar arctic vortex, stay warm and watch out for Carbon Monoxide poisoning!

Prepping and General Interest

1. How to Handle the Most Common Roadside Emergencies
2. The Simple EDC Bag
3. Every Day Carry For The Non-Paranoid
4. Freezing to death in your own home? Learn to live in just one room
5. What were we shooting in 2013?
6. Letter Re: Diabetics in Disaster
7. How to Survive The Apocalypse » Sleep Warm
8. How to Prepare for a Flu Pandemic – Home Ready Home
9. 8 Chest Freezer Organization Ideas | PreparednessMama
10. Dead tool: Retractable Cable Combination Lock
11. EDC History: Henry David Thoreau’s EDC
12. Picking a Gun Case
13. Del-Ton DTI Mid-length 5.56 AR15/M4 Carbine Rifle Review

News

1. Four Photos From A Frozen America
2. More people moving to Oregon

Freedom Issues

1. The Biggest Terrorism Scaremongers Are THEMSELVES the Ones Promoting Terrorism
2. Second Amendment Defeat in NY
3. Bullets First:Why don’t the heroes who stop mass murderers get better press?
4. NY:Governor Cuomo’s Commissioner of Homeland Security Uses Gun Laser as Pointing Device, sweeps Swedish Delegates with Muzzle
5. Watch: Detroit Police Chief: “Good Americans with Concealed Pistols Translates Into Crime Reduction”
6. USDA to Permanently Loosen Requirements for First Lady’s Unpopular School Lunch Program
7. Democrat Professor: Gun Control Is Not Good Public Policy
8. 2013 Gun Sales Skyrocketed, Broke Previous Record by Wide Margin
9. On first day of online sign-up, 4,500 seek concealed carry permits – Chicago Sun-Times
10. Chicago Tribune – Judge scraps Chicago’s ban on retail gun shops
11. New York Times Comes Out Against School ‘Zero Tolerance’ Policies

Economic

1. Retired Air Force Colonel With Three Graduate Degrees Is Homeless And Sleeps In A Van
2. The Slow (But Inevitable) Demise Of The US Dollar
3. Where unemployed are being cut off
4. DOL: $7.3 Billion in Unemployment Insurance Overpayments in 2013

Science, Nature and Tech

1. More weather disasters, smaller losses in 2013 – Jan. 7, 2014
2. Arctic temperatures send chill across US and Canada for second day
3. Global warming at a standstill, new Met Office figures show – Telegraph
4. Global Climate Warming Stopped 15 Years Ago, UK Met Office Admits
5. DailyTech – Sea Ice Growing at Fastest Pace on Record
6. Antarctic sea ice hit 35-year record high Saturday
7. BBC News – Esa’s Cryosat sees Arctic sea-ice volume bounce back
8. Global warming and the polar vortex

Prepper Expos

1. Prepper Fest Az
2. PrepperShowsUSA | Prepper Shows and Survivalist Expos

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