By Dave Patterson

The National Security Strategy (NSS) provides an overarching framework for achieving the objective of America First. The National Defense Strategy (NDS) is the roadmap for how the NSS will be implemented, explaining clearly the intensity with which US equities in the Western Hemisphere and the rest of the world will be defended. The NDS rests fundamentally on the basis of peace […]

First a foot of snow, then the plowed-in cars, and now frustrated New Yorkers are furious over mountains of trash piling up on city streets, as collection has been reduced by January’s massive winter storm.

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President Trump and other guests attend the wedding of Director of Presidential Personnel Dan Scavino to his bride Erin Elmore.  The guest list was a proverbial who’s-who of the MAGA insiders. In addition to President Trump, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, […]

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Promethean Action’s Susan Kokinda returns to the podcast to give a lively chat about the journey through another side of the American political experience from the decidedly anti-British Empire perspective. Show Notes:Susan on XPromethean Action  Tom on XGGnG on Patreon You can follow the Gold Goats ‘n Guns Podcast onApple PodcastsAmazon PodcastsSpotifyPodbeanRSS FeedFountain App Join […]

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New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has tapped an ex-con to run the city’s embattled corrections system, with his appointee set to oversee the same jail where he served time for robbery in the 1980s.

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On a recent social media scroll, I came across yet another panic-ridden parent urgently seeking advice on a local homeschooling board. Her child was being bullied at school and spiraling quickly. These types of cries for help are not uncommon, and are often similar in nature: Where do I start? How do I make sure she’s getting what she needs? What about grades? Testing? Diplomas? College and job possibilities?

Leaning in like a roused group of mama bears, the homeschool community rallied to her side. Many of the things they said echoed some of the thoughts I have set forth here: A safe home is always better than a harmful situation at school; a loving parent knows what his or her child needs; mental, emotional, and spiritual growth is just as important as intellectual. Many gave her advice on curriculum, taking time off to “de-school” and breathe, spending time reading, going on field trips, exploring intrinsic interests, and pointing out all the benefits that homeschooling has to offer. It was inspiring to see the encouragement this mom and her daughter expressed in a later comment on the thread.

If you find yourself in a place where you need to pull your child out of school in a hurry, I want to encourage you that you do not need to panic. In such circumstances, it is likely that everyone is under a lot of stress. A prompt withdrawal stems the bleeding by eliminating the immediate threat of a harmful situation like bullying.

Next, lessening the burden of the school schedule and all it entails – early morning start times, after school pick-ups, homework, projects, deadlines, emails and notifications from administrators, fundraisers, extracurriculars, registration, peer pressure, social cliques, screens, alcohol, drugs, explicit library books, curriculum with an agenda, and the list goes on – gives your whole family a respite from the non-stop pressure.

During this transitional time, it is perfectly fine to take a month or two to stop everything “school” while you recalibrate. Let your child bake, paint, try a new hobby, exercise, explore the outdoors, or dig deep into an interest for which there was little time before. We are incredibly blessed to live in a state and nation where this kind of option is even allowed. Take advantage of this freedom while it lasts. 

As for curriculum, as I’ve written in the past, don’t work yourself into a frenzy. This is probably the easiest part of homeschooling. Go to a site like Cathy Duffy Reviews, or attend a homeschool convention that has curriculum vendors, and take your time. Look things over with your child and choose together. This is your chance to give her a customized education perfectly tailored to her learning style, interests, and talents. In Idaho, for now, no one from “the state” is breathing down your neck, so there is no need to be in a hurry – what is a month or two in view of her entire life?

If you are worried about your child finishing high school with “gaps” in her learning, stop worrying. Every high school graduate has gaps, no matter how they were educated. As adults, we all know that any lack of knowledge needed for personal or professional reasons can be remedied if and when necessary. That said, it is definitely easier to acquire the skills needed for a given job path when young, single, and still in school. Therefore, if possible, seek out a career counselor while your child is still in high school to get a feel for what she might like to do for a living, then shape her studies to align with her ultimate goals. The benefit of homeschooling is that you get to be the one who carves out every detail of the path.

Of course, “homeschooling” does not rule out using outside resources to augment a child’s curriculum. NIC offers dual credit courses for homeschoolers; local co-ops abound; online and hybrid classes and “schools” are readily available; even swapping teaching with a friend (she likes dissections and you like dissertations, so she teaches your kids science and you teach hers English). The choices available for today’s “home-educated” students can conceivably have them outside the house every day. 

So, to the mom on Facebook who wants the best for her daughter – I applaud you. You faced your fear for the love of your daughter and took a leap of faith. My hope and prayer for you both is that you discover your own “homeschool” niche – whatever that looks like – and enjoy every minute of it. 

And I hope she never has to face that bully again.

The violent clashes that are causing so much chaos in the streets of our major cities aren’t going to stop.  Tens of thousands of anti-ICE activists have already been recruited, and more are joining their ranks with each passing day.  At this stage, the only thing that could put a lid on the volcano of fury that we are witnessing would be if President Trump decided to pull ICE out of all of our cities and stop deportations.  Of course there is no way that is going to happen.  In fact, as you will see below, Trump is now converting 23 enormous warehouses around the country into giant ICE detention centers.  The goal is to deport a million immigrants per year, and that means that the war between ICE and anti-ICE protesters is just getting started.

I have always warned that civil unrest would be one of the key elements of “the perfect storm” that our society would be forced to endure, and now we have reached a stage where the civil unrest never seems to stop.

On Friday, law enforcement authorities used pepper balls and tear gas to disperse “a mob of violent agitators” that had gathered in front of the federal detention center in Los Angeles…

Los Angeles police arrested multiple violent agitators after issuing dispersal orders as protests erupted across the city Friday evening.

Thousands of protesters met in front of City Hall in the afternoon, before many marched to the federal detention center, where a mob of violent agitators swarmed the area, pushing a large construction dumpster and blocking the entrance to the building’s loading dock.

LAPD shared video on social media of the unrest, adding in a separate post that authorities had deployed pepper balls and tear gas to disperse the crowd.

Even after pepper balls and tear gas had been used, some of the protesters continue to throw bottles, rocks and “other objects” at the police…

While some protesters dispersed, others remained and continued to throw bottles and rocks at officers, according to the LAPD.

In addition, the department said that federal authorities were being hit with “debris, bottles and other objects,” resulting in authorities declaring an unlawful assembly at the detention center.

Footage of the violence that took place on Friday evening is extremely disturbing.

Of course this wasn’t the first anti-ICE violence that we have seen in L.A., and it most certainly won’t be the last.

On Saturday, a crowd of thousands of anti-ICE protesters marched on an ICE facility in Portland.  When they arrived, federal agents “deployed several rounds of tear gas, pepper balls, and flash-bang munitions”…

By the late afternoon, there were thousands of people participating in a protest in South Portland that began at Elizabeth Caruthers Park, according to the Portland Police Bureau, who monitored the activity. Local labor unions organized the demonstration.

The crowd later marched to the ICE facility a few blocks away, closing down South Bancroft Street.

Around 5 p.m., federal agents deployed several rounds of tear gas, pepper balls, and flash-bang munitions into the crowd, including children, as observed by KOIN 6 News Reporter Ariel Salk in the field. The crowd dwindled to less than 1,000 people after that.

The reason why this didn’t make headline news all over the nation is because this sort of thing has become quite common in Portland.

Shockingly, one protester says that someone actually brought a “kid in a stroller” to the event…

“There were so many people who came out, there were parents, kids. I saw one kid in a stroller with a little helmet on. And we were all marching down the street towards the building to protest. And there was — it was like fog had rolled in — it was coming down the street,” one protester said.

Why would you bring a “kid in a stroller” to a protest where tear gas and pepper balls are almost certainly going to be used?

That is insanity.

A lot of the protesters did not disperse after the first wave of non-lethal munitions, and so about 6 PM there was a “second wave of tear gas, as well as pepper balls and flash-bang munitions”…

A second wave of tear gas, as well as pepper balls and flash-bang munitions, was deployed into the crowd by federal agents around 6 p.m. After that, only a few hundred people remained.

KOIN 6 also saw people move a dumpster into the vehicle entryway of the ICE building just before the second round of tear gas was deployed. By the time the smoke cleared, the dumpster was gone.

Portland has been a war zone for much of the past year.

Sadly, it appears that the violence in the city is now escalating.

Meanwhile, the craziness in Minnesota never seems to end.

Over the weekend, protesters decided to stage events inside quite a few Target stores…

Multiple Target stores across Minnesota and in other states were targeted by protesters with demands for Target’s corporate leadership to prevent Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from being allowed in Target stores to arrest criminals.

Video from a Target location in Richfield, Minnesota, shows reportedly over 100 protesters illegally marching through the store, chanting, “The people united will never be defeated,” while holding a Socialist Alternative banner that read, “National Strike Shut Down Trump & ICE.” Local police were at the scene but refused to do anything as the anti-ICE protesters berated them and called for Target to be shut down.

At one location in West St. Paul, a police officer made it abundantly clear that his heart was very much with the protesters…

At a West St. Paul, Minnesota Target protest, a police officer lauded the protesters, saying, “I appreciate what you guys are doing. I understand what you guys are doing. Unfortunately, the store has the right to do what they need to do,” after threatening to arrest them for trespassing. “I have a hard job. As much as I want to come over here, and you know what I mean, and do what I need to do, I still have a job to do, unfortunately. And so, I appreciate you guys,” he continued.

The entire state has been thrown into an uproar thanks to what has transpired over the last couple of months.

The deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti have just added fuel to the fire, and now we are being told that over 34,000 people in the state of Minnesota have signed up to be part of Minnesota’s anti-ICE army…

More than 34,000 Minnesotans have signed up to be trained as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement observers with various activist groups in recent weeks, many of them since Jan. 7, when a federal agent shot and killed Renée Good, a poet and mother of three, after an encounter with an ICE convoy in South Minneapolis.

The killings of Good and, on Saturday, ICU nurse Alex Pretti underscore the dangers for the city’s widespread resistance movement, a loosely connected network of neighborhood volunteers who communicate on Signal, the private messaging app, as they play cat and mouse with heavily armed and masked federal agents on snowy streets.

This week these ICE observers vowed to continue their work despite signs of a political thaw on the national stage, after Trump removed controversial border patrol head Greg Bovino from Minneapolis and renewed talks with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), a frequent critic.

The anti-ICE forces outnumber the ICE agents that have been deployed to the state by a more than 10 to 1 margin.

That is crazy.

But ICE agents continue to try to follow orders.

In fact, they just arrested an immigrant that actually rammed one of their vehicles as he attempted to escape…

ICE has arrested a criminal illegal alien from Mexico after the alien rammed into an ICE vehicle this morning in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Tranquilino Sixto-Anorve had a criminal record of multiple charges for driving under the influence.

Sixto-Anorve was taken into ICE detention at the Whipple federal building in Minneapolis, where anti-ICE demonstrators were seen earlier on Saturday parading in the streets in animal costumes, singing, “Kristi Noem is a bird-legged hoe.”

One thing has become very clear.

No matter what happens, the Trump administration is not going to stop deporting people.

In fact, there are plans to convert 23 giant warehouses throughout the country into “a large-scale network of immigration detention centers”…

The Trump administration is moving ahead with plans to convert 23 e-commerce warehouses across the country, primarily in the eastern U.S., into a large-scale network of immigration detention centers aimed at expanding capacity to fulfill the mandate the American people gave President Trump to deport more than one million illegal aliens per year and restore national security. This comes after the Biden-Harris globalist regime collapsed borders and allowed a nation-killing invasion of ten million or more third-worlders.

Bloomberg reports that Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s rapid move to build out a network of warehouses is being fueled by $45 billion from the signature “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.” This includes the most recent purchases of a warehouse in Hagerstown, Maryland, and another in Surprise, Arizona, totaling $172 million. A third in El Paso, Texas, will be one of the largest of its kind, with 8,500 beds.

Wow.

I don’t even know what to say about that.

The warehouse that is being converted in Arizona has over 400,000 square feet of detention space…

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has purchased a massive warehouse in the West Valley, according to Maricopa County property records.

Filings showed the federal government purchased the more than 400,000 square-foot facility near Sweetwater Avenue and Dysart Road for $70 million in cash from RG Surprise, LLC last Friday.

According to an archived listing, the warehouse completed by Rockefeller Group was previously called the Surprise Pointe Commerce Center and was primarily set up to accommodate one to four tenants.

The Trump administration has no intention of backing down.

Neither do the anti-ICE protesters.

I believe that we will see things happen in the streets of America this year that we have never seen before.

Needless to say, that is not good news for any of us.

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A new report by the Congressional Budget Office shows that, absent immigration, America’s population will begin to shrink by 2030. As we approach the 250th anniversary of our nation’s founding, this projection underscores a hard truth: the collapse of marriage and family life represents the gravest threat to our great nation’s future.

That is why The Heritage Foundation has released the first in a series of special reports on “Saving America by Saving the Family.” The central argument is straightforward. Our country cannot afford to continue ignoring our declining marriage and birth rates, as lawmakers on both the left and the right have done for decades.

The discussion ranges from eliminating all marriage penalties embedded in welfare programs to new tax credits for married families, to offering public honors to couples for every decade they remain married.

These proposals reflect a blend of longstanding conservative priorities and new ideas, all animated by a shared belief: that strong American families were at the heart of the nation in 1776 and remain essential to its future. They are not offered as a final word, but as the beginning of a long-overdue national conversation about how to halt America’s demographic and social collapse.

Unfortunately, there are those—on both the radical Left and the libertarian right—who are rigidly and ideologically opposed to our key ideas for supporting married families.

Critics on the left argue that opposition to abortion and support for married parents who prefer to provide home childcare (usually through the mother) amount to a patriarchal assault on women’s “autonomy” and “reproductive freedom.”

Meanwhile, critics on the libertarian Right contend that government has no business trying to incentivize decisions related to family structure.

Few dispute that marriage rates are falling, that traditional families are weakening, or that the nation stands on a demographic precipice. What is striking is how our critics echo each other in saying the government should not be doing anything proactively about it.

The problem is that if traditional families continue to disappear, we will eventually lose America itself.

America is a nation rooted in its people, culture, laws and customs, as well as its ideals—and it cannot be sustained if Americans themselves do not marry, form families, and raise children.

And yes, we do believe it is legitimate for the government to encourage ways of life that allow its people to endure and flourish, and the social science is crystal-clear—traditional married families outpace the alternatives in a host of wealth, education, health, and happiness measures.

We make no apology for wanting to persuade more young Americans to marry, own homes, raise the next generation, and find deep fulfillment in family life.

We also do not believe the solution lies in mass immigration when we can’t even assimilate the immigrants that are already here. Nor do we believe that modern technology can substitute for the home, the neighborhood, and the family.

The quintessential American dream of a family with a house and a white picket fence remains as important as ever to the American imagination, and our task is to convert that dream into a reality.

We want to make sure young Americans can realistically achieve these goals by, at a minimum, removing obstacles that stand in the way, and by assuring our policies actually privilege, prefer and support married family formation.

That is a winning message conservatives would do well to embrace in 2026. And the good news is that President Donald Trump is already leading the way. He recently announced his intention to tackle the unaffordability of single-family homes and abuses in the credit-card industry, and Heritage looks forward to contributing our thoughts and recommendations to that discussion and those to come.

More broadly, we will continue to answer those—on the left and on the libertarian right—who either see no problem or see no solution. They are wrong on both counts.

A society that refuses to defend marriage and child-rearing is not neutral; it is choosing between accelerated or managed decline. And a movement that shrugs its shoulders in the face of that decline offers nothing but surrender.

If our critics have new ideas, they should by all means present them. But we are done watching our kids fall further behind, our families struggle and our societal pillars crumble, and we are calling for action that meets the moment.

Heritage will be proud to work on ushering in a new American Golden Age, centered on the family, and the next phase in reaching that goal begins now.

Originally published at FoxNews.com

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