National Issues

News Update - New York Times Columnist - "The War Is Going Better Than You Think"

(Bret Stephens, March 25, 2026)

   

National concerns:

 

**Protect and defend girls & women in their spaces: restrooms, locker rooms, prisons, and sports. I've read too many account of abuse, and seen too many injuries caused on purpose or by accident by some people who happen to be dishonest. The power of XY over XX is simply not fair. 

 

**Stop paying the health insurance companies twice - once by the government and once by the consumer. MSAs are Medical Savings Accounts and each person who needs one can use the funds to shop for their own plans.

 

**Protect and defend the use of cash. Reject digital ID. It's cropping up in countries that have shifted politically towards censorship, de-platforming, and arresting people who criticize their governments. 

 

**Protect free speech & freedom of the press. Europe has gone the way of censorship, de-platforming, and arresting those who speak out againt the government. The US was close behind them during the Biden Administration. 

 

**Protect and defend small businesses, especially the ones that would lose money with online stores and costly online payment systems.

 

**Clearly define what Trump calls "institutional investor" in regards to home buying.

 

**Carefully determine the location of data centers. Some of the data centers that have recently come online were negotiated by the Biden Administration.

 

**Preserve American small farms, ranchers, and family farm businesses. Support organic farming and free range ranchers. Ensure an organic seed vault section at the National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation (seed vault) and ensure availability of organic seeds to all organic growers.

 

LET'S NOT WIND UP LIKE UKRAINE, WHICH HAS 3 CORPORATE FARMS LARGER THAN BELGIUM.

CHINA HAS MADE SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENT IN UKRAINIAN FARMS.

 

 

**Continue protecting and growing the US cattle herd. Beef is the healthiest food for humans. The only study that I need to follow is how great I feel 30 minutes after eating my homemade stew, and how I no longer have inflammation.

 

The reduction of the US cattle herd during the Biden Administration was unfortunate.

 

**Protect and improve American medical training and promote the hiring of citizens and legal residents in medical positions. H1B only when critically necessary.

 

**Protect medical supplies manufacturing and availability. Continue the drive to have medications manufactured in the US and continue negotiations with pharmaceuticals.

 

**Protect & promote the naturopathic and health food industries.

 

**Encourage fusion energy research and keep fusion scientists safe.

 

**Balance the ideology that is taught in US schools and universities. It's gotten very one-sided. I have receipts & will love to join your podcast. 

 

**Protecting our friends and family members in the trans community is a priority for all of us. Let's find data-driven solutions to our loved ones' concerns.

 

Immigration:

 

Immigration has brought many blessings into my life including new family members, friends, neighbors, & coworkers. We, our parents, our grandparents, or our ancestors came to this country for law and order, and freedom. Protecting those gifts is how we honor our ancestors.

 

No one wants their neighbor's grandma to be deported....

NO ONE THINKS THAT EVERY MIGRANT IS A CRIMINAL . 

......but is it okay if we actully do deport the folks among the migrants who happen to be criminals?

 

  Could blue state governors allow local law enforcement to call ICE when a person who entered the country in the not legal way, commits a crime?...instead of releasing them back into our neighborhoods?

 

    The result of unchecked, simultaneous, mass migration into Australia, Canada, many European countries, the UK, & the US, has been to destabilize western nations, and Japan. The cost to the populations of those countries has been catastrophic - murders, assaults, job loss, inflation, lower wages, higher home prices, fewer homes available, local economies around migrant hotels lose customers...

 

Rape rates in Europe skyrocketed at the same rate as mass migration.  #groominggangs. 

 "Welcome to London, don’t forget your stab vest" - is not a joke.

 

Democrat leadership voting patterns have supported this coordinated effort to destabilize western nations and young Americans have begun to accept unprosecuted and unpunished crimes.

This is why I am no longer a Democrat. 

 

Stabilizing the western hemisphere is our best long term hope for safety, freedom, and prosperity for every country in our hemisphere.

 

ICE is funded through 2029:

therefore, the Democrats' refusal to fund an entirely different department

— the Department of Homeland Security—

puts us all at risk

 

    

The SAVE America Act

    71% of Democrats, 98% of Republicans, and 84% of Independents want the SAVE Act. 

    Women - Some of my divorced friends have had multiple name changes. The idea that they could not vote because of a name change is ridiculous.

    Birth Certificates - Young people obtain their birth certificates every day in order to get their drivers' licenses. 

 

THE CHILDREN AMONG THE MIGRANTS:

    422 of the sponsors of the unaccompanied minors who came over the border during the Biden surge have been arrested.

    Some of the children have died. Multiple cases of severe abuse, including pregnancies, have been confirmed. Hundreds of thousands of children were transported by strangers to the US during the Biden years.

 

The Angels:

 

PREVENTABLE CRIMES, AND THEIR VICTIMS - 

 

#SantiagoLopezMorales  #GloriaCascio.  #PeñaFamily  (killed in a car accident, the other driver had entered the US non-legally)   #DaCaraThompson (attacked and killed by an  illegal-entry migrant) #SheridanGorman (March 19, 2026) #RichardWilliams (Mar 2026, elderly vet pushed in front of subway car)  #IvorySmith (child killed in a car accident caused by an illegal-entry migrant) #LizbethMedina  #rapedteengirl (March 25, 2026)  #LoganFederico  #AvaMoore  #ChloePolzin  #StephanieMiller  #JocelynNungaray  #BethanyMaGee (set on fire in a Chicago subway)  #RitaLonterich (stabbed in a book store)  #JamekaIvy (kidnapped on Tunisia) #JeanetteMarken (blinded in one eye in Seattle) #AndrewMeismer #MariaPleitez  #DayanaraPleitez  #LuisJocsanNanezLopez  #SarahRoot #KaylaHamilton #TaliyahCrochet  #JeremyPoou-Cacares (child killed by illegal-entry migrant)  #AriaCruzAcensio  #AmericaThayer #EmmaCook #ShannonGoodrich #AnthonyVarner #IrynaZarutzka #DebrinaKawam  #AnyaVarfolomeev #LakenRiley #StephanieMinter #RachelMorin #VictoriaEileenHarwell #HallieHegelson #MaverickMartzen #MeganBos  #BriannaKelson #ChristopherPetty #NikolayOskin #MatthewDenice  #NateBaker. #MoraGarety An Amish Family - #HenryEicher #MennoEicher #PaulEicher #SimonGirod 

 

**these # s commemorate just 52 of the hundreds of people inside the US who have been killed or seriously injured by people who should have been in prison either in the United States, because they are citizens or legal residents, or in their countries of origin, because they are not citizens or legal residents. These injuries and murders could have been prevented by normal, everyday, common sense border protection, and normal, everyday, common sense law enforcement, and normal judges.  

 

Lack of coverage of these events by legacy media and lack of outrage by Democratic politicians is the main reason why I am no longer a Democrat.

 

Gun Violence - Can We Look At The Data:

 

58% Of Gun Deaths Are The Result Of Suicide. The Majority Of People Who Commit Suicide Feel That They Are A "Burden To Others".

 

    How are school systems, and medical programs, creating and perpetuating this type of thinking? Are our young people learning and conducting their lives, in the truth? Knowing the truth, and dealing with it, are the first steps toward mental health.

 

    As a high school teacher, in the last 15 years, I've seen students spend a lot more time watching social media videos and a lot less time studying.

 

...Many admit that they spend around 3 hours per day on social media.

...They are inondated with non-data-driven "facts" about history, current events, people of other races, and themselves.

 

The 38% of gun deaths in the U.S. are homicides.

Firearm homicides disproportionately affect certain populations, including young males and communities in high-crime urban areas.

People with prior criminal records are more likely to be victims; for example, in Philadelphia, 93% of those killed in gun homicides had prior criminal records.rticularly lethal.

These are all situations where knowing the truth and conducting our lives in the truth about our situations and options can change the nihilistic thinking of young people.

 

1% of gun deaths are accidental and this problem is obviously solved by locking up guns.

 

1% of gun deaths are police shootings - 84% of police shootings involve a person making threats with a gun, knife, car, or other weapon. Roland G Fryer Jr's (Harvard Economist) research on police bias in fatal shootings is compelling and has advanced knowledge on this topic. He conducted his research with 2 separate groups of Harvard graduate students.

 

 

Knowing the data helps me understand the true nature of gun violence, and now I know that I cannot attempt to remove anyone's 2nd ammendment rights.