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HOUSTON, Texas — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced this week that nearly 3,600 criminal illegal aliens were arrested in Houston during the six-week Democrat-led government shutdown. Department of Homeland Security officials said the arrests targeted the “worst of the worst,” including convicted pedophiles, MS-13 gang members, kidnappers, and repeat offenders previously deported multiple times. Breitbart Texas rode with ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) during the government shutdown and with ICE Houston during its first-ever nighttime enforcement action. During four hours, before getting rained out, ERO officers arrested approximately 40 illegal aliens, including at least two drunk drivers.

Last academic year, DIY education grew at nearly three times the average rate it did during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new research. Whether called homeschooling or DIY education, family-directed learning has been growing in popularity for years in the U.S. alongside disappointment in the rigidity, politicization, and flat-out poor results of traditional public schools. That growth was supercharged during the COVID-19 pandemic when extended closures and bumbled remote learning drove many families to experiment with teaching their own kids. The big question was whether the end of public health controls would also curtail interest in homeschooling. We know now...

The NYPD shelled out nearly $1.1 billion on overtime last fiscal year – the most of any city agency, but still nearly 14% less than the prior 12 months, The Post has learned. Cops and non-uniformed NYPD staffers pocketed a combined $1,087,616,025 in OT for the fiscal year ending June 30 – including a jaw-dropping 55 captains, lieutenants, detectives and other staffers who each raked in more than $100,000 in OT beyond their actual salaries, an analysis of newly released payroll records. Leading the way was now-retired Lt. John Tancredi, who racked up 1,256 extra hours – worth $163,681 –...

David Brooks is one of the best-known public intellectuals in America… I have found him gracious and humble in person and have followed his writing with appreciation over the years. However, I was more than surprised by the headline of his latest Atlantic essay: “The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake.” He notes that in the year 1800, three-quarters of American workers were farmers with large families living together. Until 1850, roughly three-quarters of Americans older than sixty-five lived with their kids and grandkids. Nuclear families (a husband and wife living with their children) were surrounded by extended or corporate families....

Dear friends, are we truly thankful in light of the day in which we live to still be able to worship Almighty God in Spirit and TRUTH here in America, and that we still have a measure of time left to get out His ETERNAL saving Gospel message to this lost, dying, and condemned world? Beloved, are we truly rejoicing that the Lord Jesus is coming again very soon and that this fallen world is NOT our ETERNAL home? Beloved, we have such an ETERNAL glorious hope, such ETERNAL precious promises and such an ETERNAL fulfilled future with our ETERNAL...

The 90 second video from Elissa Slotkin, Mark Kelly, Jason Crow, Chris Deluzio, Chrissy Houlahan, and Maggie Goodlander looks innocuous at first viewing. A few elected officials, all veterans or national security professionals, appear on camera and remind American troops that they must refuse unlawful orders. The script is familiar. Every recruit learns some version of that principle. Yet context matters. These same lawmakers have spent months describing President Trump’s actual, ongoing orders as unlawful. They released their message in the middle of live litigation over those orders. They did not speak in hearings or white papers but in a...

The calls started quietly — a cousin, an uncle, a longtime friend on the road — and then turned into a flood. Across California, Sikh and immigrant truckers, the very workers who keep our farms productive, our ports moving and our shelves stocked, all began telling me the same thing: I might lose my job in 60 days. I don’t know how to tell my kids. Then the messages really hit home when my husband, who has driven for years with a spotless record, told me he was worried about how our friends and family members would be allowed to...

Right Angle News Network @Rightanglenews BREAKING - Waves of Democrat influencers are being exposed as foreigners under X’s new location update, including leftist X agitator Alex Cole, who claimed he voted for Kamala but has now been revealed to be Canadian.

For many young Americans, the 2008 financial crisis was more than a downturn; it was a defining life event. Families lost homes to predatory mortgages, jobs vanished overnight, and college graduates faced bleak opportunities. For organizers like Gabe Tobias, watching low-income immigrant families lose everything to adjustable-rate mortgages was transformative. The crisis convinced many that capitalism itself was stacked against working people, a belief that would later fuel their political activism, the Wall Street Journal reported… Polling shows that socialism resonates strongly with younger Americans. A YouGov survey this year found 62% of people aged 18 to 29 held a...

On Friday, Nov. 21, Greene announced she will resign from her post as representative for Georgia's 14th congressional district in 2026. When asked by journalist Rachel Scott if Trump had "any heads up" about Greene's decision to resign, Trump replied, "Nah, it doesn't matter, you know but I think it's great. I think she should be happy." In Greene's statement, the congresswoman said that her resignation will be effective as of January 5, 2026. She also criticized the political gridlock and partisanship that she says have impeded her ability to achieve her legislative goals. Greene went on to criticize her...

FRUITLAND, Fla. - A 24-hour manhunt triggered by a deadly stabbing at a Florida Dollar General store came to an end on Saturday with the arrest of a convicted sex offender. Dig deeper: According to the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office, deputies went to the Dollar General store in Fruitland shortly after 3:45 p.m. on Friday after receiving a 911 call about an unresponsive woman with stab wounds. They performed CPR before she was taken to an area hospital, where she died. ... Dig deeper: According to PCSO, Beasley is a convicted registered sex offender with an extensive criminal history dating...

NYC Jews are learning government won't protect them. Throughout America, gun owners and others who recognize the importance of the Bill of Rights have celebrated Trump II. He’s the first POTUS in memory who has taken active steps to preserve the Second Amendment and American’s other rights. He’s directed the DOJ to actively uphold the Second Amendment, and while their efforts haven’t yet been perfect, they’re finally in line with the Constitution. SNIP The day after Mamdani’s election, interest in concealed carry permits dramatically increased. Of course, NYC does everything it can to avoid obeying the Supreme Court’s Heller and...

I don’t remember the first time I heard the phrase “ethnocentric”, but I remember the context. I was in some history class and we were studying a primitive South American tribe. They lived essentially the exact same way their ancestors had thousands of years ago. Our teacher told us their civilization was equal to ours, and we should never think that any civilization was superior to any other. Doing so would be “ethnocentric”, which apparently was a belief that our society was superior to others. The truth is, when we were first admonished about this I remember thinking something wasn’t...

In Berlin’s Charlottenburg district, there is an unusual library. The Library of Conservatism (Bibliothek des Konservatismus or BdK) was founded in 2012, based on Caspar von Schrenck-Notzing’s extensive private collection of right-wing and libertarian non-fiction books. Today, it has a catalogue of roughly 35,000 titles from German and European writers—including early prints from authors such as Roger Scruton, Edmund Burke, Ernst Jünger, and Carl Schmitt. Soon, though, none of these titles will be accessible to many German academics and researchers. Without any explanation, the BdK is being thrown out of the Gemeinsamer Bibliotheksverbund (GBV), one of the largest library networks...

Las Vegas isn’t what it used to be… and we’ve learned that the hard way. We thought we understood how Vegas works — how to spot the tricks, avoid the traps, and still love the chaos. But after years of living in Las Vegas, something shifted. And we couldn’t ignore it anymore. Things that used to feel exciting… now feel off. And one day, we looked around and realized the biggest lie Las Vegas still gets away with — and how easy it is to fall for it.

VIDEOThe reactions of liberals to the White House meeting between President Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani are HILARIOUS. Apparently they are completely unaware of two books: "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu or "The Art of the Deal" by You-Know-Who. As a result, as you can see, they believe that Mamdani has the supernatural power to bewitch Trump into completely flipping a supposedly weak minded Trump into believing that Socialism as proposed by Mamdani is a great thing. As the cameo commentary by Michael Corleone in this video reveals, the poor shmoes were laughably unable to see what was...

VATICAN CITY — Following his public statement condemning the Trump administration's hardline immigration policies, a shocking new report indicated that 17 illegal immigrants had been found hiding under Pope Leo XIV's hat. The incident occurred on the Vatican grounds on Friday morning, as the pontiff was going for a leisurely stroll. Witnesses said that a breeze momentarily knocked the pope's hat off his head, leading to multiple immigrants emerging from the mitre and scrambling away. "It's amazing how many of them fit in there," one witness said. "It was like those tiny cars you see at the circus, but instead...

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President Donald Trump Friday evening said he was ending deportation protections for Somalis in Minnesota "effective immediately." "Minnesota, under Governor [Tim] Walz, is a hub of fraudulent money laundering activity," Trump posted on Truth Social. He continued, "I am, as President of the United States, hereby terminating, effective immediately, the Temporary Protected Status (TPS Program) for Somalis in Minnesota." Trump claimed that "Somali gangs are terrorizing the people of that great State, and BILLIONS of Dollars are missing. Send them back to where they came from. It’s OVER! President DJT." Minnesota has a sizable Somali population and the TPS program...

November 22, 2025 I will start with a long quote from Students for Liberty as published November 10, 2025. ------- In 1987, [Thomas] Sowell published A Conflict of Visions, and it explained something everyone experiences but nobody can articulate: why political arguments feel like talking to aliens. The book isn't about left versus right. It's about something deeper. Two different ways of seeing what humans are capable of, what knowledge actually is, and how society should be organized. The core friction point that makes campus debates impossible: One vision sees social problems as emerging from basic human constraints. Scarcity is...