Bravery Over Safety: Why Resilience Matters More Than Comfort
In today’s world, safety has become an obsession—from helicopter parenting to corporate risk aversion to an entire culture built around avoiding discomfort at all costs. While safety has its place, it should never come at the expense of bravery, resilience, and durability. A society focused solely on eliminating risk produces fragile people—unprepared for hardship, easily shaken by adversity, and incapable of true growth. …READ MORE…
WATCH: Hegseth lashes out as questions emerge about new Signal chat reporting
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is pushing back on new reports about his apparent use of the Signal texting app to share sensitive information with family members. CBS News’ Ed O’Keefe reports. …WATCH HERE…
Presidential Memo: “Military Mission for Sealing the Southern Border of the United States and Repelling Invasions”
The Roosevelt Reservation runs along the southern border from the Pacific Ocean to the eastern border of New Mexico. Building America’s Golden Age
In 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt’s Presidential Proclamation established the Roosevelt Reservation in order to keep all public lands along the USA-Mexico border in California, Arizona, & New Mexico “free from obstruction as a protection against the smuggling of goods between the United States and Mexico.” Texas was excluded because Texas retained all public lands upon the Texas annexation and admittance as a state, much of which, unfortunately, has been sold over the years to private parties. This is a 60-foot-wide strip of land, 632 miles long, owned by the United States Federal Government. …READ MORE…
Dispatches Del Camino (#9)
Six of us have fallen in together, walking side by side for the last several miles of the Camino de Santiago.
We are all strangers. All pilgrims. From different nations. There is dust on our backpacks, mud on our boots, and we all smell like something a diuretic horse produced. …READ MORE…
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