2-17-26 Great Guests for Your Show

1. Dr. Tim Murphy: Mentally Ill Children Doing Time Without a Crime

2. Kenneth Rapoza: Senate Finance Hearing - Pro-USMCA and Decisively Anti-Tariff on Mexico and Canada

3. Todd Sheets: Trump's Great American Economic Recovery

4. Michele Steeb: More Spending, More Suffering - The Failure of America's Homelessness Policy

5. Martin Mawyer: AI.com

6. Why Aaron DeHOOG's 'Called to Prosperity' is Resonating with Christians Seeking Financial Purpose

7. Josh Hammer: Is Free Speech Really the Highest Value?

8. Daniel Greenfield: Every Dem President Including Obama Was into UFOs

Mentally Ill Children Doing Time Without a Crime

By Dr. Tim Murphy, Psychologist and mental health advocate, Author of The Christ Cure

Jail is no place for a child with mental illness. A new report for Congress was just released showing many children with mental illnesses are sent to prison, not a treatment hospital. In some cases, they haven't even committed a crime. Children eligible for release in 75 facilities across 25 states were held in jails just because they had nowhere to go for treatment. Twenty facilities in 13 states incarnated children with no charges, or charges that would otherwise not lead to incarceration. One facility in North Dakota reported they held 29 children who had no criminal charges. The children were unnecessarily jailed for times between one month and one year. Why? Because states and counties say they have nowhere else to put them. That's a crime in itself. [more...]

Senate Finance Hearing - Pro-USMCA and Decisively Anti-Tariff on Mexico and Canada

By Kenneth Rapoza, Reporter/Columnist for Coalition for a Prosperous America

The Senate Finance Committee agrees on two things: First, the U.S. Mexico and Canada Agreement (USMCA) isn't perfect, and a number of issues need fixing. Second, they don't want tariffs. And even though no one on the committee mentioned steel and aluminum tariffs during a Feb. 12 hearing on USMCA, former House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady said as one of the witnesses that exempting Mexico and Canada from the Section 232 tariffs were a "top priority" in his view. No one brought the subject up again after that. The USMCA will undergo a congressional review process beginning July 1. [more...]

Trump's Great American Economic Recovery

By Todd Sheets, Author of 2008: What Really Happened

Recent concerns about job growth, affordability, and ICE deportations - as well as Republican setbacks at the polls - led conservative commentator Ross Douthat to observe, "A year into his presidency, Donald Trump has lost the country." But is this really true? And what is the bigger picture here? In fact, after a whirlwind start, the administration has faced some difficulties. More recently, high GDP growth, improving job numbers, and lower inflation could well indicate we are moving into a widespread economic recovery that will turn the election momentum back in the Republicans' favor by the mid-terms. From a bigger picture perspective, Trump's battles against China and domestic socialism are the most important political conflicts since Reagan won the Cold War. He deserves and needs the constructive support of all those who want to see him re-invigorate and expand access to the dream that has long been America. [more...]

More Spending, More Suffering - The Failure of America's Homelessness Policy

By Michele Steeb, Homelessness Expert

The fight to reform homelessness isn't about housing - it's about POWER.

In a recent ruling that defies both logic and compassion, a federal judge has blocked the Trump administration's effort to reform the Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) Continuum of Care program - the federal government's primary funding mechanism for homelessness assistance. The lawsuit - filed by a coalition of 20 mostly Democratic-led states, local governments, and nonprofit organizations and spearheaded by groups such as Democracy Forward - warns of "funding gaps," winter instability, and the potential displacement of people currently housed. These alarms are sounded even though HUD includes a nearly 12% increase over last year's funding allocation. At the core of the complaint is a revealing claim: that reform would "upend longstanding projects that have been thoughtfully developed to comport with evidence-based, best-practices services delivery." [more...]

AI.com

By Martin Mawyer, President of Christian Action Network

Kris Marszalek, co-founder and CEO of Crypto.com, just shelled out $70 million, the price of a pro sports franchise, for the domain AI.com. Marszalek says AI.com will power a new generation of personal AI agents. He wants to give you your very own "personal AI agent." That sounds impressive. From what we're told, this digital assistant will send messages for you, build projects for you, trade stocks for you, and even update your dating profile. What exactly is an AI agent? And what could go wrong? [more...]  Subscribe to Patriot Majority Report

Why Aaron DeHOOG's 'Called to Prosperity' is Resonating with Christians Seeking Financial Purpose

At a time when inflation, market volatility, and financial anxiety dominate headlines, financial author and Christian educator Aaron DeHOOG is stepping into the national conversation with a bold message for believers. "Stop fearing prosperity, start embracing it," DeHOOG remarks, referencing his new book, CALLED TO PROSPERITY: Discover How to Give, Gain and Grow Your Wealth for God's Kingdom. Rapidly gaining attention among faith-driven investors, business leaders, and church communities for one reason: it directly challenges what DeHOOG calls "the poverty mindset" that has taken root in much of modern Christianity. [more...]

Is Free Speech Really the Highest Value?

By Josh Hammer, Conservative Political Commentator

The free-speech-as-highest-good view misunderstands the purpose of free speech in a free society at an even more fundamental level. Legal systems of free speech do not exist to bestow legitimacy on the idiosyncratic musings of any individual. To borrow progressive jargon, we don't maintain systems of free speech to protect and secure "your truth" or "my truth." Rather, as was historically understood as far back as Plato's Academy in ancient Athens, we maintain systems of free speech and free questioning because we believe it is helpful in pursuing "The Truth." In bilateral or multilateral colloquy, it is the truth of the matter with which we are primarily interested - not in ensuring that any individual feels heard or seen. [more...]

Every Dem President Including Obama Was into UFOs

By Daniel Greenfield, CEO of the David Horowitz Freedom Center

Plenty of you probably remember when Jimmy Carter saw a UFO: one of a dozen or so warning signs. The Clintons had a much bigger UFO obsession that the media chose to underreport on. This was more than just harmless nuttery once you follow the Rockefeller connection. Nuttery in political circles is rarely harmless these days and a belief in UFOs often overlaps with radical environmentalism and all sorts of supernatural notions that also line up with hostility to religion and totalitarian politics like those of the Left. Former President Barack Obama said in an interview published Saturday that aliens are "real," but added that he hadn't seen them. [more...]