‘The father is seen scrambling’: ICE agent assigned to help airport security saves little boy’s life
Responds to frantic father, performs Heimlich and toddler starts breathing again
An agent from the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement, at Kennedy International Airport in New York on President Donald Trump’s orders because Democrats have refused to fund Transportation Security Administration officers’ payroll, has saved the life of a 1-year-old.
DHS reported, after the incident on Wednesday, explained, “An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent helping to support Transportation Security Administration (TSA) operations at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York jumped into action to help save the life of a one-year-old child experiencing a medical emergency.”
The report continued, “The heroic actions of this officer began when a one-year-old child became unresponsive in the arms of his father, unable to breathe for almost two minutes. CCTV review shows a passenger in a TSA Precheck line holding his one-year-old in his arms when the child’s arms go lifeless; panic ensues, and the father is seen scrambling around the area, and calling for help.
“The agent working at his post, heard the screams from the father and other passengers and sprinted to the scene. The father handed the child to the officer, who then assessed the unresponsive child and began performing the Heimlich maneuver. After a few seconds, the child started breathing again. EMS personnel arrived on scene with medical equipment to further monitor and re-assess the child. The child was re-assessed and determined to be healthy enough to fly.”
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American Minute with Bill Federer Sharia vs. U.S. “Law of the Middle East is the antithesis of Western law” – Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, 1955, Law in the Middle East
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Camp Constitution Forever Stands Song by Chet Higa
The author of this song, Chet Higa was a friend of our late co-founder and manager Charlie Everett. Charlie and Chet served in the Navy together. We are humbled and honored of this tribute to Camp Constitution.
The Weekly Sam: How to Dumb Down a Nation By Samuel L. Blumenfeld
It’s easy. Destroy its literacy, and you’ve dumbed it down. And once dumbed down, it
becomes the potential victim of any power that wants to dominate it.
If you look at the most illiterate nations on the planet, you find that they are ruled by
despots, their people live in abject poverty and have no hope for a better future. That
doesn’t mean that literate nations, like Germany, can’t produce monsters. But when they
do, we know that satanic influences are behind it.
America, from its beginning, was the most literate nation on earth, and the result was
positive in every respect. Why was it so literate? Because the people and their leaders
were governed by the precepts of the Bible, and biblical literacy was paramount in the
education of the country’s children.
But once we got a government schooling system, which was taken over by atheist
progressive educators, the God of the Bible was removed from the schools. It then
became possible to introduce a new socialist curriculum with teaching methods
calculated to reduce American literacy. The Bible was now relegated to an hour of study
in church on Sundays. And because it was no longer part of the curriculum, children no
longer considered it important to life.
A blatant, anti-biblical morality was introduced in the schools through such programs as
values clarification, sensitivity training, transcendental meditation, sex education, death
education, drug education, multiculturalism, psychotherapy, evolution, secular
humanism, and other such programs. Moral degeneration has been the inevitable result.
The result is that America has been greatly dumbed-down.
(Sam’s solution was for parents to remove their children from the government schools and either homeschool or send them to private Christian schools.)
The Blumenfeld Archives http://blumenfeld.campconstitution.net/main.htm
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Public School Whistle Blower Ramona Bessinger Speaking at Camp Constitution Ladies’ “Spring Fling Held Friday May 1 to Sunday May 3
We are pleased to announce that Ramona Bessinger will be attending and speaking at our Ladies “Spring Fling” which runs from Friday May 1 to Sunday May 3 at the Alton Bay Christian Conference center.
Ramona was a 22-year veteran public school teacher in Rhode Island. In 2021, she took a stance against the DEI curriculum that was promoting race hatred in the classroom. This stance led to threats and intimidation, but she didn’t relent. Her story went national. She now dedicates her time exposing government schools and offers resources for parents.
Here is a speech she recently gave at the Rhode Island First Rally:
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A link to her website: www.ramonabessinger.com/about-4
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Activities include arts and crafts, Bible studies, optional marksmanship training, and an evening campfire. Our guest speaker will be Michelle Gallagher, author of Monumental Prayers and Forefathers Monument Guidebook.
The cost for the weekend which includes two nights of lodging, five meals and materials will be $200. per person. Payments can be made via our PayPal account accessed from our website’s homepage https://www.campconstitution.net or by check payable to Camp Constitution and mailed C/O Hal Shurtleff146 Powder Mill Rd. Alton, NH 03809. For an application or more information, please call or E-mail Hal Shurtleff 857-498-1309 campconstitution1@gmail.com
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Ivy League Credentials Used to Mean Something Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth bars military officers from Ivy League programs — here’s why he’s right.
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On February 27, 2026, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth signed an order barring U.S. military officers from attending professional education programs at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Brown, Princeton, and MIT, among others, beginning in the 2026–27 academic year. His reasoning was direct — these institutions have become hostile to the values, mission, and culture of the American military.
The reaction from the left was immediate. Racism. Transphobia. Culture war. Political theater. Retaliation. The usual playbook.
Before accepting that framing, it is worth looking at what these schools actually did.
Hegseth didn’t arrive at this conclusion from the outside looking in. He went to Princeton. He earned his graduate degree at Harvard. He sat in those classrooms, walked those campuses, and watched how that world thinks and operates. He knows what is taught, what is rewarded, and what is quietly punished inside those walls.
When he signed that order, he wasn’t taking a political shot. He was doing what the record demanded.
And the record backs him up completely.
School by School
Columbia
The federal government froze $400 million in funding after finding the university had systematically failed to protect Jewish students. Swastikas drawn in classrooms. Formal complaints left uninvestigated for nearly two years. Columbia eventually settled — $200 million, federal oversight of its Middle East studies department, and a full overhaul of student discipline. One of the wealthiest universities on earth couldn’t bring itself to protect its own students. That is not a policy failure. That is a character failure.
Harvard
More than $2.2 billion in federal research funding frozen. President Claudine Gay was asked directly by Congress whether calling for the genocide of Jewish people violated campus policy. She couldn’t answer. She resigned shortly after — the shortest presidency in Harvard’s 386-year history — and was later found to have plagiarized portions of her own dissertation. Harvard is now in federal court fighting the freeze. They would rather litigate than lead.
Penn
$175 million in funding suspended. President Liz Magill resigned the same week as Gay, following the same congressional hearing, for the same reason. Two Ivy League presidents. One straightforward moral question. Neither could answer it.
Brown
A $510 million freeze threatened. Settled for $50 million. Brown’s administration had previously negotiated with protest encampments, promising a board vote on divesting from Israel. The board voted no. But the moment a university starts bargaining with the people shutting it down, it has already told you who is really in charge.
Yale
The ADL gave Yale a D on its 2025 Campus Antisemitism Report Card. The Department of Education opened two separate federal investigations for failing to protect Jewish students. Jewish students were physically blocked from entering campus events. Yale receives nearly $900 million annually in federal funding. All of it now sits under a cloud. They spent more energy watching what Harvard did than protecting their own students.
MIT
When the federal government offered universities a straightforward compact — merit-based admissions, free speech, no DEI — MIT’s president rejected it. MIT then sued the federal government to block funding cuts. When pressed on a DEI nonprofit under federal investigation, they cut ties only after being forced into the open. Brilliant institution. Wrong priorities. Every time.
The Diversity That Isn’t
These schools sell diversity as their highest virtue. It’s on every website, every banner, every commencement speech.
What they mean is representation of every identity — except the ones that built this country.
Their faculties vote for one party at rates above 95 percent. Not 51 percent. Not 60 percent. 95 percent. You won’t find conservative professors. You won’t find many Christians. Anyone who thinks differently learns quickly — keep your mouth shut or find somewhere else to work.
And Jewish students? They’re leaving. Between 2023 and 2025 Jewish enrollment dropped at Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, and Penn — nearly 100 fewer Jewish students per class. One in three Jewish students on these campuses now says they censor themselves out of fear. In 1967 Columbia’s student body was 40 percent Jewish. These schools didn’t just fail their Jewish students. They drove them out.
That is not diversity. That is a closed system that costs families anywhere from $83,000 to nearly $100,000 a year — and hands you a credential at the end.
And they don’t survive on tuition alone. These institutions collect billions in federal funding every year. Taxpayer money. Working-class money. From the very people they look down on.
And for decades, that credential has flowed directly into the officer corps of the United States military.
What the Military Needs
The American military is built on people the Ivy League has never fully understood.
Young men and women who enlisted at eighteen. Families who prayed for their safe return. Communities that buried their own and kept going.
The military promotes on merit because failure costs lives.
What it needs from leaders is moral clarity, decisiveness, and a belief in the country they defend. What it does not need is officers shaped by institutions that have spent years teaching that America itself is the problem.
Thirteen service members were killed in Kabul. The Afghan government collapsed in seventy-two hours. Billions in equipment handed to the Taliban on live television. The leadership class overseeing that outcome held the finest credentials in the world.
The diplomas didn’t help.
The Bottom Line
Trump and Hegseth are not anti-education. They are anti-failure.
Institutions that couldn’t protect Jewish students, couldn’t answer basic moral questions, and have spent decades producing leaders more comfortable with ideology than strategy are not worthy partners for the United States Armed Forces.
For years, the Ivy League told working-class America that their faith was a crutch, their patriotism was naive, and their values were relics of a less enlightened time.
They were wrong.
The people carrying this country — in uniform, in factories, on job sites, in towns far from any Ivy campus — knew it all along.
Here is something worth remembering. Harvard was founded in 1636 to train clergy. Yale was founded by ten pastors. Princeton’s original seal still reads “Under God’s Power, She Flourishes.” Columbia’s first president said the school’s purpose was to teach students “to know God in Jesus Christ.” Brown was founded by Baptist churches. These were not secular institutions that happened to tolerate faith. They were built on it.
Every one of them.
They abandoned that foundation a long time ago. What replaced it was on full display when two of their presidents couldn’t tell Congress that calling for genocide is wrong.
You either stand for something or you don’t. These schools do stand for something. Just not America. Not her military. Not the Judeo-Christian values that built this country — and built them.
The families who send their sons and daughters to fight for this country never forgot where this nation came from.
The Pentagon hasn’t either.
It’s about time.
The Weekly Sam: Gavin Newsom Can’t Read. Sam Blumenfeld’s “Alpha Phonics” Can Help
In this short video, Hal Shurtleff, host of the Camp Constitution Report, discusses Gavin Newsom’s admitted illiteracy, what Sam Blumenfeld had to say about dyslexia and Sam’ solution: The use of phonics. Hal pointed out that the dismal results that we see in our nation’s government schools are the desired results as Sam proved many years ago.
A link to the archive: http://blumenfeld.campconstitution.net/
The Weekly Sam: Politicization of Public Education by Sam Blumenfeld
Our late friend and mentor Sam Blumenfeld was ahead of his time. He made this presentation in 1988
A Republic Requires Courage John Adams, moral courage, and why renewal begins in our communities. by Alex Destino
Today is Presidents’ Day. One of Massachusetts’ own, Founding Father John Adams—the principal author of the Massachusetts Constitution and later our first Vice President and second President—warned in 1798:
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
For decades, we’ve watched this country slowly lose its moral footing. This cultural and moral collapse didn’t happen overnight. It seeped into many of our institutions—our universities, public schools, city halls, libraries, corporate America, and even local chambers of commerce.
Sadly, in many cases it has also reached our churches. Some have drifted to become more like the world around them, losing focus on their mission to preach and share the Gospel of Jesus Christ. When that happens, they are no longer churches—only buildings.
Freedom only works when people can govern themselves. And self-government begins in the heart. That means faith. It means repentance. It means turning back to God.
This isn’t just a national issue. It plays out in every community. I see it here at home on Cape Ann, and many of you see it where you live.
When I was growing up, we had two strong Catholic schools in our community—St. Ann’s and St. Mel’s—both first through eighth grade, packed with students and families deeply connected to their faith. These schools were not just places of learning. They were pillars of our community. They strengthened the moral foundation of generations of children through faith, discipline, and religious education, while also supporting and sustaining the local Catholic Church and parish life.
Today, both are gone, and they are missed deeply. As those institutions disappeared, much of that shared foundation weakened. Many families were left with fewer choices, and increasing numbers of children were pushed into government-run education, which in many places has continued to decline in quality and performance.
St. Peter’s Catholic Church in East Gloucester closed more than 20 years ago and has since been converted into condos. When I was growing up, it was a vibrant, healthy parish filled with families and deeply connected to the life of the community.
These changes did not happen overnight. They unfolded over years. This cultural and spiritual drift is not new. It has been building quietly for decades.
These battles don’t start in Washington. They start locally—in our homes, our churches, and our schools. The alarm is sounding. More people are waking up. The question is simple: Can we recover?
Yes—but only if we turn back to God first.
“If My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven… and I will heal their land.”
— 2 Chronicles 7:14
For decades, people of faith were told it’s not polite to talk about faith or politics. You’ve heard that your whole life, haven’t you? That advice is certainly not biblical. It encouraged silence at a time when truth needed to be spoken.
But the culture kept moving. While many were trying to be polite, the foundations of our country were being reshaped.
We cannot afford that silence any longer.
Jesus spoke directly to this:
“Whoever acknowledges Me before others, I will also acknowledge before My Father in heaven. But whoever denies Me before others, I will deny before My Father in heaven.”
— Matthew 10:32–33
This is the calling of every believer—to go, to speak, and not to stay silent. It isn’t about being loud or political. It’s about being faithful.
We are called to go into the world and share the Gospel—to speak the truth with love and courage. Because to truly love someone is to be honest with them, not to mislead or stay silent when the truth matters most.
When even a few people are willing to stand, others find the strength to do the same. Courage spreads.
Renewal begins in our communities. It begins with each of us.
Godspeed.
Alexander J Destino, Jr
Gloucester native. Husband and father. Writing plainly about faith, family, America, and the cultural battles shaping our future. For my community and anyone who cares about the truth.
THE ORIGIN OF THE RESOLUTE DESK
THE ORIGIN OF THE
RESOLUTE DESK
In 1852, the HMS Resolute was one of
five ships belonging to the British Royal 
Navy sent to the Arctic Circle to search
for the missing Franklin Expedition, lost
while on a mission to search for a North
west Passage. The Resolute was equipped
with an ironclad bow to help make a path
through the ice. On arrival, four ships
sailed farther into the Circle while the
Northstar stayed back as a supply ship.
The attempt to locate the expedition was
unsuccessful. The Resolute became ice
bound. The Commander made the deci
sion to desert the ship. The men walked
miles back to the Northstar in the cold
and snow to reach the safety of the
Northstar. Upon arriving in England, the
Commander was court marshalled.
The Resolute broke loose and drifted
1000 miles before it was found by an
American whaling ship, the George Hen
ry, captained by James Buddington. Real
izing its’ value as salvage, the men righted
the ship and brought it back to New Lon
don, CT.
At the time, relations between Britain
and the U.S. were very tense. President
Pierce was ready to go to war for a third
time over fishing rights, a border dispute
between British Columbia and the Wash
ington Territory, and the British presence
in South America. Britain’s First Lord of
the Admiralty also felt war was a possibil
ity over these disputes.
In 1856, at the suggestion of philanthro
pist, Henry Grennell, Congress passed a
bill signed by President Pierce to buy the
ship for $40,000. It was restored, refitted,
HMS Resolute and HMS Trepid
Drawn by George F. Mc Dougall,
Sailing master of the Resolute
and returned to England as a good
will gift to calm the tensions between
the two countries.
It arrived in Portsmouth, England
on December 12, 1856. Queen Victo
ria and Prince Albert accepted the gift
presented by Captain Henry
Hartstene at Cowes Harbour, Isle of
Wight.
The Resolute served in the Royal
Navy for 23 years as a supply ship and
was decommissioned in 1879. Upon
the order of Queen Victoria the sal
vaged wood was used to make three
desks. Designs were submitted. A
partners desk was chosen to gift the
President of the United States. Two
smaller writing desks remained in
England to be used by the Queen.
The desk was presented to president
Hayes and was known as the Hayes
desk or the Resolute desk.
Copies of various qualities have
been made for display at presidential
libraries and museums.
Research, Wikipedia and Beatrix
Cochrane
The above article was in the Pierce Brigade February Newsletter