“ The trouble with our liberal friends isn’t that they are ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.” -Ronald Reagan
This 7min video of Ronald Reagan is well worth the watch.
Netanyahu was once Israeli Finance Minister - and it shows. He understands a lot about economics, and is worth listening to in order to get a sense for where Israel's economy is headed.
BREAKING: The FBI and state of Utah have just released video of the Charlie Kirk kiIIer escaping from the scene following the shooting
He jumped off the rooftop, moved quickly through the parking lot, and then began walking casually to blend in before entering a wooded area.
He was wearing converse tennis shoes, a shirt with an eagle, and a baseball cap with a triangle.
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When I talked with Congressman Clay Higgins, he warned that America could lose its best cops — and that the nation would only have itself to blame.
Look at the news today: police departments are short-staffed, lowering standards, and begging for recruits. Even the FBI just dropped its degree requirement.
Higgins said that without strong police, America cannot survive. That warning is playing out in real time.
Do you think we can turn this around — or is it already too late?
It's better to be in the house of the mourning; contemplating our mortality, and the reality of standing before God, than to be living blissfully as if this life never ends (Ecclesiastes 7:2). For everyone will talk to God - regardless if one believes in Him or not. Even we (God's children) must come before Him to receive judgment; to receive recompense. Though this life is temporary, it has eternal implications. Let us take this truth to heart!
"We are laboring to be well-pleasing to Him, whether at home or away from home. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive the things done through the body, according to that which he has done, whether good or bad. Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men." (2 Corinthians 5: 9b-11)
P.s. The judgment for us believers can have negative consequences, but none of which is eternal separation from Him. For our names are already written in heaven, not because of our own faithfulness, but because...
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Israel has kicked off its heaviest push yet into Gaza City—after weeks of “shaping operations”—while also striking in Yemen and reportedly backing Druze fighters in southern Syria. At the same time, a ceremony beneath Jerusalem’s Old City—attended by Secretary of State Marco Rubio—lit up a very different front: history, faith, and narrative. Here’s the fast tour through what matters and why.
Over the last week Israel hammered Gaza City with air and artillery, flattening high-rises Hamas used as observation posts and command nodes. That was prelude. As of last night, IDF Merkava columns pushed in en masse with heavy air cover—what looks like the start of the full ground thrust many assumed began weeks ago.
What’s different now:
Tempo: From pin-point raids to multi-brigade advances.
Purpose: Clear and hold, not just attrit.
Civilians: Israel had urged evacuations for weeks; Hamas intimidated and manipulated many into staying as human shields.
“Shaping” is over. The main act just walked onstage.
Israel also continues long-arm strikes into Yemen to blunt Houthi launches and interdiction attempts—reminding everyone this conflict has regional plumbing.
Multiple reports say Israel is arming and paying several thousand Druze fighters in Syria’s Suwayda region. The likely aims:
carve a buffer against jihadi networks and Iranian proxies,
stabilize Druze communities adjacent to the Golan, and
pressure Damascus while U.S. political heat rises on the Assad regime.
If true, it’s classic Israeli realpolitik: empower local actors who can both hold terrain and deny sanctuaries to the worst people in the neighborhood.
President Trump warned Hamas that using hostages as above-ground shields would mean “all bets are off.” Hamas has played the human shield card from day one, and as fighting tightens around Gaza City, the danger to the captives sadly increases, whether underground or in tents. Two sober realities:
Hamas won’t voluntarily release all hostages;
“Pressure camps” outside the PM’s residence don’t move Hamas—they help Hamas by showing internal Israeli division.
A miracle remains possible. Absent that, rescue and relentless pressure are the only paths that have ever worked on terror kidnappers.
When a UN panel labeled Israel’s conduct “genocide,” many outlets headlined it as fait accompli: “Israel committing genocide in Gaza,” and only later added the “UN inquiry says” clause. That ordering isn’t accidental; it’s framing. The same pattern appears with the phrase “occupied Palestinian territory”—baked into the body names themselves, bias pre-installed.
A few counters you won’t see on those front pages:
Population reality: Gaza’s population grew for years; Israel has sent in food and medicine even while fighting.
2005 withdrawal: Israel pulled out of Gaza entirely for nearly two decades.
Military necessity vs. malice: Collapsing tunnels and neutralizing rooftop fire isn’t the same as targeting civilians as civilians.
No one should be casual about civilian harm. But precision and intent matter—and so does honest language.
While rockets and headlines flew, another story unfolded under Jerusalem. Secretary of State Marco Rubio joined Israeli leaders to inaugurate a newly opened pilgrimage tunnel linking the City of David to the Western Wall—an archaeological artery that strengthens the historical case for an ancient Jewish Jerusalem.
The press called the event “extremist” because the City of David organization is settlement-friendly. Watch the speeches and you’ll hear… basic statements about history, law, and God’s promises. Whether you agree the temple stood on today’s Temple Mount or nearer the Gihon Springs, the archaeology keeps saying the quiet part out loud: the Jews didn’t arrive in 1948.
Stones don’t tweet, but they do testify.
The IDF’s own sequencing shows a slow squeeze: Rafah sealed and cleared, buffer zones bulldozed, then methodical bites northward. The carve-outs will likely remain. When a terror army embeds in apartments and alleys, the land you can live on shrinks until your militants stop using it as a launchpad. That’s cruel math—but it’s Hamas’s math.
“Why doesn’t Israel just take Gaza in weeks?”
Booby-trapped stairwells, IED belts, tunnel networks, and hostages make speed the enemy of success.
“Cut Gaza’s internet already.”
It’s a live intelligence hose. Israel harvests signals and patterns from the traffic. Turning it off cuts both ways.
“Two-state solution?”
The UN votes it like a spell. History says every concession to Hamas is treated as proof of weakness, not a path to peace.
“Arabs in Israel?”
Roughly one in five Israeli citizens is Arab—voting, serving, studying, and running businesses inside Israel proper.
Gaza City blocks: Expect grinding, building-to-building clearing with casualty spikes when tunnel nodes are found.
Northern front: More rocket trades with Hezbollah; keep an eye on Mount Hermon / Golan movements.
Damascus diplomacy: If Druze gains hold, watch for Assad-Israel rumblings about territory swaps and tacit understandings.
Jerusalem narrative: The tunnel opening is just the start—archaeology will keep undermining convenient modern myths.
The kinetic phase in Gaza City has truly begun.
The information war remains as vicious as the street fight.
Under the streets, stones keep speaking—about covenant, continuity, and belonging.
And for families of hostages and soldiers, the stakes aren’t theoretical; they’re mortal.
Pray for the captives. Pray for wisdom in Israel’s war cabinet. Pray for justice without vengeance, strength without cruelty, and an end state that keeps evil from regenerating.
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Wars rage in Israel and Ukraine; Russian drones probe NATO airspace; headlines churn. But there’s a deeper story we need to face right now: the assassination of Charlie Kirk—and the spiritual, cultural, and parental reckoning it’s triggering across America. It’s about what this moment is doing in our hearts, our homes, and our churches. And yes—it’s about how God can take what the enemy meant for evil and turn it toward good.
“I won’t repeat the shooter’s name. These homicidal narcissists don’t need more publicity.”
Authorities are probing whether extremist groups may have encouraged or helped the killer. I’ve covered Antifa and similar outfits for years; the appetite for political violence has been cultivated, trained, normalized. Even now, you can find groups posturing with rifles outside drag shows for kids—provocation wrapped in moral preening.
I’m a staunch Second Amendment guy. Disarming the law-abiding isn’t the answer. The answer is more sane, trained, moral citizens willing to protect their communities—and the courage to reject the false safety of making everyone more vulnerable.
As my friend Tim Miller said yesterday: “Stand up. Train up. Get prayed up.”
If we want to understand how a 22-year-old throws away his life to silence a speaker who advocates marriage, family, and the difference between men and women, we have to talk about the culture that formed him—and the homes that allowed it.
Three forces keep showing up:
A computer in the bedroom at age 10 is not just “gaming.” It’s a portal. The stats on teen pornography exposure are brutal, and early exposure warps identity, intimacy, and moral imagination.
The WHO recognizes “gaming disorder” for a reason. Heavy gaming correlates with depression, anxiety, and disrupted sleep. Many of the most popular titles (think GTA) normalize virtual felonies and hyper-sexualized violence. They siphon off a young man’s God-given drive to build, conquer, and take real risks in the real world.
“We used to call it playing outside. Now the ‘adventure’ is a couch, a console, and an algorithm designed to keep you hooked.”
