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Glenn: Change your outlook, change your life

August 13, 2013
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The below is adapted from Glenn's monologue on radio today

I want to just explain something that is more of a personal note.

For the long‑term listeners and readers that are really trying to actually change their lives, I am convinced that we are the open‑minded ones and they are the closed‑minded ones.

How many things in your life have you changed in the last five years? How many things did you think you knew and your opinion has completely changed in the last few years? They try to say that we're closed‑minded, but we are the ones that have left the Republican Party. They are the ones that still bought in to the Democratic Party. And they bought into it hook, line, and sinker. And they still do. They still do. No matter how many times they're betrayed, no matter how many times their values are betrayed, they still hold on. So whatever. And I say this to the Republicans as well, those people who say "No, no, I'm telling you, John Boehner, he's my guy. Now that John Boehner is in charge, he..." Uh‑huh. How many times do they have to stick a fork in you?

I have learned, I think you have as well, that the answer does not come from Washington. The problem comes from Washington.

It's very easy to figure out what the problem is, but you have to change the language. You have to accept the true language and not the language that the progressives have given.

The progressives came in and they were exposed during the Woodrow Wilson administration because they became overzealous. They were exposed for what they were and so they had to change the Progressive Party, they changed the progressive name into liberal.

A classic "liberal" used to mean, and it does everywhere else in the world, that you are for small government, that you are for maximum freedom of the individual. Well, they had to change that. And so now we have been arguing conservative and liberal.

They're not liberals. They're progressives. And they are in both parties. And when somebody stands up and says "I'm fighting for you," if he's fighting for the Constitution and limited government, then he is fighting for you. But if he is fighting for expanded power over people's lives, he is not fighting for you, at least in the way that our understanding always has been.

What we all claim we want - and I know I want: Give me responsibility or give me death. Not just liberty. I'm not looking just for freedom. I am looking for personal responsibility that comes along with that freedom.

Now, we have given up on Washington, even though at the same time the ironic thing is we have never had more clout or power in Washington, I contend, for at least in my lifetime. We have real true constitutional watchdogs in congress and in the Senate, but we have given up, and we're starting now to pay attention to our own homes, which frightens me little bit because maybe we have not paid attention to our local issues as much as we need to because the progressives are busy taking over state by state and town by town. And you'll see it. And you'll see it but all the new regulations that your city is putting in. Those are all things to shackle a man.

But I have had an interesting summer for reasons that we'll get into some other point. I am going to change the way I work. We already have changed the way we work. I am going to focus more on the things that, quite honestly, bring me joy.

I have focused for so long on the things that have made me miserable. I have told you in the past ‑‑ and I know you feel exactly the same way ‑‑ that we have watched people kill the country we feel deeply about. Those on the left don't, but we do. We feel it's an exceptional place, and I feel as though I have seen a killer that I can identify, the progressive movement, and we have seen them lie their way into our child's bedroom every single night and smother it with a pillow. And every day we get up and we're like, "No, don't. No, no, he's a killer. He's trying to kill everything that you love. Don't. No, no. Will somebody listen?" And every night they come in.

This is what I feel like my job has been: To try to ring the bell. To warn you that there is somebody that's trying to smother everything that we hold dear and love and kill it. And we have watched them do it. And for the most part we feel at the end that they've been successful, and we haven't been.

That is not true.

But because of that feeling, I think that we have paid a real price in who we are. I know I have paid a price higher than I thought it was going to be, and I think my family was the next thing on that block. And I'm not going to pay that price. That is not a price that I will pay. I am just not willing to do it.

And so I am going to start focusing on the things that bring me joy, and Man in the Moon was the first step in that direction. And being able to lift people up.

The other day we had a woman in the audience.After the show we had the cameras go out and get comments from people and what they thought. This woman, she had I think blue hair or green hair. She was 20‑something, nose ring, and she didn't look like what anybody in the media would say is a Glenn Beck fan, but she was. And she said, "I just wanted to thank Glenn for giving me something and speaking the words that I didn't even know I needed to hear." She said, "Now I know. Tomorrow will be better. And I can make it. Because I'm the one writing the chapter. I'm the one writing the story." It was fantastic.

I started last week looking for music and everything else that is uplifting. We have always listened to, like, Christian music and stuff at the house, but that's not it. But for me, I want something else, and I want something fun, because I need to inject fun into my family life, while getting rid of all of the computer games and everything else.

Getting rid of electronics been a chore. But I have noticed a difference in my family since we turned the computers off. The computers are not allowed on while the kids are awake. I can go do my e‑mail and everything else when the kids go to sleep, but there are no games at all in the house. I mean, we took Wii away, everything. I made a rule: Anybody caught playing a game in this house, every computer and every electronic device in this house will go into the pool, and I mean it with everything in me.

I've already now seen the results of getting rid of it. It's good. You can still have the computer and everything else, but no video games. And we're just playing regular games as a family. And we have changed a few things. We're reading at dinner, we're reading our scriptures together and we're talking, we're playing a game right after dinner, after we all clean up every night. We're doing these things. And I've already seen a change.

The other thing I've done is I started trying to find songs  - and I'm going to find them in different periods, but right now I'm stuck in the Forties and the Fifties because the songs back then, especially during the Great Depression, were different.I contend that we haven't really seen anything like it since the 1960s.

Go back and listen to That's Life by Frank Sinatra. Really listen to the words of That's Life. What is that saying? "You know I've been up, I've been down, I've been a king, I've been a pawn, I've been everything. And every time I pick myself up again and I tell myself, that's life." Now, that's the exact opposite of what our society's teaching. You would hear that song on the radio today; I don't think anybody would pen those words anymore! But that's what made us great. You look at the words of Accentuate the Positive, or Swinging on a Star. You look. Look at the words. You want to swing on a star and carry moon beams home in a jar? Or would you rather be a pig? Listen to the words.

So I put together, I think there's 30 or 40 songs that I put together, and we have been playing them in the house for the last week. And I looked at my wife yesterday and I said, "You notice a difference in the house?". I have.

I want you to go on a journey with me. I want you to try an experiment. And this isn't for everybody, but if you are tired of being sick and tired, change your attitude. I want you to say these words:

1) I am healthy

2) I am happy

3) I am an unstoppable force as I do His will.

I am a partner with the infinite, and as He tells me what to do, I am unstoppable.

You start putting positive in yourself because we have put enough poison into ourselves. This society is poison.

You change just your home and what you pour into your head every day. I've only done it for a week now, and I'm telling you there's a huge difference. A huge difference. Pour it into yourself. Do an experiment. See if it changes your outlook.

You change your outlook, you'll change your life.

A new Monroe Doctrine? Trump quietly redraws the Western map

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The president’s moves in Venezuela, Guyana, and Colombia aren’t about drugs. They’re about re-establishing America’s sovereignty across the Western Hemisphere.

For decades, we’ve been told America’s wars are about drugs, democracy, or “defending freedom.” But look closer at what’s unfolding off the coast of Venezuela, and you’ll see something far more strategic taking shape. Donald Trump’s so-called drug war isn’t about fentanyl or cocaine. It’s about control — and a rebirth of American sovereignty.

The aim of Trump’s ‘drug war’ is to keep the hemisphere’s oil, minerals, and manufacturing within the Western family and out of Beijing’s hands.

The president understands something the foreign policy class forgot long ago: The world doesn’t respect apologies. It respects strength.

While the global elites in Davos tout the Great Reset, Trump is building something entirely different — a new architecture of power based on regional independence, not global dependence. His quiet campaign in the Western Hemisphere may one day be remembered as the second Monroe Doctrine.

Venezuela sits at the center of it all. It holds the world’s largest crude oil reserves — oil perfectly suited for America’s Gulf refineries. For years, China and Russia have treated Venezuela like a pawn on their chessboard, offering predatory loans in exchange for control of those resources. The result has been a corrupt, communist state sitting in our own back yard. For too long, Washington shrugged. Not any more.The naval exercises in the Caribbean, the sanctions, the patrols — they’re not about drug smugglers. They’re about evicting China from our hemisphere.

Trump is using the old “drug war” playbook to wage a new kind of war — an economic and strategic one — without firing a shot at our actual enemies. The goal is simple: Keep the hemisphere’s oil, minerals, and manufacturing within the Western family and out of Beijing’s hands.

Beyond Venezuela

Just east of Venezuela lies Guyana, a country most Americans couldn’t find on a map a year ago. Then ExxonMobil struck oil, and suddenly Guyana became the newest front in a quiet geopolitical contest. Washington is helping defend those offshore platforms, build radar systems, and secure undersea cables — not for charity, but for strategy. Control energy, data, and shipping lanes, and you control the future.

Moreover, Colombia — a country once defined by cartels — is now positioned as the hinge between two oceans and two continents. It guards the Panama Canal and sits atop rare-earth minerals every modern economy needs. Decades of American presence there weren’t just about cocaine interdiction; they were about maintaining leverage over the arteries of global trade. Trump sees that clearly.

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All of these recent news items — from the military drills in the Caribbean to the trade negotiations — reflect a new vision of American power. Not global policing. Not endless nation-building. It’s about strategic sovereignty.

It’s the same philosophy driving Trump’s approach to NATO, the Middle East, and Asia. We’ll stand with you — but you’ll stand on your own two feet. The days of American taxpayers funding global security while our own borders collapse are over.

Trump’s Monroe Doctrine

Critics will call it “isolationism.” It isn’t. It’s realism. It’s recognizing that America’s strength comes not from fighting other people’s wars but from securing our own energy, our own supply lines, our own hemisphere. The first Monroe Doctrine warned foreign powers to stay out of the Americas. The second one — Trump’s — says we’ll defend them, but we’ll no longer be their bank or their babysitter.

Historians may one day mark this moment as the start of a new era — when America stopped apologizing for its own interests and started rebuilding its sovereignty, one barrel, one chip, and one border at a time.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

Antifa isn’t “leaderless” — It’s an organized machine of violence

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The mob rises where men of courage fall silent. The lesson from Portland, Chicago, and other blue cities is simple: Appeasing radicals doesn’t buy peace — it only rents humiliation.

Parts of America, like Portland and Chicago, now resemble occupied territory. Progressive city governments have surrendered control to street militias, leaving citizens, journalists, and even federal officers to face violent anarchists without protection.

Take Portland, where Antifa has terrorized the city for more than 100 consecutive nights. Federal officers trying to keep order face nightly assaults while local officials do nothing. Independent journalists, such as Nick Sortor, have even been arrested for documenting the chaos. Sortor and Blaze News reporter Julio Rosas later testified at the White House about Antifa’s violence — testimony that corporate media outlets buried.

Antifa is organized, funded, and emboldened.

Chicago offers the same grim picture. Federal agents have been stalked, ambushed, and denied backup from local police while under siege from mobs. Calls for help went unanswered, putting lives in danger. This is more than disorder; it is open defiance of federal authority and a violation of the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause.

A history of violence

For years, the legacy media and left-wing think tanks have portrayed Antifa as “decentralized” and “leaderless.” The opposite is true. Antifa is organized, disciplined, and well-funded. Groups like Rose City Antifa in Oregon, the Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club in Texas, and Jane’s Revenge operate as coordinated street militias. Legal fronts such as the National Lawyers Guild provide protection, while crowdfunding networks and international supporters funnel money directly to the movement.

The claim that Antifa lacks structure is a convenient myth — one that’s cost Americans dearly.

History reminds us what happens when mobs go unchecked. The French Revolution, Weimar Germany, Mao’s Red Guards — every one began with chaos on the streets. But it wasn’t random. Today’s radicals follow the same playbook: Exploit disorder, intimidate opponents, and seize moral power while the state looks away.

Dismember the dragon

The Trump administration’s decision to designate Antifa a domestic terrorist organization was long overdue. The label finally acknowledged what citizens already knew: Antifa functions as a militant enterprise, recruiting and radicalizing youth for coordinated violence nationwide.

But naming the threat isn’t enough. The movement’s financiers, organizers, and enablers must also face justice. Every dollar that funds Antifa’s destruction should be traced, seized, and exposed.

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This fight transcends party lines. It’s not about left versus right; it’s about civilization versus anarchy. When politicians and judges excuse or ignore mob violence, they imperil the republic itself. Americans must reject silence and cowardice while street militias operate with impunity.

Antifa is organized, funded, and emboldened. The violence in Portland and Chicago is deliberate, not spontaneous. If America fails to confront it decisively, the price won’t just be broken cities — it will be the erosion of the republic itself.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

Colorado counselor fights back after faith declared “illegal”

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The state is effectively silencing professionals who dare speak truths about gender and sexuality, redefining faith-guided speech as illegal.

This week, free speech is once again on the line before the U.S. Supreme Court. At stake is whether Americans still have the right to talk about faith, morality, and truth in their private practice without the government’s permission.

The case comes out of Colorado, where lawmakers in 2019 passed a ban on what they call “conversion therapy.” The law prohibits licensed counselors from trying to change a minor’s gender identity or sexual orientation, including their behaviors or gender expression. The law specifically targets Christian counselors who serve clients attempting to overcome gender dysphoria and not fall prey to the transgender ideology.

The root of this case isn’t about therapy. It’s about erasing a worldview.

The law does include one convenient exception. Counselors are free to “assist” a person who wants to transition genders but not someone who wants to affirm their biological sex. In other words, you can help a child move in one direction — one that is in line with the state’s progressive ideology — but not the other.

Think about that for a moment. The state is saying that a counselor can’t even discuss changing behavior with a client. Isn’t that the whole point of counseling?

One‑sided freedom

Kaley Chiles, a licensed professional counselor in Colorado Springs, has been one of the victims of this blatant attack on the First Amendment. Chiles has dedicated her practice to helping clients dealing with addiction, trauma, sexuality struggles, and gender dysphoria. She’s also a Christian who serves patients seeking guidance rooted in biblical teaching.

Before 2019, she could counsel minors according to her faith. She could talk about biblical morality, identity, and the path to wholeness. When the state outlawed that speech, she stopped. She followed the law — and then she sued.

Her case, Chiles v. Salazar, is now before the Supreme Court. Justices heard oral arguments on Tuesday. The question: Is counseling a form of speech or merely a government‑regulated service?

If the court rules the wrong way, it won’t just silence therapists. It could muzzle pastors, teachers, parents — anyone who believes in truth grounded in something higher than the state.

Censored belief

I believe marriage between a man and a woman is ordained by God. I believe that family — mother, father, child — is central to His design for humanity.

I believe that men and women are created in God’s image, with divine purpose and eternal worth. Gender isn’t an accessory; it’s part of who we are.

I believe the command to “be fruitful and multiply” still stands, that the power to create life is sacred, and that it belongs within marriage between a man and a woman.

And I believe that when we abandon these principles — when we treat sex as recreation, when we dissolve families, when we forget our vows — society fractures.

Are those statements controversial now? Maybe. But if this case goes against Chiles, those statements and others could soon be illegal to say aloud in public.

Faith on trial

In Colorado today, a counselor cannot sit down with a 15‑year‑old who’s struggling with gender identity and say, “You were made in God’s image, and He does not make mistakes.” That is now considered hate speech.

That’s the “freedom” the modern left is offering — freedom to affirm, but never to question. Freedom to comply, but never to dissent. The same movement that claims to champion tolerance now demands silence from anyone who disagrees. The root of this case isn’t about therapy. It’s about erasing a worldview.

The real test

No matter what happens at the Supreme Court, we cannot stop speaking the truth. These beliefs aren’t political slogans. For me, they are the product of years of wrestling, searching, and learning through pain and grace what actually leads to peace. For us, they are the fundamental principles that lead to a flourishing life. We cannot balk at standing for truth.

Maybe that’s why God allows these moments — moments when believers are pushed to the wall. They force us to ask hard questions: What is true? What is worth standing for? What is worth dying for — and living for?

If we answer those questions honestly, we’ll find not just truth, but freedom.

The state doesn’t grant real freedom — and it certainly isn’t defined by Colorado legislators. Real freedom comes from God. And the day we forget that, the First Amendment will mean nothing at all.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

Glenn Beck joins Megyn Kelly LIVE — One night ONLY in Fort Worth!

Get ready for sparks to fly. For the first time in years, Glenn will come face-to-face with Megyn Kelly — and this time, he’s the one in the hot seat. On October 25, 2025, at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas, Glenn joins Megyn on her “Megyn Kelly Live Tour” for a no-holds-barred conversation that promises laughs, surprises, and maybe even a few uncomfortable questions.

What will happen when two of America’s sharpest voices collide under the spotlight? Will Glenn finally reveal the major announcement he’s been teasing on the radio for weeks? You’ll have to be there to find out.

This promises to be more than just an interview — it’s a live showdown packed with wit, honesty, and the kind of energy you can only feel if you are in the room. Tickets are selling fast, so don’t miss your chance to see Glenn like you’ve never seen him before.

Get your tickets NOW at www.MegynKelly.com before they’re gone!