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November 03, 2025
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GUEST: Jack Brewer
TOPIC: Jamaica has sustained DEVASTATING damage from Hurricane Melissa.

News...

FBI thwarts jihadist terrorist attack in Dearborn, Michigan, planned for Halloween weekend
Terrorists were inspired by ISIS, sources tell CNN.

Ex-CIA Director John Brennan explodes as he’s confronted about Hunter Biden’s laptop
Brennan lost his temper after being pressed about signing the 2020 letter dismissing Hunter Biden’s laptop story as Russian influence, poking his questioner in the chest and insisting, “We never said it was disinformation.”

National populists surge around the world — spelling doom for the global elite
Democrats are flummoxed at President Trump's success, but recent elections around the world provide the answer: Voters want conservative, not leftist, populism.

The left wants to ‘reclaim’ the American flag; did they run out of lighter fluid?
Maybe they could put that statue of George Washington back while they’re at it.

Trump confirms he's helping Dilbert creator Scott Adams get cancer treatment: 'On it'
Adams' plea for assistance went viral after he announced that he had been unable to schedule treatment using a new drug. "I will ask President Trump if he can get Kaiser of Northern California to respond and schedule it for Monday," Adams wrote. However, he didn't need to wait until Monday as Trump responded he's "on it."

Letitia James is fighting another DOJ probe for ‘selective enforcement’ against Trump’s business, NRA, unsealed docs show
Unsealed filings show New York AG Letitia James is trying to block DOJ subpoenas in a federal probe over claims she politically targeted Trump’s business and the NRA — just weeks after her own mortgage fraud indictment.

Kentucky woman received a package of human body parts by mistake, coroner says
She was expecting time-sensitive medication but opened the box to find two arms and four fingers meant to be used in surgical training, the coroner said.

Halloween sign at home of 'Mr. Crafty Pants' influencer creeps out neighbors after child sex abuse material arrest
Neighbors said the Kentucky YouTuber’s “I smell children” sign took on a disturbing new meaning after police arrested him on 29 counts related to child sexual abuse material shared through the Kik app.

Alabama police get revenge on high school seniors who covered HQ with toilet paper: ‘We don't want to hear any crying’
“We know who you are, and while you just put the PlayStation controller down for a week, we are children of the '80s and '90s who perfected this craft years ago,” Heflin Police Chief Ross McGlaughn said. The police responded with a "tactical" TP bombardment of the preps' homes.

Government shutdown...

Fetterman to Democrats: ‘Own the shutdown’ and reopen government now
Fetterman also noted that numerous unions and airlines are demanding that the Senate reopen the government: “And do we really want to make flying less safe by forcing this kind of situation and making things that much [more] stressed?”

Democrat Senator Mark Warner hints at end to shutdown 'this week'
Warner particularly pointed to ongoing legal proceedings over continued funding of the SNAP program.

Transportation Secretary: If shutdown continues, flights will be delayed, canceled to ensure safety
"Do I go to work and not get a paycheck and not put food on the table, or do I drive for Uber or Door Dash or wait tables?”

NYC...

NY Post: 20 reasons to vote against NYC mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani
If Mamdani wins, he’s sure to stock his cabinet with every Democratic Socialist he can find — and they will treat Gotham as an Oberlin postgraduate study session. No business will go unpunished. No tax dollar will go unspent. Every radical idea from Marx to Noam Chomsky will get an airing.

Report claims a network of charities connected to George Soros funneled $40M to support Mamdani's political rise in tax-dodging scheme
The 34-year-old state assemblyman's team has always claimed that he rose from obscurity to become NYC's mayoral front-runner thanks to an organic, grassroots movement, funded by small donations. But that narrative is now being called into question according to a report from a watchdog website.

NY Times: Obama calls Mamdani to praise his campaign and offers to be sounding board
Barack told Mamdani, “Your campaign has been impressive to watch,” and suggested that he was invested in Mamdani’s success beyond the election.

Trump dismisses comparisons to Mamdani: ‘I’m a much better-looking person than him’
The president also called the New York mayoral frontrunner a "communist."

Politics...

DNC chair say he opposes political violence, then calls Trump administration a ‘fascist regime’
"I've been very vocal, after Charlie Kirk died, that there's no place for political violence," Ken Martin told Semafor in an interview. "But calling out a fascist regime for what it is? There's no doubt in my mind, when you look at other fascist regimes around the world, over our history, that this not only has the hallmarks of a fascist regime, it is a fascist regime."

Obama campaigns with scandal-plagued Virginia Dem who fantasized about murdering opponents
Barack hit the campaign trail in Virginia on Saturday, speaking on behalf of Democratic gubernatorial nominee Abigail Spanberger and standing on the same stage as scandal-plagued attorney general nominee Jay Jones.

Michigan Democrats speak at fundraiser led by Hamas sympathizer who told Jews to ‘go back to Poland’
Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist, Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed, and Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud headlined an event hosted by an Arab-American PAC led by Osama Siblani, a Hezbollah supporter known for praising Hamas and calling for Israeli Jews’ expulsion.

Democrat state senator allegedly secretly recorded 2 critics having sex in order to silence them
A Maryland state senator is denying allegations that she threatened to release highly compromising video of a former political consultant to keep her from making public comments about the senator.

Book tours...

A book so bad it shattered liberals' faith in DEI
Karine Jean-Pierre has written the worst political memoir ever written in the history of the English language. This is not hyperbole. Imagine writing a book so bad it could shame Democrats and liberals into second-guessing their cult-like devotion to DEI.

Kamala Harris used to call teens 'stupid,' now says 16-year-olds should be allowed to vote
In a new interview promoting her book, Harris argued that teenagers deserve a say in shaping policies that will affect their future, despite once calling 18- to 24-year-olds “stupid” when she served as California’s attorney general.

Kamala goes scorched earth, recalls how Biden ‘angered’ her in pre-debate pep-talk
In a new interview promoting her book, Harris recalled how upset she was that Biden called before her debate with Trump to let her know that Democrat donors in Philadelphia were not going to back her campaign because they said she had bad-mouthed Biden.

Michelle Obama complains again about ‘white hot glare’ during White House years
In a new interview promoting her book, the former first lady said she and Barack Obama “couldn’t afford any missteps” as the first black couple in the White House.

Economy...

Trump warns SCOTUS overturning tariffs would reduce US to 'Third World' status
"If we win, we will be the Richest, Most Secure Country anywhere in the World, BY FAR. If we lose, our Country could be reduced to almost Third World status — Pray to God that that doesn’t happen!" he concluded.

Trump tariffs could add $40 billion to holiday shoppers’ and sellers’ costs, LendingTree warns
The average American holiday shopper will pay $132 more because of the tariffs implemented by President Trump, the online lending marketplace estimates.

Immigration...

Death threats against ICE officers up by 8,000%, DHS says
ICE officers continue to work without pay paid during the federal government shutdown.

DHS moves to require DNA, facial scans, and voice prints for all immigration applicants
A new Trump administration rule would mandate biometric data collection for anyone seeking an immigration benefit, expanding DHS authority to gather DNA, facial imagery, and other identifiers to prevent fraud and verify identity.

Trump administration ends automatic work permit extensions for foreign nationals
A new DHS rule halts automatic renewals of employment authorization, citing the need for stricter vetting and fraud prevention, as USCIS warns that working in the U.S. is “a privilege, not a right.”

WAR news...

Democrat says Trump’s boat strikes should cause MAGA to ‘imagine who gets killed’ under President AOC
"All my MAGA friends ... need to imagine who gets killed when President Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says that it doesn’t matter what the law says."

US military strikes another drug boat in Caribbean, Hegseth compares narco-traffickers to Al-Qaeda
"These narco-terrorists are bringing drugs to our shores to poison Americans at home — and they will not succeed. The Department will treat them EXACTLY how we treated Al-Qaeda. We will continue to track them, map them, hunt them, and kill them."

Trump says Maduro’s days leading Venezuela are numbered
Trump declined to confirm or deny reports of planned U.S. military strikes on Venezuelan territory.

Israel...

Jerusalem Post: If Israel handles it right, rare Middle East diplomatic openings could reshape region
The stick has been wielded effectively. Now it’s time to see if the carrot can be just as powerful.

Ukraine - Russia...

Drones spotted over NATO state military base linked to US nuclear weapons
Over the weekend, multiple large drones were spotted flying over Belgium’s Kleine-Brogel Air Base, a site believed to host U.S. tactical nuclear weapons and soon F-35 jets.

Politico: The dark side of Zelenskyy’s rule
Opposition lawmakers and civil society activists say Ukraine’s leadership is using lawfare to intimidate opponents and silence critics.

China...

Trump says Xi assured him China won’t invade Taiwan during his presidency ‘because they know the consequences’
“He never brought it up. People were a little surprised by that. But they understand what’s gonna happen. [Xi] has openly said, and his people have openly said at meetings, ‘We would never do anything while President Trump is president,’ because they know the consequences,” Trump stated.

China's next-gen fusion reactor could achieve first plasma in just 2 years
The promise of fusion energy is hard to overstate. With the ability to leverage the energy-producing physics that power our sun, humanity could tap into a near-limitless wealth of carbon-free energy, forever ending our dependence on the fossil fuels that are quickly poisoning the planet.

Canada...

Movement barrels forward to euthanize 12-year-old children in Canada
Canada’s state-run euthanasia program is being pushed to include minors as young as 12, with advocates urging lawmakers to judge “maturity” instead of age and to let older teens choose euthanize without parental consent.

Supreme Court strikes down mandatory minimum sentences for child porn
In a 5-4 decision, the court found the mandatory one year for possession or accessing child sexual abuse materials violated the Charter because of certain hypothetical scenarios where such a sentence would be disproportionate, meaning that it should be of no force and effect.

Europe...

Police rule out terrorism in mass stabbing attack on UK train
"There is nothing to suggest this is a terrorist incident," British Transport Police Superintendent John Loveless said. The two arrested remain in custody, he said, adding that one is a 32-year-old black British man and the other is a 35-year-old man of Caribbean descent.

Oslo stunned as tests reveal it's new fleet of Chinese electric buses can be remotely shut down
Norway’s transit agency found its new Chinese-made Yutong buses could be controlled from abroad, prompting security fears that Beijing could disable the fleet or disrupt service at will.

Africa...

Trump warns US may go ‘guns-a-blazing’ into Nigeria over Christian killings
President Trump threatened to cut all aid and ordered the Department of War to prepare for possible military action if Nigeria’s government fails to stop Islamist massacres of Christians, calling the situation an “existential threat” and a “mass slaughter.”

‘A deep sense of gratitude’: Nicki Minaj praises Trump for action on persecuted Christians
"Thank you to The President and his team for taking this seriously."

Entertainment...

Harrison Ford goes on unhinged rant about Trump over global warming
“He doesn’t have any policies, he has whims. It scares the s**t out of me. The ignorance, the hubris, the lies, the perfidy. He knows better, but he’s an instrument of the status quo, and he’s making money, hand over fist, while the world goes to hell in a hand basket. It’s unbelievable. I don’t know of a greater criminal in history.”

Media...

White House restricts press access after reporters caught 'secretly recording' sensitive information, offices
Reporters will no longer have open access to senior communications areas in the West Wing after aides discovered some had been secretly recording meetings and photographing documents, prompting tighter security controls to protect national security discussions.

Environment...

Trump admin looking to restore coal plants as America’s grid buckles
The DOE announced Friday that it issued a Notice of Funding Opportunity to restore coal plants across the U.S. to “design, implement, test, and validate three strategic opportunities for refurbishment and retrofit of existing American coal power plants to make them operate more efficiently, reliably, and affordably.”

Education...

Explosion rocks Harvard Medical School as police hunt two suspects
An early-morning blast inside the Goldenson Building, believed to be intentional, sent two suspects fleeing the scene before officers arrived.

AI...

Microsoft AI chief says only biological beings can be conscious
Mustafa Suleyman says only biological beings are capable of consciousness and that developers and researchers should stop pursuing projects that suggest otherwise.

WSJ: The AI revolution will bring prosperity
Most speculation about artificial intelligence has focused on its potential to kill jobs and on the policies that government might implement to control AI and cushion workers against unemployment. Amid all the pessimism and calls for government protection, it’s important to remember that our only window into the future is the past.

Nov. 3, 2004 - Gloat Fest 2004... Bush wins re-election... Michael Moore speech... Yesterday Glenn was expecting to have a pity party... John Kerry has conceded... Bush's margin of victory... Story about the band Good Charlotte...

Rage isn’t conservatism — THIS is what true patriots stand for

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Conservatism is not about rage or nostalgia. It’s about moral clarity, national renewal, and guarding the principles that built America’s freedom.

Our movement is at a crossroads, and the question before us is simple: What does it mean to be a conservative in America today?

For years, we have been told what we are against — against the left, against wokeism, against decline. But opposition alone does not define a movement, and it certainly does not define a moral vision.

We are not here to cling to the past or wallow in grievance. We are not the movement of rage. We are the movement of reason and hope.

The media, as usual, are eager to supply their own answer. The New York Times recently suggested that Nick Fuentes represents the “future” of conservatism. That’s nonsense — a distortion of both truth and tradition. Fuentes and those like him do not represent American conservatism. They represent its counterfeit.

Real conservatism is not rage. It is reverence. It does not treat the past as a museum, but as a teacher. America’s founders asked us to preserve their principles and improve upon their practice. That means understanding what we are conserving — a living covenant, not a relic.

Conservatism as stewardship

In 2025, conservatism means stewardship — of a nation, a culture, and a moral inheritance too precious to abandon. To conserve is not to freeze history. It is to stand guard over what is essential. We are custodians of an experiment in liberty that rests on the belief that rights come not from kings or Congress, but from the Creator.

That belief built this country. It will be what saves it. The Constitution is a covenant between generations. Conservatism is the duty to keep that covenant alive — to preserve what works, correct what fails, and pass on both wisdom and freedom to those who come next.

Economics, culture, and morality are inseparable. Debt is not only fiscal; it is moral. Spending what belongs to the unborn is theft. Dependence is not compassion; it is weakness parading as virtue. A society that trades responsibility for comfort teaches citizens how to live as slaves.

Freedom without virtue is not freedom; it is chaos. A culture that mocks faith cannot defend liberty, and a nation that rejects truth cannot sustain justice. Conservatism must again become the moral compass of a disoriented people, reminding America that liberty survives only when anchored to virtue.

Rebuilding what is broken

We cannot define ourselves by what we oppose. We must build families, communities, and institutions that endure. Government is broken because education is broken, and education is broken because we abandoned the formation of the mind and the soul. The work ahead is competence, not cynicism.

Conservatives should embrace innovation and technology while rejecting the chaos of Silicon Valley. Progress must not come at the expense of principle. Technology must strengthen people, not replace them. Artificial intelligence should remain a servant, never a master. The true strength of a nation is not measured by data or bureaucracy, but by the quiet webs of family, faith, and service that hold communities together. When Washington falters — and it will — those neighborhoods must stand.

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This is the real work of conservatism: to conserve what is good and true and to reform what has decayed. It is not about slogans; it is about stewardship — the patient labor of building a civilization that remembers what it stands for.

A creed for the rising generation

We are not here to cling to the past or wallow in grievance. We are not the movement of rage. We are the movement of reason and hope.

For the rising generation, conservatism cannot be nostalgia. It must be more than a memory of 9/11 or admiration for a Reagan era they never lived through. Many young Americans did not experience those moments — and they should not have to in order to grasp the lessons they taught and the truths they embodied. The next chapter is not about preserving relics but renewing purpose. It must speak to conviction, not cynicism; to moral clarity, not despair.

Young people are searching for meaning in a culture that mocks truth and empties life of purpose. Conservatism should be the moral compass that reminds them freedom is responsibility and that faith, family, and moral courage remain the surest rebellions against hopelessness.

To be a conservative in 2025 is to defend the enduring principles of American liberty while stewarding the culture, the economy, and the spirit of a free people. It is to stand for truth when truth is unfashionable and to guard moral order when the world celebrates chaos.

We are not merely holding the torch. We are relighting it.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

Glenn Beck: Here's what's WRONG with conservatism today

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What does it mean to be a conservative in 2025? Glenn offers guidance on what conservatives need to do to ensure the conservative movement doesn't fade into oblivion. We have to get back to PRINCIPLES, not policies.

To be a conservative in 2025 means to STAND

  • for Stewardship, protecting the wisdom of our Founders;
  • for Truth, defending objective reality in an age of illusion;
  • for Accountability, living within our means as individuals and as a nation;
  • for Neighborhood, rebuilding family, faith, and local community;
  • and for Duty, carrying freedom forward to the next generation.

A conservative doesn’t cling to the past — he stands guard over the principles that make the future possible.

Transcript

Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors

GLENN: You know, I'm so tired of being against everything. Saying what we're not.

It's time that we start saying what we are. And it's hard, because we're changing. It's different to be a conservative, today, than it was, you know, years ago.

And part of that is just coming from hard knocks. School of hard knocks. We've learned a lot of lessons on things we thought we were for. No, no, no.

But conservatives. To be a conservative, it shouldn't be about policies. It's really about principles. And that's why we've lost our way. Because we've lost our principles. And it's easy. Because the world got easy. And now the world is changing so rapidly. The boundaries between truth and illusion are blurred second by second. Machines now think. Currencies falter. Families fractured. And nations, all over the world, have forgotten who they are.

So what does it mean to be a conservative now, in 2025, '26. For a lot of people, it means opposing the left. That's -- that's a reaction. That's not renewal.

That's a reaction. It can't mean also worshiping the past, as if the past were perfect. The founders never asked for that.

They asked that we would preserve the principles and perfect their practice. They knew it was imperfect. To make a more perfect nation.

Is what we're supposed to be doing.

2025, '26 being a conservative has to mean stewardship.

The stewardship of a nation, of a civilization.

Of a moral inheritance. That is too precious to abandon.

What does it mean to conserve? To conserve something doesn't mean to stand still.

It means to stand guard. It means to defend what the Founders designed. The separation of powers. The rule of law.

The belief that our rights come not from kings or from Congress, but from the creator himself.
This is a system that was not built for ease. It was built for endurance, and it will endure if we only teach it again!

The problem is, we only teach it like it's a museum piece. You know, it's not a museum piece. It's not an old dusty document. It's a living covenant between the dead, the living and the unborn.

So this chapter of -- of conservatism. Must confront reality. Economic reality.

Global reality.

And moral reality.

It's not enough just to be against something. Or chant tax cuts or free markets.

We have to ask -- we have to start with simple questions like freedom, yes. But freedom for what?

Freedom for economic sovereignty. Your right to produce and to innovate. To build without asking Beijing's permission. That's a moral issue now.

Another moral issue: Debt! It's -- it's generational theft. We're spending money from generations we won't even meet.

And dependence. Another moral issue. It's a national weakness.

People cannot stand up for themselves. They can't make it themselves. And we're encouraging them to sit down, shut up, and don't think.

And the conservative who can't connect with fiscal prudence, and connect fiscal prudence to moral duty, you're not a conservative at all.

Being a conservative today, means you have to rebuild an economy that serves liberty, not one that serves -- survives by debt, and then there's the soul of the nation.

We are living through a time period. An age of dislocation. Where our families are fractured.

Our faith is almost gone.

Meaning is evaporating so fast. Nobody knows what meaning of life is. That's why everybody is killing themselves. They have no meaning in life. And why they don't have any meaning, is truth itself is mocked and blurred and replaced by nothing, but lies and noise.

If you want to be a conservative, then you have to be to become the moral compass that reminds a lost people, liberty cannot survive without virtue.

That freedom untethered from moral order is nothing, but chaos!

And that no app, no algorithm, no ideology is ever going to fill the void, where meaning used to live!

To be a conservative, moving forward, we cannot just be about policies.

We have to defend the sacred, the unseen, the moral architecture, that gives people an identity. So how do you do that? Well, we have to rebuild competence. We have to restore institutions that actually work. Just in the last hour, this monologue on what we're facing now, because we can't open the government.

Why can't we open the government?

Because government is broken. Why does nobody care? Because education is broken.

We have to reclaim education, not as propaganda, but as the formation of the mind and the soul. Conservatives have to champion innovation.

Not to imitate Silicon Valley's chaos, but to harness technology in defense of human dignity. Don't be afraid of AI.

Know what it is. Know it's a tool. It's a tool to strengthen people. As long as you always remember it's a tool. Otherwise, you will lose your humanity to it!

That's a conservative principle. To be a conservative, we have to restore local strength. Our families are the basic building blocks, our schools, our churches, and our charities. Not some big, distant NGO that was started by the Tides Foundation, but actual local charities, where you see people working. A web of voluntary institutions that held us together at one point. Because when Washington fails, and it will, it already has, the neighborhood has to stand.

Charlie Kirk was doing one thing that people on our side were not doing. Speaking to the young.

But not in nostalgia.

Not in -- you know, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan.

In purpose. They don't remember. They don't remember who Dick Cheney was.

I was listening to Fox news this morning, talking about Dick Cheney. And there was somebody there that I know was not even born when Dick Cheney. When the World Trade Center came down.

They weren't even born. They were telling me about Dick Cheney.

And I was like, come on. Come on. Come on.

If you don't remember who Dick Cheney was, how are you going to remember 9/11. How will you remember who Reagan was.

That just says, that's an old man's creed. No, it's not.

It's the ultimate timeless rebellion against tyranny in all of its forms. Yes, and even the tyranny of despair, which is eating people alive!

We need to redefine ourselves. Because we have changed, and that's a good thing. The creed for a generation, that will decide the fate of the republic, is what we need to find.

A conservative in 2025, '26.

Is somebody who protects the enduring principles of American liberty and self-government.

While actively stewarding the institutions. The culture. The economy of this nation!

For those who are alive and yet to be unborn.

We have to be a group of people that we're not anchored in the past. Or in rage! But in reason. And morality. Realism. And hope for the future.

We're the stewards! We're the ones that have to relight the torch, not just hold it. We didn't -- we didn't build this Torch. We didn't make this Torch. We're the keepers of the flame, but we are honor-bound to pass that forward, and conservatives are viewed as people who just live in the past. We're not here to merely conserve the past, but to renew it. To sort it. What worked, what didn't work. We're the ones to say to the world, there's still such a thing as truth. There's still such a thing as virtue. You can deny it all you want.

But the pain will only get worse. There's still such a thing as America!

And if now is not the time to renew America. When is that time?

If you're not the person. If we're not the generation to actively stand and redefine and defend, then who is that person?

We are -- we are supposed to preserve what works.

That -- you know, I was writing something this morning.

I was making notes on this. A constitutionalist is for restraint. A progressive, if you will, for lack of a better term, is for more power.

Progressives want the government to have more power.

Conservatives are for more restraint.

But the -- for the American eagle to fly, we must have both wings.

And one can't be stronger than the other.

We as a conservative, are supposed to look and say, no. Don't look at that. The past teaches us this, this, and this. So don't do that.

We can't do that. But there are these things that we were doing in the past, that we have to jettison. And maybe the other side has a good idea on what should replace that. But we're the ones who are supposed to say, no, but remember the framework.

They're -- they can dream all they want.
They can come up with all these utopias and everything else, and we can go, "That's a great idea."

But how do we make it work with this framework? Because that's our job. The point of this is, it takes both. It takes both.

We have to have the customs and the moral order. And the practices that have stood the test of time, in trial.

We -- we're in an amazing, amazing time. Amazing time.

We live at a time now, where anything -- literally anything is possible!

I don't want to be against stuff. I want to be for the future. I want to be for a rich, dynamic future. One where we are part of changing the world for the better!

Where more people are lifted out of poverty, more people are given the freedom to choose, whatever it is that they want to choose, as their own government and everything.

I don't want to force it down anybody's throat.

We -- I am so excited to be a shining city on the hill again.

We have that opportunity, right in front of us!

But not in we get bogged down in hatred, in division.

Not if we get bogged down into being against something.

We must be for something!

I know what I'm for.

Do you?

From Pharaoh to Hamas: The same spirit of evil, new disguise

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The drone footage out of Gaza isn’t just war propaganda — it’s a glimpse of the same darkness that once convinced men they were righteous for killing innocents.

Evil introduces itself subtly. It doesn’t announce, “Hi, I’m here to destroy you.” It whispers. It flatters. It borrows the language of justice, empathy, and freedom, twisting them until hatred sounds righteous and violence sounds brave.

We are watching that same deception unfold again — in the streets, on college campuses, and in the rhetoric of people who should know better. It’s the oldest story in the world, retold with new slogans.

Evil wins when good people mirror its rage.

A drone video surfaced this week showing Hamas terrorists staging the “discovery” of a hostage’s body. They pushed a corpse out of a window, dragged it into a hole, buried it, and then called in aid workers to “find” what they themselves had planted. It was theater — evil, disguised as victimhood. And it was caught entirely on camera.

That’s how evil operates. It never comes in through the front door. It sneaks in, often through manipulative pity. The same spirit animates the moral rot spreading through our institutions — from the halls of universities to the chambers of government.

Take Zohran Mamdani, a New York assemblyman who has praised jihadists and defended pro-Hamas agitators. His father, a Columbia University professor, wrote that America and al-Qaeda are morally equivalent — that suicide bombings shouldn’t be viewed as barbaric. Imagine thinking that way after watching 3,000 Americans die on 9/11. That’s not intellectualism. That’s indoctrination.

Often, that indoctrination comes from hostile foreign actors, peddled by complicit pawns on our own soil. The pro-Hamas protests that erupted across campuses last year, for example, were funded by Iran — a regime that murders its own citizens for speaking freely.

Ancient evil, new clothes

But the deeper danger isn’t foreign money. It’s the spiritual blindness that lets good people believe resentment is justice and envy is discernment. Scripture talks about the spirit of Amalek — the eternal enemy of God’s people, who attacks the weak from behind while the strong look away. Amalek never dies; it just changes its vocabulary and form with the times.

Today, Amalek tweets. He speaks through professors who defend terrorism as “anti-colonial resistance.” He preaches from pulpits that call violence “solidarity.” And he recruits through algorithms, whispering that the Jews control everything, that America had it coming, that chaos is freedom. Those are ancient lies wearing new clothes.

When nations embrace those lies, it’s not the Jews who perish first. It’s the nations themselves. The soul dies long before the body. The ovens of Auschwitz didn’t start with smoke; they started with silence and slogans.

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A time for choosing

So what do we do? We speak truth — calmly, firmly, without venom. Because hatred can’t kill hatred; it only feeds it. Truth, compassion, and courage starve it to death.

Evil wins when good people mirror its rage. That’s how Amalek survives — by making you fight him with his own weapons. The only victory that lasts is moral clarity without malice, courage without cruelty.

The war we’re fighting isn’t new. It’s the same battle between remembrance and amnesia, covenant and chaos, humility and pride. The same spirit that whispered to Pharaoh, to Hitler, and to every mob that thought hatred could heal the world is whispering again now — on your screens, in your classrooms, in your churches.

Will you join it, or will you stand against it?

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

Bill Gates ends climate fear campaign, declares AI the future ruler

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The Big Tech billionaire once said humanity must change or perish. Now he claims we’ll survive — just as elites prepare total surveillance.

For decades, Americans have been told that climate change is an imminent apocalypse — the existential threat that justifies every intrusion into our lives, from banning gas stoves to rationing energy to tracking personal “carbon scores.”

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates helped lead that charge. He warned repeatedly that the “climate disaster” would be the greatest crisis humanity would ever face. He invested billions in green technology and demanded the world reach net-zero emissions by 2050 “to avoid catastrophe.”

The global contest is no longer over barrels and pipelines — it is over who gets to flip the digital switch.

Now, suddenly, he wants everyone to relax: Climate change “will not lead to humanity’s demise” after all.

Gates was making less of a scientific statement and more of a strategic pivot. When elites retire a crisis, it’s never because the threat is gone — it’s because a better one has replaced it. And something else has indeed arrived — something the ruling class finds more useful than fear of the weather.The same day Gates downshifted the doomsday rhetoric, Amazon announced it would pay warehouse workers $30 an hour — while laying off 30,000 people because artificial intelligence will soon do their jobs.

Climate panic was the warm-up. AI control is the main event.

The new currency of power

The world once revolved around oil and gas. Today, it revolves around the electricity demanded by server farms, the chips that power machine learning, and the data that can be used to manipulate or silence entire populations. The global contest is no longer over barrels and pipelines — it is over who gets to flip the digital switch. Whoever controls energy now controls information. And whoever controls information controls civilization.

Climate alarmism gave elites a pretext to centralize power over energy. Artificial intelligence gives them a mechanism to centralize power over people. The future battles will not be about carbon — they will be about control.

Two futures — both ending in tyranny

Americans are already being pushed into what look like two opposing movements, but both leave the individual powerless.

The first is the technocratic empire being constructed in the name of innovation. In its vision, human work will be replaced by machines, and digital permissions will subsume personal autonomy.

Government and corporations merge into a single authority. Your identity, finances, medical decisions, and speech rights become access points monitored by biometric scanners and enforced by automated gatekeepers. Every step, purchase, and opinion is tracked under the noble banner of “efficiency.”

The second is the green de-growth utopia being marketed as “compassion.” In this vision, prosperity itself becomes immoral. You will own less because “the planet” requires it. Elites will redesign cities so life cannot extend beyond a 15-minute walking radius, restrict movement to save the Earth, and ration resources to curb “excess.” It promises community and simplicity, but ultimately delivers enforced scarcity. Freedom withers when surviving becomes a collective permission rather than an individual right.

Both futures demand that citizens become manageable — either automated out of society or tightly regulated within it. The ruling class will embrace whichever version gives them the most leverage in any given moment.

Climate panic was losing its grip. AI dependency — and the obedience it creates — is far more potent.

The forgotten way

A third path exists, but it is the one today’s elites fear most: the path laid out in our Constitution. The founders built a system that assumes human beings are not subjects to be monitored or managed, but moral agents equipped by God with rights no government — and no algorithm — can override.

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That idea remains the most “disruptive technology” in history. It shattered the belief that people need kings or experts or global committees telling them how to live. No wonder elites want it erased.

Soon, you will be told you must choose: Live in a world run by machines or in a world stripped down for planetary salvation. Digital tyranny or rationed equality. Innovation without liberty or simplicity without dignity.

Both are traps.

The only way

The only future worth choosing is the one grounded in ordered liberty — where prosperity and progress exist alongside moral responsibility and personal freedom and human beings are treated as image-bearers of God — not climate liabilities, not data profiles, not replaceable hardware components.

Bill Gates can change his tune. The media can change the script. But the agenda remains the same.

They no longer want to save the planet. They want to run it, and they expect you to obey.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.