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Palestine unilaterally recognized after 10/7 massacre – what could go wrong?

Had Hitler not committed suicide in his bunker and survived the war, would he have been a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize? Of course not – so why in the world is Palestine being recognized as a state almost two years after the bloody murders of Oct. 7, 2023, by Hamas, and with still hostages kept in Gaza? Are we rewarding terrorism, rape, murder and hostage-taking? By saying yes to the Palestinian Authority demanding full recognition, we absolutely are, and that is more problematic than people realize.

This year marks the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly, and while there are many parts of the world that could benefit from a genuine global organization that claims to be “the one place on Earth where all the world’s nations can gather together, discuss common problems, and find shared solutions that benefit all of humanity,” the United Nations is obsessed with demonizing and delegitimizing Israel. So much so that since 2015, it passed 301 resolutions against Israel and 192 against the rest of the world, including some countries such as North Korea, Iran, Sudan, Russia, China, Syria and others. The double standards are so obvious, but nobody seems care. The bias and one-sidedness are sickening!

Officially, the Palestinian Liberation Organization declared the establishment of the State of Palestine in 1988. This happened under the leadership Yasser Arafat who, incidentally, was born in 1929 in Cairo, Egypt, not “Palestine.” Ever since, more countries have officially recognized Palestine as a bona fide state. Out of the 193 nations that are part of the United Nations, 151 have now taken sides against Israel by recognizing Palestine. This year, the U.K., France, Belgium, Portugal, Australia, Malta and Canada will join ranks.

It would be difficult to accept such a recognition even if it had conditions to it, knowing full well that these prerequisites to a two-state solution would be broken within days. How do I know that? Simply look at the Gaza Strip. That area was under Israeli control until 2005. Under Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Israel dismantled its military operations and evacuated all Israeli citizens from the Strip, leaving behind an infrastructure that could have been picked up and utilized to grow the Arab economy in Gaza. Instead, buildings were destroyed and greenhouses leveled along with any remnant of an Israeli economy and infrastructure. Twenty years late, the Gaza Strip includes 300 miles of tunnels dedicated to only one thing: killing Jews!

Let me get this straight: Israel has not been inside Gaza officially since 2005, so there is no occupation of that strip of land by Jewish settlers, period. The strip was given unilaterally to the Arabs to settle and grow their economy and society. Instead, they expanded their terrorism year after year, right in front of the world and with he financial help and political support of many nations, in the name of peace in the Middle East, and then … Oct. 7, 2023, happened. Now, several major nations from within the West are recognizing Palestine unilaterally and without any conditions. What could possibly go wrong?

Since 2015, The United States voted 93% in favor of Israel at the U.N. Let’s pray that trend continues. Yet, with the likely election of Zohran Mamdani as the next mayor of New York City and the slow but steady growth of Islam within our walls, America could turn on Israel as well. After all, the Bible does prophesy that in the End Times, the whole world – including America – will turn on Jerusalem, as spoken by Zechariah, “But it will be in that day,that I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples; all who heave it up will be severely injured. And all the nations of the earth will be gathered against it.”

As “Palestine” is on the cusp of being unilaterally recognized and terrorism rewarded, Israel increasingly finds herself pushed into a corner. Prime Minister Netanyahu might not have any other option but to annex Judea and Samaria (wrongly labeled as the West Bank) as a response to the Palestinian recognition.

The land never was and never will be Palestine, no matter what people call it. It is God’s land, and He was the very first Zionist! Coming to the rescue of Israel and speaking up against the lies spewed by the Red/Green axis is not only unpopular, but it is slowly becoming lethal. In light of Charlie Kirk’s assassination for speaking biblical truth and being a friend of Israel, we must not remain silent. As the days of being pro-Israel continue, even if her friends are dwindling down, those of us in that camp need to move it up a notch and get skin in the game. As we continue to be pro-Israel, we now need to become proactive for Israel.

Keep talking to those who disagree

Charlie Kirk, assassinated for his political beliefs and his tireless activism, was only three years younger than me. I’m a fourth-generation Californian running for governor in a state where many view my party affiliation (Republican) and political beliefs (supportive of President Trump) as akin to fascism.

Republicans in deep-blue California long ago learned to laugh off such hyperbolic political name calling, but across the country political differences are increasingly regarded – on the Left – as a justification for violence and murder. Those of us who seek to make a difference through political involvement end up becoming potential targets of the mentally deranged and politically intolerant among us. Charlie’s murder is the latest example. We must find a better way.

Charlie was a nationally recognized and admired public figure, media pundit and Gen Z trendsetter. His ghastly murder happened on livestream as the world watched. In some ways, there had been ominous warnings beforehand: The attempted assassination of President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, the ambush-style murder of healthcare executive Brian Thompson, recent murderous attacks on religious schools and institutions – these events served as omens of what tragedies result when political, religious or other differences are settled by extreme violence.

The mainstream media and the Left bear much of the blame. Since Trump declared his candidacy for president a decade ago, anchors, reporters, pundits and his political opponents have painted him as another Hitler and his supporters as Nazis, fascists, oppressors and white supremacists.

Heated political rhetoric alone does not kill. The Left and its media cronies, however, are engaged in something worse: They cover up for, and cower before, violence. After the death of George Floyd in 2020, massive violent riots broke out across the country. Those who were most eager to call Trump and his supporters fascists and Nazis repeatedly claimed, sometimes while standing in front of burning buildings and looted stores, that the country was witnessing “mostly peaceful” protests.

It was shameful, serving to justify extreme violence committed by those who deemed themselves “oppressed,” against those they deemed as “oppressors.” Alas, an entire generation of young people have come of age in a nation where this belief is screamed loudly and repeatedly on television and smartphone screens and across college campuses.

After Charlie Kirk’s death, plenty of shamefulness was on display as well. The Left blamed conservatives and attacked President Trump and, in some corners, were quick to cheer Charlie’s death on social media. Even in Congress, Democrat members did not have enough decency to allow a verbal prayer on the floor of the House of Representatives without mayhem.

By contrast, conservatives came together to hold vigils in order to mourn and pray. They did not shut down cities with mass protests or burn neighborhoods down and engage in reckless looting.

We need more such civility and restraint. I believe firmly in ushering in more decency in our public discourse, and I will practice that every day as I campaign for governor. This does not mean shying away from my core convictions. Rather, I will share with every Californian I meet the drastic reforms necessary to address the immense problems inflicted by one-party Democratic rule on my state. I hope to convince many of them that these ideas are decent and common sense and proven – and not fascist.

My family business, Zacky Farms, was at one point the largest private employer in California and the largest poultry company on the West Coast. After nearly 100 years in business, the company was forced to close in 2018, due to suffocating regulations imposed by Sacramento and worsening economic conditions.

On the campaign trail, I share with voters each day the lessons I learned helping to run my family business, and what the state can do to improve on issues ranging from taxes, minimum wage, water management, homelessness, illegal immigration and much more.

I love California and I want to make it better. To do that, those of us who offer solutions different from the leftist ruling elites and Democratic super-majority in this state have to talk to and persuade as many voters as possible, including those who might disagree.

In the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s death, I vow to keep talking. It is the best way to combat violence as the tragic, destructive and criminal recourse it is for settling our political differences.

The folly of ‘Palestinian’ statehood

Four of America’s nominally closest allies – Britain, Australia, France and Canada – disgraced themselves this week by recognizing a so-called Palestinian state. In so doing, these nations didn’t merely betray the broader Western civilizational inheritance to which they lay claim. They also rewarded terrorism, strengthened the genocidal ambitions of the global jihad, and sent a bona fide chilling message: The path to international legitimacy runs not through the difficult work of building up a nation-state and engaging in subsequent diplomacy, but through mass murder, the weaponization of transnational institutions, and the erasure of historical truth.

The Trump administration has already denounced this craven capitulation by our allies. There can be no recognition – none whatsoever – of an independent “Palestinian” state in the Levant. Such a recognition is an abdication not only of basic human decency but of national interest and strategic sanity.

The global march toward recognition of an independent “Palestinian” state ignores not only decades of brutal facts on the ground but the specific tide of blood on which this latest surge sits. It was less than two years ago – Oct. 7, 2023 – that Hamas launched the most barbaric anti-Jewish pogrom since the Holocaust: 6,000 terrorists poured into Israel, massacring roughly 1,200 innocent people in acts of unconscionable depravity – systematic rape, torture, beheadings, and kidnapping of babies. The terrorists livestreamed their own atrocities and dragged more than 250 hostages back to Gaza’s sprawling subterranean terror dungeons, where dozens remain to this day.

Many gullible liberal elites pretend that the radical jihadists of Hamas do not represent the broader Palestinian-Arab population, but that is a lie. Polls consistently show – and anecdotal videos of large street crowds consistently demonstrate – that Hamas and likeminded jihadist groups maintain overwhelming popularity in both Gaza and Judea and Samaria (what the international community refers to as the so-called West Bank). This is a radicalized population that deserves shame, scorn and diplomatic rebuke – not fawning sympathy and United Nations red carpets.

The “government” in Gaza is a theocratic, Iranian-backed terror entity whose founding charter drips with unrepentant Jew-hatred and whose leaders routinely celebrate the wanton slaughter of innocent Israelis as triumphs of “resistance.” Along with the kleptocratic Palestinian Authority dictatorship in Ramallah, this is who, and what, G7 powers like Britain and France have decided to reward with an imprimatur of legitimate statehood.

There is no meaningful “peace partner,” and no “two-state” vision to be realized, amidst this horrible reality. There is only a sick cult of violence, lavishly funded from Tehran and eager for widespread international recognition as a stepping stone toward the destruction of Israel – and the broader West for which Israel is a proxy.

For decades, first-world Western leaders maintained a straightforward position: There can be no recognition of a “Palestinian” state outside of direct negotiations with Israel, full demilitarization and the unqualified acceptance of Israel’s right to exist in secure borders as a distinctly Jewish state. The move to recognize a “Palestinian” state at the United Nations torches that policy, declaring to the world that savagery and maximalist rejectionism are the currency of international legitimacy. By rewarding unilateralism and eschewing direct negotiation, these reckless Western governments have proven us international law skeptics right: The much-ballyhooed “peace process” agreements, such as the Oslo Accords of the 1990s, are not worth the paper they were written on.

In the wake of Oct. 7, these nations condemned the massacre, proclaimed solidarity with Israel, and even briefly suspended funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, the bespoke Palestinian-Arab U.N. aid group, after myriad agency employees were found to have participated in the slaughter. Yet, under the relentless drumbeat of anti-Israel activism and diplomatic cowardice, they have now chosen to rehabilitate the Palestinian-Arab nationalist cause – not after Palestinian leaders renounced terrorism, but while its most gruesome crimes remained unpunished, its hostages still languish in concentration camp-like squalor, and its leaders still clamor for the annihilation of Israel.

President Donald Trump should clarify not only that America will not join in this dangerous, high-stakes charade, but that there could very well be negative trade or diplomatic repercussions for countries that recognize an independent “Palestinian” terror state. The reason for such consequences would be simple: Undermining America’s strongest ally in the Middle East while simultaneously carving up yet another new terror-friendly Islamist state directly harms the American national interest. There is no American national interest – none, zero – in the creation of a new “Palestinian” state in the heart of the Holy Land. On the contrary, as the Abraham Accords peace deals of 2020 proved, there is plenty of reason to embolden Israel. Contra liberal elites, it is this bolstering of Israel that fosters genuine regional peace.

The world must know: In the face of evil, America does not flinch, does not equivocate, and does not reward those who murder our friends and threaten the Judeo-Christian West. As long as the Jewish state stands on the front lines of civilization, the United States must remain at its side, unwavering, unbowed and unashamed. Basic human decency and the American national interest both require nothing less.

‘I forgive him’ and the ministry of reconciliation

“Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” (Luke 23:34)

These were the words spoken by Jesus as He hung on the cross.

“Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” (Acts 7:60)

These were the words spoken by Stephen as he was being stoned to death.

“That young man … I forgive him.” These were the words spoken by Erika Kirk less than two weeks after her husband was murdered in front of her eyes.

To many people, including many Christians, this act of forgiveness seems incomprehensible and unattainable. How can you ask God to forgive those who are killing you in cold blood? How can you forgive the man who slaughtered your husband, leaving you a widow and your two little children fatherless?

But this is the essence of the Gospel. This is the heart of God. This is the miracle of the cross.

As Paul wrote, “You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly [that was you and me!]. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:6-8)

What kind of love is this? What kind of God is this?

We were guilty, but Jesus took our punishment.

We rejected God, but He reached out to us.

We deserved death, but He gave us life.

We owed an infinitely massive debt, but Jesus paid it all.

And it is for this very reason – the fact that we received undeserved forgiveness, the fact that the Son of God died for us while we were yet sinners – we are enabled to extend forgiveness to those who have sinned against us.

It is truly a miracle of grace – grace received, grace extended to others, even to those who sin against us in the most ugly and despicable ways, even to those who kill us or our family members. We are called to forgive as the Lord has forgiven us (see Colossians 3:13).

This is how Corrie ten Boom was able to forgive the Nazi guard in the prison where her sister died and where Corrie suffered by her side. (When they met, shortly after World War II the man had become a Christian.)

This is how family members of those who were slaughtered in a church service by white supremacist Dylan Roof were able to forgive him (all nine of his victims were black). In the words of Nadine Collier, daughter of victim Ethel Lance, spoken with anguish and tears: “I forgive you. … You took something very precious from me. I will never talk to her ever again. I will never hold her ever again. But I forgive you. And you hurt me and you hurt a lot of people but God forgive you. I forgive you.”

And now, in one of the most watched memorial broadcasts in history, Erika Kirk, with her heart torn in two, was able to pronounce those words that are now reverberating around the world: “That young man … I forgive him.”

But this is not just a message that God is shouting to the world. In His longsuffering and mercy, He is shouting to the Church as well, speaking directly to each and every one of us, reminding us of His extraordinary kindness towards us through Jesus, demonstrated afresh through the words and tears of a grieving widow: We must forgive one another as we have been forgiven. God has lovingly set an example before us, once again, in the life of Erika Kirk.

Of course, that forgiveness can only be fully received by the guilty parties when they themselves turn to God in repentance, asking for His mercy through the cross.

But the heart of Erika Kirk, along with the hearts of Nadine Collier and Corrie ten Boom and Stephen and countless others, reflects the heart of God and shows us what we must do as His children.

Through the cross, God was shouting to the world, “Come and be forgiven!” He was crying out in the loudest possible terms, “Turn to me and leave your sins behind! I will wash you clean!”

To quote Paul again, “All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” (2 Corinthians 5:18-21)

As someone who persecuted followers of Jesus to the death and thought he was doing God’s service, this was a message that Paul understood firsthand.

As he wrote to Timothy, “Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners – of whom I am the worst. But for that very reason I was shown mercy so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display his immense patience as an example for those who would believe in him and receive eternal life.” (1 Timothy 1:15-16)

Let us, then, as followers of Jesus and as recipients of God’s indescribable grace, show that same grace to others, forgiving as we have been forgiven.

And let us proclaim that message to a sinning, lost world: “All your sins have been paid for! God is ready to forgive you! Turn to Him and turn away from your sins and He will cleanse you and give you a brand new life. As God’s representatives here on earth, and in the spirit of Jesus and Stephen and Erika Kirk and others, with love and compassion and earnestness, we plead with you: Be reconciled to God.”

As the Lord said through Isaiah, “Let them turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will FREELY pardon” (Isaiah 55:7, emphasis added).

This is the message our divided nation needs to hear, the message our lost world needs to hear, and perhaps the very message you yourself need to hear: “Be reconciled to God!”

Brace yourselves – the violence isn’t ending

Last week – just days after Charlie Kirk’s assassination – I wrote a column in which I warned that inflammatory rhetoric and violence erupting from the Left would not be going away anytime soon:

“Anyone thinking that a spate of firings or nationwide prayer vigils are going to deter the American Left had better open their eyes and gird their loins. It is far more likely that the Left will double down on their efforts, because they think no one on the Right has the intestinal fortitude to stop them.”

That was Thursday. On Sunday, Charlie’s memorial service was held at the State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. It was truly something to behold.

Several of the nation’s top contemporary Christian artists performed as the venue opened and before the scheduled speakers arrived. Those invited to speak included pastors and friends of the Kirk family, members of the Turning Point USA staff, President Donald Trump’s Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Vice President JD Vance and even Trump himself.

Not only was the State Farm Stadium (70,000-plus capacity) packed, but another nearby venue was as well. It’s estimated that 200,000 people watched the five-hour service locally. Additionally, views on cable TV and via various streaming services have already surpassed 22 million.

As I watched, I was amazed to see some of the most prominent figures in American politics professing their faith in God, one after another. I have never seen anything like it in my lifetime, and I was certain it would be the most memorable aspect of the service.

But then Erika Kirk, Charlie Kirk’s widow, came to the podium. In her remarks, Erika praised her husband for his virtue and kindness. She acknowledged the daunting responsibilities of her new role as CEO of Turning Point USA, the organization her late husband founded. She thanked those (especially second lady Usha Vance, the vice president’s wife) who had provided unflagging support for her in the agonizing days since her husband’s murder.

Erika challenged America’s men and women to be the best people they could be; to be gallant husbands, virtuous wives and emotionally generous parents. She singled out young American men in particular, saying, “Charlie passionately wanted to reach and save the Lost Boys of the West; the young men who feel like they have no direction, no purpose, no faith and no reason to live; the men wasting their lives on distractions, and the men consumed with resentment, anger and hate. Charlie wanted to help them.”

And then, in an astonishing moment punctuated by tearful, emotional pauses, she said, “My husband, Charlie … he wanted to save young men – just like the one who took his life. On the cross, our Savior said, ‘Father, forgive them, for they not know what they do.’ That man … that young man … I forgive him. I forgive him because it was what Christ did; what Charlie would do. The answer to hate is not hate. The answer we know from the Gospel is love and always love.”

Erika Kirk’s words of forgiveness, unfathomably difficult and spoken through tears only 11 days after her husband was gunned down in public, brought the entire arena to its feet.

This country has – sadly – suffered through other public assassinations that some of us remember: President John F. Kennedy in 1963; civil rights leader Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. The country was united in shock and sorrow and horror, all three times. One would think we would react the same way after the senseless murder of an innocent young husband and father.

Charlie Kirk’s memorial service was filled with beauty, music and worship; with sorrow and hope; with faith and courage and conviction. With forgiveness. What we saw there last Sunday was some of the best of what it means to be American; to be human. Surely, such a display would prompt even the most hardened of hearts to tone down hateful rhetoric; to appreciate the faith of their countrymen; to unite around the most basic of human values.

But it doesn’t appear that will be the case.

Immediately following Charlie Kirk’s memorial service, the left-wing outrage and propaganda machinery went into full gear. Amanda Marcotte, writing for Salon, described conservatives as “slobbering MAGA masses” and Charlie Kirk’s TPUSA as “an empire … built on videos promising sexualized humiliation of liberal women – really, girls – for MAGA men.” The term “Christian nationalist,” launched (largely unsuccessfully) as a slur in the run-up to the November 2024 elections, is now being flung about again, as if being a Christian and wanting to live in a nation whose citizens embrace values like faith in God, sacrifice for one’s family, love of one’s neighbor and forgiveness of one’s enemies is a bad thing; a mortal threat.

Karlyn Borysenko, an author and podcaster who has done extensive research – including undercover work – into America’s most extreme left organizations, has been warning for years that these revolutionary groups and those who belong to them will not eschew violence and, in fact, are ramping up plans for more.

Plenty of evidence supports Borysenko’s assertions. At Georgetown University, the John Brown Club is now advertising for new members with fliers saying, “Hey Fascist – Catch!” – the same words inscribed on one of Tyler Robinson’s (the man accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk) bullets.

Antifa Virginia is calling for open war against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. And on Wednesday of this week, another fatal shooting occurred, this time at an ICE facility in Dallas. One ICE detainee was killed, and two more were critically injured. The shooter, identified as Joshua Jahn, killed himself at the site. Bullets found next to Jahn’s body had anti-ICE slogans scratched into the casings. Jahn’s now-deleted Facebook page contained images suggesting communist and Antifa sympathies.

As demonstrated by the vile responses cheering Charlie Kirk’s death on social media and the derogatory articles describing his memorial service, there has been no respite, no collective impulse to pause and reflect, no bipartisan efforts to eliminate dangerous and hyperbolic accusations, no unified calls for behavior we once agreed reflected basic human decency.

Brace yourselves. It’s going to be a bumpy ride.

A cure for TDS

‘This science came from Harvard’: Joe Rogan blasts pregnant women filming themselves taking Tylenol to spite Trump

Joe Rogan

Podcast host Joe Rogan on “The Joe Rogan Experience” Friday called out pregnant women who have been filming themselves consuming Tylenol in objection to President Donald Trump’s administration’s recommendation not to do so.

TikTok users ingested large amounts of Tylenol to mock Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after announcing the findings of an association between the use of acetaminophen by pregnant women and autism diagnoses in children. Rogan noted on his podcast that the Trump administration cited a Harvard study to support its findings.

WATCH:

“I’ve been fascinated by these videos of pregnant women taking Tylenol to show Trump that they don’t believe in what RFK Jr. is saying, that it’s somehow or another anti-science — when this science came from Harvard,” Rogan said. “That’s where the study came from. He’s not making things up. And these people are like on TikTok — they’re pregnant women taking Tylenol.”

The National Institutes of Health under former President Joe Biden’s administration also recommended pregnant women “minimize exposure by using the lowest effective dose for the shortest possible time” if they had to use acetaminophen.

In most TikTok videos viewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation on Tuesday, users seemed to be consuming recommended doses. One video showed a pregnant woman displaying two Tylenol capsules before ingesting them.

“Here’s is me, a PREGNANT woman, taking TYLENOL because I believe in science and not someone who has no medical background,” text on the video says.

Moreover, the pharmaceutical company behind Tylenol privately acknowledged the likelihood of a link between its drug in pregnancy and neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism in children seven years ago, company records obtained by the DCNF show.

“The weight of the evidence is starting to feel heavy to me,” said Rachel Weinstein, U.S. director of epidemiology for Janssen, the pharmaceutical arm of Johnson & Johnson, in 2018. Johnson & Johnson marketed Tylenol at the time but spun off its consumer products division in 2023 into a separate firm called Kenvue.

Legacy media outlets and public health experts have dismissed Trump and Kennedy’s findings. However, the makers of Tylenol have for years perceived the evidence as sufficiently credible enough to act upon, at least privately.

“Taking Tylenol is not good. For this reason they are strongly recommending women limit Tylenol use when pregnant unless medically necessary,” Trump said on Monday.

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‘What you’re witnessing isn’t just politics. It’s not disagreement. It’s not protest. It’s evil’

President Donald Trump takes the stage with Erika Kirk at the Memorial Service for Charlie Kirk at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, Sunday, Sept. 21, 2025. (Official White House photo by Daniel Torok)

Imagine this: You wake up to news that a conservative speaker — a man who spent his life advocating for faith, family, and freedom — has died under suspicious circumstances. Within hours, the radical left floods social media, not with condolences, but with celebrations. They mock his memory, sneer at his beliefs, and rejoice in his death. Some even openly say the world is better off without him.

What you’re witnessing isn’t just politics. It’s not disagreement. It’s not protest. It’s evil — and it’s rooted in the same godless, anti-human philosophy that animates much of today’s radical climate movement.

Make no mistake: the death of Charlie Kirk (or any similar figure, God forbid) and the violent celebration that follows aren’t isolated phenomena. They are symptoms of a deeper rot that’s infected the American left — a nihilistic worldview that despises God, America, truth, tradition, and life itself.

The Root of the Rot

Today’s climate radicals scream about “justice” and “equity” — but what they’re selling isn’t justice. It’s judgment. Not the righteous kind, either. It’s the judgment of man playing god, condemning the world as irredeemable and demanding its destruction so they can build their utopia — or more honestly, so they can wallow in its ruins.

These aren’t your granddad’s conservationists. These aren’t the folks who wanted to preserve hunting land or keep rivers clean. No, these are militant zealots who believe mankind is a virus and the Earth would be better off without us. And when they look at people like Charlie Kirk — Christian, conservative, pro-America — they see the enemy.

They don’t want to debate us. They don’t want to win us over. They want us erased.

That’s not hyperbole. That’s not partisan talk. That’s the worldview of radical environmentalism: that humans are the problem, Christianity is a myth, America is evil, and history is a crime scene.

The Shared Creed: Nihilism Dressed in Green

Let’s draw the connection plainly.

The radical left — whether climate anarchists, Antifa militants, or campus mobs — all spring from the same poisoned well: cultural Marxism with a green coat of paint. It’s the old religion of revolution and resentment, now disguised as “climate action” or “social equity.”

They don’t believe in God, so they worship the Earth.
They don’t believe in salvation, so they demand reparation.
They don’t believe in sin, so they invent crimes like “carbon privilege.”
They don’t believe in forgiveness, only cancellation.
They don’t believe in redemption, only rage.

What does that have to do with celebrating the death of a man like Charlie Kirk?

Everything.

Because when you teach a generation that truth is oppression, that tradition is hate, that gender is a construct, and that humans are the disease — what kind of fruit do you expect to grow?

They burn cities in the name of “justice.”
They blockade roads and throw soup on paintings for “climate.”
They vandalize churches and pro-life centers in the name of “rights.”
And when someone dies who stood for what is good, true, and eternal — they laugh.

Why? Because their belief system is fundamentally anti-Christian and anti-human.

From Gaia Worship to Gulags

Let’s be honest: the radical climate movement isn’t about science. It’s about control.

They don’t want to reduce carbon — they want to reduce you. They want fewer people, fewer babies, fewer farms, fewer cars, fewer freedoms. They worship the Earth, but they hate the people God placed on it. They hate your truck, your house, your Bible, your job, your kids. Most of all, they hate your freedom — because it reminds them of a moral order they rejected long ago.

Think I’m exaggerating?

Climate activists openly call for “degrowth” — a euphemism for economic collapse.

They demand carbon reparations, forced migration, and wealth redistribution on a global scale.

They shut down power plants and pipelines while insisting we replace baseload generation with wind that dies when the sun sets and the wind calms.

And they tell us, straight-faced, that this is “progress.”

Meanwhile, they ignore the real pollution pouring from China, the slave labor in Congo digging up cobalt for their EVs, and the carbon footprint of their own private jets to Davos.

Why? Because it’s not about the environment. It’s about ideology — a green excuse for red revolution.

Climate Martyrs vs. Conservative Corpses

Now let’s circle back to the spiritual ugliness we saw when Charlie Kirk was killed — or, in the real world, when any conservative voice dies or suffers tragedy. The response is always the same:

When Rush Limbaugh died, they trended “#RestInPiss.”

When Antonin Scalia passed, they cheered.

When Steve Scalise was shot, they excused it.

Compare that to how they react when one of their own — a climate radical who chains himself to a pipeline or lights himself on fire in front of the Supreme Court — dies for the cause. He’s hailed as a martyr. His death is “tragic,” “heroic,” “a wake-up call.” They write poems. They start hashtags. They demand policy changes.

But if a Christian dies defending the unborn? Or a conservative dies defending the Constitution?
Crickets. Or worse — mockery.

That’s the divide we’re living in: a spiritual war, not a political one.

Reclaiming the Moral Ground

We must be clear-eyed about what we face.

This isn’t a debate over emissions targets or energy portfolios. It’s a war of worldviews — and one side believes human life is sacred, while the other believes it’s disposable.

One side says man is made in the image of God.
The other says man is a carbon-emitting parasite.
One says America is a miracle worth preserving.
The other says America is a cancer worth cutting out.
One says the answer is faith, family, and hard work.
The other says the answer is rage, retribution, and revolution.

And unless we reject that poison — boldly, publicly, and unapologetically — we will lose more than political debates. We will lose our country. We will lose our souls.

What We Must Do

Call it what it is. Stop pretending these people are just “passionate” or “misguided.” They are radicals with a godless agenda.

Defend truth without apology. We don’t need to moderate. We need to man up. Say the truth: fossil fuels built the modern world, and Christianity built Western civilization.

Raise our children to stand. Homeschool them if you can. Teach them the Constitution, the Gospel, and how to use their voice before the world silences it.

Build our own platforms. The mainstream media is lost. Universities are lost. Start Substacks. Build churches. Fund independent schools. Make noise.

Pray like warriors. This is not a political movement. This is a spiritual insurgency. Put on the full armor of God.

Conclusion: Choose This Day Whom You Will Serve

The same ideology that sends mobs to block traffic and vandalize statues also cheers when a conservative dies. The same spirit that demands you turn off your gas stove and bow to climate hysteria also demands you shut your mouth, abandon your faith, and surrender your country.

This isn’t about carbon. It’s about control. It’s about chaos. It’s about evil.

And it’s time we say no.

America will not be saved by moderates mumbling about bipartisanship. She will be saved by patriots who know what time it is — and who still believe in the God of the Bible, the power of the Constitution, and the sacredness of every human life.

Charlie Kirk knew that. And whatever your opinion of him — agree with his politics or not — his life stood as a rebuke to the darkness now rising.

The people who laughed at his death aren’t just tasteless. They are dangerous. And if we don’t drive them out of power and influence, they will make sure we’re next.

This is a moment of choosing.

Choose truth.
Choose life.
Choose America.

Before it’s too late.

Terry L. Headley, MBA, MA, for the American Coal Council. 

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A disservice: What the National Academies report ignored about greenhouse gases

Prior to last week’s release of the report on the effects of greenhouse gases (GHGs) on U.S. climate, health, and welfare by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, I was asked to review it. I gladly agreed, as I have frequently called for objectivity in research related to climate change, especially regarding its impact on national security.

Some of my comments were incorporated, and others were not. But because the product only put in the front matter the brief disclaimer that reviewers like me were not asked to endorse the document, some media reports are implying that we did. So, I offer the following to set the record straight.

Overall, I was disappointed. As a national authority on science, the National Academies was in a perfect position to demonstrate the Trump administration’s new gold standard science tenet of transparency. However, after combing through the report many times, it is impossible for me not to discern a consistent bias towards climate alarmism throughout the document – not only in what it emphasizes, but also in what it left out.

One example is its treatment of wildfires, which are mentioned nearly 70 times. Wildfires are introduced with a statement about their increasing occurrence in the Western U.S., but the report is careful to avoid stating that their frequency across the country has not increased in over four decades. That is important information to paint a more complete picture of the effects of GHG-induced climate change.

Then there is the section on observations of severe storms. While acknowledging that no trends exist for the frequency of landfalling hurricanes and the average number of tornadoes each year, the report proceeds to identify aspects of those events that could indicate future increasing threats, such as more tornado outbreaks in the Fall, or an increase in storms to stall along the North American coast, bringing more heavy rainfall. Here and in every section of the report, the content is clearly skewed to send the message that the impact of GHGs is unilaterally harmful.

Take the section on future GHG emissions leading to abrupt climate tipping points, where an example is given of the collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC).  First off, only the most extreme emission scenarios project such a shutdown to occur, and it is all but certain that these GHG levels will not be reached by the end of the century, if ever. Secondly, evidence for the contrary from NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory should have been cited to provide a greater understanding of the low confidence level of such an assessment.

The chapter on human health does the same by citing numerous potential health risks resulting from future GHG-induced warming, but it’s difficult to square that against the most recent IPCC report, which stated, “Heat-attributable mortality fractions have declined over time in most countries owing to general improvements in health care systems, increasing prevalence of residential air conditioning, and behavioral changes. These factors, which determine the susceptibility of the population to heat, have predominated over the influence of temperature change.”

Similarly, the section on economic impacts cites “a growing body of more robust literature on economic harms” resulting from climate change.  It would be helpful, however, if the authors explained the apparent disconnect with the IPCC report which stated that “For most economic sectors, the impact of climate change will be small relative to the impacts of other drivers. Changes in population, age, income, technology, relative prices, lifestyle, regulation, governance, and many other aspects of socioeconomic development will have an impact on the supply and demand of economic goods and services that is large relative to the impact of climate change.”

The most glaring gap in the report is the elephant in the room – namely, how much are the impacts of GHGs on climate outweighed by the benefits of abundant and affordable energy made possible by fossil fuels in areas such as agriculture, artificial intelligence, transportation, trade, space, healthcare, and national security?

In other words, the report excluded the fact that the private benefits of GHGs like CO2 far exceed the social costs. But when we consider that the stated purpose of the National Academies’ report was to respond to the Trump Administration’s intent to rescind the Obama Administration’s 2009 finding that GHGs increase the risk of harms to human health and welfare from changes to the climate, one can only conclude that the report’s authors drafted the document with a predetermined position in mind, and they only included those references which supported their position.

This, in my opinion, runs counter to the National Academies’ core values of objectivity and rigor.

I am not disputing that GHG warming has resulted in significant consequences. Sea ice decline in the Arctic and glacial mass loss in the Northern Hemisphere, for example, are well covered in the report. But I believe the National Academies do a disservice by not presenting a more balanced and holistic assessment of GHGs and climate change, which unfortunately will only reinforce the divisions that exist today in discussions and debates on the topic.

This article was originally published by RealClearScience and made available via RealClearWire.

‘Addictive by design’: My son’s death at the hands of social media

My son, Levi, and his older brother were both the kind of kids every parent dreams about raising. Levi was following his older brother’s example by being active in sports. He spent hours playing baseball, football, basketball, and golf. His brother was most recently teaching him fly fishing and archery.

I can still see him when I close my eyes: his shades flipped up, scripture on his sleeve, ready to play hard, and support his teammates. He had his favorite Bible verse embroidered into his baseball glove.

Philippians 4:13 –  “I can do all things through him who strengthens me.”

He was not only a great teammate, but a great example to others. He had a sense of wisdom and respect far beyond his 13 years. He was a straight-A student who excelled in everything he tried, both on and off the field.

Even as far back as kindergarten, his teacher said Levi was a born leader. He proved it throughout his entire life, living boldly yet humbly, being kind to others, and always supporting his family, friends, and teammates above himself.

His midget football coach shared with me that coaching Levi made him feel like a better coach. He had a world of possibilities in front of him.

That all changed in the blink of an eye when Levi lost his life on August 20, 2024. Days later, police officers informed us that Levi was a victim of sextortion. I remember telling the officers I didn’t even know what that word meant.

Levi was a brand-new user of Instagram. We didn’t know it at the time, but the evil lurking on the other side of his phone screen was highly sophisticated and targeted to infect and warp young minds.

I wish with all my heart we knew then what we know now about the dangers online. Social media currently is not safe by design; it is addictive by design.

Levi was deeply loved by a supportive and nurturing family, deeply involved in his community, and had more friends than he could count. He was the last person you’d expect to fall victim to this terrible crime. If it can happen to our family, it truly can happen to anyone.

Our society is undergoing rapid change. Many parents in my age group were raised in households built on playdates, family functions and other healthy, face-to-face interaction. Today, children are being raised in a screen-based environment, made vulnerable to the priorities of an unchecked industry prioritizing engagement over human life – and we all are worse off from it.

The FBI reports that 1 in 7 children has been targeted with unwanted sexual advances online, and the number of reports of these crimes is skyrocketing. There is ample evidence to suggest social media use inhibits brain development and creativity of young minds that are not equipped to handle that world. A recent survey found that 70% of young people feel worse about themselves after using social media.

These stats aren’t just troubling. They are a call to action.

Resources are available to help spread awareness of the pervasive nature of this problem. The FBI, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Attorney General and many other law enforcement agencies have informational pages and campaigns centered around preventing sextortion, cyberbullying, and other social media harms.

I’ve found Nicki Petrossi’s Scrolling 2 Death podcast especially informative and sobering, as well as Jonathan Haidt’s book The Anxious Generation. These should be required reading and listening for parents and caretakers before deciding whether to allow their kids to use social media.

Some of our policymakers are waking up to the dangers, too. Former state Sen. Ryan Aument led efforts to keep cell phones out of schools. Sen. Scott Martin and others are now working to designate a week specifically for social media safety and parental awareness.

I hope we can go even further with steps like ensuring digital literacy curriculum in schools, and someday take the real actions necessary to hold the perpetrators and facilitators of this abuse responsible for the damage they’ve caused through their inaction and willful neglect.

We face a future that is uncertain, but we do know this for sure: evil is here to stay. The only way we fight it is by rebuilding with good.

Even with all these resources available, it’s important to realize this information is only as good as the number of people who have it in their hands.

Everybody in a child’s life – parents, teachers, school officials, youth counselors, aunts and uncles, grandparents, scout leaders, and more – has a responsibility to be educated, make informed decisions, and give kids the tools they need to stay safe when they do go online.

That’s my challenge to everyone reading this: do something, anything to raise awareness of this problem. The life you save might be one you can’t imagine living without.

This article was originally published by RealClearPennsylvania and made available via RealClearWire.