For months on the campaign trail, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has played the part of a convincing optimist, telling every reporter who would listen that his battered GOP still has a chance in November. “I’m telling you, the polling is wrong,” he insisted to Fox News’s Dana Perino last week. Most people dismissed the likeable party leader as just doing his job as chief cheerleader. But after the latest bombshell, the speaker might not be as off base as Americans thought.

Israel, of course, is at the epicenter—with Palestinian terrorists in Gaza, with Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the ongoing threat from Iran. The United States is also facing off against Iran in the Strait of Hormuz, with this global oil chokepoint still being restrained and escalation ready to break out at any moment. Iran is preparing for all-out war. Iranian leaders are making all kinds of bombastic threats, trying to deter a renewed large-scale assault by the United States. Meanwhile, the Trump administration is threatening to use the “mother of all bombs” (MOAB) against the regime. Then you have all the crisis and chaos in Europe. It's being described as “horror.”

When political grievances become an excuse for destruction, Constitutional government must stand firm — or risk surrendering the streets to the mob. The scenes unfolding in France should serve as a warning to every American who values liberty, public order, and constitutional government. When thousands of demonstrators take to the streets, when political protests descend into looting and arson, and when historic public buildings become targets of mob violence, a nation must ask itself a fundamental question: Who is really in charge? The rule of law, the citizens and their elected representatives? Or the most aggressive factions willing to intimidate everyone else?

On Tuesday, Israel will hold what might be our most important election of the twenty-first century. Based on the country’s vote, my nation will either move on to victory against Iran and its terrorist militias or to a dangerous capitulation to leftist pressure, which will bring with it grave danger and long-term consequences. Powerful forces are aligned against him, desperate to bring him down. Part of their reasoning is they don’t like his stand against Iran, part is their desire to be welcomed into the European club, and part is Netanyahu’s strong stand against the Leftist judicial reform that would essentially make the Supreme Court the autocratic leaders of the nation.

We need to be praying for Canada. Unless something dramatically changes, euthanasia will only continue to expand in Canada because they have the wrong worldview with the wrong foundation. As long as man’s word and human reasoning are their authority, they will continue to rationalize and glamorize something the Bible calls evil. And how long before it’s considered that people should be put to death because they are seen as a threat to society because of their beliefs? Christians? Think it couldn’t happen? It happens now in some countries. Yes, your starting point matters, and it’s either God’s Word or man’s word.

While I call it a “mind virus,” it's really much deeper than that. What we are seeing is an all-out spiritual battle for the very soul of Western civilization. Wherever there is chaos in the West, the Palestinian flag is always there. We see it flying everywhere among the rioters in France and Italy. We have seen it during violent outbursts here in America and elsewhere over the past three years. It's become the international symbol of anarchy and Islamo-communism—that unholy red-green alliance that wants to destroy Judeo-Christian Western civilization. We are living in a revolutionary moment. Western civilization hangs in the balance.

The Bible forbids all attempts to do any sort of magic, whether communicating with the spiritual world, drawing power from the natural or spiritual world, fortune-telling and astrology, or potion-making and cursing. These practices have found new life on social media, and AI is adding a new and dangerous dimension. How should Christians think about this?

“[W]e’ve gotten used to this regime that for so many years now has called ‘[D]eath to America,’ ‘Death to Israel’ — 49 years of obsession, quite frankly,” Jonathan Hessen, a senior fellow at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, observed during “Washington Watch with Tony Perkins” Tuesday. “… [Iran’s leaders] don’t really know what they can do at a time when their economy is crippled. The United States has, through U.S. Central Command, brought about a hermetic blockade that has put the Iranian regime [in] the process of choking into submission. They don’t like the position they’re in, and they’re trying to find a way out of it.”

We need to ask ourselves what is happening to the minds of some of our young. The killer’s mother said he was “a good boy, he really was.” How, then, did this “good boy” turn into a maniacal killer — a killer of children — a school shooter? How does our society manage to produce so many people capable of such unthinkable levels of cruelty? We see these things so much that we hardly notice them. It’s like “nose blindness” — when you smell a terrible odor so long that you stop being bothered by it. These horrors are becoming normal to us. Many see violence as the answer to even minor disputes.

On Friday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pushed back against former President Barack Obama, who accused Israel of taking Palestinian land during a visit to Northern Ireland. The Israeli PM declared that “the Jewish people are not foreign occupiers,” but have ancestral connections to this Biblical land stretching back “thousands of years.” The greatest obstacle to peace, Netanyahu said, is not Israel, but the refusal of its enemies to recognize the Jewish people's right to a sovereign state. Last time I checked, Israel not only agreed to and crafted agreements to develop Palestinian self-determination, but it has shown up to every negotiation.

Anybody who understands the social pulse of Australia knows that the State of Victoria is the most socially progressive of Australia’s states and territories. Although many Victorians see that as positive, when it means the introduction of laws that directly oppose God’s principles governing life, believers see it as wicked. In a 15 October 2026 X post, Mr Carroll succinctly stated: “Abortion is healthcare. Your bank account and your postcode shouldn’t be a barrier. We’ll fix that.” To avoid appearing one-sided in my criticism of Labor policies, I will point out that the opposition party (who have traditionally been fiscally and socially conservative) have indicated they will also pledge free abortions, much to the disappointment of supporters who have traditionally turned to them in order to act as a counterweight to the anti-God agenda of the Labor Party.

We’re seeing Europe’s globalists paving the way for the Antichrist. They are throwing out the welcome mat. No, the title of Antichrist doesn’t belong to bumbling Emmanuel Macron, but in 2016, even The Economist magazine was calling him Europe’s savior. How God humbles the proud. As the head of France, no European leader today should be as ashamed as Emmanuel Macron, who casually enjoyed a Celine Dion concert while policemen were on fire in Paris and elsewhere. Now the world knows he's no savior. But there is one standing by somewhere. He will rise from obscurity. There have been riots and demonstrations in Greece, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Portugal, and beyond, but began in mid-September in France.

Indeed, some analysts — such as the Argentine Agustín Laje — have argued that Brazil is experiencing a “judicial dictatorship” orchestrated by officials close to Lula, including the notorious Judge Alexandre de Moraes. Undoubtedly, despite the pressures, the Bolsonaro family emerged as the big winner of the first round. God willing, Flávio will win the runoff — and with him, the Western values that Brazil so urgently needs to restore and greatly benefit hemispheric security following four years of leftist rule and the rise of drug trafficking and organized crime.

This article should be entirely unnecessary because it expresses a Biblical teaching that is so obvious that it seems impossible to miss. Unfortunately, recent years have revealed that many professing Christians are deeply confused about what Scripture teaches regarding the Jewish people. Instead, they seem to base their views on whatever theological and geopolitical ideas are popular in the moment. Repeating antisemitic tropes and conspiracies about Jewish people is wicked. We see no shortage of these things from popular political commentators like Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, and Megan Kelly. They often hide behind the lie that they are just asking questions, but what they are really doing is implying that the Jewish people are to blame for much of our society’s ills and that they secretly control our nation (or the world).

Some worry the Mecca Agreement is aimed at countering Israel. Just a day after the pact was signed, Pakistan’s Defense Minister Khawaja Asif said the Islamic world “must unite to confront the common threat posed by Israel.” He added, “Israel poses a threat to all of us. Islamic countries must adopt a coordinated approach to address this threat.” Turkish leaders have also intensified verbal attacks against Israel and vowed to reconquer Jerusalem for Islam. A senior Israeli official said the alliance “is directed against Israel.”

The absolute chaos and anarchy we are seeing in France is shocking, no doubt, but it's not surprising if you've been following what has been happening in Western Europe over the past two or three decades. During that time, many of us begged our European friends to secure their borders, to cut the mass Islamic migration, and preserve their culture, society, and civilization. They didn't listen. Now we see the bitter fruits. The wave of Islamists that descended upon the continent was met with a welcome mat—a prayer mat—rolled out by woke, weak European governments. Those Islamists are now aligning with leftists, Marxists, socialists, and communists—and there's no easy way out as this red-green alliance sweeps throughout Europe.

If you see a moral equivalence between the IDF and Hamas, there is a verse in Isaiah 5:20 that should be brought to your attention: “Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” That verse describes precisely what we are seeing today—and it is accompanied by a warning. The bottom line is this: El-Sayed's positions on Israel raise serious concerns—and that is an understatement. I would implore you to examine his statements, consider what they mean, and make an informed choice in these upcoming midterms.

We are seeing a perfect storm over France and, to a certain extent—if not now, then very soon—over all of Western Europe. That storm is the Red/Green Axis destructive agenda in action. The French Extreme Left Party LFI (La France Insoumise) led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon has partnered with the large community of Muslims living in France–many of them born there and automatically considered as French citizens. Mr. Mélenchon knows that he will never become the French Président. All he wants is chaos, and more chaos, across all of France. This is the result of decades of open borders and immigration from North and West Africa.

In an interview with “CBS Sunday Morning” that aired last weekend, reporter Tracy Smith asked Crystal about what he’s gone through. Though thankful to have come through suffering with many parts of his life still intact, he added, “But it doesn’t take away the hurt. It doesn’t take away the loss.” It’s in suffering and tragedies that many people turn to God, so Smith asked, “Have you been talking to God?” Crystal answered, “No—’cause I don’t trust Him. Too many bad things have happened. The earth is in bad shape. This is a weird, scary time. So, no, not any more.”