In the modern world, few words carry the bewitching power of “democracy.” Sixty-four years ago, legendary author C.S. Lewis explained why demons also love “democracy” and why Christians must resist its spell. In 1959, Lewis published a short satirical piece ennoscriptd, “Screwtape Proposes a Toast,” wherein an imaginary demon named...

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Everyone knows a surefire way to get something is to get a cute little kid to ask for it. In a weirdly symbolic gesture, Secretary of State Antony Blinken dressed his 4-year-old son as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for the White House Halloween event, to ask for "candy" from President...

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Hateful and self-righteous political operatives recognize no bounds. But when they target a man's family for political advantage, they should expect him to fight back. Early Wednesday morning on Truth Social, former President Donald Trump fought back against Judge Arthur Engoron, the New York Democrat presiding over the Star Chamber...

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Almost two years before coronavirus became a household word, a National Institute of Health lab in Montana was conducting experiments with bats that focused on the spread of the virus. The 2018 research was funded by the “Intramural Research Program of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID),...

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An Islamist militant group backed by Iran that the Biden administration removed from its list of terror organizations in 2021 claimed responsibility for a series of attacks against Israel on Tuesday. Yemen's Houthi rebels, also known as Ansar Allah, said in a statement that they are behind a series of...

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Grab the mayo and mustard folks. Border patrol is making sandwiches. They are being pulled off of drug trafficking, child trafficking, and every other major crime they are hired to work on to make sandwiches for illegal immigrants crossing the border. That is what one border patrol agent brought to...

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Ghislaine Maxwell thinks she may now have an edge in her case to overturn her prison sentence, according to anonymous sources. Maxwell, the longtime confidant and right-hand woman of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, was handed a 20-year prison term after she was convicted on child sex trafficking charges back...

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With a damning video published Wednesday by House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, the potential impeachment of President Joe Biden just got a lot more plausible. Comer, the Kentucky Republican who has been the point man for the GOP investigation of the Biden family's dodgy finances, drew a direct line...

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A North Carolina fugitive was found in a secret hideaway this week after officers discovered a trap door hidden under a rug. Casey Ray Daniel Brooks, 34, was arrested by Rutherford County sheriff's deputies on Monday, according to a news release from the department. Brooks had been eluding authorities since...

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Congressman Ken Buck will not be seeking re-election to the House of Representatives. The Colorado Republican announced the news in an interview with MSNBC, citing his disappointment with the concern of the majority of Republican voters about the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election and the appalling treatment of those...

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A top official with Hamas has vowed the terror group will “sacrifice martyrs” and will conduct terror attacks against Israeli citizens until the country has been annihilated. Ghazi Hamad, who belongs to Hamas’ political bureau, The New York Post reported, made the statements during a recent interview with a Lebanese...

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Gangs sometimes initiate new members by asking them to commit a crime. Only then, in the minds of existing gang members, will the new initiates become trustworthy. With this in mind, establishment shill Matt Fuller of the Daily Beast complained, in effect, that new Republican Speaker of the House Mike...

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Man was created in the image of God. A hatred of humanity, then, is a hatred of God. If Elon Musk is right, billionaire George Soros hates God. In an interview on "The Joe Rogan Experience" podcast Musk said it straight, "In my opinion, he [Soros] fundamentally hates humanity." Nobel...

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A day after Secretary of State Antony Blinken said up to 1,000 Americans were stuck in Gaza as war rages around them, new reports said a handful of U.S. citizens were allowed to exit. State Department representative Matthew Miller said some Americans would be able to leave Wednesday, according to...

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They were out to make America grin again -- and it worked bigly. Country singer Jason Aldean, a man who made headlines this year for a song that touched off a controversy pitting leftists against Americans tired of seeing their country trashed -- celebrated Halloween with his wife, Brittany, with...

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Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri demanded answers from Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday about anti-Semitic comments made by one of the department’s employees. During a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing on Tuesday, Hawley questioned Mayorkas about a U.S. Customs and Immigration Services employee who celebrated...

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Democratic Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs appears to be trying to take undue credit for a tax rebate being sent to taxpayers even though she not only opposed the implementation of the credit in the first place, but is also apparently taking an end run around a provision that specifically prevents...

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There is a danger for Christians in the turbulent times through which we're passing to become so end times-minded as to be little or no earthly good. With war in the Middle East, advancing technology, lockdowns and digital currency, one can certainly envision the type of world the Bible shows...

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Miss Israel 2021 called out Hamas for its atrocities and defended her country from accusations it has oppressed Palestinians in a video that is going viral on social media. Noa Cochva took to her Instagram page earlier this week to make a call for international support following nearly four weeks...

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A campaign spokesman has put out a statement in response to reports circulating that independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy once flew on the notorious convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's private airplane. Newsweek reported Wednesday that RFK Jr.'s name was included "among a number of high-profile people" who the outlet had...

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Bob Knight, the brilliant and combustible coach who won three NCAA noscripts at Indiana and for years was the scowling face of college basketball has died. He was 83. Knight's family made the announcement on social media on Wednesday night, saying he was surrounded by family members at his home...

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