1) “Islam Rising In The West: Ramadan 2026 Provided A Very Revealing Glimpse Of Where America Is Heading” (Erick Stakelbeck, Harbinger’s Daily)
From the article — I bring you Ramadan 2026. The Islamic holy month just wrapped up, and it gave a very revealing glimpse of where we’re heading in America if we do not change course.
Let’s start with New York City. Since January, America’s largest city and financial capital has been run by an Islamo-Communist named Zohran Mamdani. He is an anti-Israel ideologue who has long had ties to notorious radical Islamists, and as mayor, he is wasting no time in showing who he is and what he represents…
Ramadan was his coming-out party. In early March, Mamdani responded to an attempted ISIS terror attack against protesters in front of his residence by first condemning the protesters and decrying “white supremacy.” He vaguely added that there is “no place for violence” in New York City, while never once mentioning Islam or ISIS.
It only got worse from there.
A few days later, Mamdani hosted a taxpayer-funded Ramadan Iftar dinner at City Hall, where one of the attendees, a guest of the mayor, held up the ISIS one-finger salute—but I’m sure he was just being playful!
Imagine if a devoutly Christian mayor held a Christmas or Easter service at New York City Hall. The left and their mainstream media minions would be howling about the separation of church and state. But when it comes to mosque and state, it’s apparently a different stor
2) “Love Your Enemy” (One for Israel)
From the article — Surely one of the hardest commands for us to obey is “love your enemy”. Today with bombs falling in every direction the biblical exhortation still stands. It applies not only to believers in Israel, but those under fire in the UAE, Kuwait, Oman, Turkey, and the whole region. With so many atrocities committed and lives lost, forgiving our enemies might seem like an impossible goal. Yet Yeshua says we need to go the extra mile and actually love them.
Love your enemy as Jonah did going to Nineveh“I’m reading Jonah and understanding it on a whole new level”, wrote an Israeli man in a group for Messianic believers on social media. He could empathize with how Jonah might have felt when challenged to go and preach in Nineveh… and felt God’s challenge to him personally as he thought about it. Do we want those jihadis to hear the call to repent? To be given the chance to be included in the family of faith? It’s not just fear but repulsion at that kind of inhumanity, and the struggle to even want such people to repent and find forgiveness. The Islamic Regime and their proxies are every bit as bloodthirsty as ISIS, and Nineveh was operating in the same way back in Jonah’s day. Extreme and excessive cruelty that makes the blood run cold. Zero mercy, even for babies. How do we dare to look at such things… and then connect with God’s heart for the perpetrators? But that’s what Yeshua said.
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect. (Matthew 5:43-48)
The bar is so high, it’s utterly unachievable. Perfection? Only the Spirit of God Himself can make this possible. Like flying, it’s impossible for us to do… unless we get on an airplane. God’s Spirit living in us opens up whole universes of possibility for us. The impossible task of loving our enemy becomes possible. He is the airplane that makes it possible for us to fly. But each one of us has to be willing to take all our feelings, thoughts, and struggles before God’s throne and allow Him the space to regenerate us. To change our hearts and fill them with supernatural love.
3) “Biblical Worldview among Adults Remains at 4% as Generational Crisis Grows More Severe” (Sarah Holliday, Washington Watch)
From the article — According to the latest research from Dr. George Barna and the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University (ACU), only 4% of American adults currently hold a biblical worldview — the same critically low number we saw in 2023. While the overall percentage has held steady, a deeper look at the newest report reveals something far more sobering.
Even among the small group known as “Integrated Disciples” — those with the highest level of biblical alignment — there are still massive gaps between what people believe and how they actually live. The study examines worldview across eight key categories, and the results are eye-opening.
Americans fare somewhat better in areas like Purpose and Calling (19% full alignment) and Faith Practices (16%). But alignment drops sharply in core theological areas such as God, Creation, and History (just 7%), and it hits rock bottom in Family and the Value of Life — where only 5% of all U.S. adults show full biblical alignment. Even more alarming: among Integrated Disciples, only 49% are living out biblical convictions on marriage, family, and the sanctity of life. In other words, many who claim to think biblically still struggle enormously to apply it consistently — especially in the very areas that shape the next generation.
4) “Insect-ifying Humanity: The Paul Ehrlich Legacy” (Nicholas Eberstadt, Washington Free Beacon)
From the article — Dr. Paul Ralph Ehrlich (1932-2026), who passed away last week at the age of 93, was perhaps the world’s most famous opinionator on the population question since Reverend T.R. Malthus himself. An unabashed apostle of population control and prophet of impending worldwide demographic catastrophe, he preached a secular gospel of “overpopulation” and eco-apocalypse from his perch at Stanford University for over 50 years.
Apart from his wife and lifelong coauthor Anne Ehrlich (with whom he published nearly a dozen books or pamphlets and many hundreds of articles), perhaps no other voice or personality is so closely associated with the postwar moral panic over the “population explosion.”
The Population Bomb, Ehrlich’s electrifying 1968 bestseller, made him an instant celebrity at age 36. Charismatic, self-confident, and funny—seemingly possessed of more zingers than Henny Youngman—he quickly became a television presence as well. So spellbinding that he was invited 20 times on The Tonight Show, Ehrlich proved to be one of Johnny Carson’s most popular guests. Over his long life, Ehrlich was also showered with awards and prizes, including a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant, the U.N. Sasakawa Environment Prize, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Crafoord Prize (established to complement the Nobel Prize and awarded in fields the Nobel does not cover.
No less noteworthy than the fame and fortune he achieved was how shockingly, profoundly, and consistently wrong biologist Ehrlich was in predictions he made about human beings…All these predictions were not just wrong: They were laugh-out-loud wrong, almost the precise opposite of what would actually occur over the following decades and generations.
5) “Our Socialists in Havana” (Editors, National Review)
From the article — If there is one thing communist regimes have excelled at over the years, it is creating showcases to gull sympathetic Western visitors. It was in this spirit that Cuba mustered a single luxury hotel with a gas generator for the latest in a long train of useful idiots.
A motley collection of activists with the China-linked anti-war group Code Pink, as well as a handful of far-left influencers, descended on Havana set on convincing the long-suffering Cuban people that they’ve never had it so good. Sure, a rolling nationwide blackout spoiled some of the fun, but this crew still managed to blame the United States for the Cuban regime’s deficiencies.
“I cannot believe how cruel this U.S. policy is,” Current Affairs editor Nathan Robinson marveled while surveying the darkened landscape from the balcony of his five-star redoubt. “We could stop this.” That’s the message the Cuban handlers of the “Nuestra América Convoy,” which was designed to “show the world that Cuba is under siege,” wanted.
Perhaps Robinson didn’t know that Cuba’s rolling blackouts are an endemic feature of life on that island. They predate the extradition of Nicolás Maduro, whose criminal regime was propped up by Cuban military and intelligence officials in exchange for privileged energy exports. Indeed, even oil-rich Venezuela’s power grid struggled for years amid a “brain drain” and “corruption,” and Cuba is beset by the same problems. These issues are a predictable outgrowth of socialist maladministration.
The Cuban regime and its fellow travelers insist, as they always do, that the capitalist world’s refusal to prop up their economy is the source of all their woes. The truth is that the system established by Fidel Castro and buttressed for decades by Soviet beneficence has never prioritized its own people. The Cuban government has preyed on its own people and sought to frustrate American geostrategic interests all over the globe
Related articles: …“Cuba on the Brink” (John Hinderaker, Power Line)… “Darkness Before the Light in Cuba: Castro’s crumbling regime nears its end.” (Scott McKay, American Spectator)
Other Excellent Articles from the Week
* “Compassion & Choices Want Americans Dead.” (Kelsi Sheren, Substack)
* “Tucker Carlson’s sickening praise for Sharia tyranny: The crank right is joining the woke left in the toilet of jihad chic.” (Brendan O’Neill, spiked!)
* “The New Democratic Party” (Victor Davis Hanson, Daily Signal)
* “Israel’s General Patton Moment: Despite the close partnership between Trump and Netanyahu and the truly historic cooperation between the U.S. armed forces and the IDF, America and Israel inhabit utterly different realities.” (Michael Oren)
* “Stop Foreign Censorship Threats: Congress needs to pass the GRANITE Act, which battles overseas governments that try to squelch Americans’ First Amendment rights.” (Steven Greenhut, American Spectator)