People act like the U.S. and Israel just woke up and decided to attack Iran for no reason. That’s not reality.
For years, Iran has funded and armed groups attacking both countries, pushed its missile program, and moved closer to nuclear capability. When a regime openly calls for Israel’s destruction & threatens U.S. interests in the region, that’s not something you just ignore and hope works itself out.
This isn’t about starting a war, it’s about stopping a bigger one later. If you believe Iran getting nuclear weapons would destabilize the entire region and put millions at risk, then taking action before that happens makes sense. Not to mention the sheer evilness of slaughtering 30,000 innocent Iranian civilians.
You don’t have to like it, Trump or Netanyahu, but pretending there’s no justification at all ignores the bigger picture.
Dr. Houman David Hammati has seen ALL of Iran and now? He writes…
🇮🇷 47 years ago, I stood at a window in Tehran as a 3-year-old boy, smelling burning tires and hearing the chants that would steal my country. I didn’t have words for what was happening. Today, I am watching smoke rise over the same city — but this time the smoke is not the end of Iran. It is, God willing, the beginning of her resurrection.
Several weeks ago I wrote in that the fever of 1979 was finally breaking. I never imagined I would wake up to see that fever confronted so directly. Israel — with the clear support of the United States — has launched a preemptive strike deep into Tehran and against the regime’s military machinery. Explosions in the capital. Military targets hit. The IRGC’s aura of invincibility, already cracked, is shattering in real time.
I do not celebrate war. No decent person does. What I celebrate — what millions of Iranians inside the country and in the diaspora have prayed for in secret for decades — is the possibility that a regime which has no right to exist may finally be forced to go.
This is the same regime that: – Armed and cheered the October 7 massacre against Israel for no reason other than pure genocidal hatred. – Murdered tens of thousands of its own sons and daughters who dared to walk peacefully in the streets demanding the most basic freedoms. – Gouges out the eyes of young women for the “crime” of wearing makeup. – Hangs teenagers from cranes for posting a tweet. – Exports terror, poverty, and darkness to every corner it can reach including the U.S.
No nation, no people, should have to live under that. Not Israelis. Not Americans. Not Lebanese. Not Syrians. And certainly not Iranians.
I am a physician who has spent his life trying to heal bodies and a son of Iran who has spent his life mourning a stolen homeland. What we are witnessing is not aggression — it is surgery. Painful, necessary surgery to remove a tumor that has metastasized for 47 years. The tumor is the Islamic Republic that has hijacked Iran.
To the brave pilots and special operators of the Israeli Air Force and the men and women of the United States military now carrying out this mission: I pray for you with everything I have.
May God shield you from harm. May every missile find its target and every soldier return home safely to the families who love them. You are not invaders. You are the answer to the prayers of millions who have whispered “enough” in the dark since 1979. You are giving our friends the chance to breathe free air again. The entire region will owe you a peace we have not known in my lifetime.
To my fellow Iranians watching from inside the country right now, heart pounding, maybe hiding in basements or on rooftops: Hold on. The end is clearer than it has ever been. The regime’s fear is real. Their eyes — those same eyes that once stared down at us with absolute power — now show something they haven’t shown in decades: panic. The math has changed. The window of 1979 is finally closing.
To the little three-year-old boy I once was — and to every little boy and girl in Tehran, Isfahan, Shiraz, and Tabriz today who hears explosions instead of lullabies: This time the sounds are not the closing of a door. They are the opening of one.
The road ahead will not be easy. Transitions never are. But the direction is unmistakable. A secular, prosperous, free Iran is no longer a dream — it is becoming an inevitability.
I have lived the stolen life so that others might not have to. Today, for the first time in 47 years, I allow myself to believe that the stealing is almost over.
Thank you, Israel. Thank you, America. The Iranian people — the real Iran — will never forget.
The fever is breaking. The dawn of 2026 is here. And this time, the light wins.
Since many of my Democrat colleagues don’t seem to understand the War Powers Act, it’s very simple:
The President must notify Congress within 48 hours of deploying troops or commencing an attack. The President must then withdraw troops within 60-90 days, unless Congress declares war.
In this instance, Congress was notified in advance and briefed before the strike on Iran. A full classified briefing will be forthcoming.
Now, Congress can pass a concurrent resolution ordering the troops be withdrawn at anytime, which is what Massie and Khanna are trying to do.
But under Article II and as Commander in Chief, the President has the authority to act. The notion that this strike is illegal or that the President needed Congress’ authority is wrong.
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Furthermore, Biden and Obama conducted numerous strikes in numerous countries without Congress and none of the people screaming now, seemed to have any objections.
For historical context, Congress has not declared war since WWII. – Mike Lawler @Lawler4ny
“I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly” (John 10:10).
I. L-ove (Loving Through Christ)
“Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another” (I John 4:11).
As the followers of Christ were to be exposed to the hatred of the world, it was no small consolation to them to know that that hatred would be only in proportion to their faith and holiness; and that, consequently, instead of being troubled at the prospect of persecution, they should rejoice, because that should always be a proof to them that they were in the very path in which Jesus himself had trod.
A. Life has little meaning to some because they possess so little love. Christ loved us and died for us, paying the penalty for our sins. When Christ is Lord of our life, He should be the love of our life also.
B. Christ’s love brings meaning to our life. His love must reach out through us to help, comfort, and share Christ with others (Matt. 28:19).
Make disciples of all nations, bring them to an acquaintance with God who bought them, and then baptize them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
II. I-nstruction (Learning from Christ)
“I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye” (Ps. 32:8).
Blessed are the forgiven
When we are forgiven, cleansed, and filled with the love of Christ, we have just begun to live. We still have much to learn. We will continue to face frustrations and possible failure.
B. We must depend on Christ’s Holy Spirit for guidance and direction. He will help us through frustration and will bring victory and meaning to life as we keep on praying, learning from His Word, trusting, and obeying.
III. F-reedom (Liberty in Christ)
“Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. (Gal. 5:1).
Many are bound (entrapped) by sinful pleasures, social pressures, and sensual practices. They are in bondage to themselves, others, and Satan. Life has little meaning as a result.
B. Christ came to bring freedom from the bondage of sin. He breaks the fetters that bind and sets free all who come to Him in repentance and faith.
C. Christians are liberated and their lives become meaningful. When one’s sins are forgiven, one’s heart is cleansed. One is free to help others find their way to heaven (John 8:36).
IV. E-ternal Life (Living with Christ)
God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son” (I John 5:11).
A. Everyone wants to live. But only those who have accepted Christ as Savior and Lord will live eternally.
B. Life here on earth is brief at best. We should make the most of it. This life can have real meaning only if we are prepared for the next life.
C. Christians look forward with anticipation to living forever with Christ. He has gone to prepare a place for them. He has promised to return and receive them unto Himself (John 14:1—3).
Sadly Congressional Democrats demonstrated that they hate almost everything this nation stands for tonight.
Nevertheless our nation is back, in the last years we have had a turn-around for the ages. Our border is secure. Gas prices have decreased, inflation is down, the border is secure, and so much more.
This will be a year to celebrate America and thank God for His blessings on us.
This goes beyond endangerment. This is social engineering! Schools receive tax $ so children receive an education in history, math, literature enabling them to one day become discerning adults who think for themselves. No school should inculcate political bias – that’s exactly what the Nazi’s did!
Schools won’t allow your child to attend the most benign field trip without a sign parental authorization, yet they took children to a protest where tear gas grenades and non-lethal ammunition is fired at protesters.
This is criminal!
I guess y’all don’t remember Joy Reid proudly proclaiming that our children need to be “reprogrammed“! And that is now exactly what the so-called teachers union is attempting to do. And they are getting away with it. Stand up and fight for your kids.
First they take over the minds of our children, then they take over our country. People, this is the pattern of something malicious and dark! Remember Nazi Germany? Subversion started with children. Take back our children and you take back our country!
Parents in every city and state, must organize and start to take action, via parents and parental groups, consulting with totally honest attorneys, about the legal rights of parents to take civil or criminal lawsuits against school boards, schools, teachers, and teachers m’ unions, for proselytizing their children into political and religious belief systems. Simple but powerful.
One-world-government and communist entities for very lengthy time periods, have sought to gain control of our nation by gaining control of our children, mentally and emotionally; and politically and religiously. Generations of the deceivers’ seeds, have been sown under the auspices of teaching our children in only the basic knowldge and laws of our society approved by citizens and parents. But many teaching entities have been taught and trained to use basic, common education as a mere tool to accomplish their conttol of a nation.
These perpetrators have received some complaints by parents, but only when they receive severe legal punishments that cost them dearly for their wrongs and damages against us, and our precious children, will we be successful in protecting and providing for our children.
History has a funny way of getting twisted by people who weren’t there to live it. The most dangerous distortions are the ones that have had centuries to fester. So lets take a look at the Danbury Baptists.
Picture Connecticut in October of 1801. The Congregational Church, the old Puritan establishment, is the official religion of the state, and it will remain so until 1818.
If you are a Baptist, a Methodist, or an Episcopalian, you must petition the local justice of the peace for a certificate to worship separately and that justice can refuse you.
Your taxes still flow to the Congregational coffers. You are, in every civic sense that matters, a second-class citizen.
The Danbury Baptist Association, representing twenty-six churches in western Connecticut, is living under this regime, and they’re getting nervous.
They aren’t sitting around worrying that the Church is going to take over the federal government. They are terrified that the government…state and, potentially, federal is going to crush their way of worship.
They needed to know that the heavy hand of the federal magistrate wasn’t coming for their altars.
So they write to President Thomas Jefferson and he writes back on January 1, 1802. He agrees with them and paraphrases the First Amendment, telling them that the American people had declared “that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’” thus building “a wall of separation between Church & State.”
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Modern secularists love that phrase They’d hang it like a neon sign over every courthouse and school board meeting in America if they could.
But they have the nature of it completely backwards.
Jefferson wasn’t building a prison to keep God out of the public square. He was building a fortress to keep the State out of the sanctuary. It’s a shield for the Church, not a muzzle.
Now, the left will protest that this letter was no private musing, and on that narrow point, they are correct. Jefferson drafted his reply in consultation with two Cabinet members, Attorney General Levi Lincoln and Postmaster General Gideon Granger, and the letter was published in newspapers across the country.
He intended it to be a political statement. Fine. Lets take it as a political statement. What does it actually say? It says that the wall protects the citizen from the government.
Every clause in that letter places the restraint on the magistrate, not on the minister.
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The First Amendment is a negative right. It doesn’t tell you what you can do; it tells the government what it can’t do. It’s a chain on the wrist of the State.
When the founders wrote those words, they were acknowledging that power seeks to devour, and the conscience must be guarded against the appetite of kings.
By twisting Jefferson’s letter to mean that religious expression must be scrubbed from public life, the modern Left is actually doing the very thing the Danbury Baptists feared…using the state to dictate the terms of our existence.
The Congregational establishment of Connecticut taxed dissenters and denied them full civic standing. Today the mechanism is different, cultural pressure, legal threats, and administrative exclusion…but the coercion is still the same.
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For those of us walking the narrow path, this goes deeper than constitutional law.
We don’t demand religious liberty just because it’s written on parchment. We demand it because coerced faith is spiritually dead. God is the ultimate author of liberty. Go back to Genesis.
When God placed Adam in the Garden, He placed the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil right there in the middle. He didn’t put a high-voltage fence around it. He didn’t strip Adam of the ability to rebel.
If God wanted a world of automatons, He would have created robots, not people with the gift of free will and the dignity to choose. As it says in 2 Corinthians 3:17, “Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.”
A government that tries to force religion… or force the absence of it… is acting against the nature of God Himself.
Any ruler who exceeds his mandate and reaches into the domain of the soul has ceased to govern and begun to tyrannize.
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The wall exists to ensure that when we say “Yes” to God, it’s our own voice speaking.
It ensures that our worship is an offering and that we come to God as servants…not slaves
We fight for this wall not to hide from the world, but to keep the world from corrupting the sacred space where man meets his Maker.
We must tear down the myth and rebuild the wall as it was intended: a rampart against tyranny, ensuring that the State remains the servant…
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