Ten years ago on his radio show, Glenn Beck gave “three possibilities” of what America’s future would look like in a decade’s time.

Possibility #1: “Slow Decay” — “Corruption would become routine. Violence will become background noise. Currency … buys less and less year after year until you just have to adjust your expectations downward. The border will blur. Drugs will flood in. Institutions will continue to weaken, but they won’t break. They just stop working the way they once did.”

Possibility #2: “Control” — “A moment will come when the system decides dissent is a real threat, when the people who warned, protested, resisted are no longer just wrong but dangerous. And the label will change from opponent to enemy.”

Possibility #3: “Wake up” — “Citizens would wake up, that grassroots movements (imperfect but loud) … would remind the country who it was supposed to be. And people will look back and say, ‘Wow, that was the moment that it really turned around.”’

“I think a little bit of all of those things happened,” says Glenn.

The first predication, he says, was spot on — “Corruption is routine? Absolutely. Violence, a background noise? Absolutely. Currency hasn’t died, just buys less year after year. We have to adjust our expectations downward. The border has absolutely blurred. The drugs are flooding in (still are). The institutions haven’t broken but they weakened, and things aren’t working the way they used to,” he says, confirming his old hypothesis.

The second prediction about mitigating chaos via control, he argues, also came true, specifically “during the Biden administration, where the system decided dissent was a real threat, and they started to silence people.”

The third and most hopeful possibility — a nationwide grassroots movement to restore order and morality — has also partially come to fruition.

“I think all three paths happened at the same time — bits and pieces. Here’s what hasn’t happened: We haven’t decided which one,” says Glenn.

But we have to choose, he urges, because the next ten years won’t afford us the same wiggle room.

“In ten years from now, what does the world look like? Well, it’s not going to be a combination of all three,” he says bluntly.

“We’re out of runway,” Glenn warns. “You have to choose: Do we slam on the brakes with this plane right now, or do we pull on the yoke and start to fly?”

To hear more, watch the video above.

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On any given Tuesday afternoon, there are thousands of parents rushing out the door in a panic, corralling their kids into the car, frantically battling their way through traffic, picking up something cheap to eat because there’s no time for anything else, nearly crashing as they try to shave a few minutes off because you can’t be late, for God’s sake, and then finally dropping their kid off at the sports center for travel soccer practice.

On the weekends, they are driving four hours for tournaments, staying in hotels every Saturday night, and spending thousands of dollars every year devoting their lives to the wide and ever-expanding world of travel sports.

What does it do to your family if you aren’t ever eating dinner together?

Have you noticed any of this? Have you heard of any of this? Well, I hope you haven’t, but you probably have. Travel sports are a big thing these days, and they seem to get bigger every year. Soccer, baseball, hockey, volleyball: Whatever the game, the phenomenon is the same.

Soccer monster

When I was young, travel sports weren’t such a big thing. I know they existed somewhere, but I don’t think I knew anyone personally who did them. My wife knew someone who did travel hockey, but that was it. Back in those days, travel sports were rare, and it seemed that the only people who did them were people who were extraordinarily “into” sports. Now travel sports are everywhere, more kids are in them, and they are more consuming than ever before.

I know a woman who admits that the only reason she works is to fund her son’s travel soccer habit. She’s joking a little, but only a little. Every week she is buying new gear, shopping for more accoutrements, booking hotels for the whole weekend, exploring other travel leagues that might be better, and generally devoting a large portion of her life to travel sports.

The travel soccer her son is in runs all year and costs around $10,000. That doesn’t include any of the travel expenses or hotels. At the end of any given year, their travel soccer bill could easily be a tidy $25,000. She says they almost never eat at home, which makes sense. On the weekdays she is carting her son to travel soccer; on the weekends they are staying in hotels.

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Fare play

Sure, it’s not for everybody, but what’s the big deal about spending a couple of hours on the freeway every weekend? That’s what I used to think. Then I learned that it’s not uncommon for parents to fly with their kids to various tournaments around the country. That’s how deep the travel sports addiction can get. I was shocked.

It would be one thing, I suppose, if only the truly exceptional young athletes were caught up in this — the 0.000000001% destined to become pros or compete in the Olympics. But these are average kids we’re talking about, kids who will most likely never play their chosen sport beyond high school.

I’m not a sports hater. Sports are good for kids. I grew up doing sports in the summer and after school in the spring and fall. My kids do baseball, soccer, and tennis. But they aren’t traveling anywhere to play these sports, nor will they be. And we have more important things to spend money on than a $25,000 travel soccer bill.

The problem with travel sports isn’t the sports. It’s the travel. And it’s the travel that’s such a problem because it’s that which results in life being completely subsumed by practices, tournaments, and all things travel sports. And the problem with all things being subsumed by travel sports is that you don’t have time for anything else, and you lose track of what actually matters.

Time out

What does it do to your family if you aren’t ever eating dinner together? What does it do to your kid — their sense of purpose and their perception of their role as a child — if all you do is cart them around like a dutiful chauffeur? And what about their spiritual development? If you are traveling every weekend for travel sports, you certainly won’t be attending synagogue on Saturday or church on Sunday. How do you teach your kids about values or faith if you never make time for them? Well, you can’t.

Lastly, what about culture? What do travel sports say about the state of our society and what we value? Sure, without question, travel sports are a lot better than smoking weed, being a general menace, or sitting on your butt all day doing nothing. But are those really the only options?

They can’t be.

How do families remain families — close families — in an era of over-scheduled kids, over-worked parents, and in a world that seems intent on drawing us apart and off into things that don’t really matter? It’s a big question, and each family has their own answer. But whatever the answer is for whoever you are, travel sports are probably not it.

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America is entering an era when the threats to our nation are evolving faster than our public conversation about them. Yet one of the most important national security initiatives of this decade — Golden Dome — remains largely unknown to the very people whose support will determine whether it succeeds.

Most citizens have no idea what Golden Dome is, what threats it addresses, or why it is stabilizing rather than escalatory.

Congress is asking pointed questions, industry is unsure what to build, and the public has barely heard the name. If we don’t close this information gap now, we risk letting confusion, speculation, and adversarial narratives define a program designed to protect the nation.

Golden Dome is not a mystery. It is a modernization effort aimed at defending the United States against advanced 21st‑century threats — those that move faster, fly farther, and strike with greater precision than anything we faced in the past.

Its architecture integrates sensing, tracking, command and control, and layered defensive capabilities across multiple domains. In plain terms, it is a shield: a system designed to strengthen deterrence, reduce vulnerability, and give national leaders more time and options in a crisis.

But even the strongest shield is only as durable as the public trust behind it. And right now, that trust is at risk.

A strategic initiative without a public narrative

Golden Dome fits squarely within the nation’s core strategic frameworks. It supports the National Security Strategy’s mandate to protect the homeland and strengthen deterrence. It advances the National Defense Strategy’s focus on countering advanced adversary capabilities. And it complements U.S. nuclear policy by reinforcing the stability and resilience of the strategic environment — without altering nuclear doctrine.

Yet alignment with strategy is not enough. Congress, industry, allies, and the American people all need to understand what Golden Dome is and why it matters. Without that clarity, the initiative risks becoming a target for political friction, budgetary skepticism, and misinterpretation abroad.

Congress has already begun signaling frustration. Members in both chambers want clearer information about Golden Dome’s architecture, cost, schedule, and oversight mechanisms.

Industry, meanwhile, is being asked to innovate at speed without knowing the full scope of what the government needs.

Golden Dome requires rapid prototyping, open architectures, and competition. But companies cannot position themselves effectively without clear guidance. The result is hesitation at a moment when urgency is essential.

And then there is the American public.

Most citizens have no idea what Golden Dome is, what threats it addresses, or why it is stabilizing rather than escalatory. In an age of disinformation, that vacuum is dangerous. If the people do not understand the purpose of a major national security initiative, adversaries will happily define it for them.

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Golden Dome is not just a domestic issue. Allies and partners want reassurance that the United States is strengthening — not retreating from — collective defense commitments. They need to know that Golden Dome complements existing security architectures rather than replacing them or shifting burdens. Adversaries, too, are watching closely. Clear, consistent messaging is essential to avoid misinterpretation and to reinforce deterrence. Ambiguity invites miscalculations.

Private speeches aren’t enough

To date, Golden Dome has been discussed primarily at defense and military conferences. Those speeches were necessary and well received — but they only reached specialized audiences. They do not shape public understanding. They do not provide Congress with a bipartisan narrative. They do not give industry the clarity it needs. And they do not reassure allies or counter adversarial messaging. A national initiative requires a national conversation.

The solution is straightforward: a deliberate, public‑facing communications campaign anchored by a major national speech. Armed Forces Day — May 16, 2026 — offers the ideal moment. A speech delivered at the American Legion Mall in Indianapolis would reach veterans, military families, policymakers, and civic leaders. It would also signal that Golden Dome is not a niche technical program but a national commitment to America’s protection.

A full rollout should include:

a clear, plain‑language narrative explaining what Golden Dome is and what it is not.pre‑briefings for Congress and industry to ensure alignment and reduce uncertainty.coordinated messaging with allies and partners to reinforce collective security.calibrated communication to adversaries to strengthen deterrence without escalating tensions.

This approach builds bipartisan confidence, provides industry with direction, reassures the American people, and strengthens allied cohesion. Most importantly, it ensures that Golden Dome is defined by its strategic purpose — not by speculation or misinformation.

A moment we cannot miss

Golden Dome is a prudent, stabilizing investment in America’s security. But even the best ideas can falter without public understanding. The United States has reached a point where silence is no longer strategic. The stakes are too high, the threats too real, and the consequences of miscommunication too severe.

A national security initiative of this scale deserves a national conversation. Golden Dome must be explained, not whispered about. It must be understood, not assumed. And it must be introduced to the American people with the clarity, confidence, and transparency that the moment demands.

Armed Forces Day is approaching. The country is ready to listen. Now is the time to speak, General Guetlein, Secretary Hegseth, and President Trump.

Editor’s note: This article was originally published by RealClearDefense and made available via RealClearWire.

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Video footage captured a bizarre attack by a woman who ended up naked while pushing a dog in a baby stroller at a Pennsylvania grocery store, according to a criminal complaint.

The White Oak Police Department said it responded to a call about an “irate woman” tossing items at a Giant Eagle supermarket in White Oak, a suburb of Pittsburgh.

‘Officers also observed numerous children in the store whose parents were trying to shield their eyes from Canut, who was nude.’

Police said the store surveillance video showed shoppers trying to get out of the way of 53-year-old Tammy Canut of North Huntingdon after she started angrily throwing items in the store.

They reported seeing her with blood coming from her face.

At one point in the video, a store employee tries to calm Canut down, but she kicks him in the groin, leading to gasps from the onlookers. She also allegedly performed sexually explicit acts before grabbing the worker’s face.

“You better knock it off!” one shopper yells to the woman.

When a customer intervenes, Canut ends up stripping naked. She then allegedly attacked a female customer on her way out and bit her hand hard enough to leave a puncture wound.

“Officers could observe a store display in disarray and damaged and items scattered about the store,” police wrote in the criminal complaint. “Officers also observed numerous children in the store whose parents were trying to shield their eyes from Canut, who was nude.”

No other victims came forward, but police believe she may have hit others.

KDKA-TV obtained the videos and published them in its YouTube report.

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The dog in Canut’s stroller was identified as a Westie breed and is said to be in good condition at the Sable Kennel, a dog rescue. The rescue is seeking a relative of Canut to take possession of the dog.

Canut was booked into the Allegheny County Jail and faces charges of assault, indecent exposure, open lewdness, harassment, and disorderly conduct.

Customers of the grocery store said they were shocked by the incident.

“I hope she gets the help that she needs. You just can’t get involved when those things happen,” Mary Sutton said.

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HBO’s new “Harry Potter” series has released an official trailer — and one character in particular has fans in an uproar.

That character is Snape, who is remembered by fans as a deathly pale older white man played by the late Alan Rickman — whose long, jet-black hair and dark, broody eyes only accentuated his spooky skin tone.

“It was being advertised as being wholly faithful to the original source material. You know, it was meant to show audiences that everything the movies were not able to communicate, now we are going to communicate that through the show,” BlazeTV host John Doyle comments.

“And then rumors began to kind of circulate around that one of the most essential characters to the story, Professor Snape, played by the late, great Alan Rickman — fantastic English actor in the original films — he would actually be getting race-swapped and portrayed by British actor named Paapa Essiedu,” he continues.

And after watching the trailer himself, Doyle calls it “disgusting.”

“It’s disgusting just because they used to recycle franchises like 50 years later. Like, they would make a movie called ‘The Smurfs’ 50 years after ‘The Smurfs’ stop being relevant. … You would see kind of like the resurgence of these old IPs, as they’re called, well after the franchise had expired,” he explains.

“I just think it’s disgusting because of what it says about what we are able to produce creatively as a society where nobody can do anything. And so, what we have to do is basically drag these old IPs out, put a new coat of paint on them, and present them to the public with a modern cast, which is to say a diverse cast,” he continues.

Doyle also notes that this isn’t only happening in movies.

“If you look at public opinion polling on how, like, diverse Americans believe their country is, the average American — this is a fact — the average American believes that the country is 50% black. The reason for that is because every time they turn on the television, all they see are black people,” Doyle explains.

“All they see in movies, commercials are black people. … And so, as a result, yeah, Professor Snape is a black guy,” he says, pointing out that Snape is described as “pale” with “stringy black hair, long black hair.”

“I don’t have an issue with it in the sense that, you know, the West has fallen because ‘Harry Potter’ is not the way I want it to be. ‘Harry Potter’ is not the way I want it to be because the West has fallen,” he adds.

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During a dinner at the annual gathering of the Ciceronian Society on March 19, a glance at my phone profoundly changed the rest of the evening. It had been an intellectually stimulating day with fellow Christian thinkers, for which my wife and I were grateful to be part of. Something familiar caught my eye: the photo of a man I instantly recognized, Brandon Shah.

We were part of the same staff group section within the larger U.S. Army Command and General Staff College class of 2019. Brandon never used X, so I was immediately curious why he was showing up so prominently on my feed. Immediately, the following words accosted me: “The victim of the terrorist attack at Old Dominion has been identified as Lt. Col. Brandon Shah.”

Our founders did not sacrifice their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to give safe harbor to Islamic crusaders.

My pulse raced, followed moments later by sudden rage. My anger over how the political class has betrayed veterans of the so-called Global War on Terrorism rekindled. My wife could tell something was bothering me. “Are you OK?” she asked. I wasn’t. My focus on the planned presentation I was to deliver later broke, my mind hijacked by a kind of mourning I had avoided throughout 20 years in the military due to learning that a man I served with died in combat on home soil.

For decades, I’ve observed our politicians signaling support for the troops, thanking us for keeping the nation secure. “I’m making the future safer for my descendants” is the bargain I believed and accepted in exchange for missing significant portions of my sons’ young lives. Then they imported the very threat they sent us to neutralize. We veterans of the war on terror did our part.

But the government failed to uphold its end of the agreement, an egregious betrayal for which no amount of hollow “thanks for your service” incantations can cover.

For decades, policymakers and commanders full of utopian dreams and desperate to cement their legacy engaged in open-ended missions to rebalance the scales of power overseas rather than defend our own homeland.

As my colleagues and I were sent to foreign fields under arms, we were denied the ability to carry arms on home soil for personal defense. Firearms are restricted on military installations, and in most civilian settings where service members labor. Due to military regulations and local laws, troops are denied many of the Second Amendment protections they fight to uphold.

America for Americans

Brandon died at the hands of the terrorist Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, a man who immigrated to the U.S. from Sierra Leone. He was arrested in 2016 for attempting to offer material support to ISIS, gather weapons for a terrorist attack, and provide funds for people hoping to join ISIS. He pleaded guilty, was sentenced to 11 years in prison, and was released early in 2024 for completing a substance abuse training program.

Had his original sentence been carried out, Jalloh would have remained incarcerated through 2029. Details on his immigration or past life events are hard to come by, as they often are when the murderer isn’t a white man, or one classified as such by the mainstream press.

Brandon’s death is not the first instance of the U.S. homeland being turned into a combat zone. On November 26, 2025, an unvetted Afghan national, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, attacked a National Guard patrol in Washington, D.C., killing Army National Guard Specialist Sarah Beckstrom and severely wounding Air National Guard Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolfe. President Trump rightly awarded the Purple Heart to both.

What they faced that day was engagement with an enemy combatant on U.S. soil. On September 8, 2021, Lakanwal was imported via the Operation Allies Welcome program, which allowed Afghans who wouldn’t fight for their own country to resettle here. Chaos and empathy prove a deadly combination.

We’re all aware of the deluge of illegal immigrants that flooded the nation because of the Biden administration, which welcomed them with all but celebratory parades. Ending illegal immigration is a righteous priority. But left largely ignored, even by conservatives, is the legal means of immigration that imports threat actors.

Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is well-known for his take that “legal, good; illegal, bad.” But that’s incorrect. Jalloh was in America legally. Both he and Lakanwal seem to pass the Cruz test. But neither belongs here.

Fighting them here

My generation of veterans served under the Bush Doctrine, which stated: “We will fight them over there so we do not have to face them in the United States of America.” Yet, while we were sent overseas for the past two decades and counting, the U.S. political class accelerated immigration from Islamic countries, where the populace holds hostile views toward the Christian values upon which America was founded.

Worse yet, those who demonstrate open loyalty to groups that want to destroy us are allowed to remain. Even John Walker Lindh, dubbed the “American Taliban,” was released early from prison despite retaining his Islamist beliefs.

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The day of Brandon’s death, Norfolk Commonwealth’s Attorney Ramin Fatehi blamed Shah’s death on a love of guns that constitutes a “national sickness.” In reality, the national sickness is a critical theory-infused brand of empathy that manipulates Americans toward disordered love, where a foreigner is given priority over familial and regional bonds.

Pete Hegseth and David Goodwin called this social doctrine the “Cultural Marxist Paideia” in their New York Times bestseller, “Battle for the American Mind.” The terms “Islamophobia,” “racism,” and “hatred” are used to intimidate and silence patriots by those who have rushed the Trojan horse through American streets.

Joe Rigney’s argument that the West has a deadly obsession with empathy, the practice of trying to immerse oneself in the suffering of another, proves increasingly sound. This contrasts with sympathy, the righteous feeling of sincere concern for a fellow human being experiencing pain or difficulty. The former attempts to spread suffering. The latter aids in healing it.

In our case, critical empathy makes magistrates subservient to malevolent actors. That framework presents predators as victims who must be yielded to, flipping social contract theory on its head. But our founders did not sacrifice their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to give safe harbor to Islamic crusaders.

I’m pleased to see Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) introduce the Naturalization Accountability Act, which would denaturalize immigrants convicted of felonies or who support terrorist groups. If you want to live here, don’t sympathize and cooperate with those who call for the murder of Americans and chant, “Death to America.”

Joining the Taliban or offering any support to terrorist groups such as ISIS, Hamas, Boko Haram, Hezbollah, etc., should be an immediate disqualifier for the benefits of American citizenship — and such people should be deported with haste. The stigma rightly belongs to those who endorse evil.

But in the wake of the tragedy involving Bradon Shah, ROTC and Junior ROTC students at schools around the nation have been directed not to wear their uniforms out of concerns for their safety. The shame is placed upon the virtuous instead. This should not be.

Two days after receiving the shocking news of Brandon’s death, I shared the reflections that grew into this essay instead of my planned presentation at the Ciceronian Society conference. Through a choked voice, I looked at the group picture of Staff Group 2D, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College class of 2019, and concluded by remembering a time when we could gather as military officers to study without fear that Islamic terrorists and battlefield combatants would transform our classroom into a zone of combat.

Brandon and I were not close and did not maintain contact after graduating. But he was a fellow veteran, a man I spent most days of a year with, through both good and frustrating times. He should still be alive, a husband to his wife, a father to his child, and a mentor to his students. His death is a betrayal.

Though the terrorist who killed him rightly faced immediate justice at the hands of bold cadets that day, there are many policymakers and enforcers whose hands are stained by their actions.

Editor’s note: This article was originally published in The American Mind.

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