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Let There Be Different Nations: Let There Be Hosts and Guests
It is not good for the world to be homogeneous. And yet contrary to their professed love of "diversity", that's exactly what the left seeks, from…
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ICYMI: Should Alberta Become America's 51st State?
The Case for Secession, Statehood, and a Freer Western Canada
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Putting the "Deal" in Peace Deals: Trump's New Playbook, Explained
"Transactional" foreign policy horrifies the critics. Yet Trump's strategy enriches all parties, and ties their growing wealth to maintaining the peace…
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Rod with Eric Metaxas: Bolton is Just the Beginning, PLUS Christianity & Capitalism
Rod & Eric discuss the John Bolton raid, why it matters, and what happens next; PLUS a bonus discussion of my recent “Christianity Commands Capitalism…
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China’s Nuclear Weapons Buildup Driven by Unrestricted Warfare Doctrine, Experts Say
The CCP's rapid expansion of nuclear capabilities threatens the balance of power and may set off an arms race. It's also demonstrating the immediate…
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The Florida Voter Fraud Case That Could Overturn Democrat Cheat-By-Mail
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Military Starship: How SpaceX Is About to Make America Globally Dominant
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USAID’s Shutdown: Trump and Musk’s Nuclear Strike on the Deep State
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Russia Has Lost The Ukraine War. There Will Be Consequences
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Let There Be Different Nations: Let There Be Hosts and Guests
It is not good for the world to be homogeneous. And yet contrary to their professed love of "diversity", that's exactly what the left seeks, from…
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Guest Author
ICYMI: Should Alberta Become America's 51st State?
The Case for Secession, Statehood, and a Freer Western Canada
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Putting the "Deal" in Peace Deals: Trump's New Playbook, Explained
"Transactional" foreign policy horrifies the critics. Yet Trump's strategy enriches all parties, and ties their growing wealth to maintaining the peace…
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China’s Nuclear Weapons Buildup Driven by Unrestricted Warfare Doctrine, Experts Say
The CCP's rapid expansion of nuclear capabilities threatens the balance of power and may set off an arms race. It's also demonstrating the immediate…
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Rod with Eric Metaxas: Bolton is Just the Beginning, PLUS Christianity & Capitalism
Rod & Eric discuss the John Bolton raid, why it matters, and what happens next; PLUS a bonus discussion of my recent “Christianity Commands Capitalism…
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Sunday Essay: The Ambition Deficit in Modern Men
Why so many of today's men avoid responsibility, eschew leadership, and waste their God-given callings.
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Christianity Commands Capitalism
The entirety of Scripture not only assumes but commands private property rights. It also commands profitability on the Master's investment, in all areas…
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Sunday Essay: “Cats in the Cradle” and the Indispensable Nature of Fatherhood
Harry Chapin doesn’t appear to have been a believer. But his song has encouraged many to pursue biblical fatherhood whether they realized it or not.
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Sunday Essay: Why The "Gospel Centered" Movement Failed
Labeling everything "a Gospel issue" except the Gospel - COVID, closing churches, vax mandates, BLM riots, and always Woke politics - was a clear…
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Sunday Essay: The Masculinity the Church Forgot
What happened to the war songs?
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The Ugly History of Democrats, Gun Control and Race
The Second Amendment was not used to enforce oppression in America. Gun control was created to give free rein to slavers and later the Klan.
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Sunday Essay: The Ambition Deficit in Modern Men
Why so many of today's men avoid responsibility, eschew leadership, and waste their God-given callings.
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China's Designs on Russia, & How Leftist Beliefs Implode, from Nanjing to New York
Frank Gaffney & Rod D. Martin discuss why China benefits from continuing the war in Ukraine, how the CCP short-circuited its own future, and how…
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Trump’s Smithsonian Restoration
Liberating an institution enslaved by the America-hating Left.
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Gruesome HHS Organ Transplant Report: "Systemic Disregard for Sanctity of Life"
New reports raise startling questions about the nation’s organ transplant systems, as evidence mounts that people are being killed for their organs.
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Peace for Ukraine, Debacle in China, Defunding the Left, and a New Golden Age
Rod sits down to discuss all these things and more with Dave Scarlett on "Take FiVe".
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Conrad Black: Trump’s Ukraine Talks and the Restoration of NATO
It's not just that Donald Trump has brought real hope for peace in Ukraine. He has also reconstructed and unified the NATO alliance to its strongest…
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Peace in Ukraine is Bad For China: Very Bad - Rod and Gordon Chang on NTD News
Rod Martin and Gordon Chang discuss the outlines of a potential Russia-Ukraine peace, how China is exploiting the war for its own advantage, plus…
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Communist China’s Pain Is America’s Gain
A surprising amount of the foreign investment capital flight out of China is flowing into the United States.
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Rod with Eric Metaxas: Bolton is Just the Beginning, PLUS Christianity & Capitalism
Rod & Eric discuss the John Bolton raid, why it matters, and what happens next; PLUS a bonus discussion of my recent “Christianity Commands Capitalism…
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The Ugly History of Democrats, Gun Control and Race
The Second Amendment was not used to enforce oppression in America. Gun control was created to give free rein to slavers and later the Klan.
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Christianity Commands Capitalism
The entirety of Scripture not only assumes but commands private property rights. It also commands profitability on the Master's investment, in all areas…
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Rod on "Stakelbeck Tonight"
Trump's crackdowns on D.C. crime, the border, and hospitals transing kids; a huge foreign policy win in the Caucasus; the Gaza crisis; PLUS, the…
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Daddy’s Home: Trump’s "Transactional" Foreign Policy Is Anything But Retreat
The critics cry “isolationism,” but Trump is making the U.S. more dominant than ever — by turning dependent allies into strong partners.
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Truman Was Right - The 80th Anniversary of Hiroshima
Whether judging by necessity or Just War Theory, the Allies, however imperfect, were righteous in waging this defensive war and right to use the Atomic…
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Making Gold Money Again
Your money should be a store of value. Yet the dollar has lost 87% of its value since 1971 with no relief in sight. Now, five states are doing something…
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Trump's Trade Triumphs & the Coming Iranian Revolution: Rod with Eric Metaxas
Rod & Eric discuss why Trump is achieving the very things everyone said would fail, the Iranian opposition and its chances, PLUS the imperialist nature…
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Rod with Eric Metaxas: Bolton is Just the Beginning, PLUS Christianity & Capitalism
Rod & Eric discuss the John Bolton raid, why it matters, and what happens next; PLUS a bonus discussion of my recent “Christianity Commands Capitalism…
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Guest Author
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China's Designs on Russia, & How Leftist Beliefs Implode, from Nanjing to New York
Frank Gaffney & Rod D. Martin discuss why China benefits from continuing the war in Ukraine, how the CCP short-circuited its own future, and how…
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Guest Author
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Peace for Ukraine, Debacle in China, Defunding the Left, and a New Golden Age
Rod sits down to discuss all these things and more with Dave Scarlett on "Take FiVe".
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Peace in Ukraine is Bad For China: Very Bad - Rod and Gordon Chang on NTD News
Rod Martin and Gordon Chang discuss the outlines of a potential Russia-Ukraine peace, how China is exploiting the war for its own advantage, plus…
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The Promise and Perils of AI, PLUS the Moral Case for Hiroshima
Frank Gaffney & Rod D. Martin discuss the positives and negatives of Artificial Intelligence, including the limits no one is talking about; PLUS, why…
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BONUS: Trump's Big DOGE Win; PLUS This Week's Most Read Articles
Rod discusses the first complete global trade reset since 1945 on NTD News Today.
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Rod on "Stakelbeck Tonight"
Trump's crackdowns on D.C. crime, the border, and hospitals transing kids; a huge foreign policy win in the Caucasus; the Gaza crisis; PLUS, the…
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Do Trade Deficits Threaten National Security? - Rod on NTD News Today
Rod joins the NTD News Today panel to discuss the wide-ranging ramifications of Trump's global trade and defense reset, the first of its kind in 80…
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