Venezuela’s authoritarian President Nicolás Maduro issued a rare plea to Donald Trump in English, calling for peace with the United States as tensions between Caracas and Washington escalate following a series of U.S. military operations in the Caribbean and Pacific. CBS News reports that Lindsey Graham [radical warmonger] says land strikes in Venezuela are a […] The post Lindsey Graham Is Pushing War with Venezuela appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

As I listened to this clip of Chief Steven A. Sund talking with the Lindell TV reporter, I thought of how General Flynn’s fate rested on everyone’s belief that Mike Pence was the arbiter of truth. When he said General Flynn lied, he was believed. Now, he pops up again as the person who sold […] The post As Bad As You Think Mike Pence Is, He’s Worse appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

As much as we want to believe it could never happen to us, the truth is millions of people fall victim to scams every year. Sadly, the elderly are a prime target because they aren’t always adept with technology, and people take advantage of them. When 85-year-old Fran Bates received what she believed was a legitimate call from her bank about a compromised account, she trusted the caller and did as they said. The person told her to deposit $23,000 in cash into a Bitcoin machine to keep it safe. She went to a Texas gas station, where a very observant customer jumped in to help. The Bitcoin Scam Nearly Took Fran Bates’ Money Fran Bates told ABC News it was a horrible experience, and even though the bitcoin scam seemed unreal, she felt pressured in the moment. “And you think if you had to listen to it, you would wonder, ‘What’s going on with that woman? Doesn’t she realize what they’re doing to her?’ No, you don’t,” she said. Myndi Jordan was at the same gas station the day Fran was feeding $100 bills into the machine. She called the police, just in time. “I hate when somebody tries to take advantage of somebody that’s not able to protect themselves, or defend themselves,” Myndi told ABC News. “And I feel like they were taking advantage of you. And I was like, ‘No, we’re not doing this today.'” As a victim of identity theft herself, she knew immediately that something about the situation seemed off. Police body cam footage captured by Lieutenant James Stewart of the White Settlement Police Department shows Fran putting money into the machine as a man on the phone tells her to click “I’m done.” “No, don’t click ‘I’m done,'” the officer told Fran on the body cam recording. “Do not click anything.” Thankfully, Myndi acted quickly, and the pair saved Fran from potential financial ruin. She called the pair her “guardian angel” and “knight in shining armor.” Angels among us are real, and they helped save Fran Bates from a bitcoin scam. She’s one lucky lady. This story’s featured image can be found here. The post “Guardian Angel” Saves 85-Year-Old From Major Scam appeared first on InspireMore.

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Air traffic controllers will miss their paycheck on Tuesday because the Democrat Party would rather keep the government closed than help Americans, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said on “Fox News Sunday Morning Futures.” The nation is entering its fourth week of a government shutdown. On Tuesday, 13,000 air traffic controllers will get a $0 paycheck because Democrats are holding the government hostage.I don’t want our controllers going to a FOOD BANK! The fact that they are having to think about how to put food on the table is UNACCEPTABLE.End the… pic.twitter.com/lwyxzHpYB1— Secretary Sean Duffy (@SecDuffy) October 26, 2025 “On Tuesday, 13,000 air traffic controllers will get a $0 paycheck because Democrats are holding the government hostage,” Duffy wrote on X. “These are well-qualified professionals who keep our airspace safe. Our planes moving on time. And the fact that they have to think about how they put food on the table so they can have a lunch and a dinner is outrageous,” Duffy told Fox News. “So again, I see that burn coming from the controllers. And again, I think it’s going to play out as we look forward into the coming days.” The transportation secretary joined House Speaker Mike Johnson last Thursday to emphasize the importance of the government reopening as soon as possible, noting that both Democrat Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., are responsible for the shutdown and would rather jeopardize air traffic controllers’ paychecks to gain political leverage. SEAN DUFFY: 'We'll Know Whose Fault It Is' If Air Traffic Controllers Skip Work@SecDuffy emphasized the consequences of the Democrat government shutdown, noting the hardship air traffic controllers have endured over the last three weeks."My message to them is one: thank you… pic.twitter.com/CJuE8lHGbG— The Daily Signal (@DailySignal) October 23, 2025 “To allow the radical element in the Senate to hold America hostage, I think, would be shameful. That’s not how we operate,” Duffy stated. Duffy emphasized the impact on air travelers. “I can’t guarantee you that your flight’s going to be on time. I can’t guarantee that your flight’s not going to be canceled. It’s going to depend on our air traffic controllers coming in to work every single day.” “My message to them is, one, thank you for coming and working. We appreciate that. Come to work. Even if you don’t get a paycheck, we need you to come to work. But if they do not, we’ll know whose fault it is.” Amid the government shutdown, Democrats have introduced a spending bill to end it that includes more than $1 trillion in health care funding, including funding for illegal immigrants—a provision Republicans categorically oppose. The bill would also expand funding for Obamacare. Before departing for a week-long Asia tour, President Donald Trump reiterated the importance of reopening the government and expressed his willingness to negotiate on a potential new budget bill. However, he emphasized that he can’t allow illegal aliens to get free health care, as this would “hurt the citizens of our country.” ? JUST IN: President Trump tells Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries to SHOVE IT – he will never give illegal aliens $1.5 trillion to reopen the government because it will HURT Americans."I just can't do it!""I said, come on over, just put the government back. All they have to… pic.twitter.com/UAqcKit8cP— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 26, 2025 The post ‘I See That Burn Coming From the Controllers’: Sec. Duffy Calls on Dems to End Government Shutdown appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Both former Vice President Kamala Harris and Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom said this weekend that they will consider running for president after the 2026 midterm elections. Harris said during a BBC interview Saturday she anticipates a woman will be president in the coming years. “I am not done,” the failed 2024 Democratic Party nominee said. “I have lived my entire career as a life of service, and it’s in my bones.” Harris told the Associated Press in an interview last week she considers herself as a leader of the Democratic Party, and a run in 2028 is an option. However, the former V.P. said, “I have not decided. I may or may not.” Newsom told “CBS News Sunday Morning” that he’d “be lying” if he said he wasn’t giving serious thought to running for president. “I’d just be lying, and I can’t do that,” he said. Newsom has often said he would need a compelling “why”—a good reason—to ever run for the White House. “If you have a compelling ‘why,’ you can endure any ‘how,’” Newsom said. “People see right through you if you don’t have that why. … So that faith will determine that.” Newsom said he’s “looking forward” to seeing who steps forward in 2028 and “who meets the moment.” He’ll make his own final decision whether to run after the 2026 midterms. Additionally, Newsom talked about President Donald Trump during the interview saying he is “an invasive species” in his state. “Some may not find this a prudent thing to say about a president of the United States, but he is an invasive species for California, for the country, for the world,” Newsom said of Trump. “He’s a wrecking ball. He’s wrecking alliances, truth, trust, traditions, institutions.” Trump is currently in Asia, where on Sunday he oversaw the signing of a peace agreement between Cambodia and Thailand. The post “I Am Not Done”: Harris and Newsom Both Weigh White House Runs After 2026 appeared first on The Daily Signal.

In a sense, this is old news. In December 2021, CNN reported that the House’s January 6 committee had subpoenaed phone records of more than 100 people.But that was mostly Trump officials, including White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. No surprise there. After all, the January 6 Select Committee was empaneled for the specific purpose of turning President Donald Trump into a criminal for supposedly aiding and abetting the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the Capitol.It is well past time for the Republican Congress to fulfill its promise to hold accountable those who weaponized the federal government against Trump and his allies.But when this story resurfaced earlier this month, there was something new, too. For one thing, the scope of the investigation was almost unbelievable — it turns out those subpoenaed phone records consisted of a staggering 30 million lines of phone data.And when the select committee’s investigation went nowhere, one of the members — GOP malcontent and former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (Ill.) — informed the FBI about the phone data in Dec. 2023 when it was becoming apparent that Trump was the favorite to win the Republican nomination in 2024.Greater than WatergateMore revelatory than the numbers of the phone records hauled in by the J6 committee was the news that the FBI had gone after these same records — and possibly more — in an effort to target Trump and his conservative allies. Not only did the agency have its eyes on Trump, it also went after nine Republican members of Congress — eight senators and a stray congressman, in an obvious effort to sweep up accomplices in the coup that never was.Whether the FBI obtained the same phone records as the J6 committee is unclear. Kinzinger’s tip may have been moot, because an FBI memo released by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) shows that by September 2023, the agency had already “conducted preliminary … analysis” on the call data of several members of Congress, including Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.).According to CNN, “The FBI, as part of special counsel Jack Smith’s Jan. 6 investigation, used court orders in 2023 to obtain the phone records of nine GOP lawmakers.” These were not actual phone calls or text messages, but rather information about who called or texted whom and when.Grassley posted the memo to his X account, with the message:This document shows the Biden FBI spied on 8 of my Republican Senate colleagues during its Arctic Frost investigation into "election conspiracy." Arctic Frost later became Jack Smith's elector case against Trump.He concluded, in all caps: “BIDEN FBI WEAPONIZATION = WORSE THAN WATERGATE.”Which raises the question: Why did the story turn out to be a one-day wonder? Here we have the discovery of a partisan investigation seeking to uncover dirt on fellow members of Congress (if the records did indeed start with the J6 committee), or at the very least a rogue element of the executive branch targeting political enemies in the legislative branch.As Johnson said:They’re casting this net, this fishing expedition against members of the Senate and the House. There is no predicate. There’s no reason for this other than a fishing expedition, which, again, should outrage and shock every American.Once again, a member of Congress implied that we are witness to a political scandal (one of many in the Biden administration) that is among the worst in our history. Yet when you do a Google search for stories related to phone toll records being subpoenaed by either the J6 committee or the FBI, virtually nothing comes up beyond Oct. 7, the day after Grassley released the memo.Crickets …A few news outlets reported in the following days that FBI Director Kash Patel had fired agents involved in the Arctic Frost investigation. In addition, scattered reports surfaced on Hagerty questioning why Verizon released his phone records without informing him.Verizon told Fox News Digital:Federal law requires companies like Verizon to respond to grand jury subpoenas. We received a valid subpoena and a court order to keep it confidential. We weren't told why the information was requested or what the investigation was about.Grassley and Johnson followed up with their own letter to Verizon and three other telecommunication companies demanding to be supplied with the same data that was provided to the FBI or special counsel Jack Smith. In addition, the senators expressed their belief that the records should have been privileged because they concerned the official constitutional duties of certifying the 2020 presidential election.It seems like a real story — one that deserves the full attention of the press — but where are the special investigation teams at the New York Times and the Washington Post? What have you heard about this story on CBS, NBC, and ABC newscasts? Very little if anything. Certainly nothing in comparison to the coverage provided to Watergate.Most recently, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to Smith demanding a transcribed interview and documents along with communications related to his investigation of Trump. Well and good, but that interview will be conducted in secret, as were the interviews of Smith’s subordinates — one of whom, according to Jordan, “invoked the Fifth Amendment approximately 75 times.”RELATED: Exclusive: House Republican seeks criminal investigation into Jack Smith's alleged surveillance scheme Photo by Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call Inc. via Getty ImagesTime for Congress to step upIt is well past time for the Republican Congress to fulfill its promise to hold accountable those who weaponized the federal government against Trump and his allies. Press releases and secret interviews won’t do the job. We need public televised hearings, with witnesses ranging from members of the J6 committee, including Kinzinger, former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), and now-Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), to former FBI Director Christopher Wray and Jack Smith.Would the legacy media networks cover it? Probably not, because as we all know by now, those outfits are still after Trump’s scalp, and they will only seek to discredit Jordan and the other congressional investigators who want to know the truth. That doesn’t mean Republicans should give up.Watergate started as a one-day story about a botched break-in. But even without Woodward and Bernstein, the famous team of reporters from the Washington Post, the story would never have been kept quiet unless Senate Democrats and congressmen didn’t do their job.Now it’s time for Jordan, Grassley, and Patel to do theirs.Editor’s note: This article was originally published by RealClearPolitics and made available via RealClearWire.

I’ve watched a lot of cultural moments come and go in my lifetime, but this one has felt different. The shocking assassination of Charlie Kirk didn’t just send tremors through the conservative world — it created a ripple that reached far beyond it. In the days and weeks that followed, I saw headlines I never thought I’d see: reports of a Bible-sales surge unlike anything in recent years. When the noise of culture gets stripped away, the hunger for truth rises to the surface.According to Fox Business, more than 2.4 million Bibles were sold in the U.S. in September — a 36% increase over last year.The Bible-sales surge that coincided with Charlie Kirk’s assassination reveals something profound. When America faces moments of crisis, people often turn to scripture for hope and answers. While no one can say with absolute certainty what caused the surge, the timing and impact of Charlie’s life and testimony make it reasonable to believe it played a significant role. And I personally believe that his assassination likely contributed to this powerful moment.A cultural shockwave I'll never forgetCharlie’s assassination on Sept. 10, 2025, shook me to the core. Like so many others in conservative circles, I admired him. But for me, it was more than admiration. Charlie was my role model in Christ — a man who stood unapologetically for Jesus in a culture that often mocked Him. He lived boldly, unfiltered, and unafraid. That resonated with me deeply.For years, those of us who followed Charlie knew who he was and what he stood for. But it wasn’t until his assassination that millions outside our circle — people on the left, independents, and even those who normally tune out of politics — truly saw him. His name wasn’t just on conservative media anymore; it was everywhere. And in that moment, the world encountered the testimony of a man whose faith was front and center.That matters. His assassination didn’t just make headlines — it made people think about eternity. It made them think about what kind of man he was and, more importantly, Who he lived for.This cultural moment reminds me of how believers are called to stand firm even when the world doesn’t understand.Why people turn to the Bible in times like thisI’ve learned over the years that when tragedy strikes, people instinctively reach for something that doesn’t shake. They reach for something real. For many Americans, that means reaching for the Bible.We’ve seen this before — after 9/11, during the pandemic, and now again. The Bible-sales surge isn’t just about a number on a spreadsheet. It’s a reflection of millions of hearts suddenly looking for answers they can’t find anywhere else. People may not even fully understand why they’re buying a Bible — but something in them knows they need hope.Deep down, every person has a God-shaped void. And when the noise of culture gets stripped away, the hunger for truth rises to the surface.The power of one man's testimonyCharlie’s faith spoke louder in his assassination than most people’s do in their lifetime. I’ve followed him for years, not just for his courage in politics, but for his unwavering love for Jesus. Seeing the way his story spread afterward impacted me profoundly. People who would have never listened to him while he was alive suddenly heard about him everywhere.I believe some of those 2.4 million Bibles may have been bought by people who wanted to understand why Charlie believed what he believed. Others probably acted out of grief, curiosity, or quiet searching. RELATED: Why Gen Z is rebelling against leftist lies — and turning to Jesus StanislavSalamanov/iStock/Getty Images PlusWhatever the reason, it’s reasonable to believe his testimony was one of several factors prompting people to seek answers in scripture.The early church experienced the same kind of ripple effect. Persecution never silenced the gospel — it multiplied it. Charlie wasn’t a martyr in the classical sense, but the way God is using his life after his assassination fits that same pattern: light shining in the darkness.Why the Bible-sales surge mattersTo me, this surge isn’t just encouraging — it’s revealing. Beneath the noise of politics and division, there’s still a spiritual hunger in America. People are tired of the chaos. They’re searching for something real. And whether they know it or not, they’re reaching for the only truth that can set them free.The Bible isn’t just another book on a shelf. It’s living and active (Hebrews 4:12). If even a fraction of the millions who bought a Bible actually open it, read it, and meet the living God, this moment could be the spark of something extraordinary.But this also means we need to be discerning because buying a Bible isn’t the same thing as being transformed by it.Reaction or revival?I remember the wave of church attendance after 9/11. America prayed. Churches filled up. People searched for answers. But as the months passed, that spiritual hunger faded. Crisis can wake people up, but it doesn’t guarantee lasting change. That’s the question now. Will this Bible-sales surge be a turning point or just a reaction to pain?Reaction is emotional, but revival is spiritual. Reaction fades, but revival transforms.Real revival isn’t just a wave of emotion or a spike in sales. According to GotQuestions.org, true revival is a spiritual reawakening that brings a heartfelt return to God and obedience to His word. That’s the kind of revival America needs — not just a cultural reaction to tragedy. My prayer is that this moment becomes more than a headline, that it becomes a holy spark that ignites something real.The church — and you and me — must be readyThis is where we come in. If people are turning to the Bible, the church has to be ready to lead them to the Author. And I’m not talking about pastors and leaders alone — I’m talking about all of us. I’m talking about me.People who might never have stepped into a church are holding a Bible right now. Some don’t know where to begin. Some are skeptical. Some are hungry. If we stay silent, this moment may fade away like so many before it. But if we speak up — if we share the hope we’ve found — we can meet those searching hearts with truth and grace.Charlie's example and our callCharlie Kirk lived the kind of bold faith I want to live. He didn’t compartmentalize his Christianity. He proclaimed it from the rooftop, even when it cost him culturally. That’s why he became my role model in Christ. And I believe the best way to honor that kind of legacy is not just to admire it — but to live it.A Bible sitting unopened on a shelf won’t change a single life. But the Word of God, opened and believed, absolutely will.This is our moment to shine the light of Christ, to speak boldly, and to live with conviction. Charlie did. Now it’s our turn.America is reaching for the Bible again. But this time, it’s personal for me. Charlie Kirk wasn’t just a public figure I respected — he was a man whose faith inspired mine. His witness is still bearing fruit, even now. I don’t want to see this moment fade into history as just another cultural reaction. I want to see lives transformed. That starts with believers like you and me living out the truth we say we believe.This article is adapted from an essay originally published at Arch Kennedy's blog.

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