Books Front Lines and Frontiers Episodic Adventures Through Time and Space: Time Tunnel and Timeslip! by Murray Leinster The timey-wimey tale of a classic ’60s sci-fi series and three different novels… By Alan Brown | Published on January 20, 2026 Comment 0 Share New Share In this bi-weekly series reviewing classic science fiction and fantasy books, Alan Brown looks at the front lines and frontiers of the field; books about soldiers and spacers, scientists and engineers, explorers and adventurers. Stories full of what Shakespeare used to refer to as “alarums and excursions”: battles, chases, clashes, and the stuff of excitement. Last year, I discovered that there were two tie-in novels written for one of the favorite TV science fiction shows from my youth, The Time Tunnel, written by one of my favorite science fiction authors from that era, the venerable Murray Leinster. Because The Time Tunnel is also a favorite of my wife’s, we rewatch it every few years on discs (or more recently by recording it from MeTV). I found the two books listed online, and ordered the first. When it arrived, however, I discovered that while the title is Time Tunnel, and the author was indeed Murray Leinster, it was written when the TV series was still in development, and not related to the show at all. So, there are three Time Tunnel books written by Leinster: the one I had received, and the two later novels tied to the TV show—The Time Tunnel, and Time Tunnel Adventure #2: Timeslip! All three were published by Pyramid Books, and they had confused things further by using the same cover for the first tie-in book that appeared on the earlier novel. I attempted some research to find out if there was a connection between the show and the earlier book, but accounts on different websites disagreed. I was intrigued enough to order a reference book on the show, The Time Tunnel: A History of the Television Program, by Martin Grams, Jr. (which was great, and offered a fun trip down memory lane). It made it clear the original book was created simultaneously and separately from development of the TV show. Grams’ book suggests that Leinster might have then been hired to write tie-in books to prevent any claims he might have brought against the show for using the title of his original book. Since receiving that first book, I was able to track down the second tie-in novel but not the first. So, for this column, I will be contrasting the earlier, separate novel by Leinster with his second book written for the TV show. I guess this goes to show that, even behind the scenes, time travel can be tricky business! About the Author Murray Leinster was the pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins (1896-1975), a leading American science fiction writer from right after World War I into the 1960s, who wrote groundbreaking stories covering a wide range of subgenres and themes, including first contact, time travel, alternate history, and futuristic medicine. I previously reviewed the collection First Contacts: The Essential Murray Leinster (you can find that review here), the collection Med Ship (find the review here), and three books on humanity’s initial steps into space: Space Platform and Space Tug (find the review here), and City on the Moon (find the review here). And you can find some of Leinster’s works to read for free on Project Gutenberg. About the TV Producer Irwin Allen (1916-1991) was an American producer and director of films and television shows. He got his start on radio, and as an agent in Hollywood. His film career began in the 1950s, and his output included both fictional stories and documentaries. In the early 1960s, he produced three films of interest to science fiction fans: an adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s dinosaur adventure The Lost World, the original story Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, and an adaptation of Jules Verne’s Five Weeks in a Balloon. In the 1960s, he was perhaps the most prolific purveyor of science fiction on television, creating shows like Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (a series that picked up the story from the feature film), Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel, and Land of the Giants. In the 1970s, he produced two successful disaster films, the works he is probably best known for: The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno. Allen’s output didn’t always have a reputation for being of the highest quality, but he was adept at producing shows with a limited budget, often by weaving stock footage into newer material, and by making the most of primitive practical effects. The Time Tunnel: The TV Show The Time Tunnel was an episodic show built on a simple premise, which is best summed up by the narration that began each episode: “Two American scientists are lost in the swirling maze of past and future ages, during the first experiments on America’s greatest and most secret project: The Time Tunnel. Tony Newman and Doug Phillips now tumble helplessly toward a new fantastic adventure, somewhere along the infinite corridors of time…” Each week, Tony and Doug would find themselves in a different time and place in either the past or future. Their home base was an improbably gigantic secret underground military installation where the titular time travel device was located. That device, a tunnel of black and white ovals surrounded by banks of blinking computers, was operated by a small and dedicated team led by General Kirk, chief scientist Doctor Swain, and electrobiologist Doctor Ann MacGregor. Despite efforts to bring them home, the best the team can do is pluck them from one dangerous situation only to drop them into another. And inexplicably (or rather, for the very practical reason of allowing viewers to watch episodes in no particular order), Tony and Doug always reverted to the same clothing they started with at the beginning of each episode. The central cast was led by teen heartthrob actor and singer James Darren as Tony, and included Robert Colbert as Doug, Lee Meriwether as Ann, John Zaremba as Doctor Swain, and Whit Bissell as General Kirk. Tony was headstrong, Doug stoic and practical, General Kirk and Doctor Swain were dedicated and creative, and Ann was (notably for a female character in that era) an intelligent and competent scientist. While it was never explicitly addressed, it appeared Doug and Ann were attracted to each other, if not a romantic couple. Earlier episodes generally feature famous events from the past, although later episodes include more lurid science fictional scenarios like alien invaders. The historical adventures relied heavily on stock footage from old movies, especially for large battle scenes. The show also made use of the various sets and costumes available to them from other productions underway on the 20th Century Fox backlot. Doug and Tony were fortunately adept at martial arts, although the fight scenes generally felt over-the-top. The show also followed a format much beloved by pulp adventure writers like Edgar Rice Burroughs, in which the characters are constantly being captured, only to escape (until the next time they’re captured). The theme song for the show, a jazzy number built around a clock-like rhythm, deserves special mention. It was one of the first compositions by a young musician new to Hollywood, Johnny Williams. He later went on to drop the “ny” from the end of his first name, becoming one of the most respected composers in the history of film, scoring movies like Jaws, Star Wars, and Raiders of the Lost Ark. Unfortunately, Time Tunnel only lasted for one long season of thirty episodes. The ratings were good, but the show was expensive to produce, and the ABC network decided to fill its time slot with another show. Ten episodes were later spliced together to make five made-for-TV movies. There were attempts to reboot the show, but the two efforts that resulted in pilot episodes never went into production. Big Finish, the British audio company, later produced two boxed sets of radio dramas that continued the story of the show. Time Tunnel: Leinster’s Original Novel The book begins with a paragraph that neatly sets up all that follows: “The affair of the time-tunnel began, so far as Harrison was concerned, with a series of events so improbable as to seem lunacy, but which appear to have been inevitable. In a cosmos designed to have human beings live in it, though, there would have to be some sort of safeguards against the consequences of their idiocy. The time-tunnel may have been such a safeguard. To some people, that seems a reasonable guess.” Harrison is in Paris to do historical research when he runs into an old college classmate, Pepe Ybarra. Harrison’s PhD research is based on a concept propounded by one of their teachers, Professor Carroll, but he’s discovered something odd in the history books. In 1804, a man named de Bassompierre had shown up, befriended the politician Talleyrand, and began introducing scientists of the day to theories that were decades in advance of the time. Harrison and Ybarra discuss history, and both experience the odd feeling that their memories of the events have somehow changed recently. Then Ybarra mentions that he’d come across a shop that bore the name Carroll, and wondered if it might be related to their professor. The shop is quite strange, filled with items that look new, but are purported to come from 1804. The two joke that the shop, and the mysterious de Bassompierre’s knowledge, might be explained by time travel, not realizing they have stumbled on the truth. When they visit the mysterious shop, they find it staffed by a childhood friend of Harrison’s—the beautiful Valerie, who, in another in a series of improbable coincidences, turns out to be the ward of the wife of their old teacher, Professor Carroll. They discover that their teacher has discovered a way to create a tunnel through time by inducing an electrical current in a cast metal relic. He has bought a house on the site of an old foundry, and using an old cannon barrel in the basement, created a connection with the year it was cast: 1804. The contents of the mysterious shop are items purchased by Professor Carroll’s brother-in-law, M. Dubois, in the Paris of 1804. Harrison finds himself falling in love again with Valerie, an affection complicated by the fact that Carroll’s wife is a most unpleasant woman. When Carroll hears about the mysterious de Bassompierre, he fears that someone else has also developed a time-tunnel—someone who could possibly harm the world by meddling with time itself (as evidenced by the sharing of advanced knowledge). With the planet seemingly teetering on the brink of a world-destroying atomic war, the effect of changes to the established timeline of history could be catastrophic. Thus, they have period-appropriate costumes made up, and head into the past. Leinster has done his homework, and does an excellent job of evoking the world of Napoleonic France. The men have all sorts of adventures in the past, both helping M. Dubois in gathering products for sale in their shop, and in tracking down the mysterious de Bassompierre. Along the way, there are entertaining encounters with bandits and famous historical figures. At the same time, the political situation in the present is becoming dire. Communist China has developed nuclear weapons, and is threatening to invade Formosa (the former Western name for what we now call Taiwan). Harrison considers fleeing into the past with Valerie to escape what looks like an inevitable war, and the friends begin to debate whether, like de Bassompierre, they should use their future knowledge to deliberately change the future. There follow some twists and turns, some of which are a bit too obvious to the reader, but the story eventually comes to a satisfying and rather witty ending, which echoes the suggestion in the first paragraph that perhaps the cosmos is predisposed to be kind to humanity. The book is not Leinster’s best work, and tends to meander at times, but it is entertaining, and moves right along, so it was a pleasant read. Time Tunnel Adventure #2: Timeslip! It becomes immediately apparent when reading this book that Leinster had his own ideas about how the TV show’s Time Tunnel should work. Modern fans, who become enraged by the slightest deviation from established canon, would likely be appalled by liberties like this. In his telling, the time tunnel is an unauthorized effort, built in secret without oversight from the government. Contact with the travelers is maintained through radio-equipped harnesses, and views of the worlds they visit are provided by drones disguised as buzzards (which is an improvement over the unexplained way the TV show linked with travelers and were suddenly able to magically observe their environment through a variety of viewpoints). And this story apparently takes place after the TV show is over. Tony and Doug have returned from their uncontrolled trip through time, General Kirk is now retired, Doug and Ann are now explicitly a couple, and control of the time tunnel is being turned over to the military. Before that turnover, however, a new member of the time tunnel team, Sam Creighton, wants to see scenes from the Mexican-American War, where one of his ancestors died as a hero. A skeptical general arrives to oversee one more test of the time tunnel, the clandestine transport of a nuclear weapon to McMurdo Station in Antarctica. The military is not as interested in time travel as it is in transporting items through space. If this works, it would allow the US to dominate the world by seeding weapons in the cities of their adversaries (the story, like many from this era, is dripping with Cold War paranoia, and this sounds like a horrible idea to me). But the general meddles with the tunnel, disrupts the test, the weapon ends up in a pond in Mexico City during the Mexican-American War. The team then finds that in the present, the still undiscovered bomb is about to be uncovered by a construction project, which might detonate the warhead, and its time harness has been compromised. Tony goes back into the past with Sam to put a new time harness on the weapon so that it can be retrieved. They encounter Sam’s ancestor, who is killed before he can perform the heroic acts recorded in history, and throughout the rest of the story, Sam is obsessed with performing those acts himself. Tony is also caught up in the battles. Timeslip! is an entertaining tale, although the feel of the story is very pulpy, and I will not spoil the ending, here—if you are a fan of the TV show, and won’t be offended by the changes to the established canon of the TV adventures, the book is worth seeking out. Final Thoughts While I was frustrated by not being able to track down the first TV show tie-in book, the two books I could find were entertaining, and it is always fun to discover further adventures in a series you thought was over. Plus, even the lesser works of Murray Leinster are still enjoyable to read. I was also delighted with the reference book I discovered during my research, The Time Tunnel: A History of the Television Program, by Martin Grams, Jr., which is worth reading by any fan of the TV show. The floor is now yours: I would enjoy any thoughts you all might share on the Time Tunnel books or the show itself, or if you are so moved, your thoughts on similar time travel stories.[end-mark] The post Episodic Adventures Through Time and Space: Time Tunnel and Timeslip! by Murray Leinster appeared first on Reactor.

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk appeared to support a targeted immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota that made international news. “It is pure evil for people to stop the arrest of child predators,” Musk wrote on X, responding to reports that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested a U.S. citizen who wouldn’t cooperate with agents during an operation seeking two convicted sex offenders. The Department of Homeland Security said the U.S. citizen, later released, resided at the address of the two offenders and would not identify himself to the ICE agents. It is pure evil for people to stop the arrest of child predators https://t.co/WRLVMXIvop— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 19, 2026 Musk and President Donald Trump had a public falling out last summer after he headed the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency initiative. Musk’s comments on the immigration operation come after a viral Reuters photo of the agents arresting a man wearing shorts and Crocs with a blanket thrown over his shoulders on a snowy day in St. Paul. “Marching half-naked elderly people out into the snow, your tax dollars at work,” author and columnist Jill Filipovic wrote on X above a post sharing the photo. Yesterday in St. Paul, ICE conducted a targeted operation of 2 convicted sex offenders. One of the criminal targets had convictions for sex with a minor and sexual assault. The other target had convictions for sex assault with penetration in the first degree, domestic violence,…— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) January 19, 2026 According to the DHS account of the incident, federal agents on Sunday went to the address of the two convicted sex offenders. Their convictions include sex with a minor, sexual assault, domestic violence, sex assault with penetration in the first degree, and violating a protective order. “Both also have convictions for failure to register as sex offenders. They both have final orders of removal from an immigration judge,” according to DHS. Upon arriving at the home, agents found ChongLy Thao, 56, inside, according to Reuters. But Thao refused to identify himself or be fingerprinted, according to DHS, so he was taken into custody to determine his identity. He was later released. “He matched the description of the targets,” DHS said in a statement on X. “As with any law enforcement agency, it is standard protocol to hold all individuals in a house of an operation for safety of the public and law enforcement.” The two convicted sex offenders remain “at large in St. Paul,” according to DHS. The department has pledged to provide “the public with photos and descriptors to help us locate and apprehend these public safety threats.” Thao is a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in Laos, according to Reuters. His family later published a statement calling the ordeal “unnecessary, degrading, and deeply traumatizing,” and a relative of the family told Reuters that one of the two convicts ICE had targeted had previously lived at the residence but had moved out. The incident comes less than two weeks after an ICE-involved shooting in Minneapolis left 37-year-old Renee Good dead, leading to widespread anti-ICE protests in the Twin Cities. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey have demanded federal immigration officials leave the community. Despite opposition in the Twin Cities, the Trump administration has deployed hundreds more immigration enforcement agents to the area. In the past six weeks, federal immigration officials have “arrested 3,000 criminal illegal aliens including vicious murderers, rapists, child pedophiles, and incredibly dangerous individuals,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem announced Monday. A total of 10,000 criminal illegal aliens have been arrested in Minneapolis over the past 12 months, according to Noem, who calls the operation a “victory for public safety.” The post Elon Musk Weighs in on Minnesota ICE Operation appeared first on The Daily Signal.

President Donald Trump has delivered a sharp policy reversal from the Obama-Biden era during his first year back in office, solving problems from border security to the economy to foreign conflicts, The Daily Signal’s Rob Bluey said on Fox Business Network. “It sure is a different time in America,” Bluey told host Liz MacDonald on “The Evening Edit.” “We could probably extend or double or triple that list for all of the problems that Donald Trump has helped solve, and he was left a mess as you indicated from Barack Obama and Joe Biden.” Bluey pointed to improvements across multiple policy areas. He’s not alone in noting the stark difference from his Democrat predecessors. Axios’ Mike Allen called Trump the “Eraser-in-Chief” for undoing the policies of former President Joe Biden. “As Trump approaches this one-year anniversary on Jan. 20, I think the United States is much better off with him as the leader,” Bluey said. “Our country—certainly both from a domestic standpoint and foreign standpoint—is in a much better spot today than it was when Joe Biden left office.” Border Crisis: Fixed When MacDonald raised the contrast between the “far-left madness” of the Biden years and the relative stability under Trump, Bluey focused on border security as a prime example of policy sabotage. “Joe Biden had the tools at his disposal to close the U.S.-Mexico border,” Bluey said, noting that federal law gave the president the authority Trump had successfully used in his first term. “On day one, Biden wiped away all of those policies and left us with the situation we’re in now.” Bluey also criticized Democrat governors for refusing to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. “If you want to talk about anybody who’s responsible for the chaos in our country, it’s people like Tim Walz in Minnesota, who if they just cooperated with Donald Trump and enforced the law, maybe we wouldn’t have these out-of-control protests happening in Minneapolis,” he said. Anti-Trump Media Bias MacDonald asked Bluey about the media’s role in downplaying Trump’s achievements. “They share a ton of blame, because Donald Trump doesn’t get the credit that he deserves,” Bluey responded, pointing to consistently negative headlines despite policy successes. Today, Trump marks the one-year anniversary of his return to the White House on Jan. 20, 2025, the first president since Grover Cleveland to serve two nonconsecutive terms as president. Cleveland, the first Democrat elected after the Civil War, served from 1885 to 1889 and again from 1893 to 1897. The post How Trump Solved the Mess Obama and Biden Left Behind appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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On Monday’s edition of The View, to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day, actress Pam Grier was teed up by co-host Sunny Hostin to recall the racism she experienced while growing up in Columbus, Ohio in the 1950s. According to her, her mom would often have to get her and her siblings to avert their eyes lest they see a body hanging from a tree. But according to the Ohio Lynching Victims Memorial, the last lynching was in 1911. Other details about the story were questionable as well. Fresh from defending discrimination against white people earlier in the show, Hostin teed up Grier to share her experiences with racism, specifically during her time in Columbus, Ohio: But let me ask you this: because you've been the first so many times, but you were the first black woman on the cover of Ms. magazine in 1975. You paved the way for black female representation in the stunt industry as well. But before breaking all of those barriers in Hollywood and other places, you faced a lot of racism growing up in Columbus, Ohio. How did that shape you? Grier responded by initially recalling how, in her early life, her dad was in the military and would have to walk to the base because of segregation. Her story quickly shifted to seemingly recounting how her mother would try to protect her and her siblings from seeing people hanging in trees: And sometimes we would go from, you know, tree shade to shade to get back to the apartment, my brother and I, my mom, with bags. And my mom would go, “don't look, don't look, don't look.” She’d pull us away because there's someone hanging from a tree. And they have a memorial for it now where you can see where people were and left. And it triggers me today to see that a voice can be silenced. And if a white family supported a black, they're going to get burned down or killed or lynched as well.   Pam Grier recalls her mom trying to protect her from seeing lynched bodies hanging to trees in Columbus, Ohio. She noted that white families would also be lynched for supporting black families: "My mom would go, 'don't look, don't look, don't look,' and she would pull us away… pic.twitter.com/UG6AaZfy1q — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 19, 2026   But something wasn’t right with her story. Grier was born on May 26, 1949. The Ohio Lynching Victims Memorial documented the last lynching as June 27, 1911 (the victim’s name was not reported). The kicker? It occurred in Cleveland. Despite the facts, Grier’s dubious claims were met with approval from Hostin and moderator Whoopi Goldberg. Faux conservative co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin didn’t offer any push back, just a quick pivot to another topic: GOLDBERG: Yeah. HOSITN: Yeah. FARAH GRIFFIN: Pam, you’ve done too many extraordinary things to highlight. Curiously, Hostin’s tee up may have been wrong too. According to Grier’s Wikipedia page, she wasn’t born in Columbus, Ohio, but rather Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The North Carolina Lynching Victims Memorial listed the last lynching in her town as December 24, 1890. In both instance, Grier would have to be over 100 years old. Her Wiki page also noted that a few years after she was born, Grier’s family moved to England with her father’s Air Force reassignment, then to California, and then Denver. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View January 19, 2026 11:37:33 a.m. Eastern (…) SUNNY HOSTIN: But let me ask you this: because you've been the first so many times, but you were the first black woman on the cover of Ms. magazine in 1975. You paved the way for black female representation in the stunt industry as well. But before breaking all of those barriers in Hollywood and other places, you faced a lot of racism growing up in Columbus, Ohio. How did that shape you? PAM GRIER: Whoo. Well, the military wouldn't allow black families to live on the base so you had to live in an apartment and you couldn't take a bus, you couldn't afford a car, you walked. Your dads walked to the base. Whoo. And sometimes we would go from, you know, tree shade to shade to get back to the apartment, my brother and I, my mom, with bags. And my mom would go, “don't look, don't look, don't look.” She’d pull us away because there's someone hanging from a tree. And they have a memorial for it now where you can see where people were and left. And it triggers me today to see that a voice can be silenced. And if a white family supported a black, they're going to get burned down or killed or lynched as well. WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Yeah. HOSITN: Yeah. ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: Pam, you’ve done too many extraordinary things to highlight. (…)

"There's more to life than being really, really, really ridiculously good looking." ---Derek Zoolander So how far has the quality of writing at Atlantic magazine declined due to their TDS having become so overwhelming that they will stoop to any low in a pathetic attempt to smear those who support President Donald Trump? Well, the standards  at that periodical have plunged so far that they are now even trying to link a fringe wacko group  with MAGA. Very  few people have ever heard of something called "Looksmaxxing" yet it is now being presented as a major movement of our era according to the latest smear campaign posing as an article on Monday by Thomas Chatterton Williams in "‘Looksmaxxing’ in the Age of Trump." What exactly is "Looksmaxxing?" You probably don't want to know but for the morbidly curious, the first paragraph of the story provides a rather cringey answer of sorts: The so-called looksmaxxing movement is narcissistic, cruel, racist, shot through with social Darwinism, and proudly anti-compassion. As the name suggests, looksmaxxers share a monomaniacal commitment to improving their physical appearance. They trade stories of breaking their legs in order to gain extra inches, “bonesmashing” their faces with hammers to heighten their cheekbones, injecting steroids and testosterone to inflate their muscles, and even smoking crystal meth to suppress their appetite. If you had to pick a single corner of the internet that best captures the vices of the Trump era, you couldn’t beat the looksmaxxers. Although Williams implies that Looksmaxxing is somehow connected to Trump supporters, he admits that its "newest star" supports Gavin Newsom over JD Vance for president in 2028 not for any political reasons but simply because he thinks Newsom looks better: Although many looksmaxxers support Donald Trump, they defy neat political classification. The community is simply too nihilistic. Its newest star, Braden Peters, made this clear during a recent podcast interview with the conservative commentator Michael Knowles, in which the two discussed a potential 2028 presidential contest between California Governor Gavin Newsom and Vice President J. D. Vance. Peters said he disagrees with Newsom’s politics, but would vote for the governor anyway because he’s more handsome—or, in the group’s parlance, he “mogs” Vance. The governor is a “Chad” and the vice president is “subhuman,” Peters explained to Knowles, who was gobsmacked. And anybody who thinks this Braden Peters character is incredibly shallow, his beyond bizarre emphasis on looks has been echoed by another fringe character whom many in the media have also attempted to link to Trump supporters, namely Nick Fuentes. That self described "incel" who has openly admitted to having fantasies about raping men, is every bit as critical of Vance's looks as Peters: The looksmaxxing movement—ideologically incoherent but rife with juvenile racism—echoes the ongoing Groyperization of the American right. This is particularly evident in the growing antagonism that certain factions express toward Vance. Fuentes, for example, sounded like a looksmaxxer himself when he criticized the vice president last year. “He’s visibly obese and very ugly. He’s got a fat face, no jawline, no chin,” Fuentes said, before shifting to a more familiar topic for him: “His wife and kids are not white!” As Willams provides more stomach-churning details about Looksmaxxing, the readers will have to keep reminding themselves that this information is being published in the once vaunted Atlantic magazine which has now managed to turn itself into a laughingstock with writing such as this: Looksmaxxing grew out of the online culture of “incels,” or involuntary celibates, a term that emerged in the 2010s. United by their resentment of women, incels tend to see attractiveness as a straightforward function of genetics—millimeters, symmetry, skin color—and therefore out of their control. Looksmaxxers hold a similarly superficial view of beauty as a kind of rigid mathematics with a single, knowable solution. But they believe that this makes it malleable: One can “ascend” to a higher plane of attractiveness with enough money, effort, and perhaps the willingness to dabble with crystal meth. And remember, Williams really really wants you to believe that young Trump supporters are supposedly attracted to this level of sick. Please strive for at least a minimal amount of credibility in your future smear stories.

Over the weekend, the Patriarchs and Heads of the Churches in Jerusalem released a statement reaffirming their authority in the land of Israel against proponents of Christian Zionism and other "damaging ideologies." The statement, published on Saturday, reaffirmed Christian leaders' devotion to the Christian flock in the Holy Land. It condemned ideologies like Christian Zionism, which "mislead the public, sow confusion, and harm the unity of our flock." 'You don't have to support the nation-state of Israel, but if you do, you can do so without adhering to the relatively novel theology of Christian Zionism.'Christian Zionism is the belief in the continuity between the Israel of the Bible and the modern state of Israel.The church leaders condemned the "political actors" who have been "welcomed at official levels both locally and internationally." They described these dealings as "interference in the internal life of the church."RELATED: Hoosiers QB Fernando Mendoza gives 'all the glory to God' ahead of national championship Photo by Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu via Getty ImagesThe letter continued, "These undertakings have found favor among certain political actors in Israel and beyond who seek to push a political agenda which may harm the Christian presence in the Holy Land and the wider Middle East." As a result, the Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Jerusalem "reiterate that they alone represent the Churches and their flock in matters pertaining to Christian religious, communal, and pastoral life in the Holy Land." On Monday, the Daily Wire's Michael Knowles explained his position on Christian Zionism in response to the Patriarchs' statement. Knowles, an outspoken Roman Catholic, explained that the joint statement issued by the Christian leaders over the weekend is essentially a reiteration of church teaching, such as a statement from 1985 from the Vatican. The Vatican invites Christians to understand the Jews' religious attachment to the land of Israel "without however making their own any particular religious interpretation of this relationship." Knowles signaled his wholehearted agreement with the next passage of the Vatican's notes, which he said "underscores the point": "The existence of the State of Israel and its political options should be envisaged not in a perspective which is in itself religious, but in their reference to the common principles of international law."Knowles said that this line of thinking is "why I would not call myself a Zionist, or a Christian Zionist." He continued, "It's not because I don't like the Jews, and it's not because I don't even support the state of Israel. As I think I've made clear, I am broadly supportive of the nation-state of Israel. But I am broadly supportive of it not because I believe in the principles of Zionism, which makes certain historical claims and religious claims that I just don't think are true." Knowles also said that he doesn't think that just because a people lived on a plot of land many years ago, it entitles them to the land today. "If that were the case, we would have to turn Mount Rushmore over to the Lakota Sioux. I don't believe any of that." He finally clarified that most of his support for the nation-state of Israel is negative — that is, he doesn't like the alternatives, referring to other nations in the region like Iran and other Muslim groups. "The current options in the Holy Land are not great."Staking his position clearly near the end of the clip, Knowles said, "You don't have to support the nation-state of Israel, but if you do, you can do so without adhering to the relatively novel theology of Christian Zionism." Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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