The World and Everything in It: August 5, 2026

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MARY REICHARD, HOST: Good morning!

One of the most expensive Senate primaries ever could help decide the future of the Democratic party.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: We’ll talk about that race in Michigan and more, with Hunter Baker. That’s ahead on Washington Wednesday.

Also, on World Tour: the remnants of war that still claim lives long after the fighting stops.

And the legacy of Mike Peters, whose music outlasted repeated cancer diagnoses.

PETERS: Mike wrote this believing he was going to survive.

And WORLD Commentator Cal Thomas says we should listen closely to the stories of those who lived through socialism and communism.

REICHARD: It’s Wednesday, August 5th. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Mary Reichard.

MAST: And I’m Lindsay Mast. Good morning!

REICHARD: Up next, Kent Covington with today’s news.

KENT COVINGTON, NEWS ANCHOR: Elections: Michigan Dem Senate primary » Voters went to the polls in five states Tuesday, including for a Senate primary in Michigan:

SOUND: (Haley chants)

Where Democrat Haley Stevens faced off against Abdul El-Sayed:

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In a race that some had billed as a battle for the soul of the Democratic party.

Stevens was backed by most establishment Democrats, while the party’s hard-left and socialist wing boosted El-Sayed.

Haley told supporters gathered late last night for what they hoped would be a victory party:

HALEY: We might not know the results until early in the morning, maybe even later tomorrow.

El-Sayed said much the same, but struck a more confident tone.

EL-SAYED: Right now we are on track to vastly outvote the historical numbers that we should have expected.

As of early this morning, with about four-fifths of the votes counted, El-Sayed was leading by about 2 percentage points.

Elections: Other races - partial roundup » Michigan voters also cast ballots to decide both the Democratic and GOP nominees for governor.

Democrats picked Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson. Republicans went with Congressman John James, who had President Trump's endorsement.

In Missouri, Congressman Wesley Bell beat former Congresswoman Cori Bush in a Democratic primary rematch. Bush was a member of the left-wing progressive group known as the Squad. Bell unseated her two years ago.

And Kansas voters rejected a Republican push to start electing state Supreme Court justices. 62% said no. Conservatives wanted elections after the court blocked pro-life laws.

Todd Blanche » Acting Attorney General Tod Blanche is one step closer to Senate confirmation after a key vote on Tuesday. WORLD’s Harrison Watters has more.

HARRISON WATTERS: The Senate Judiciary Committee met Tuesday after two Republican holdouts agreed to approve Blanche’s nomination. With John Cornyn and Thom Tillis on board, Blanche’s nomination passed out of committee on a party-line vote, 12 to 10.

It’s now up to the full Senate to vote later this week. But even with Cornyn and Tillis now on board, his confirmation is no sure bet.

Two Republicans have not yet said how they will vote: Lisa Murkowski, and Bill Cassidy. And Susan Collins has said she will vote “no.”

And with a thin GOP majority, and Sen. Mitch McConnell still absent due to medical concerns, Blanche can afford to lose no more than 1 or 2 Republican votes.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Harrison Watters.

Fauci contempt » Senator Rand Paul filed a resolution Tuesday to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate at a hearing last week.

Paul chairs the Homeland Security Committee, which will vote on the resolution tomorrow.

Fauci appeared at that hearing only after being subpoenaed. He then pleaded the Fifth to every question asked.

Paul argued that Fauci's early pardon from former President Joe Biden canceled his Fifth Amendment protection.

Contempt referrals normally go to the full Senate, needing 60 votes to beat a filibuster. Republicans don't have them.

So Paul says he'll send it to the Department of Justice himself. The DOJ then decides whether to prosecute.

Ukraine latest » Russian attacks continue in Ukraine.

SOUND: Sumy attack

Ukrainian authorities say a strike on the city Sumy Tuesday killed an elderly woman and two children. Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy posted amateur video that he said captured a bizarre and frightening Russian drone attack. WORLD's Travis Kircher reports.

SOUND: Drone attack

TRAVIS KIRCHER: The video shows a street vendor selling vegetables in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson when he was hunted down by a drone. The footage appears to show it chasing him around his vehicle, before it strikes his car, wounding him.

SOUND: Drone explosion

VEGETABLE VENDOR: (Speaking in Ukrainian)

The man later calls the encounter terrifying. He says he tried to show the drone that he only had vegetables but it wouldn't terminate its pursuit.

Meantime in Russia, authorities there claim five people are dead after a Ukrainian drone strike Tuesday hit three warehouses just outside of Moscow.

SOUND: Amateur video

Video footage appeared to show flames and black smoke pouring from a warehouse near St. Petersburg. The building belongs to Wildberries, which is Russia's largest online retailer. But Ukraine says it has been providing logistical support to the Russian military.

Reporting for WORLD I'm Travis Kircher.

Ebola update » Ebola has now killed more than 1,700 people in eastern Congo.

Health officials say no outbreak has ever killed people this fast. The West Africa epidemic took eight months to reach a thousand deaths. This one isn't yet three months old.

The outbreak is driven by a strain with no approved vaccine or treatment.

Eighty percent of new cases are turning up outside the contacts health workers are tracking.

The virus has infected more than a hundred health workers. Some are threatening to walk out over unpaid wages.

I'm Kent Covington.

Coming up, cleaning up long-buried munitions. Plus, the last album of an optimistic rocker.

This is The World and Everything in It.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: It’s Wednesday, August 5th. Glad to have you along for today’s edition of The World and Everything in It. Good morning, I’m Mary Reichard.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: And I’m Lindsay Mast. Time now for Washington Wednesday!

Michigan voters headed to the polls yesterday in a race that could determine the direction of the Democratic party. The race may end up being the most expensive Democratic primary ever… some $80 million dollars spent, with the majority of it going to back four-term U.S. representative Haley Stevens. That included 30 million from the pro-Israel group AIPAC.

In his campaign, public health official Abdul El-Sayed emphasized a much more progressive agenda including so-called Medicare for All.

REICHARD: Joining us to talk about it now is political scientist Hunter Baker. He is a senior fellow at the First Liberty Center for Religion, Culture, and Democracy. Good morning Hunter!

HUNTER BAKER: Good morning,

MAST: Hunter. It has seemed like there is a takeover move that has been underway within the Democratic Party over the last year or so. So, what do last night's results tell you about where things stand?

BAKER: Well, it's really interesting. We earlier earlier in the summer we saw this massive burst of achievement for the Democratic Socialists in various congressional races, and last night we saw kind of a a different sort of a situation where you you had Democratic Socialists lose definitively in Missouri, and then appearing to win fairly narrowly in Michigan in that Senate race. So it's a little bit of a more mixed picture. Maybe not that surprising as we move to the Midwest, but this is a this is a big change in American politics, and we've seen it before. We've seen the the Goldwater Reagan takeover of the Republican Party. We have seen Trump take over the Republican Party. We saw the New Left take over the Democrats with McGovern in the early '70s, and now we've seen this recent surge from the left with Bernie Sanders and then the Democratic Socialists.

REICHARD: Well, now polls suggested that a win for Stevens would set up a tight general election against Republican Mike Rogers in November. She Stevens is more establishment leaning as a Democrat, but an El Sayed win, he's a candidate who's not officially aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America, but who is somewhat adjacent to them. He seems less likely to deliver that same outcome. So, Hunter, what does this primary race mean for the overall picture in the Senate come November?

BAKER: I think that the mainstream of the Democratic Party intuits exactly what you have just said, and I think that that's part of the reason that a tremendous amount of money has poured into Stevens's bid to defeat El Sayed. If Stevens wins, then you have almost a repeat of two years ago when Mike Rogers, the Republican, was very narrowly edged out, and I think that the Democrats believe that if you have a more radical left candidate like El Sayed, that Rogers will be able to win that seat and become the first Republican U.S. senator from Michigan in about a quarter century.

MAST: Well, Hunter, that takes us then to Missouri, where an actual member of the Democratic Socialists of America, Cory Bush, a one-time member of the squad, along with AOC, Ilhan Omar, and other Uber leftists, she had her shot yesterday at the revenge she vowed on the more moderate candidate Wesley Bell, but Bell won this one in a landslide. So, what does Cory Bush's loss here tell you about the strength of the DSA?

REICHARD: Well, it's very interesting. She lost that race a couple of years ago, and basically immediately began the campaign to get that seat back, so a lot of people anticipated that this would be just a battle royale between her and Wesley Bell, and I think that to a lot of people's surprise, he blew her out. And what's really interesting is is that he had a lot of support from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, and that's a real point of tension with the Democratic Socialists. The American Democratic Socialists, at one time, you know, going back a few decades, were much more sympathetic to Israel, but that position has really changed. They now view Israel as sort of the capitalist ally of the United States, the imperialist power, and for them, being a critic of Israel is basically as important as any of their economic programs. And I think that that came to a stop at least in Missouri last night.

REICHARD: Well, speaking of my state of Missouri, a failed ballot initiative here laid out a plan to eliminate the state income tax, and despite the failure of this initiative, the effort anyway seems to track with a tax trend across the nation. Republican states looking to eliminate the income tax, and then blue states, on the other hand, looking to raise taxes on high income earners. So, Hunter, two different theories of growth colliding, or is it something else?

BAKER: Well, it's really interesting. We've talked on this program about the virtues of federalism and the the way the American constitutional design works, and you're exactly right that we've seen this sort of battle between southern states very eager to attract business and and new residents, and it has worked. You have seen tremendous growth of states like Tennessee and Florida and South Carolina and North Carolina, and I think that lawmakers in Missouri were maybe maybe eyeing some of that some of that same bounty, but Midwesterners in Missouri had a different sort of a sort of an orientation. They didn't ask, "Can we attract a lot of new business? They said, "Well, what will happen to our sales taxes? What will happen to our property taxes? And they opted for the status quo.

MAST: So, so Hunter, roll this one out a few years for us. Can these two plans coexist, or does one side lose the bet

BAKER: When it comes to taxes? I think that they can coexist. For one thing, there are always going to be people who are interested in California just because of that otherworldly weather and the the combination of of mountains and beaches and and just all the attributes that that state has, but a lot of other people are going to say you know Florida Florida is pretty good too, and they prefer that pro business climate and maybe that greater protection for various individual rights of the types you saw during the COVID epidemic, and I I think that that dynamic competition is really good, and I think that over time you get an idea of what works and what doesn't.

REICHARD: Well, let's round this all out by talking about Todd Blanche, the nominee to lead the Department of Justice. He's the current acting Attorney General and was Trump's former criminal defense attorney, so close ties there. And he was also part of a DOJ in which Trump set up a 1.8 billion dollar anti weaponization fund. And it seems Blanche would have a hard time shaking this idea of an insider relationship with Trump, so his nomination stalled until two senators, Tom Tillis of North Carolina and John Cornyn of Texas, backed him after Blanche confirmed that that anti-weaponization fund is dead. Now both senators are outgoing lame ducks who have clashed with President Trump, so they really didn't have that much to lose, Hunter. My question is: Can you walk us through both the ethical and political considerations of what brought us here?

BAKER: Well, it seems obvious to me that President Trump was subject to some significant degree of lawfare, and I think that he has sort of extended his resentment of what occurred there to events surrounding the 2020 election, and this idea for this you know 1.776 or 1.8 billion dollar anti weaponization fund has a certain political logic in light of some of the things he experienced, but when you look at this president sort of negotiating with his own Department of Justice and/or the IRS, then it gives you a little bit of what I think women call the ick, it just it just doesn't it just doesn't kind of pass that test of sort of being an arm's length sort of negotiation, and it seems like it could turn into the sort of things where you're just awarding political allies, and I I totally understand why some senators would say this doesn't look good. We don't like it. It's not ethical, and we don't want to see it happen.

MAST: Well, Hunter Baker is a senior fellow at the First Liberty Center for Religion, Culture, and Democracy. Hunter, I know you were up late watching those results. Thank you so much. Hope you get a nap today. Thanks as always for your time.

BAKER: Thank you.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Coming up next on The World and Everything in It: World Tour.

Around the world, hidden explosives leftover from wars kill or injure an average of 17 people every day, often decades after the fighting’s stopped.

The Red Cross estimates millions of unexploded munitions still lie buried or abandoned in more than 80 countries.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: But finding and clearing areas of those unexploded ordnances, or UXOs, can be difficult and dangerous.

WORLD Reporter Amy Lewis met with people working to remove these deadly reminders of war.

AMY LEWIS, Reporter: On Mother’s Day 2021, Solomon Islander Maeverlyn Pitanoe built a traditional oven on the ground to cook food for a church fundraiser.

PITANOE: We, we all were like standing around the fire, and all of a sudden the explosion just happened under the pot, you know.

The force of the World War II bomb that had lain dormant for 80 years threw her into the air and ripped through her body.

PITANOE: Before I landed back on the ground after I was blown up, I ask God to, to spare my life. I can endure the injuries. That's all right, but please just don't take my life away.

Two boys died. Pitanoe was in the hospital for nearly two months. Scars now cover much of her right leg. She’s missing most of the three middle fingers on her left hand.

PITANOE: I can see there's a purpose for my survival, and that is for me…to support the victims and their survivors, to advocate for what has happened, and so that we can address this issue.

Last year Pitanoe started the non-profit Bomb Free Solomon Islands to support survivors and work for the removal of UXOs. She and other survivors regularly cook and eat together. She donates seedlings from her garden for them to grow.

Her nonprofit also works alongside international governments who have made some progress cleaning up UXOs.

JOHN RODSTED: Over the years I’ve worked in about twenty different war zones…

John Rodsted is a photographer whose team won the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize for its work on the International Treaty to Ban Landmines…intentionally concealed explosives set to go off when anyone walks or drives over them. To date, 164 countries have signed the treaty, and 128 countries have agreed to also not use cluster bombs. Notably Russia, China, Pakistan, and the US have not agreed to either one.

World War II left millions of unexploded munitions in the ground, and the problem has only grown.

RODSTED: Every conflict since, the level of munition saturation has increased exponentially.

Rodsted said it will take decades to clean up Ukraine, Russia, and Gaza, for example. Meanwhile, places like Laos and much of the Pacific have yet to be cleared from the Vietnam and Second World Wars.

But who is responsible for cleaning up?

RODSTED: So, you know, ethically, morally, you'd have to say the perpetrators should be responsible, but legally they're not.

The charity HALO Trust clears explosive remnants of war after—and sometimes during—a conflict so people can return home.

SIMON JACKSON: Among the worst affected countries are, you know, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon…

Simon Jackson is HALO’s country director in Syria, where fifteen years of civil war left few resources for clean up efforts. Last year, explosive accidents killed 22,000 civilians. Jackson’s job means he deals with the worst and sees the best.

JACKSON: It is really rewarding to go somewhere that's, that we've cleared and see land returned to productive use, kids going back to school, you know, families able to rebuild.

Until an area is cleared of UXOs, education is vital.

JACKSON: Kids are naturally curious.

HALO Trust began mapping and destroying UXOs in the Solomons a few years ago.

JACKSON: It's quite a challenging task. The terrain in the Solomon Islands is also quite challenging. But you know HALO is there and is continuing to to map and also destroy these hazardous items as well as providing the risk education.

Meanwhile, Maeverlyn Pitanoe continues educating people where she can. She recalls a trip to the beach. She watched her nieces and nephews start to dig around something in the sand.

PITANOE: And I walked towards them and, ‘What are you doing?’ ‘There’s some metal here. We want to dig it up.’ Oh my goodness! I just told them to get out of the place. Don’t dig!

Pitanoe believes Solomons’ war relics could increase tourism—but the hidden unexploded relics pose too much of a threat.

PITANOE: The war is still, is still going in the Solomon Islands. It has not been ended in 1942-43…They have went back to their, you know, countries, but the war is still there…At any time, it can cost someone's life.

That’s this week’s World Tour. I’m Amy Lewis.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Here’s proof that a little compassion and DIY spirit —along with some miniature hot rods— can get a creature going again.

Gelato is a tiny tabby kitten found in Cincinnati with a spinal injury. Barely a pound and only 4” tall, standard wheelchairs most shelters use just didn’t fit.

So veterinary assistant Mallory Smith improvised. Audio courtesy Washington Post:

SMITH: When he first came in, he came in with a litter, and he was the only one that was injured, and so he was kind of just dragging his back end.

She built him a custom rig with duct tape, wooden rulers, and Hot Wheels!

SMITH: Got these rulers for 99 cents and put them there. There’s a little bit of ribbon also, and Hot Wheels that are ambulances.

So Gelato the tabby went from dragging to drag-racing. Now he’s getting ready to cruise into his forever home.

It’s The World and Everything in It.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Today is Wednesday, August 5th.

Thank you for turning to WORLD Radio to help start your day.

Good morning. I’m Lindsay Mast.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: And I’m Mary Reichard.

Coming next on The World and Everything in It: a final album from a remarkable survivor.

Mike Peters, front man for the band The Alarm, died last year after fighting various blood cancers for decades. But he kept making music nearly to the end, completing one final album: the recently released Transformation.

MAST: WORLD’s music critic Arsenio Orteza spoke with Peters’ widow, Jules, about the album— and how she’s keeping his legacy alive.

ARSENIO ORTEZA: The Welsh rock band the Alarm formed in 1981, but they made their mark two years later.

MUSIC: [“Sixty Eight Guns” by the Alarm]

“Sixty Eight Guns” is the Alarm’s biggest hit. It was written by bassist Eddie MacDonald and the “face” of the band—lead singer, Mike Peters. Peters’ role as lyricist gave some Alarm songs a subtly Christian dimension. He didn’t like the tag “Christian artist,” but he didn’t mind being called an “artist who’s a Christian.”

In 1995, Peters was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and his prognosis wasn’t good. But he beat the odds for the next three decades and performed over 500 shows and recorded 20-some-odd albums.

MUSIC: [“One in a Million” by the Alarm]

This is “One in a Million” from the new Alarm album, Transformation. Peters completed it in 2025, one day before beginning chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy—or CAR-T therapy. Peters used that therapy to combat a new diagnosis of Richter’s syndrome, a particularly aggressive form of lymphoma. The album Transformation turned out to be his swan song, but Peters’ widow, Jules, says he didn’t approach it that way.

PETERS: Mike wrote this believing he was going to survive. Because a lot of people are interviewing me, thinking that he wrote it as his last album. But that was so not the case.

Peters had good reason to think he’d survive. Survival had been his default setting for 30 years. In addition to non-Hodgkin’s-lymphoma, he’d been diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia—or CLL—in 2005 and suffered a relapse in 2015. Yet, in every case, he’d come through, proving that “[w]hat doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.”

In Peters’ case, what didn’t kill him made other people stronger too. Shortly after his first CLL diagnosis, he and Jules founded the Love Hope Strength Foundation. The charity sponsors stem-cell-donor registration, bone-marrow drives, and awareness-raising musical events and hikes.

PETERS: When you've been diagnosed with cancer, it feels like you're at the bottom of the mountain, looking up at the summit and thinking “Will I ever get to the top of the summit again?” And so for Mike, it was a very strong metaphor and a very strong encouragement for him to get himself back on his feet, encourage friends and Alarm fans to join him, and raise money.

But the words “love,” “hope,” and “strength” suddenly rang hollow after Mike’s death. Jules says that for a few days, she felt like “locking the door” on the organization.

PETERS: I'm happy to report that that feeling of desolation—it soon passed, and I realized that now it's more important than ever for me and my sons, Dylan and Evan, to carry the torch of Love Hope Strength and to try and help other families who find themselves in the situation that Mike and I found ourselves.

As one might expect, some Transformation songs specifically address what Peters was going through.

MUSIC: [“Chimera” by the Alarm]

The song “Chimera” refers to both the C in CAR-T therapy and the mythological creature composed of different parts. It’s an allusion that makes sense because CAR-T recipients end up with two distinct types of blood and DNA. The allusions in this song make sense too….

MUSIC: [“New Life” by the Alarm]

This song, “New Life,” refers to what Peters hoped to experience after receiving CAR-T. But “new life blood” is also a term used for the engineered cells that CAR-T infuses into the patient’s “old” blood. The music also leans heavily into a type of rock and roll that Peters particularly loved: glam rock. His use of that genre’s fun, old-school energy is one reason Transformation succeeds: You can enjoy the music whether you know about Peters’ cancer battle or not.

PETERS: When you're listening to this album, “Don't be sad.” You know, be happy because that’s—that is the countenance that Mike always had. He was like “Just always be positive. Be grateful.” He never worried. He was like “Today, right here, right now is what counts. Tomorrow is a gift. Let's just—let’s not worry.

To anyone acquainted with Matthew 6’s lilies of the fields and the prayers of James 5, it’s advice that should ring a bell.

MUSIC: [“Live Forever” by the Alarm]

I’m Arsenio Orteza.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Mary Reichard.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: And I’m Lindsay Mast.

Fewer than 10 percent of Americans describe themselves as socialists, but those who support socialist ideas have become a notable political force.

As socialism attracts more Americans, WORLD’s Cal Thomas says we would be wise to listen to those who have actually experienced it.

It has become a truism that people who are embracing Socialism have never had to live under it and its ideological twin communism. Some young people seem so enamored by the promises of these train wrecks that they are willing to vote for the most radical candidates… ones who promise them the moon and claim they can pay for it all by increasing taxes on “millionaires and billionaires.”

In an effort to balance the one-sided stories about Socialism coming from the media and various candidates, the Fox News Channel conducted interviews with people who once lived under these systems. The testimonies are a powerful rebuke to those who believe socialism is the answer to every problem.

In a one-week series, Fox Correspondent Alexandria Hoff interviewed people who fled the Soviet Union, China, Venezuela and Cuba.

Virginia attorney Marina Medvin described herself as “overwhelmed” by the abundance of food in U.S. grocery stores.

Here’s Hoff:

HOFF: Like many who have fled authoritarian socialist regimes, Medvin is alarmed by what she sees as the Democratic Party in America warming to socialist promises.

Medvin:

MEDVIN: They say that the purpose of Democratic Socialism is to bring equality…but what equality does it bring? That everyone is equally poor? That everyone is equally miserable, everyone is equally depressed?

In Venezuela, it took about fifteen years for the nationalization of private industries to unravel into social and economic collapse. Here’s Daniel Di Martino:

DI MARTINO: We couldn’t find milk in the grocery store and then we couldn’t find chicken, then we had to line up. The government asked for our i.d. to buy groceries and assigned us a day of the week to go to the store.

The story of Cuba is well known, except perhaps among the Hollywood Left which made visits to Cuba, praising Fidel Castro and claiming the communist country’s literacy rate was far better than America’s. But the government told people what they could read. Now Cuba has trouble keeping the lights on and food on shelves.

Yali Nunez, who fled the island, now sees Democratic socialists in the U.S. blindly embracing what she says she fled when she was just sixteen years-old:

NUNEZ: None of these people have spent one day in socialism or communism…they are selling you a story they don’t even understand.

Hoff notes the Democratic Socialists claim their brand of socialism differs from the totalitarian regimes because “workers” would govern institutions and not unelected bureaucrats. The two systems are founded on lies, so why should people running on the DSA platform be trusted? Evidence reveals the true objectives of socialism and communism, including the millions who have died at the hands of their governments.

Xi Van Fleet survived China’s murderous Cultural Revolution. Xi has appeared on many U.S. TV programs, warning Americans about the Maoist-communist tactics and the danger America faces if it allows these twin evils to further invade our politics.

Others have testified about economic hardships, loss of liberties and other things Americans take for granted.

In an 1814 letter to John Taylor, John Adams warned: "Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide".” Adams argued that unchecked human passions lead to self-destruction.

As I wrote in “America’s Expiration Date”, the average age of democracies is 250 years. We are now at our “expiration date.” Inertia will soon run out if we do not renew the principles upon which Adams and the Founders built the nation. Socialism will lead to our destruction and once destroyed it will be nearly impossible to bring us back. I’m Cal Thomas.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Tomorrow: A doctor’s experience on the front lines of the Ebola epidemic. We’ll have a report.

And, a special look back as we celebrate the 15th anniversary of The World and Everything In It. Pretty amazing!

That and more tomorrow.

I’m Mary Reichard.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: And I’m Lindsay Mast.

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Verses 4-10 of Ephesians 2.

Go now in grace and peace.

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