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Congress considers selling public lands, the abortion pill comes under scrutiny, and preserving a piece of Americana. Plus, a lawn-eating escape artist, Cal Thomas on the U.S. strike on Iran, and the Thursday morning news


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PREROLL: Good morning, friends, it’s Myrna with a gentle nudge as we open the program: WORLD’s June Giving Drive is down to the wire—today, tomorrow, the weekend, and Monday, that’s it. If WORLD’s Biblically grounded reporting matters to you, will you let us know by making your gift today. Come on, y’all! Any amount helps. It's quick and it’s easy. Give at WNG.org/JuneGivingDrive.  Thanks for standing with WORLD!


MARY REICHARD, HOST: Good morning!

Utah looks to sell off public land to ease a growing housing crunch.

PINTO: The western third of the country has the most severe housing unaffordability in the country.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Also a new study says the abortion drug mifepristone needs stronger warnings, just as its use becomes more widespread.

And one drive-in theater is still lighting up the big screen under the stars!

KNAPP:Here, you want to get mustard all over your own car? That’s your business, and we’ll sell you the hot dog to do it.

And WORLD commentator Cal Thomas says it’s about time the West did something about Iran.

REICHARD: It’s Thursday, June 26th. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Mary Reichard.

BROWN: And I’m Myrna Brown. Good morning!

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


KENT COVINGTON, NEWS ANCHOR:  Israel-Iran ceasefire / talks » U.S. officials plan to meet with representatives from Iran’s government for talks next week. That’s the word from President Trump.

But he says he’s not interested in restarting negotiations because there's no longer anything left to negotiate.

TRUMP: The way I look at it, they fought, the war's done, and, you know, I could get a statement that they're not going to go nuclear. We're probably going to ask for that, but they're not going to be doing it. But they're not going to be doing it anyway. They've had it. They've had it.

Iran has already pledged to fully restore its nuclear program. But Trump told reporters that if it does so the U.S. would be prepared to strike again.

Iran nuclear damage » And the Trump administration is pushing back on a recent media report suggesting that the weekend U.S. airstrikes against key nuclear sites in Iran weren’t all that effective.

That report cited leaked low-confidence intelligence from one intel agency.

Secretary of State and Acting National Security Advisor Marco Rubio told reporters whoever leaked it is also spinning it.

RUBIO:   They read it, and then they go out and characterize it the way they want it characterized, and they're leakers. This is the game they play.

Rubio said Iran’s uranium conversion facility, which would be needed to build a nuclear weapon appears to have been completely destroyed.

He also said after B-2 bombers targeted Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility with so-called ‘bunker buster’ bombs, “everything under[neath] that mountain is in bad shape.”

And Rubio pointed to remarks by Rafael Grossi, the head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog agency, who said this week:

GROSSI:  I think the nuclear program, the Iranian nuclear program, has been set back significantly.

But Grossi would not speculate on how significantly. He’s calling for independent inspectors to be given access to key nuclear sites in Iran to assess their condition.

NATO statement / Trump on Spain » Marco Rubio spoke from the Netherlands, where he joined President Trump and other world leaders for the NATO summit at The Hague.

And the alliance on Wednesday formally announced that it's raising its defense spending target.

Member nations are now expected to spend at least 5% of their GDP on defense and security — more than double the old 2% goal.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte:

Rutte: The decisions today will produce trillions more for our common defense to make us stronger and fairer by equalizing spending between America and America's allies.

But Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez did not sign onto the 5% commitment. He said raising defense spending to that level would be “unreasonable and counterproductive” for Spain.

President Trump reacted:

TRUMP:  They're the only country that won't pay the full up. They wanna stay at 2%. I think it's terrible and you know, they're doing very well. The economy is very well.

Trump is threatening to double tariffs against Spain in response.

Former Biden aide cancels testimony » A former top aide to Jill Biden has abruptly cancelled plans to testify today before the House Oversight Committee. WORLD’s Benjamin Eicher has more.

BENJAMIN EICHER: Lawmakers were set to question Anthony Bernal behind closed doors as part of a probe related to former President Joe Biden’s mental fitness while in office.

Bernal backed out after the Trump White House waived executive privilege for the probe. That means former aides can no longer refuse to answer questions by citing presidential confidentiality.

Oversight Chairman James Comer called Bernal’s decision to cancel “obstruction,” and said he will subpoena him to testify.

For WORLD, I’m Benjamin Eicher.

Republicans are questioning former Biden White House aides about whether anyone other than the president was carrying out presidential functions.

Neera Tanden, former White House staff secretary, testified this week that she used the autopen to sign documents on Biden’s behalf.

Congressman Darrell Issa serves on the Oversight Committee. He said if then-President Biden was not involved or fully aware of actions taken on his behalf:

ISSA:  We might undo some of what the president did because they were invalid. And then we have to look at either statute or constitutional amendments that give safeguards to prevent this from happening again.

GOP members are also probing what they call a cover-up of Biden’s cognitive decline.

Democrats on the committee say the probe is a waste of time and pure political theater.

NYC mayor race » In New York City a self-described democratic socialist has won the Democratic nomination in the mayoral race. State assemblyman Zohran Mamdani won roughly 44 percent of the vote in a major upset victory over former governor Andrew Cuomo.

MAMDANI: I spoke with Andrew Cuomo about the need to bring this city together, as he called me to concede the race.

He campaigned on freezing rent, providing free childcare, and establishing city-owned grocery stores. And controversially, Mamdani promised to boost the minimum wage to $30 per hour and raise the corporate tax rate. Critics say that’s a recipe for killing jobs in the Big Apple.

The 33-year-old lawmaker will face off in November against incumbent mayor Eric Adams, a former Democrat, turned independent as well as Republican Curtis Sliwa.

I'm Kent Covington.

Straight ahead: selling federal land for affordable housing projects. Plus, a visit to a 75 year old drive-in movie theater.

This is The World and Everything in It.


MARY REICHARD, HOST: It’s Thursday, the 26th of June.

Thank you for listening to today’s edition of WORLD Radio. Good morning, I’m Mary Reichard.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: And I’m Myrna Brown.

First up on The World and Everything in It: creating affordable housing.

The Big Beautiful Bill once included a plan to sell off public lands to help lower housing costs. But this week, the Senate dropped that part of the legislation.

Supporters aren’t giving up though. They say they’ll propose an amended bill because people need houses.

REICHARD: The public land in question spans 11 Western states, and locals are torn over whether the plan would solve the problem or make it worse.

WORLD’s Mary Muncy reports.

MARY MUNCY: Dave and Laura Pearl live in Kaysville, Utah, and they spend a lot of time on public lands.

DAVE: I think every bike trip that we've done over the last couple years has been on public lands. Almost every trail that we've ridden has been on public lands.

They’ve lived in Utah for five years and are worried the sale of public lands near their home could change what they do outside. But they do see why Congress is considering it.

DAVE: We both work and we make pretty good money, but the home prices here are just so expensive that we're currently renting a house from some friends.

But Dave and his wife, Laura, don’t think selling public lands is the best way to lower housing costs.

LAURA: It might just be one tree, but that one tree is part of a forest.

The Senate had proposed selling less than one percent of land owned by the United States Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management, or BLM. That’s a little over two million acres.

It was supposed to be part of the current spending package, but the Senate parliament ruled that the provision did not relate to the purpose of the bill. That doesn’t technically mean it’s dead, but few Congresses have defied a ruling from the parliament.

Instead, the sponsor of the bill, Utah Senator Mike Lee, posted on X that he will amend the bill and try to pass it separately.

PINTO: The western third of the country has the most severe housing unaffordability in the country.

Ed Pinto is the co-founder and director of the American Enterprise Institute’s Housing Center.

PINTO: The Bureau of Land Management manages 245 million acres in the lower 48. That's the size of Texas.

And almost all of it is out west. The original bill excluded a lot of land, like national parks, monuments, or wilderness areas, and it said anyone who buys it must state what their purpose would be and stick to it.

Senator Lee says now he’s going to add more stipulations, including not selling any Forest Service land and only selling BLM land within five miles of population centers.

Pinto says even though a lot of land would have been offered for sale in the original bill, developers probably would have only bought a fraction of it.

PINTO: You want to be near other residential development. You don't want to be, you know, 30 or 40 or 50 miles away from the nearest development.

That’s because it takes money to build things like roads and to run power lines, and most people want to be close to their job in the city.

The government passed a similar bill in 1998 ordering the BLM to sell off land around Las Vegas for affordable housing, but they didn’t put a time limit on the project, and as of last year, about 35 percent of that land remains unsold.

It’s unclear whether a new bill would have a timeframe, but the old one required the land to be offered for sale within five years.

The question on many people’s minds is will the sale of public land actually lead to lower housing prices?

DWORKIN: As pretty much everybody knows, housing prices have gone through the roof over the last five years.

David Dworkin is president and CEO of the National Housing Conference.

DWORKIN: Generally, to buy the same home, you would need twice as much of the income that you would have needed in 2019.

Dworkin says there are a lot of factors that drive that price, but the biggest one, and the foundation of the problem, is a lack of supply.

DWORKIN: During the financial crisis, we lost a lot of home builders who went out of business, and that's definitely compounded it. We've slowly recovered our annual construction to a sustainable level, but we are so deep in the hole that it will take years for us to make up the gap.

He says the other factor is that in many communities where the number of jobs is rising, the number of homes isn’t. And that’s affecting people from San Francisco to Lincoln, Nebraska. But Dworkin doesn’t think selling federal land is a silver bullet.

DWORKIN: It definitely would be helpful. There is a lot of federal land out there that is underutilized, but we can't get lost in the numbers. People are like, ‘Oh, look at all these, you know, millions of acres of land,’ and most of that is never going to be developed for housing or pretty much anything else. There's a reason the federal government owns it, and in many cases, it's because nobody else wants to.

Selling public land that could be used for housing would help cities like Bend, Oregon, where the rapidly growing city is surrounded by federal land. But it’s not going to help every city.

DWORKIN: We also need to think holistically about what it takes to build a home.

Costs rise when tariffs are in place, when supply chains break down, or when there just aren’t enough people on the job site. And Dworkin says sometimes it's blocked by locals who have a “not in my backyard” mentality.

DWORKIN: People basically say, ‘Oh, I support affordable housing, just not here.’

As of November, some estimates put the U.S. housing need at a little over a million homes. Others put that number closer to five million. Dworkin says selling public land could do some good, but it’s going to take a lot more than that to fix the problem.

DWORKIN: We got into it by not building a unit at a time, and we're going to have to get out of it the same way. You know, a unit at a time, there is no magic fix. The bottom line is we just have to build housing.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Mary Muncy.


MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Coming up next on The World and Everything in It: fair warning.

Federal regulators are taking a closer look at the abortion drug mifepristone. The review comes after new data that raises questions about its alleged safety for women. WORLD’s Lauren Canterberry has the story.

LAUREN CANTERBERRY: In a recent hearing, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he would direct the Food and Drug Administration to investigate mifepristone. He had this exchange with Missouri Senator Josh Hawley.

HAWLEY: You’ve previously testified to the committee that you would do a top to bottom review of mifepristone. Do you continue to stand by that? And don’t you think that this new data shows that the need to do a review is in fact very pressing?

ROBERT F. KENNEDY: It is alarming and clearly it indicates that at the very least the label should be changed.

Abortion advocates have long claimed mifepristone is safe for women and rarely has adverse effects. But a new data analysis shows the pill is far more dangerous than its supporters admit.

Mifepristone was first approved in 2000. Clinical trials appeared to show it was safe for women when used alongside the other abortion drug misoprostol. And studies claimed that serious side effects were rare. Mifepristone now accounts for more than half of all abortions in the United States.

But since its approval, the dispensing standards for the drug have fallen dramatically.

At first, the FDA only permitted certified medical professionals to prescribe mifepristone to women up to seven weeks pregnant, and only during an in-person visit. Patients had to have three appointments—one to determine the gestational age of their unborn child and to rule out ectopic pregnancy, another to take the pill, and a follow-up appointment to check for complications. Abortionists also had to report any adverse effects to the FDA, as is standard practice with many drugs and vaccines.

Then the restrictions started loosening. The FDA went from requiring three to only two in-office visits with a medical professional. And women could now take mifepristone in up to 10 weeks of pregnancy.

They went further in 2021, completely removing the requirement to attend any in-person visit with a medical professional. Two years later, the Biden administration allowed retail pharmacies to dispense mifepristone directly to patients.

Officials are gradually chipping away regulations surrounding the drug and pro-life advocates are worried that the current warning label for the pill is no longer accurate. Ryan Anderson is one of them. He’s president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

ANDERSON: And we had been hearing stories from pro-life doctors in the ER and OB-GYNs saying the abortion pill is much more dangerous to women. Obviously, we know that when the abortion pill works, it’s deadly for children, but the concern here is that it’s also much more dangerous for women than the FDA has ever admitted.

In April, Anderson and colleague Jamie Bryan Hall published an analysis of data from public and private insurance claims. The data ranges across 5 years, from 2017 to 2023.

The results of the analysis are at sharp odds with previous studies which said only 1 in 200 women experience adverse side effects from the drug.

But according to the Ethics and Public Policy Center, the number is much higher. Their analysis reveals almost 11% of women experienced a serious adverse event within 45 days of taking the drug. That’s one in nine women.

Almost half of the women who experienced an adverse event visited the emergency room. The most common serious outcomes were: hemorrhage, infection, and needing surgery to finish the abortion. And there were other abortion-related complications, such as damage to a woman’s internal organs or life-threatening mental health diagnoses that occurred later.

ANDERSON: Real world insurance data shows you, well, how is this drug being used in reality, not under ideal circumstances.

Pro-abortion groups have claimed Anderson and Hall manipulated the data to support their position. The drugmaker Danco says cramping and bleeding are known side effects, and abortion advocates say there have not been any new studies to show the drug is unsafe.

But Anderson says he believes their findings will hold up to scrutiny, and calls on federal officials to do their own review.

ANDERSON: This should make the FDA think twice about whether the current regime of mail order telehealth is really in the best interests of the safety and the protection of these women.

Many others agree. Dr. Donna Harrison is the director of research at the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists. She says that abortionists dispensing mifepristone without listing complications could amount to medical malpractice.

HARRISON: What we have right now is a willy-nilly distribution of mifeprex, which does cause significant side effects. Women are really, actually not able to get informed consent, because you can't tell a woman what her rate of complications will be unless you know exactly how far along she is in her pregnancy.

Harrison and Anderson advocate for pulling mifepristone from the market entirely, but both recognize that convincing federal officials to do so is unlikely.

HARRISON: It’s not real medical care. What it is is an attempt at a chemical solution to a social problem.

Other pro-life doctors agree that the study should push regulators to scrutinize mifepristone much more closely.

ERIC HUSSAR: If the solution to that is just finding a quote, unquote, safer abortion pill, then we’ve also still neglected the baby in the process.

Dr. Eric Hussar is the Pennsylvania state director for the American Academy of Medical Ethics. He says it’s critical that patients know the truth about the risks of any medication they take. And while mifepristone poses significant risks to women, it is almost always fatal for unborn babies.

HUSSAR: Ultimately, it’s the enemy that’s behind it all and he’s a deceiver and a liar and he’s going to do whatever he can to try to destroy life.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Lauren Canterberry.


MARY REICHARD, HOST: A rogue goat is on the lam in Ft. Washington, Maryland! It’s boldly chowing down on garden beds and lawns, dodging efforts by Animal Control to capture! Local man Jeffrey Herbert named him Billy the Goat. Sound from UPI:

HERBERT: This is the goat! He can’t be caught!

The thing is, animal control’s tried over and over, but Billy manages to slip through backyard fences. Unlike other recent stories of animals on the loose:

HERBERT: They can catch the bear and they catch the zebra, but they can’t catch the goat.

Meanwhile in Maine? 15 goats made their own break for it, escaping a trailer on the turnpike. But police did manage to wrangle them up.

Back in Maryland? Billy’s still undefeated.

It’s The World and Everything in It.


MARY REICHARD, HOST: Today is Thursday, June 26th.

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

Good morning. I’m Mary Reichard.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: And I’m Myrna Brown.

Coming next on The World and Everything in It: rolling back the reel.

Drive-in movie theaters have been a hallmark of Americana since the 1930s, reaching their heyday in the ‘50s and ‘60s as the family car became a fixture of American life. Outdoor screens lit up summer nights across the country.

ANNOUNCER: It’s intermission time, the show starts in 10 minutes. Yes, folks, it’s intermission time.

REICHARD: Young couples, noisy families, popcorn, those crackling speakers! For years, their towering screens were a summer staple.

ANNOUNCER: Three minutes till show time…Why not add to your enjoyment with a delicious confection and drink at our attractive refreshment stand?

But then came cable TV, VCRs, and binge-watching in pajamas. Most drive-ins faded to black. Today only about 300 remain.

BROWN: WORLD’s Grace Snell takes us to a New York drive-in that’s still going strong—and still full of surprises, 75 years after its first showtime.

KNAPP: This was what we used to listen to all the time and all the projectionists knew what was going on…

GRACE SNELL: Loren Knapp’s 1950s movie projector whirs to life with the flip of a switch. Everything’s been digital at his theater for a long time now, but he still keeps the old contraption for nostalgia’s sake. His weathered hands remember exactly what to do.

SOUND: Projector whirring…

Knapp stoops over—and gestures to a red-tinted ribbon of film flicking through the reels. Twenty-four frames per second.

KNAPP: If you look right there through the framing, see the little picture?

Squinting, I can just make out a tiny cartoon figure dancing from frame to frame.

KNAPP: The light would come through, shine through the lens to the screen.

[Bell ringing…]

KNAPP: That’s telling me you’ve got about a minute left…

The film era may be long gone, but the Black River Drive-In is still alive and well. Knapp makes sure of that.

Every weekend, big block letters alert passersby to what’s showing on the big screen.

Knapp’s theater was built in 1950—the golden era for drive-ins. Back then, over four-thousand debuted across the country from New York to California. They were especially popular in the Midwest where the strip malls hadn’t yet encroached and cheap land abounded.

The Black River Drive-In changed hands several times across the decades. Then, a fire in the 1980s shut things down.

KNAPP: That’s where the theater sat for about 20 years…

The drive-in lay in ruins—until Knapp’s old boss decided to buy it. He asked Knapp to partner with him. Knapp was an experienced drive-in projectionist, so he knew his way around the business.

KNAPP: We had to rebuild the screen … Part of the snack bar had been burned off when it had closed.

The two men had to jump through all kinds of hoops: from zoning changes to state inspections. But, eventually, they reopened the theater on August 18, 2006.

Today, the gates open around 7:30—about an hour before sunset.

Minivans and pickups start rolling up, and kids jump out to set up camp chairs and wait for dusk to fall. Knapp almost always runs double-features. Tonight, the first show starts at 9:00 p.m.

It’s a scary movie for an older audience, paired with the Mission: Impossible finale.

But Knapp says action films aren’t his usual blockbusters.

KNAPP: Family movies absolutely do the best. Lilo and Stitch came out from Disney, and we did super with that.

That, despite a series of rainy weekends. Knapp says picking the movies is always a gamble. How to Train Your Dragon is playing next week. To get the contract, Knapp had to book it for two weeks—and theater season is only 26 weeks long.

KNAPP: I expect How to Train Your Dragon to do very well. But if you pick another movie and it’s kind of a flop, you’re stuck with it two weeks so…

It’s especially hard to compete in the era of Netflix. Movie studios keep narrowing the window between theater releases and streaming debuts.

But Knapp says drive-ins like his still have something unique to offer. Not just a movie, but an experience.

KNAPP: Here, you want to get mustard all over your own car. That’s your business, and we’ll sell you the hot dog to do it.

The snack bar is the heart of Knapp’s operation. Movie posters adorn the walls and the smell of butter hangs heavy in the air.

SOUND: Popcorn popping…

Popcorn explodes from a giant metal hopper. A dark-haired teenager scrapes up the fluffy kernels and shoves them into colorful paper bags.

ARTHUR: Thank you very much…How ‘bout some paper plates?

Next to the checkout counter, a little old man huddles beside a landline phone. Art is 87 years old, and he used to be manager here. Today, he helps greet customers and manage orders.

ARTHUR: Anybody that’s in this business, and they stay with it, they gotta love it. It’s a lifestyle, really, the smells, the popcorn, the onions cooking on the grill…

Art started working in the drive-in industry when he was fourteen…back in the 1950s when stars like Roy Rogers and Marilyn Monroe graced the silver screen.

At the time, drive-in movies seemed almost like magic.

ARTHUR: We didn’t know how it worked. It was a big mystery for those that did it. Didn’t tell anybody how we did it….

Things are a lot different now. People can access a universe of streaming options without even getting off the couch. Drive-ins have to offer top-notch snacks and service to compete.

Art heads home at 9:45 p.m.

Outside, the first movie is less than halfway done.

Knapp says Hollywood has started making movies a lot longer than they used to be.

KNAPP: Our second feature this evening is just shy of three hours long, so tonight, we’re getting out about three o’clock in the morning.

Knapp’s partner died in 2017. He and his wife are the sole owners now. Thanks to the drive-in business, they haven’t had a summer weekend to themselves since high school.

KNAPP: You’re always at the theater working…

He and his wife are both in their 70s now and looking to retire. But if no one wants to buy the place, Knapp says he’ll keep it open as long as he can.

But, the people here today—sitting in their trunks huddled around static-y radios—are blissfully unaware of all that. They’re just here for a good show.

SOUND: Crickets

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Grace Snell, in Black River, New York.


MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Today is Thursday, June 26th. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Myrna Brown.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: And I’m Mary Reichard. Up next, WORLD commentator Cal Thomas reflects on last weekend’s strike against Iran, arguing it wasn’t just necessary, but long overdue given four decades of provocation.

CAL THOMAS, COMMENTATOR: In ordering the bombing of three nuclear sites in Iran, President Trump did the right thing, for the right reason, and at the right time.

As usual, some in the major media got it wrong. The New York Times initially headlined: “U.S. Enters War Against Iran.” A Washington Post editorial said: “Trump did not prepare America for his war with Iran.”

The U.S. has effectively been at war with Iran since 1979 when so-called Iranian students seized the American Embassy in Tehran. They held 52 Americans hostages for 444 days before releasing them…apparently fearing what incoming president Ronald Reagan might do. Trump turned that fear into a reality. In a brief Saturday night address, the president said all of Iran’s nuclear capabilities were “obliterated.” He then warned any retaliatory strikes on Americans would be met with even more disaster for the regime of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Addressing whether we were at war with Iran, the president said: “For 40 years, Iran has been saying death to America, death to Israel. They have been killing our people, blowing off their arms, blowing off their legs, with roadside bombs. That was their specialty. We lost over 1,000 people and hundreds of thousands throughout the Middle East, and around the world have died as a direct result of their hate. … So many were killed by their general, Qassim Soleimani. I decided a long time ago that I would not let this happen. It will not continue.”

Khamenei has reportedly retreated to a bunker, as Adolf Hitler did at the end of World War II. The difference is that Hitler committed suicide fearing capture by the Allies while Khamenei is said to be naming his successors should he be killed. He is reported to have said he is willing to die as a martyr. This is another major difference between the two leaders. The defeat of Hitler squashed Nazism in Germany. Should Khamenei be toppled, it won’t completely defeat radical Islamism. That’s because it is a virus that does not respond to a diplomatic “vaccine.” Still, the bombing may have set back Iran’s nuclear bomb capabilities for a very long time, hopefully forever.

Some feckless European leaders were still pushing the diplomatic track, despite violations by Iran of previous agreements, until the bombing began. A few still are.

Democrats are talking impeachment again. They ignore that their Nobel Peace Prize president Barack Obama bombed targets in seven countries during his two terms without congressional authorization. So did Bill Clinton and Joe Biden.

The isolationists have again been isolated.

As former Israeli diplomat Yoram Ettinger has correctly stated in his newsletter: “The well-intentioned wish of Isolationists to militarily disengage from Islamic terrorism, establish peaceful coexistence, and be preoccupied with the domestic agenda, must be based on global and Middle East reality; not on alternative reality.” In his article he goes on to describe the reality of both the Muslim Barbary pirates of the 19th century and today’s Sunni and Shiite Islamic terrorists…saying they seek “to intimidate, terrorize and subjugate – the ‘infidel’ West, and especially the ‘Great American Satan,’ while establishing Islam as the only legitimate, divinely ordained religion on earth.”

An act of war is a tough decision for any president, but when the world is already at war with Islamic terrorism, there can be no compromise. Failure to have attacked those nuclear sites would have put not only Israel at risk of destruction, but the U.S. in greater peril.

President Trump’s bold decision to end the talking and act against an evil menace could change the entire dynamic of the Middle East. Others have tried and failed. Trump may have just succeeded.

I’m Cal Thomas.


MARY REICHARD, HOST: Tomorrow: Culture Friday with John Stonestreet.

Collin Garbarino reviews a new racing movie.

And, your listener feedback.

That and more tomorrow.

I’m Mary Reichard.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: And I’m Myrna Brown. 

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