254. Silver and Gold | Discover the Word Podcast

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The battle for contentment is one of life’s biggest challenges—even for followers of Christ. And that battle for contentment runs headlong into how we view money. What we use to purchase things. The phrase “silver and gold” appears in the scriptures no less than 58 times and we want this week to examine a handful of those texts to try and get some wisdom about money in general and silver and gold in particular

Stones, Spectacle, and Shortcuts: The Wilderness Temptation and the Blueprint We Pretend Not to See

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The temptation of Jesus Christ in the wilderness is one of those passages Christians nod at politely and then immediately ignore when Monday morning rolls around. Forty days of fasting, a barren desert, and Satan offering three proposals that look suspiciously like modern self-help advice. If you think it’s a children’s Sunday school story about resisting candy, you’ve missed the plot. It’s a masterclass in how power, identity, and survival actually work in the real world.

The War Powers Resolution of 1973 and Iran

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Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY 4th District) and Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) are Republicans, but they are also two of the very few libertarians (not Libertarians) elected to Congress. Both have long opposed wars, and are definitely not neocons, and both sponsored concurrent resolutions to force President Trump to pull back military forces from any conflict …

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Critical Minerals: Africa’s Role in the New Global Economy Explained

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The global race to secure critical minerals is reshaping economies around the world, redrawing trade relationships and shifting geopolitical power. Africa sits at the center of that shift as countries move to secure supplies for electrification, technological advancement and national defense. Bloomberg’s Tiwa Adebayo and Bloomberg NEF’s Kwasi Ampofo explain.

Atlas Rebooted: When the Department of War Decides Your Company Belongs to the State

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In Atlas Shrugged, the government doesn’t seize Rearden Metal with bayonets. It does something far more modern. It surrounds it with emergency language, regulatory edicts, patriotic necessity, and administrative suffocation until saying “no” becomes illegal in everything but name. The state never shouts, “We are stealing this.” It simply declares the product too important to be privately controlled.

When Veteran YouTube Geopolitical Talking Heads Start Acting Like Internet Trolls

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Now let’s be clear about something. Veterans arguing about foreign policy is not the problem. In fact, it’s healthy. People who have worn the uniform should absolutely debate how American power is used. The military has always produced strong opinions—usually accompanied by horrible coffee and worse briefing slides. But what used to separate professional disagreement from internet drama was something the officer corps once valued deeply: discipline.

The Kurds – The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Friend (Until Tuesday)

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For many Americans, the story is simple. Saddam Hussein gassed the Kurds in the 1980s—most infamously at Halabja. They suffered horribly. When the United States eventually removed Saddam from power in 2003, the Kurds were portrayed as natural allies: brave fighters, pro-Western, reliable partners in a messy region.

Tina Peters, Colorado And The Hypocrisy Express: Governor Jared Polis Mans Up and Outs Himself And His Corrupt Democrat Cronies When The Shoe Hits The Other Foot

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Before getting carried away giving Polis too much credit for his forthright and honest take on this, take note that this is a political kindred soul of his and the bottom-line takeaway is that the hypocrisy is so obvious-the bright and shiny double standard of justice from a lady who is supposed to be blindfolded-that it forced Polis to fess up.

The Persian Spring (Will It Bloom or Wilt?); A top-level analysis of strategic possibilities regarding the fallout of Epic Fury. High risk, high reward.

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There are several things to highlight when it comes to the situation in Iran and Israel right now. These talking points are designed to highlight some of the likely global effects worth being aware of, to track how they unfold in real time, and to anticipate the future.

Red China is the big loser in Iran; Red China’s military equipment is as reliable as Acme’s. Meep-meep

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A side benefit of the Operation Epic Fury is testing the war materiel of the Russian and Red Chinese military. With little exception, they are failing again as they did in the extraction of Maduro from Venezuela