Bold and Blunt

America is falling, China is rising and relations between the two nations are in a cold standoff: Agree or disagree? And before deciding, realize the many, many ways China's communists are stepping toward global dominance, versus the many, many ways America, under feckless leadership and far leftist political influence, are stepping away from that role on the world stage. China's building up its military; America's not. China's making many of America's own products, like pharmaceuticals; America's farming out manufacturing and production. China's strategizing with its control of rare earth elements; America's putting environmentalism as a top concern that leads to the purchase of Green items that, get this, are controlled by communist creation. China's looking to the skies with its technology; America's ceding its race to space and its surveillance systems to others. What's the solution? Vote out Democrats,  it would seem. Rep. Mike Waltz from Florida, who serves on many congressional committees that receive timely and crucial information about China and America's national security, has some dire words of warning.

America has a socialism problem, and it’s only growing worse. Are you seeing the signs? They’re everywhere. The latest is Joe Biden’s call to grab gun rights from law-abiding American citizens, making it seem as if only that dastardly Second Amendment were gone, or massively watered, then school shootings would come to an immediate end, children would be safe, and lives would be saved. Take away the guns, though, and what holds government at bay? Founders knew government is force, and that without resistance, or the threat of resistance — which is the silent beauty of the Second Amendment — that liberties would be quickly lost and so, too, the Constitution. But Second Amendment to the side, this Joe Biden administration has been taking individual rights — God-given rights — with alarming frequency and boldness, unconcerned with the likes of parental rights, health choice, economic freedom and more. So what to do? George Harbison, frequent Young America’s Foundation speaker, offers solutions.

God works through nations and individuals, and God works in mysterious ways: Those are a couple of biblical truths that can't be forgotten or downplayed, particularly during these perilous and dark times. What's interesting is when you start to understand how God works through those many in the church would scoff -- that's when you begin to realize how the greatness of the cross and the mercy of Christ can really become a force for good. It's the DNA of our great nation; it's the spirit of individualism. Pastor Greg Laurie talks about the rockers he's found who've come to Christ, most notably, Alice Cooper.

America's enemies on the foreign stage aren't exactly fearful of President Joe Biden. In fact, they're mocking -- mocking, laughing, scorning, deriding and biding their time. For what? They're biding their time to take advantage of a feckless and weak president who can't even string together a coherent sentence, never mind put together a tough-on-terrorism, tough-on-socialism, tough-on-enemies-of-America foreign policy. North Korea rattles sabers. Joe Biden rattles waffle cones. China rattles communism takeover. Biden rattles in his nap. Russia rattles at Ukraine. Biden wags his baby rattle. But that's what Democrat administrations always bring to America: weakness on the foreign policy front. Fred Fleitz, former Donald Trump national security official, discusses.