Terry Gilberg

NewsTalk TV & Radio host, DC. "POWER to the People-Secure the Grid!", Salem Media Group, Radio America, & iHeart Media, ProLife Mom & Stanford Univ. Alum!

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I was thinking recently of something I learned in college—the 250th-year Cycle Theory. If memory serves, it goes something like this: Great historical superpowers last only 250 years. Is this true for the USA? No. Here's why:
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Will MAGA Monopolize the Midterms? https://t.co/Ui7kyxeVIc

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Today is the birthday of the modern Italian Republic, as June 2 marks the 80th anniversary of the historic 1946 referendum where Italians voted to abolish the monarchy!
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Thank you, ITALY 🇮🇹

You hit us with emotions every day, real or virtual

For everyone who loves her, lives her, or carries her in their heart 💚🤍❤️

Happy Republic Day! Long live Italy!

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@Fair_and_Biased OPIE!

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Dishing all things DC on "The DC Dispatch"! Discussion points on Home Rule, Local elections for Mayor and City Council, and TDS with local elected officials. Show: May 14, 2026. Link below:
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Where were the No Kings protests during King Charles' visit? My latest take here: https://t.co/qDmmDQIf7o

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America is having a big birthday soon, and we’ll be 250 years old or ….young? Just who are we at 250?
My new take below…
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Since the radiocarbon dating results on the Shroud of Turin image, more forensic examinations have taken place. New results point to it being a 1st century fabric, not one from the Middle Ages...My interview with Shroud expert Cheryl White PhD.
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Listen in on The DC Dispatch, my new gig. I dish and download on all things DC--the unique city that is on federal land but with home rule (governance). Makes for great gab. Launch Show. https://t.co/AK1iN0pNPz

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Think you know about the illegal world of organ harvesting? There’s a darker side to this practice than merely procuring an organ on the black market. The CCP puts out orders to kill prisoners of conscience--here's how, and why. My latest interview:

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Lending my voice to “DC Dispatch” a new weekly show about all-things DC! I’ll be a regular on a panel, hosted by John Fredericks, together with three women in politics. We’ll dish both local and national topics, Join me, every Thursday.
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Introducing the new "New World Order," the Administrations' approach to and goals of national security. The link to my latest Substack post. https://t.co/bt0lL7uuVu

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The colors displayed of the moon from this video! Marvelous! #moon

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Historic!

This is the highest quality video ever taken of the moon!

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🚨 INCREDIBLE! This is a stunning drone light show depicting Jesus on the Cross (the Crucifixion)

It was created as part of the “Jesus Jesus Jesus” Holy Week event by The Church on Master’s Road in Manvel, Texas.

Thousands of synchronized drones lit up the night sky during Good Friday to tell the Gospel story in a powerful, modern way.

Absolutely breathtaking!

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On point:

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Food for thought.

Trump, Hormuz and the End of the Free Ride

For half a century, Western strategists have known that the Strait of Hormuz is the acute point where energy, sea power and political will intersect. That knowledge is not in dispute. What is new in this war with Iran is that the United States, under Donald Trump, has chosen not to rush to “solve” the problem. In Hegelian terms, he is refusing an easy synthesis in order to force the underlying contradiction to the surface.

The old thesis was simple: the US guarantees open sea lanes in the Gulf, and everyone else structures their economies and politics around that free insurance. Europe and the UK embraced ambitious green policies, ran down hard‑power capabilities and lectured Washington on multilateral virtue, secure in the assumption that American carriers would always appear off Hormuz. The political class behaved as if the American security guarantee were a law of nature, not a contingent choice. Their conduct today is closer to Chamberlain than Churchill: temporising, issuing statements, hoping the storm will pass without a fundamental reordering of their responsibilities.

Trump’s antithesis is to withhold the automatic guarantee at the moment of maximum stress. Militarily, the US can break Iran’s residual ability to contest the Strait; that is not the binding constraint. The point is to delay that act. By allowing a closure or semi‑closure to bite, Trump ensures that the immediate pain is concentrated in exactly the jurisdictions that have most conspicuously free‑ridden on US power: the EU and the UK. Their industries, consumers and energy‑transition assumptions are exposed.

In that context, his reported blunt message to European and British leaders, you need the oil out of the Strait more than we do; why don’t you go and take it? Is not a throwaway line. It is the verbalisation of the antithesis. It openly reverses the traditional presumption that America will carry the burden while its allies emote from the sidelines.

In this dialectic, the prize is not simply the reopening of a chokepoint. The prize is a reordered system in which the United States effectively arbitrages and controls the global flow of oil. A world in which US‑aligned production in the Americas plus a discretionary capability to secure,or not secure, Hormuz places Washington at the centre of the hydrocarbon chessboard. For that strategic end, a rapid restoration of the old status quo would be counterproductive.

A quick, surgical “fix” of Hormuz would short‑circuit the dialectic. If Trump rapidly crushed Iran’s remaining coastal capabilities, swept the mines and escorted tankers back through the Strait, Europe and the UK would heave a sigh of relief and return to business as usual: underfunded militaries, maximalist green posturing and performative disdain for US power, all underwritten by that same power. The contradiction between their dependence and their posture would remain latent.

By declining to supply the synthesis on demand, and by explicitly telling London and Brussels to “go and take it” themselves, Trump forces a reckoning. European and British leaders must confront the fact that their energy systems, their industrial bases and their geopolitical sermons all rest on an American hard‑power foundation they neither finance nor politically respect. The longer the contradiction is allowed to unfold, the stronger the eventual synthesis can be: a new order in which access to secure flows, Hormuz, Venezuela and beyond, is explicitly conditional on real contributions, not assumed as a right.

In that sense, the delay in “taking” the Strait, and the challenge issued to US allies to do it themselves, is not indecision. It is the negative moment Hegel insisted was necessary for history to move. Only by withholding the old guarantee, and by saying so out loud to those who depended on it, can Trump hope to end the free ride.

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For the first time since 1994, the Pope is personally carrying the Cross for all 14 Stations of the Cross, as Pope Leo XIV leads the Via Crucis at Rome’s Colosseum in the first Good Friday of his Pontificate.

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Slab of the Annointing just inside the entrance of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. The slab is know as the site where Jesus' body was prepared for burial by Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus before being placed in the tomb. Good Friday.

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Basilica of the Agony, Jerusalem, adjacent to the Garden of Gethsemane... It's purposely a dark space for silent prayer. The gray rocks inside the metal thorns in front of the altar are known as the site where Jesus prayed before his arrest. Good Friday.