QUANTUM BIBLE: Quantum Physics demonstrates the reality that one entity can simultaneously have two or more identities. And Dr. Michael Quillen, former ABC Science Editor and Professor at Harvard and Cornell, demonstrates that Christianity makes sense in a quantum context.

COLUMBUS DAY TRUTH: No, contrary to the Left’s DEI-based Fables of Western Civilization, Rod Martin explains, Europeans led by Columbus, did not commit genocide against the Native population.

MORE MEDIA DOUBTS ON BLUE WAVE: Have you noticed the near-total absence this past week or so in Mainstream Media predictions of a Blue Wave coming on November 3. The Washington Stand’s Suzanne Bowdey, who hardly ever misses an important beat, has the latest.

SHINING CITY ON A HILL: It’s not everyday that a HillFaith reader sits down and composes a great new patriotic song, sings it just about perfectly, but that’s exactly what Texan Gene Rutt just did. Give it a listen here.

WHY GEN Z MAY SAVE AMERICA: Yes, that sounds like an absurdity, especially to we aging “Get off my grass” Baby Boomers, but it actually makes great sense the way Rod Martin explains it in his new book, which I review in detail here.

TRUMP’S REALIGNMENT: Love him or hate him, President Donald Trump’s policies and personality are driving forward what could well become after the 2030 Census the end of the New Deal era-centralization and secularization of America, and the beginning of a new alignment based on an enduring MAGA-fied, Christian, conservative GOP majority.

That’s according to a new book from Rod Martin, former member of the PayPal initial investors group and adviser to Peter Theil, as well as a former member of the executive committee of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). Check out my latest for The Washington Stand.

WHAT A DIFFERENCE INFLATION-ADJUSTED GAS PRICES MAKE: We keep being told by the Mainstream Media, Democrats and more than a few GOPers that gas prices under Trump are at record levels. Well, the smart guys at Issues & Insights (I&I) asked what if those prices were adjusted for inflation?

The results are in and, while I won’t tell you which president’s prices were actually the highest, the (I&I) assessment finds Trump 47 ranks only in sixth-place on the highest-ever-inflation-adjusted gas prices. Can someone please pass this datapoint over to The New York Times/CNN/Washington Post/ABC/NPR/etc. etc.?

Oh yes, here’s the I&I explanation for Reagan’s position in this accounting: “Reagan’s average is on the high end because he inherited sky-high gas prices from Jimmy ‘Malaise’ Carter. When Reagan came into office [1981], gas was over $5 a gallon in today’s dollars. The month he left office [1989], it was $2.40.”

WHO ARE MOST-EVER WRITTEN ABOUT PERSONS? The list compiled in 1999 by former CIA analyst Peter Dickson was updated a year later by J. Warner Wallace of Cold-Case Christianity. Jesus Christ topped the list both years, but there were some changes in 2020, most notably in the Virgin Mary dropping out of the Top 10.

But, as HillFaith reports today, it appears the Dickson listing has not been updated since then, and it is conceivable that more changes have occurred in addition to the Virgin Mary (Perhaps she’s regained a spot in the Top 10). If you know of a more recent compilation, please share it in the comments, either here on Instapundit or on hillfaith.org.

FEDS SOLD DANGEROUS BIOMED DEVICES: Basically to anybody who came around with some cash, that is. If you recall that California warehouse thought abandoned but was actually full of lethal toxins like Covid and Ebola, you’ll instantly know why this is a huge story.

ABOUT YOUR FINGERPRINT: Today on HillFaith is the first of a dozen wonderful episodes of the “Glimpses of God” short videos produced by Illustra Media for the John 10:10 Project. Regardless of your views about the divine, each of these remarkable productions can inspire a new and deeper appreciation for the incredible beauty and complexity of the creation. Enjoy!

SOMEBODY SHOULD TELL HAKEEM JEFFRIES, AND REUTERS: That the U.S. economy under Trump 47 is anything but in the tank. It’s my latest AND THEN THERE ARE THE FACTS column on Substack.

ABOUT THAT COMING DEM BLUE WAVE: Odds are it isn’t going to happen, despite the best cheer-leading efforts of top Democratic strategists and their aiders and abetters in the Mainstream Media. Check out my latest Substack column, “Not So Fast on the Coming Democratic Blue Wave.”

WANNA BE A BILLIONAIRE? Well, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) showed her Senate colleagues earlier this week 10 examples of how easy it is to get there by defrauding federal spending programs.

IRAN  MASSACRES, UP CLOSE: An estimated 40,000 Iranian civilians were murdered by the authorities during anti-government demonstrations in Tehran beginning in late December 2025 and continuing through mid-January of this year. But when was the last time you read a story in the New York Times about those atrocities or watched a news report on them on ABC?

Now you don’t have to depend on the Mainstream Media for actual video of those tragic events, thanks to a new documentary entitled “This Is Our Story – Voices From Iran’s January Protests,” which Richard Pollock describes as “explosive” and “deeply moving.” Being based on actual videos taken by participating protestors during and after the massacre, the documentary is also graphic.

“At its most gripping, This Is Our Story shows the deep emotional toll on a nation’s people when thousands of body bags were placed in local hospitals and mortuaries. Families had to painstakingly open each bag to find a husband, wife or child. It also shows the many funerals that became lightning rods for further dissent. Since the funerals, silence. But as the documentary shows, internally, Iran is a powder keg ready to explode,” Pollock writes

WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? Ask a liberal college student if he or she would become a registered Republican if they became convinced the conservative, limited government perspective is the most productive of a free and prosperous society. Think they would say yes?

What if instead the question is addressed to a young student who professes to be a Buddhist and the question is whether he would become a Christian if he were convinced that it is the true faith? The young man initially said “No,” but then changed his mind. Find out why here on HillFaith.

RED CHINA, RIP (MAYBE MUCH SOONER THAN YOU THINK): Nobody knows with certainty how many Chinese men and women have died as a result of Mao Tse Sung’s defeat of Nationalist Chang Kai Shek in 1949 and the subsequent Hell-on-Earth known as the Communist Revolution in Beijing. Credible estimates are of 80 million deaths, but there may well be more.

China has become the Superpower rival of the United States following America winning the Cold War against the Soviet Union. But, terrible irony of all ironies, China was greatly assisted in that emergence by … us. And today, the dying goes on as the Underground Christian church faces deadly persecution, and the Muslim Uyghurs subsist amid concentration camps, unwilling organ donation and forced labor.

But, as Rod Martin makes clear in his column today on Substack on China 77 years later,  the Asian giant’s future is anything but good news for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

GREATEST STORY NEVER TOLD: Larry Kudlow said it first, but Rod Martin’s column of the same name points to what is likely the biggest puzzle of the 2026 election season — the Trump economy is soaring, but Trump and GOP popularity are not. Thus, “experts” are beginning to talk about a Democratic wave in November.

But, as Martin points out, the counter to such Blue optimism and GOP apathy may be as simple as four votes per precinct in a low-turnout contest, which mid-terms typically are. Republicans are thus well-advised to drop the dour looks, get off your tuffs and get to work because things are actually much better than either they or the “experts” are telling us.

THINK YOU KNOW YOUR BODY: It is astonishingly engineered, but is that by design or by accident? Secrets of the Human Body, Part 1 of 12, today on HillFaith.

NO IRS ANTI-FRAUD STRATEGY: Hard to believe the federal tax agency would lack a coherent strategy to combat and prevent tax fraud, but the Government Accountability Office (GAO) says they couldn’t find such a strategy.

SURPRISED? This morning’s HillFaith reports the latest CNCT Capitol Pulse survey, which found that 55 percent of congressional aides give a passing grade to the 119th Congress, compared to 45 percent who slapped down a big fat F for it.

TWO STEPS FORWARD: Congress has dropped the ball on a lot of other issues, but on fighting waste, fraud and corruption in federal spending, there is progress, however small it may on the surface appear. Details here.

REAGAN WAS RIGHT ON STAR WARS: More than 1,500 Iranian ballistic missiles have been intercepted before striking U.S. military targets and other targets in Israel and elsewhere in the Middle East.

The President who first proposed the  Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) nee “Star Wars” in 1983 was lambasted for proposing the impossible. Too bad those critics aren’t around today to see Reagan’s vision being fulfilled.

UNSOLVABLE PROBLEM: If you know who wrote these words, you likely know what the all-caps refers to: “As according to the theory of Natural Selection an interminable number of intermediate forms must have existed … why is not every geological formation charged with such links?” Go here for the solution.

SURVEY FIND ‘NO CONFIDENCE’ IN FEDS: What does it mean when only one of 10 Americans say they have confidence in information generated by any of the hundreds of federal agencies?

WHAT IF THE CARTELS HAVE DIGITAL TECH BETTER THAN OURS? That’s the sobering question posed by W.T. Hale’s “The Cartels Have Gone High-Tech. We’re Still Under-Estimating Them.”