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The Wide World of Chaos
...It's enough to give Uncle Sam a facial tic. There is big trouble brewing overseas.

It may be time to start channeling Noah and start building an ark. The world is a huge mess and it's getting worse everyday. Iran is on track to develop nuclear weapons, but global warming may incinerate us first. The Israeli-Palestinian hatefest rolls on, and Afghanistan is falling apart. Mexico is overrun by drug criminals and third-world poverty is as horrific as ever. I think things are okay in Finland.

This week President Obama implored the United Nations to do something, anything to combat terrorism and warming. The president was blunt: "Consider the course that we are on if we fail to confront the status quo. Extremists sowing terror in pockets of the world... protracted conflicts that grind on and on... genocide and mass atrocities... more and more nations with nuclear weapons... melting ice caps and ravaged populations... persistent poverty and pandemic disease. I say this not to sow fear, but to state a fact: the magnitude of our challenges has yet to be met by the measure of our action."

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Here are some of the highlights you can look forward to on upcoming installments* of The O'Reilly Factor:

• Karl Rove will enter the No Spin Zone to discuss the ongoing battle in Afghanistan and to prognosticate on what our next move will be...
• What were the "Dumbest Things This Week?" Find out in our aptly-named segment on Friday...
• Did you know Glenn Beck started his career as a radio shock jock (sort of)? We'll take a walk down memory lane in At Your Beck and Call...

* Lineups and schedules are always subject to change based on breaking news.

Time to give some more great Factor gear away! The first ten people who send an email containing their name and mailing address to freestuff@billoreilly.com AFTER 3 PM ET on Friday, September 25 will receive our new American Patriot pen and a free refill. Good luck!

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