Rob Peabody is a entrepreneurial visionary who recently moved back to the U.S. after living for six years in London, England. He previously served as the Global City Leader for London for the International Mission Board, as a satellite campus pastor of a mega-church in the U.S, a non-profit leader for his ministry - Awaken, started a national conference in the U.K. for millennials, and now leads VOMO (vomo.org) to leverage technology to power a global volunteer movement. Rob consults for various ministries and has written multiple books and small group studies that can be found on his website.

Hurricane Harvey’s death toll of at least 70 lives lost so far will be accompanied by tens of billions of dollars in property damage that AccuWeather estimates will be worse than any previous storm to hit the United States.

AccuWeather predicts that Hurricane Harvey, which has slammed Texas and flooded much of America’s fourth-largest city of Houston, could become the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history. The extent of the damage from winds and flooding also could hurt the U.S. economy sufficiently to delay the next interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve Bank, predicted Dr. Joel Myers, the founder, president and chairman of AccuWeather.

President Trump received some uncharacteristic praise from Democratic leadership Wednesday after agreeing to a deal to fund Hurricane Harvey aid, a three month debt ceiling increase, and a three month Continuing Resolution to keep the government funded.

"The president listened to the arguments,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told reporters, “to his credit, he went with the better argument."

“Today was a good day in a generally very partisan town,” Schumer added.

The Obama Department of Homeland Security concluded that left-wing "antifa" forces were engaged in "domestic terrorist violence," according to documents obtained by Politico.

Who am I to argue with the fine men and women of former President Obama's DHS?

In fact, as someone who has been fighting with antifa defenders for a good while, I feel a bit like the defense lawyer in "Miracle on 34th Street" when the U.S. Post Office confirms that his client is actually Santa Claus: Hey, don't take my word for it; "terrorist violence" is the term chosen by professionals working for a Democratic White House.

With this moral victory secured, let me now break with some of my friends on the right and say that I think it's a bad, or at least premature, idea to go all the way and label antifa an actual terrorist organization.

Before I explain why, we should spend a moment considering how we got here in the first place.