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White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki may have committed an ethics violation recently when she criticized Fox News and its White House correspondent Peter Doocy during a podcast. The press secretary appeared on “Pod Save America” on Thursday where she took aim at Fox News and Doocy. POLITICO White House Correspondent Eugene Daniels asked Psaki, “Peter Doocy is a stupid son of a bitch, or does he just play one on TV?” “He works for a network that provides people with questions that, nothing personal to any individual including Peter Doocy, but might make anyone sound like a stupid son...

15 April 2022Good FridaySt. Nicholas Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, St. Clair, PA Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red.There is no Mass today. The readings given here are used in the afternoon celebration of the Lord's Passion.First readingIsaiah 52:13-53:12 ©The servant of the Lord, an expiatory SacrificeSee, my servant will prosper,he shall be lifted up, exalted, rise to great heights.As the crowds were appalled on seeing him– so disfigured did he lookthat he seemed no longer human –so will the crowds be astonished at him,and kings stand speechless before him;for they shall see something never toldand witness something never heard before:‘Who could...

Rockets are expensive, complex, bad for the environment and prone to occasionally exploding – so alternative launch technologies are popping up to reduce their use. We wrote about SpinLaunch's remarkable kinetic launch system earlier this week, which spins a rocket up to incredible speeds on the end of a long, carbon-fiber arm in a vacuum chamber, then releases it skyward at speeds up to and over Mach 6. Then another company dropped us a line, to show us a far simpler approach it says can get launch vehicles and ruggedized electronic cargo off the ground at nearly three times that...

WASHINGTON, Monday, April 14. THE HOUSE AND THE BANKRUPT LAW. The action of the House to-day, in refusing to consider the bill providing for a Bankrupt law, excites the surprise of everyone here. It is generally conceded that there is no more important subject before Congress than this measure, and the business community are exceedingly anxious that something should be done on the subject at this session, and a strong effort will be made to reconsider the vote postponing the consideration of the bill until the fourth Monday in December next. CONTRACTS FOR ARMS. It will be remembered that Mr....

CLAIM: A photo shows the Russian warship Moskva on fire in the Black Sea. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The image has been manipulated. The original shows a 2019 fire aboard a Tanzanian commercial vessel in the Kerch Strait, near the Black Sea. The edited version was cropped, flipped horizontally and colored green. THE FACTS: After Ukraine said Thursday that a missile attack by its forces hit the Moskva, the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea fleet, a “night vision” photo purporting to show the vessel on fire emerged online. Moscow said the vessel was merely damaged in a fire, making no mention...

This is the horrifying moment a driver repeatedly ran over a woman in a vicious road-rage attack. Vincent Jean, 56, rammed the 23-year-old victim with his Mitsubishi SUV several times during his rampage in Elizabeth, New Jersey, on Tuesday.

Bringing the Brokenhearted Home. When God wanted to give the law to Moses on Mount Sinai, thunder, lightening, fire and smoke shook the mountain; at the outer edge of Gods' Holiness was an unapproachable barrier of light. God sent His only Begotten Son. Jesus journeyed on earth seeking the brokenhearted, those who were living with a law of stone in their hearts, lost in a condition wherein man was not able to produce a place for a home to be built, because of the sinful foundation that moved by the force of the evil which never rested. Jesus, at the...

Elon Musk has warned the Twitter Board of Directors that, should they choose to turn down his offer to buy the company, “the liability they would thereby assume would be titanic in scale.” Musk took to Twitter to discuss the crazy day that saw him make an offer to buy Twitter for over $40 billion cash and give an interview at a TED Conference where he doubled down saying it was vital to the future of civilization to have a trusted platform that offers free speech. A report from the Wall Street Journal saying the board was discussing using a...

The good news is that US industrial production rose 0.9% in March. The bad news? US capacity utilization rose to 78.3% indicating that the labor market is overheating. Notice that prior to Covid, The Fed began rising raising its target rate as capacity utilization was increasing towards 80%. But once The Fed Funds Target rate (upper bound) hit 2.50%, capacity utilization started to cool off. Then Covid stuck. Since Covid struck and The Fed massively expanded its balance sheet, capacity utilization has increased. But this time around, The Fed has been sloth-like in its removal of monetary stimulus. Of course,...

In the weeks between the 2020 election and the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, almost 100 text messages from two staunch GOP allies of then-President Donald Trump reveal an aggressive attempt to lobby, encourage and eventually warn the White House over its efforts to overturn the election, according to messages obtained by the House select committee and reviewed by CNN. The texts, which have not been previously reported, were sent by Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah and GOP Rep. Chip Roy of Texas to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows. The text exchanges show that both...

Every year on Good Friday, we read St. John’s account of the Passion from John 18-19. One of the themes that runs through this reading is the Priesthood of Christ. I’ve traced this theme through the Good Friday Readings in previous years. Here, I repost my earlier comments with some additions, especially concerning the First Reading: There is priestly language already in the First Reading, from Isaiah 52 & 53, the famous “Suffering Servant” Song: See, my servant shall prosper, he shall be raised high and greatly exalted. Even as many were amazed at him so marred was his look...

Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal told employees Thursday that the company was still evaluating a $43 billion offer by Elon Musk to buy the company and take it private, setting the stage for a potentially drawn-out feud with the world’s richest person. After clips of the songs “I Say A Little Prayer” and “I Want It That Way” by the Backstreet Boys played, Agrawal launched into a 25-minute Q&A session with employees Thursday, according to a person in attendance. He didn’t say when the board would have an answer to Musk’s offer or which way it was leaning, frustrating some who...

Mayor Eric Adams, who had called white people “crackers”, claimed that he needed his brother to head his security because of an "increase in white supremacy" in New York City. The New York City Board of Health falsely claimed that racism was a "public health crisis" and a public school told parents to abolish their “whiteness”. After all that time battling white supremacy, which is as easy to find in the city as good manners and parking spaces, the black supremacist subway terror attack came out of the blue. 29 people were wounded, including a pregnant woman and a...

President Joe Biden lashed out at a college academic dean on Thursday as he toured North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. During the tour, Biden promoted the idea of raising government grants to fund historic black colleges and universities, noting many of them did not have enough capital to invest in their technical programs.

The news on the Bidenflation front continues to worsen. Not surprisingly, President Biden and his senior administration officials are in full spin mode. On April 12th, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 8.5% annually between March 2021 and March 2022 – the steepest increase since December 1981. The index for all items less food and energy - what is known as the core index – rose a hefty 6.5 percent during this same period, the largest 12-month change since the period ending August 1982. The shelter index alone rose 5.0 percent over...

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“‘Whoever says to his brother, “You good-for-nothing,” shall be guilty before the supreme court’” (Matthew 5:22). The word (raca) translated by the New American Standard Bible “good-for-nothing” has been variously rendered elsewhere as “brainless idiot,” “worthless fellow,” “blockhead,” and the like. It was a term of malicious abuse and slander that really has no precise modern translation. David graphically described persons who used such slander as those who “sharpen their tongues as a serpent; poison of a viper is under their lips” (Ps. 140:3). The Roman soldiers who tortured and crucified Jesus could well have used the term to mock...

A long-term study published by the prestigious British journal The Lancet that follows up on participants in the Moderna and Pfizer trials found the vaccines had no effect on overall mortality. Among 74,000 trial participants, there were 31 all-cause deaths among the vaccinated and 30 among the placebo groups as of January, reported Daniel Horowitz of The Blaze. Curiously, as Horowitz noted, the authors of the Danish-government-funded study state: "Based on the RCTs with the longest possible follow-up, mRNA vaccines had no effect on overall mortality despite protecting against fatal COVID-19." Horowitz asked: "So how is it that mRNAs had...

Another Coptic Christian clergyman was murdered in cold blood in Egypt today [this article was originally published on Thursday, April 7]. Local Christian media reported that, while walking in a crowded street of Alexandria with a group of church youth and his own family, Fr. Arsenius Wadid was repeatedly stabbed in the neck by an unidentified but bearded man, killing him. Fr. Arsenius, 56, headed the Church of the Virgin Mary in Muharram Bay and later the Saint Paul Church of Alexandria. He was ordained in 1996. As this just happened, details are still sparse and sometimes contradictory. Some...

There are four expectations believers should have because they are based on absolute promises the Lord has made to us. Our God is a promise-maker and a promise-keeper! Expect to be rewarded as you diligently seek the Lord. “Without faith it is impossible to please him, for he who comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him” (Hebrews 11:6, NKJV). You can ask in faith for a token from the Lord to encourage and rekindle your confidence. Expect him to keep his promise to reward you now when...