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“‘“Give us this day our daily bread”’” (Matthew 6:11). “Give” reminds us of our need to ask God for His provision. In recognition of His past and present provision we ask Him, and trust for His future furnishing of all our needs. We can ask confidently because God has richly promised. “Delight yourself in the Lord; and He will give you the desires of your heart. . . . The humble will inherit the land and will delight themselves in abundant prosperity” (Ps. 37:4, 11). God does not pledge to always meet the physical needs of everybody, but only of...

Knowing and believing in God’s character as revealed through his names provides great protection against enemy attack. God declared to Israel through his prophet, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge” (Hosea 4:6, NKJV). The implication here is powerful. God is telling us that having an intimate knowledge of his nature and character, as revealed through his names, is a powerful shield against Satan’s lies. This brings us to another of our Lord’s names: Jehovah Shalom. We find this name mentioned in the book of Judges. Here the Lord revealed himself to Gideon in the form of an angel...

California’s Department of Insurance wants to require insurers to take homeowners’ efforts to reduce wildfire risk into account when setting premiumsWhen Ashley Raveche and her husband bought their home in Mill Valley, they thought they were doing everything right. The 1,300 square foot house already had vents with screens that make it harder for embers to get in and a tar and gravel roof, top-rated for fire safety. They installed double-paned windows, which are less likely to explode under extreme heat. They cut down four trees within 10 feet of their house. They kept the gutter and roof clear, and...

New St. Louis Hiking Club 'Fat Stoner Babes' Welcomes the UnathleticOn May 11, Amber Strautkalns put out a call on Reddit. As a mom of three, Strautkalns sought an inclusive group of like-minded introverts she could enjoy the outdoors with. The only groups she could find were helmed by fitness junkies with washboard abs. “Fat stoner babes hiking club??” She wrote. “Where do I find them? Or do I need to create?!?!” Strautkalns answered her own question two days later after an outpouring of people said they wanted the same thing. She designed a graphic and posted it on social...

A woke San Francisco school district will stop using the word 'chief' out of respect for Native Americans. The San Francisco Unified School District announced it will remove the word from its jobs titles. It is unclear what word will replace 'chief' but the district said it has held conversations with its 10,000 employees and listened to their suggestions. The school district said the decision was prompted after concerns were raised by Native American community members, The San Francisco Chronicle reported. The move sparked an array of reactions on social media, with many pointing out that 'chief' comes from the...

Former Trump attorney and New York Mayor, Rudy Giuliani got up and spoke and ripped into Hunter Biden and the Democrats during his 30-minute speech. It’s one particular part of the speech where he goes into detail about what he saw on Hunter’s laptop and the illicit activities that he would carry out around minors that he describes in the video below that get really shocking. Speaking about Hunter, Giuliani described the pictures he’s seen, “I have maybe 100, 200, 300 pictures of him. I have pictures of him in closets with crack smoke around. Walking around with no clothes...

[Catholic Caucus] Repair scandal through the healing of the EucharistPity the grocery shoppers in Buffalo, the school kids in Texas, their grieving families, and everyone now more afraid than ever of doing those simple, everyday things. You’ve got to wonder about reasons for refusing reasonable limits on gun ownership, which are inspired by the common good and offering protection from harm. We readily identify things like abortion and capital punishment as life issues, which Catholic teaching identifies as absolutely wrong under any circumstance. But protecting the earth, our common home, or making food, water, shelter, education and health care accessible,...

Elections often have consequences, something Pennsylvania State Representative Mike Jones (R-York) is experiencing after the May 17 primary. Jones defied the Republican establishment by endorsing two Republican challengers who ultimately defeated longtime incumbents Stan Saylor and Keith Gillespie in the primary. Jones endorsed competitors Joseph D’Orsie and Wendy Fink at York’s Round the Clock Diner a week before the May primary. “When York Couty needed them the most, Stan Saylor and Keith Gillespie were sitting at home,” Jones said at the time by claiming Saylor and Gillespie didn’t stand up to COVID-19 rules and shutdowns. “They’re my friends. I tried...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a presidential address given Thursday that violence by Russian troops in the Donbas region of Ukraine could eventually “make the region uninhabited.” “The current offensive of the occupiers in Donbas can make the region uninhabited. They want to burn Popasna, Bakhmut, Lyman, Lysychansk and Severodonetsk to ashes. Like Volnovakha, like Mariupol,” Zelensky warned. He added: “All this, including the deportation of our people and the mass killings of civilians, is an obvious policy of genocide pursued by Russia.”

Joe Biden declared Wednesday during remarks on the Texas school shooting that the right to bear arms in the U.S. is “not absolute”. After signing an executive order to reform policing, and wheeling out George Floyd’s family for the press, Biden addressed the shooting, saying he “just sick and tired.” “When in God’s name will we do what needs to be done to, if not completely stop, fundamentally change the amount of the carnage that goes on in this country?” Biden continued. Then came the kicker. “The Second Amendment is not absolute. When it was passed, you couldn’t own a...

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) formally launched her reelection bid on Thursday, seeking the Republican nomination for her seat for the fourth time amid rebukes from her own party. “Some things have to matter,” Cheney said in her announcement video. “American freedom, the rule of law, our founding principles, the foundations of our republic matter. What we do in this election in Wyoming matters.”

The Biden administration is preparing to step up the kind of weaponry it is offering Ukraine by sending advanced, long-range rocket systems that are now the top request from Ukrainian officials, multiple officials say. The administration is leaning toward sending the systems as part of a larger package of military and security assistance to Ukraine, which could be announced as soon as next week.

Five Republican candidates for governor in Michigan — including top-tier contenders James Craig and Perry Johnson — failed to qualify for the August primary Thursday, after the Board of State Canvassers rejected their nominating petitions due to alleged rampant signature fraud. The bipartisan panel, composed of two Democrats and two Republicans, deadlocked 2-2 on party lines in accepting recommendations by the state elections bureau to disqualify each of the five. A majority was required to keep a candidate on the ballot. State officials charged with reviewing the nominating petitions this week declared thousands of signatures submitted by the candidates to...

So almost all the money went to Oligarch billionaires, Military Industrial Complex Profits, and Soros "great reset" NGOs. But they still had enough money to pay to produce this high production value video for Ukrainian troop morale. Click link to watch

Texas Department Public Safety spokesman Lt. Christopher Olivarez confirmed to a reporter during a live shot that police officers went into Robb Elementary School to get their own children during the massacre. Amid outrage over reports that frantic families who complained about police inaction during the massacre were held back by police, a clip of a live interview with Olivarez from Tuesday has gone viral.

Explanation: Magnificent spiral galaxy NGC 4565 is viewed edge-on from planet Earth. Also known as the Needle Galaxy for its narrow profile, bright NGC 4565 is a stop on many telescopic tours of the northern sky, in the faint but well-groomed constellation Coma Berenices. This sharp, colorful image reveals the galaxy's boxy, bulging central core cut by obscuring dust lanes that lace NGC 4565's thin galactic plane. NGC 4565 itself lies about 40 million light-years distant and spans some 100,000 light-years. Easily spotted with small telescopes, sky enthusiasts consider NGC 4565 to be a prominent celestial masterpiece Messier missed.

Tech executive Rodney Joffe fed the Alfa Bank hoax to the FBI via two distinct routes, testimony from yesterday’s proceedings in the Michael Sussmann criminal case indicates. This apparent circular reporting further cements Special Counsel John Durham’s Section 1001 false statement case against Sussmann by highlighting the significance of Sussmann’s alleged lie to former FBI General Counsel James Baker. Sussmann, who is in the middle of week two of his trial in a D.C. federal court, was charged last fall in a one-count indictment with lying to Baker when he provided Baker two flash drives and several “white papers” purporting...

Just 10 days after a deadly mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, where a self-described fascist and white supremacist killed 10 Black people in a supermarket, the US must content itself with another horrifying episode of gun violence. At least 19 children between the ages of five and 11 and two adults have been murdered at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, after an 18-year-old entered the school with a handgun and opened fire. It’s one of those events where words fail. Every descriptor seems to fall short in describing the wrenching, sickening, icy horror of children being gunned down...

Sadness, of course. Who could not feel heartbroken when looking at the scenes from Robb Elementary School? Horror, obviously, that this could happen at a primary school in the middle of the day, the most vulnerable mown down in broad daylight, 90 miles west of San Antonio, with at least one of their teachers. Others are injured, who knows who badly. But then comes the exasperation, the weary helplessness, and – in truth – the sheer anger. How can this be happening once again in America? How can another community become irrevocably torn apart by such senseless violence, barely a...

The suspected gunman who slaughtered 19 students and two teachers Tuesday at a Texas elementary school fired shots outside the school for 12 minutes before entering, an official said. Eighteen-year-old Salvador Ramos spent approximately 12 minutes outside of Robb Elementary School firing shots before he walked into the school and barricaded himself in a classroom, Regional Director for the Texas Department of Public Safety, Victor Escalon, said Thursday, according to The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). Escalon was unable to provide any answers Thursday as to why no one stopped Ramos from entering the school, the WSJ reported. *** State authorities,...