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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the WSJ that Ukraine is ready for its counteroffensive.But he warned that Russian air superiority would exact a heavy toll on Ukrainian soldiers. Zelenskyy said he would like to wait for more support from allies but isn't willing to wait "for months."Ukraine's long-awaited counteroffensive may be near.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told The Wall Street Journal that his country was ready to start re-taking territory from the Russians. "We strongly believe that we will succeed," he told the outlet.

“Baptized in the Name: Confidence, Belonging, Relationship, Identity” (Matthew 28:16-20) Sometime during the forty days between his resurrection and his ascension, our Lord Jesus Christ met with his disciples on a mountain in Galilee, and he told them: “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.” And that is what the church has done for all these many centuries. And that is what has happened to you, every one of you...

One of the world’s major printers of English-language dictionaries is preparing a volume for language associated with African Americans. The Oxford Dictionary of African American English aims to define 1,000 terms by March 2025 — potentially educating a broader audience on the meaning of English terms associated with the ethnic group. Oxford University Press provided 10 words to The New York Times in a preview of the project. Harvard University academic Prof. Henry Louis Gates Jr. has been appointed as editor-in-chief of the project. The dictionary includes some words that could be referred to as slang, others that reference events...

Amazon could be gearing up to offer "Prime Wireless." The low-cost cellphone plan could help Amazon boost its Prime subscribers, Bloomberg reports. Amazon is reportedly talking to T-Mobile, Verizon, and Dish about the idea. Amazon may soon be dangling yet another perk in front of prospective Prime members: the chance to save big on your monthly cellphone bill. The company is in talks with wireless carriers about potentially offering a Prime Wireless plan that could range from $0 to $10 per month for Amazon Prime members, Bloomberg reported on Friday. T-Mobile, Verizon, and Dish have all been involved in the...

In a shocking turn of events, the Rushingbrook Children’s Choir was interrupted and stopped while singing the National Anthem in Statuary Hall at the United States Capitol. The children, part of the esteemed Rushingbrook Children’s Choir, had traveled to Washington, D.C. last Friday, May 26th, for a scheduled Capitol tour and had received prior approval to sing a short set of patriotic songs inside the historic Statuary Hall.

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It’s always a wonderful thing when leftists shoot themselves in the foot and, in this case, the results are extraordinary. Last June, the Daily Wire debuted Matt Walsh’s What Is A Woman? Throughout the movie, Walsh politely asks both conservatives and leftists, especially leftists with medical degrees, “What is a woman?” The answers from the left are astonishing and revealing. Leftists boycotted the movie but, now, thanks to a really stupid move by leftists formerly employed at Twitter (who tried to block a 24-hour free window for the movie), the Streisand effect has sent the movie’s viewership into the stratosphere....

"And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped God that sat on the throne, saying, Amen; Alleluia. And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great. "And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. "Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is...

I asked the Washington hosts of Andriy Parubiy, the speaker of Ukraine’s parliament and founder of two neo-Nazi parties, why they were legitimizing an open fascist at the heart of the extremism plaguing his country. By Max Blumenthal While racist violence raged through Ukraine, punctuated by a wave of attacks on Roma encampments by the state-funded C14 neo-Nazi militia, Congress played host to an actual Ukrainian fascist. He was Andriy Parubiy, and besides being the proud founder of two Nazi-like parties — the Social-National Party and the Patriot of Ukraine — he was the speaker of Ukraine’s parliament. During a...

A federal judge in Tennessee has ruled that a state law limiting public drag show performances represented an “unconstitutional restriction on the freedom of speech.”

This is a brief clip from the film "Broadcast News" (1987), which is about the news media's declining standards. There was a lot of concern about it at that time, especially the news being dumbed down by the inferior standards of TV news, the public's taste for fluff, entertainment and infotainment rather than hard news, and corporate mergers. I don't watch Hollywood movies anymore, so I'm not recommending it for entertainment or as fine art, but I do recommend it for the historical value. It's of Hollywood, and so does conflict with my Christian beliefs in some ways, but it...

Original video: https://www.tiktok.com/@someasianontiktok/video/7239061628291992875What started as seemingly innocent financial advice turned sideways when a TikTok user claimed in a “life hack” video that he steals groceries to save money. On Wednesday, TikTok user @someasianontiktok uploaded a video in which he briefly explains how he managed to save $1,200 by using “out of sight out of mind life hacks." At the start of his now-viral TikTok video, which has already been viewed over 5.2 million times and liked more than 920,000 times, @someasianontiktok shows his wallet stuffed with countless bills purportedly amounting to a total of $1,200..“For every $100 you make, what...

A pair of senior partners at the California-based mega-law firm Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith split from the company last month to build their own “compassionate” firm, but internal emails show they used wildly offensive and demeaning language — repeatedly referring to women as “c–ts” and a judge as “sugar t-ts.” *** Before the two labor lawyers suddenly defected in May and took more than 100 Lewis Brisbois employees with them, Barber spent more than 25 years with the firm and Ranen worked there for 20. Their rationale for leaving was to “build something that’s reflective of our values and...

Cancer blood-test maker Grail said about 400 customers were mistakenly notified that its test detected a cancer signal in them, which the company attributed to a partner’s software glitch. Grail said its laboratory test didn’t turn up the incorrect results, but rather the letters sent out to the customers were wrong. Because of the software problem, more than half of the customers were told they may have cancer even before they had taken the test, Grail said. Grail, a Menlo Park, Calif., unit of gene-sequencing company Illumina, is the leading developer of multi-cancer early-detection blood tests, an emerging market that...

Every military conflict these days has a class component; the soldiers directly involved in hostilities are usually drawn or conscripted from poorer social classes. The current conflict in Ukraine is no exception to this. There are also differences in approaches between Ukraine and Russia to military staffing and individual freedom from military service. This difference is primarily due to the difference in the economic potential and human resources of the two countries. This past Sunday [early May] in a village in the Kiev region, I saw about 100 conscripted young men gathered on the grounds of a kindergarten. Some were...

Senator Tim Scott announced Saturday that he will be appearing on 'The View' on Monday, after speaking out against Joy Behar's claim that he doesn't understand racism. The African-American 2024 hopeful said he wanted the chance to respond to the claims. And it offers him a huge national stage to present himself as a different type of Republican candidate.

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Our instructors were training a Ukrainian national guard unit near the Moldovan border. When we arrived at the range, a Ukrainian unit was already on the range throwing hand grenades in an open field less than 200 meters from us, then just dropping to the ground and watching them explode without any cover. These soldiers then proceeded to conduct machine gun training, shooting from positions from the left range berm across the range (not against the backstop). Our instructors were conducting round-robin training about 150 meters behind the range, and the rounds were whistling over our heads. When we approached...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that his forces stand ready to launch their long-promised counteroffensive to reclaim Russian-occupied territory. "We strongly believe that we will succeed," Zelenskyy told The Wall Street Journal. "I don’t know how long it will take." "To be honest, it can go a variety of ways, completely different," he said. "But we are going to do it, and we are ready."

Mark 11:27-33 Friends, in today’s Gospel, the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders approach Jesus and ask him, “By what authority are you doing these things?”The first witnesses of Jesus were astonished by the authority of his speech and his actions.This wasn’t simply because he spoke and acted with conviction and enthusiasm; it was because he refused to play the game that every other rabbi played, tracing his authority finally back to Moses.He went, as it were, over the head of Moses,as he did at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount: “You have heard that it was...