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Former U.S. special envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg supports the idea of Ukraine extending general mobilization to include women, he said in an interview with Naspravdi MAX YouTube channel on Aug. 24. In the interview, Kellogg said he considers women’s military service an important part of civic duty.

Pope’s newspaper pushes feminist rewrite of Catholic doctrine The Pope’s newspaper has published a series reimagining historic Catholic teaching on the devil, sin, and Church history through a feminist-revisionist lens.L’Osservatore Romano – the official newspaper of the Holy See – published a series of articles in its July 2026 women’s supplement, Women Church World, in which several scholars attempt to dismantle the Traditional doctrine on the devil and his real existence, original sin, the capital vices, and the relationship between theology and the Magisterium, applying a feminist-inspired doctrinal revisionism.“Historically, the world can be divided into two distinct periods: one in...

As anyone who has seen even snippets of the atrocities live-streamed by Hamas terrorists during the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel can attest, they took ecstatic glee in their spree of murder, rape, torture, and kidnapping. It reveals a demonic sadism that normal people, not warped by a culture of obsessive Jew-hatred and supremacist religious fervor, simply cannot wrap their heads around. Similarly, today’s Democrat Party, thoroughly captured by the far Left, is warped by a toxic brew of Trump Derangement Syndrome, anti-white racism, and hatred of the “colonialist,” capitalist West. They revel in their own sadistic fantasies and...

Wilhelm Dörpfeld was a German architect and archaeologist, a pioneer of stratigraphic excavation and precise graphical documentation of archaeological projects... In 1877, Döerpfeld became an assistant at the excavations of Ancient Olympia, Greece, conducted under Richard Bohn, Friedrich Adler, and Ernst Curtius. He later became the technical manager of the project. The group uncovered, among other artifacts, an intact statue of Hermes by Praxiteles. The excavations revived the memory of the ancient Olympic Games and contributed toward the establishment of the modern Olympic Games, in 1896. In 1882, Dörpfeld joined Schliemann, who was then excavating Troy... The two eventually became...

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney appointed a long-time Democrat political operative to a newly-created senior position in his government, the latest action in a long history between prominent Democrats colluding with the country’s leader to oppose the Trump administration. The two countries are now embroiled in a tense back-and-forth years in the making that threatens American interests on trade and national security. In mid-July, Carney appointed Maia Johnson as Chief Operating Officer of the Prime Minister’s Office. The position is the equivalent to White House Chief of Staff, and she is the first person to hold the title in the...

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In 2009, an anonymous university support staff member wrote to C.K. Gunsalus—a prominent academic who specializes in the study of higher education administration—looking for advice and, frankly, a little bit of kindness. The staffer claimed that many of the faculty members at their institution, including a number heavily involved in campus activism, refused to treat them with any respect. Their collective attitude towards non-academics, even those who worked for the university, was akin to that reserved for “a servant or a child.” Gunsalus’ answer, which Inside Higher Ed published as an advice column, amounted to little more than word salad....

It may be one of the most deceptive public policy marketing schemes in modern history. First, pick the most popular health insurance program in the country, which is Medicare. Then call your health insurance reform proposal “Medicare for All,” even though the intent is to eliminate the Medicare program as we know it, so that no one would have that coverage anymore. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has long pushed to end the nation’s current mix of private health insurance (that is, employer-based and individually purchased) and government-provided health insurance (Medicare and Medicaid) and replace it with a new government-run program....

Haitian gangs killed at least 47 people and injured more than 22 in a brutal massacre inside a church on Sunday night. The Haitian newspaper Le Nouvelliste reported that the deadly church massacre occurred in Kenscoff, a hillside commune overlooking the Haitian capital city of Port-au-Prince. Per the newspaper, the neighborhood and its outskirts were under drone surveillance for several days after gangs had gained ground. Gang members opened fire inside a local church that had been serving as a shelter for displaced people. The U.N. reportedly detailed that at least 47 were killed, and more than 22 were left...

[snip] Cornish introduced the story by saying Piker had made remarks “suggesting American Jews supporting Israel would make antisemitism worse.” She then played the clip and asked the panel to discuss the backlash and the role of outside voices in campaigns. Arm pushed back, arguing the show’s framing was too charitable, that "you were suggesting, the show was suggesting, Piker’s comments were essentially just that antisemitism is rising because Jews are Zionist." Cornish cut him off with rising irritation: “If you're going to come on the show, I need you to listen.I really need you to listen and respond to...

Most people have tried it at least once. Smoking marijuana is a rite of passage almost as common as that first underage beer. Some grow out of it after high school or college. Others use it well into adulthood. There was also that first cigarette. You inhaled that first time and were pretty sure you were going to bring up a lung, but it was all about the "coolness" of it. Now, with the advent of legalized marijuana, a new poll shows that Americans have chosen what they want to light up. On Monday, a new Gallup poll showed that...

If you spent any time online over the weekend, you may have seen a bizarre dustup involving researcher Data Republican and the attorney Sarah Rogers. The short version is that Data Republican was handed some government documents that were supposed to become the basis for new reporting. She saw markings on the material, became worried she was being set up to publish something she legally couldn’t, and the whole thing exploded publicly. The temperature eventually came down. And somebody else finally sat down and went through the info. What was revealed is a fascinating look back at the government’s sprawling...

Ministers have been urged to investigate a surge in white prisoners being forced to convert to Islam by Muslim gangs. Ministry of Justice (MoJ) data show that one in five Muslims in prisons in England and Wales is white, nearly four times the rate of 5.8 per cent in the general population. The number of Muslim prisoners in jails in England and Wales has also increased and accounts for nearly one in five (18 per cent) of the prison population, despite making up 6.5 per cent of the general population. The figures have been revealed by Nick Timothy, the shadow...

The threat of “ghost students” has become so prevalent at Minnesota’s largest community college that administrators now say nearly a third of all applications to the school are potentially fraudulent. That revelation recently came from Dara Hagen, vice president of Student Affairs at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. Enrollment fraud — using stolen identities of real people with the goal of stealing taxpayer-funded student aid — has become a nationwide problem over the last few years. “Since then, we’ve had about 29,000 fraudulent or potentially fraudulent applications that we’ve processed,” Hagen said. “We were seeing probably 42% of our applications...

SAN DIEGO — NASCAR San Diego announced today that it is re-enlisting for another tour of duty in 2027. After a successful, sold-out debut in 2026, NASCAR San Diego Weekend presented by Anduril will return with the NASCAR Cup Series and NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series on July 30-Aug. 1 at Naval Base Coronado. NASCAR’s finest will once again answer the call of the 16-turn, 3.4-mile Qualcomm Circuit at Naval Air Station North Island. The street course, nestled inside the Birthplace of Naval Aviation, became one of the most challenging and picturesque in the history of motorsports, and in 2027,...

A federal appellate court has rejected the Biden Department of Energy’s attempt to bypass public advance notice in instituting regulations on gas stoves in 2024. Several states, including Texas, had filed comments objecting to the regulations, which the department rejected. The states sought judicial review and won—with a court concluding that the rules should have been dismissed. The matter is being remanded to the department for further proceedings consistent with the court’s opinion. A Direct Final Rule (DFR) A federal appellate court has rejected the Biden Department of Energy’s attempt to bypass public advance notice in instituting regulations on gas...

SpaceX has just officially announced Starbase, Louisiana, a new $100+ billion spaceport in South Louisiana near Pecan Island. Construction starts in 2027, with the first Starship launch from the new site planned for 2029. Starbase, Louisiana will be built to support thousands of Starship flights a year. This self-sustaining spaceport will have propellant production, power generation, deep-water shipping capabilities, vehicle processing facilities, and an airport. SpaceX is committed to investing at least $100 billion and creating more than 3,000 new jobs at Starbase, Louisana hiring heavily from nearby communities and utilizing Louisiana workers’ extensive experience of building complex infrastructure in...

“Though he did not offer many details about the third film, Turteltaub predicted that it would inevitably have to address modern politics,” reports the New York Post. “We have to be very careful, but I don’t feel we are allowed to ignore it,” Turteltaub said. “I think we have to include that idea in the story somehow without making someone feel put off.” Expect gay stuff, the DACA chick to show the white guy Nic Cage how it’s done, and lectures about slavery and colonialism. Yep, that’s how much they hate us.

It has been amusing to watch mainstream journalists (who’ve largely ignored the national debt crisis until it hit a nice round number of $40 trillion) try to explain how it’s all the fault of Middle East wars and tax cuts. Somehow, the fact that federal spending has increased by nearly 300% over the past 25 years never enters the picture. Instead, we get endless accounts about how President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act will add $4 trillion to the national debt, and how previous tax cuts by Trump and George W. Bush are supposedly responsible for more than...

Iran, Oman propose 'temporary navigational corridor' through Strait of Hormuz, demining operation Iran and Oman issued a joint statement announcing a proposal to open a "temporary navigational corridor" through the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday. The statement, published by Oman's foreign ministry, said the two countries also agreed to a joint effort to clear the strait of mines. "The proposed framework includes the establishment of a joint temporary navigational corridor through the Strait of Hormuz and an agreement to implement a joint project to clear the Strait of mines. Technical negotiations between the two sides would continue with a view...