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Update from Ukraine | Ruzzian Army Suffers in Avdiivka | Ukraine Takes the Ground | Awesome News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cedN_OXYnbg The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the recent developments on the battlefield. https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-648-summary/ [NOTE: two summaries per week, released on Wednesday and Sunday] Also, Recap Deployment Map changes – Week 48 https://militaryland.net/news/recap-deployment-map-changes-week-48/ *** Great interactive maps with viewer controlled Map magnification tool to use for each Front! https://militaryland.net/maps/

The nominating process may officially be underway, but Republicans have yet to enthusiastically embrace a potential nominee for president - and despite the late date, most would like to see other candidates enter the race, according to a new CBS News poll. The survey finds that 58 percent of Republican primary voters want more presidential choices, while just 37 percent say they are satisfied with the current field. The percentage of Republican primary voters that wants more choices has increased 12 percentage points since October. Mitt Romney, the frontrunner for the nomination, has struggled to break 30 percent support in...

It could be said that Newt Gingrich's campaign "problems" of late have put the White House beyond the former speaker of the House's reach. The most recent issue was the defection of Newt's campaign staffers, who believed there was a strategy difference between themselves and Gingrich on how to move forward. But not so fast. The departure of Gingrich's staffers is nothing more or less than a breath of fresh air -- after all, it is Newt himself, and not his campaign advisers, who is running for president. The fact is that Newt Gingrich has a vision on how to...

"Let's play grown-up." When I was a child, that's what we said when we ran out of things to do like playing potsie or throwing rocks in the vacant lot. You'd go in and take your father's hat and your mother's purse and walk around saying, "Would you like tea?" In retrospect we weren't imitating our parents but parents on TV, who wore pearls and suits. But the point is we amused ourselves trying to be little adults. And that's what the GOP should do right now: play grown-up. The Democrats in the White House have been doing it since...

Motorcycle trek through Iran enlightens travelers Web Posted: 03/17/2007 05:47 PM CDT (Patrick Zeller/Special to the Express-News) A motorcycle trip to Iran? Why would anybody want to do that? "If you're looking for adventure, why not go visit the West Side?" retorted a few of my Mexican American friends, upon hearing my intention. They were half-joking, of course, but their faces displayed deep concern. "Don't worry," I told them, "everything will be fine." "Hey, when you're over there," they continued to joke, "ask them why do they wear that Pizza-Hut tablecloth on their head." I just shook my head. I...

Mean It Voters want sincerity. If they can't get it, they'll settle for simplicity. Thursday, June 8, 2006 12:01 a.m. EDT A thought today about complexity and politics. The American people right now are not in a mood to trust any political plan, proposal or policy that seems complicated--highly involved, technical, full of phased-in elements and glide paths and Part C's. They are against complexity not because they don't think life is complex. They know it's complex. They know it because they live it every day. They assume public policy issues are also complicated. They know there are facts they...

We're in the grips of a pathology. And it's not media bias. No kidding. Really. If you want to throw the off-switch for the cognitive part of your brain — as many conservatives seem only to happy to do this week — then, by all means, that is the story you want to run with in this latest media scandal. Newsweek, in reckless pursuit of a scoop that might score the daily double of embarrassing the Bush administration while heaping more disrepute on the Left's favorite punching bag, Guantanamo Bay, falsely reported a martial toilet-flushing of the Koran. Oops,...

I have been called old, jaded, a sourpuss. Far worse, I have been called French. A response is in order. A week later, do I stand by my views? Yes. If I wrote it today I wouldn't be softer, but harder.

October 9, 2004 -- BUSH is back! The president finally showed the guts, determination and focus that earned him victories in the three debates with Al Gore. He finally did his homework. He focused on his briefing points and mobilized his rhetoric to win the second debate. It was Reagan-Mondale all over again. In the first debate of 1984, Walter Mondale soundly defeated Ronald Reagan, and in the process raised questions about the elderly president's metal acuity. In the first debate of 2004, Kerry's victory raised worries about President Bush's mental acuity. But in the second debate of his re-election...

<p>Did you hug a priest today? Run from a scary homosexual person? Coo over a copy of Bride's magazine? Fall on your knees and thank God Almighty that your child isn't yet gay or pagan or libertarian and if she is that's OK because it's nothing that regular lithium and electroshock therapy can't "cure"?</p>

<p>These are the things to corrupt young gullible minds and short-circuit self-expression and demean the desperately needed impulse toward spontaneous self-awareness and individuality and happy guiltless vaginal investigations.</p> <p>These are the things to make Mary-Kate and Ashley's alarming and utterly demonic stranglehold on the world of vacuous saccharine multimillion-dollar teendom seem like a boring day at the mall, with lots of makeup and tube tops and Hot Dog on a Stick.</p>

Uncle Sam's dirty tricks?Alleged U.S. spying at the U.N. -- huge news in the rest of the world, ignored here -- provides fodder to festering anti-AmericanismBy Jake TapperMarch 3, 2003  | Just when you thought the United States' worldwide unpopularity couldn't plunge to greater depths, a story in Sunday's London Observer reported that in preparation for another possible United Nations vote on military intervention against Iraq, the U.S. government was engaging in "dirty tricks" by conducting surveillance on members of the U.N. Security Council. The story was based on a memo allegedly sent by a National Security Agency official seeking surveillance...

It seems that America's confused and immoral Foreign Policy will cause her further problems. America has consistently produced and backed several horrible terrorists, the late murderer, Savimbi of Angola's UNITA, who murdered millions of Africans and maimed over one million children through America's land mines and who was created by Apartheid South Africa and America. America created and armed Nicaraguan Death Squads who even killed American Priests and Nuns. America armed Israel and South Africa with the Nuclear Bomb. The CIA masterminded the butcher of President Allende of Chile in a most bloody coup de tat by America simply because...