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(Last Updated On: February 22, 2023) NATIONAL KAHLUA DAY National Kahlúa Day on February 27th recognizes the rich, cream coffee liqueur that also serves up a great many delicious desserts! This alcoholic beverage adds to cocktails and adult flavored desserts equally well. To celebrate, you may want to use Kahlua, a coffee-flavored rum-based liquor, to flavor your ice cream or another dessert such as cheesecake or cake. It also tastes great in coffee, hot chocolate, creamy cocktails, as a shot or on the rocks. #NationalKahluaDay Pedro Domecq began producing Kahlúa in 1936. In 1994, the company merged with Allied Lyons...

Ninety-two-year-old James A. Baker is among America’s most distinguished statesmen. His most significant appointments were as President Reagan’s Treasury secretary and chief of staff and President George H.W. Bush’s secretary of state and closest confidante. Baker also led the legal team in the 2000 election that halted the Florida recount, awarding Bush’s son Florida’s Electoral College votes and the White House. Among our presidents, no other, including Eisenhower, had a resume comparable to George H.W. Bush. Bush had been CIA director; a member of Congress; ambassador to China and the United Nations; and one of the Navy’s youngest fighter pilots...

Campus Reform Correspondent Emily Sturge reports on professors breaking silence about the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), LSAT requirements, and Florida universities accused of under-reporting DEI spending. First, Sturge discusses dozens of American professors signing a letter asking universities to break their silence on CCP human rights violations. The letter exposes ties between U.S. higher education institutes and the CCP, citing that universities are silent about the CCP due to fear of losing funding. Following that discussion, Campus Reform Senior Correspondent Alexia Bianchi joined the program to discuss the American Bar Association (ABA) voting to uphold LSAT requirements. Bianchi is happy...

id America’s Founding Fathers really embrace a nationalist economic program of tariffs and industrial subsidies? According to the “National Conservative” movement, such Founding Era luminaries as Thomas Jefferson and James Madison eventually abandoned their free-trade instincts and embraced a program of economic policies not unlike the NatCon agenda today. The American Compass website celebrates “Thomas Jefferson’s conversion to Hamiltonian supporter of domestic industry,” echoing Patrick Buchanan’s 2018 claim that “Tariffs Made America Great.” Most arguments in this genre point to Jefferson’s qualified commentaries on the Tariff of 1816 as evidence of this claim, while also noting the law was signed...

A seventh flight carrying almost three tons of relief material - sleeping mats, electrical generators, solar lamps, tarpaulins, blankets, emergency and critical care medicines - landed in earthquake-hit Turkey from India this week. The Indian government has extended a hand of friendship to crisis-hit Turkey and Syria in the form of massive humanitarian aid, with transport aircraft carrying relief material as part of Operation Dost, "friend" in both Hindi and Turkish. With the death toll from the Turkey-Syria earthquakes now in the tens of thousands after the disaster on 6 February, a global rescue effort is underway to aid the...

Eric Cartman is trans now. No, really. And we thought South Park’s take on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle was funny. This. Is. So. Great. So we should probably keep an eye out for the meltdowns and threats from the trans movement … think they’ll threaten to sue? Heh. Watch: ‘Don’t give me more issues than I already have, Wendy!’ pic.twitter.com/djtnMljtaM — Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) February 27, 2023 HA HA HA HA HA ‘Wow, it’s so nice in here’. OMG, A Royal Flush 😅😆😄🤣 — Ultra MAGA Kini (@KiniAlohaGuy) February 27, 2023 *snort* We all need a good laugh these...

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass called to remove "obstacles" for new police recruits and pledged to root out officers with ties to "right-wing domestic extremist organizations." Bass is looking to remove "obstacles" for police recruits who fail to initially qualify for training as a means of further diversifying the LAPD, according to a summary of her public safety goals obtained by Fox News Digital – but police union leaders are questioning the move. Bass' summary of goals for police reform includes a list of provisions as well as dates by which the department must report back regarding progress. One provision...

On MSNBC's The Sunday Show, host Jonathan Capehart invited Howard Dean to comment on the news that Speaker Kevin McCarthy has given thousands of hours of January 6 video footage to Tucker Carlson. When Capehart asked Dean for his thoughts on "Fox News having access to all that footage," the ever-exasperated Dean replied: The fact we're even talking about this right now is a problem . . . You do it because you think it's outrageous and it's going to bump your ratings and make people angry. The problem is, you're also spreading it. Tucker Carlson is a bomb-throwing whack...

AMC’s Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston is no fan of former President Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan. In an interview Sunday with CNN’s Chris Wallace, the actor argued that “MAGA” could be construed as “racist.” “When I see the ‘Make America Great Again,’ my comment is, do you accept that that could possibly be construed as a racist remark?” Cranston said. “And most people, a lot of people, go, how could that be racist? Make America Great Again? Just ask yourself from an African-American experience, when was it ever great in America for the African-American? When was it...

James O’Keefe, formerly the face of Project Veritas (PV) has updated his Twitter bio to Guerrilla Journalist. He also posted to the platform for the first time since he left PV. “Think about it: there are a million restaurants in Brooklyn, but we found ourselves in the only one in the city that could have given us a shot like this. And on the biggest PV story ever, no less. OKeefeTips@protonmail.com” It appears he is moving forward, starting anew, after being forced out of Project Veritas after he was put on leave. It seems more details will be to come....

Irely on experts. Everyone should. Sick? Visit the doctor. Tooth trouble? The dentist. Car trouble? The mechanic. Climbing Mount Everest? Hire a guide. Want to come closer to God? A church near you meets at 10:30 or 11 this Sunday. Experts are indispensable aides to lives well-lived. Trust Us, a new documentary from the Pacific Legal Foundation, discusses experts in a wholly different role. These experts do not offer advice. They issue commands. The documentary considers the role experts assumed in the twentieth century: figuring out what you should do and how you should do it. You aren’t just to...

Tesla might have leaked design drawings of its upcoming new electric compact car as part of a new corporate video. At Tesla Battery Day in 2020, CEO Elon Musk announced that Tesla will be making a $25,000 electric car. The CEO commented in the announcement: Tesla will make a compelling $25,000 electric vehicle that is also fully autonomous.He made it clear that this new price point is achieved through Tesla’s new battery cell and battery manufacturing effort, which could reduce battery costs by over 50%.The $25,000 Tesla electric car, which is often referred to as the “Tesla Model 2,” has...

According to a recent Morning Consult Poll, former President and 2024 candidate Donald Trump is way out in front of fellow 2024 hypothetical presidential candidates; Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is trailing behind the former Prez by 18 points.From The Post Millennial:The survey, released last Tuesday, saw similar results to other recent polls that also saw Trump come out on top. According to the results, Trump was backed by 49 percent of potential Republican primary voters, a slight increase from the 48 percent of support he garnered in the same survey a month before.DeSantis came in second place with 31 percent...

Remember all the incessant demands by the liberal media for the security camera video footage of the Capitol ever since January 6, 2021? No? Perhaps because it never happened... until now. On the heels of the new House Speaker Kevin McCarthy turning over 40,000 hours of that video to Fox News host Tucker Carlson, the liberal media suddenly has an urgent desire to see those videos right away.On Friday, Scott MacFarlane of CBS News wrote of this newfound urgency by the liberal media to look at those videos, "Media organizations demand Jan. 6 videos McCarthy shared with Fox News."

A Washington State school district was called out after one of its teachers professed their favor toward keeping secrets about school children from their supposed “Christo-fascist parents.” Karen (Kelly) Love is a faculty member at Auburn High School in Auburn, Washington who evidently thinks highly of herself as an arbiter of what parents should and shouldn’t know about their school-aged children. So much so, that she wasn’t shy about publicly sharing her view that it is a teacher’s responsibility to disregard policy and even laws about parental rights to protect the progressive agenda. America First Legal’s Ian Prior drew attention...

During an appearance on this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday,” Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) discussed the division in the country and how to overcome it. The South Carolina Republican U.S. Senator said the left was responsible by attempting to create a “grievance culture.” However, he argued the country should not be defined by its “original sin, but instead by its story of redemption. “So, you talk with an optimistic message, and we talked about how you are highlighting faith not only in the religious sense but that you want Americans to have faith in each other,” host Shannon Bream...

Saturday Night Live “Weekend Update” host Colin Jost mocked former President Donald Trump’s recent visit to East Palestine, Ohio, by fantasizing that the town’s grateful residents were actually repulsed by his visit.During this weekend’s episode, Jost joked that East Palestine residents would rather drink their town’s contaminated water than the bottled water Trump brought them.Watch Below:Weekend Update: Biden Meets with Zelensky in Ukraine, The Oscars' Crisis Team - SNL“Donald Trump visited East Palestine, the site of the recent train derailment, because Trump usually likes to try to make himself look better by standing next to a train wreck,” Jost quipped.“While...

Corporate media titans are extremely concerned that 41,000 hours of previously unreleased video from the January 6 riots have been made available to an ideological news organization with a political agenda primarily because they believe the material should be made available to their ideological news organizations with a political agenda. It's right there in the Constitution. You have to look in the penumbra. The outer penumbra. The Washington Post appeared to be previously disinterested in gaining access to videos beyond those carefully scrubbed by the January 6 Committee prosecutors. Here's a search to see how demanding The Washington Post has...

Just because counterproductive economic policies have been around for a long time doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try for a better world. There’s a proven pro-growth, pro-liberty path.Both Republicans and Democrats at the national level have put us down a path of slow growth, massive deficits, and high inflation. With a new Republican majority in the U.S. House and the daunting debt ceiling fight over the bloated $31.4 trillion national debt almost exclusively due to excessive spending, there’s a proven pro-growth, pro-liberty path.In 2022, the U.S. had real GDP growth of just 0.9 percent (Q4-over-Q4), the highest inflation in 40 years,...

Alex Murdaugh, the patriarch of a prominent South Carolina family, seemed to have it all: a loving wife, two beautiful sons, and a successful law career. However, his presumably happy facade would soon crumble and his wife, Maggie, and youngest son, Paul, would be shot to death on the Murdaugh family land on June 7, 2021.