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The ill-fated marketing campaign between beer giant Bud Light and trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney was launched without approval from senior executives of parent company Anheuser Busch (AB), it has been claimed. The partnership unveiled on April 2 saw Mulvaney, a biological male who began transitioning in 2021, promote America's bestselling beer to 11 million followers on social media in a series of partnered posts. Mulvaney's posts showed the influencer sitting in a bathtub and swigging from custom cans sporting her face and pro-LGBTQ language. But the posts, which were never shared by Bud Light or Anheuser Busch social media profiles,...

Our enemies do not fear us, our allies judge us unreliable, and neutrals assume America is in descent and too dangerous to join.Why is French President Emmanuel Macron cozying up to China while trashing his oldest ally, the United States?Why is there suddenly talk of discarding the dollar as the global currency?Why are Japan and India shrugging that they cannot follow the United States’ lead in boycotting Russian oil?Why is the president of Brazil traveling to China to pursue what he calls a “beautiful relationship”?Why is Israel suddenly facing attacks from its enemies in all directions?What happened to Turkey? Why...

The National Instant Background Check System (NICS) gun sales and background checks for March, 2023, are the fourth highest on record since recording of background checks started in 1999. In March of 2023, there were about 1.51 million gun sales and about 3.04 million background checks total. Having about half of background checks done for gun sales falls well within the expected range in recent years. In some instances, gun sales have been less than 40% of total background checks done in a month.The highest number of gun sales recorded in March was in 2020, with about 2.37 million. Then...

Something about the sudden shift in marketing strategy for Bud Light doesn’t pass the smell test. An iconic brand that, based on some of the best commercials you’ll ever see, never ceased to hit the target of its intended customers has, overnight, decided to abandon those customers and dollars are "fratty and out of touch," and go after… What exactly? We do not really know. Thomas Lifson showed us the video of Alissa Heinerscheid, vice president of marketing for the Bud Light brand, try to explain her strategy. I am sorry, but when explaining a marketing strategy for beer it...

Netflix announced on Wednesday that it would be releasing a documentary on the life of Cleopatra with one significant change, her ethnicity.

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemLuke 1 Introduction 1 Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled[a] among us, 2 just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word. 3 With this in mind, since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, I too decided to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, 4 so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught. _______________________________________________________New International Version (NIV) Holy Bible, New International Version®,...

Gimme (cheap) shelter. Two of the biggest items for consumer are housing and food. Shelter inflation (CPI) is still growing at 8.2% YoY and food is still growing at 8.5% YoY. Federal Reserve officials appear on track to extend their run of interest-rate hikes when they meet next month, shrugging off their advisers’ warning of recession with a bet that they need to do a little more to curb inflation. Minutes of last month’s policy meeting showed officials dialed back expectations of how high they’ll need to lift rates after a series of bank collapses roiled markets last month. Still,...

That's the implied slogan of 'affordable housing,' now set to wipe out the American Dream in New York. The indomitable Betsy McCaughey has called out the latest ugly manifestation of "diversity, inclusion, and equity" the drive to destroy the suburbs. The Biden administration and Democrat-controlled legislatures in several states have taken the lead in this effort. In New York State, Governor Kathy Hochul, as part of the state budget, has advanced a so-called Housing Compact that would eliminate local control and single family zoning. Hochul's plan would require that high-rise "affordable" (read: low-income, taxpayer-subsidized) housing be constructed close to each...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's biggest asset manager, Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM), said on Thursday it would back a number of climate-focused shareholder resolutions at the annual meetings of leading U.S. and Canadian banks. LGIM, insurer Legal & General's fund arm, which manages more than $1.5 trillion, said it was going public ahead of the banks' meetings as part of an escalation strategy after backing several climate votes last year. "We continue to consider that decarbonisation of the banking sector and its clients is key to ensuring that the goals of the Paris Agreement are met," LGIM said in...

Sign up for the Morning Brief email newsletter to get weekday updates from The Weather Channel and our meteorologists. Torrential rainfall inundated Fort Lauderdale and other parts of South Florida on Wednesday leading to widespread flooding that forced the city's airport to close and stranded motorists for hours. Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport is expected to be closed until at least noon Thursday because of the flooding. Flights were halted shortly after 4 p.m. Wednesday because of the heavy rain and windy conditions. Roadways into and out of the airport became impassable around 5 p.m. "Please do not attempt to enter...

A summary of what we know so far. How did the documents find their way online? Some of the papers were initially circulated in early March on Discord, a social platform that is popular mostly among gamers. One server on which the data first appeared was actually focused on the popular computer game Minecraft, while another was dedicated to a Filipino YouTube star. They have since been shut down. The investigative website Bellingcat contacted members of the Discord community, who said that many more documents had been published on other Discord servers in recent months. These claims could not be...

Hypocritical Western victors squander freedom in favor of East German surveillance. For Americans who cherish self-government, free speech, and personal liberty, the reality of today's America is jolting. How can Hillary Clinton's campaign, Barack Obama's FBI, and an assortment of sordid Intelligence Community actors conspire to frame Donald Trump as a Russian spy in a veritable coup d'état without suffering any legal consequences? How can the IRS target Americans for their political viewpoints and be rewarded with bigger budgets and more armed agents? How can the FBI illegally spy on a presidential campaign, target parents concerned over the content of...

"Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy" (Matt. 5:7). Mercy is a characteristic of true believers. Like the other beatitudes, Matthew 5:7 contains a twofold message: to enter the kingdom you must seek mercy. Once there, you must show mercy to others. The thought of showing mercy probably surprised Christ's audience because both the Jews and the Romans tended to be merciless. The Romans exalted justice, courage, discipline, and power. To them mercy was a sign of weakness. For example, if a Roman father wanted his newborn child to live, he simply held his thumb up; if he...

“Giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ” (Ephesians 5:20 NKJV). We are all pressed down by problems and distress, but Paul has given us the answer when he tells us to “do it unto the Father.” The great preacher John Calvin said that singing and giving thanks always is all feigning and hypocrisy unless we are fully persuaded that God is our Father. Often we don’t feel like giving thanks, and we can’t sing. Dire circumstances shatter our spirits. There are times the heart cries, “Lord, do you really...

Albany must include “good-cause eviction” once it finally passes the stalled state budget, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other progressive electeds said at a Wednesday rally in Astoria, Queens. “Fighting to pass good-cause eviction is essential,” the Democratic congresswoman, who represents a swath of the Bronx and Queens, told a crowd in Athens Square. “We have to push Gov. Hochul to make sure that she includes this in the budget.” The good-cause evictions bill, first introduced in 2019, would bolster protections for tenants in non-rent regulated apartments by barring landlords from kicking them out without “good cause,” such as failure to...

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Florida Voice News is a fake news and Astroturf media operation set up entirely to promote Ron DeSantis. the entire construct of the Florida’s Voice media firm (established in 2021) is to support and promote Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Florida Voice Media conducted a poll from their Twitter account The results are so bad for Ron DeSantis, that even Donald Trump promoted the DeSantis media operation on his Truth Social account.

The man behind a hugely embarrassing leak of highly classified military documents is believed to be a young gun enthusiast who shared the secrets in a group for gamers. Known as "OG" in the Discord chatroom, the man allegedly claimed to spend parts of his day inside a secure facility where phones were banned, according to a story published by the Washington Post. He initially typed up versions of highly secret documents and posted them for the group of about 25 active members from various countries to read, but later switched to posting slews of photos of the documents themselves....

Just before Holy Week, newly elected Bishop Connie Shelton brought an extraordinarily heavy-handed tone to her recently begun leadership of the (eastern) North Carolina Annual Conference. Shelton ambushed an historic, conservative congregation with the announcement that she was abruptly shutting it down, while seizing its property and assets! This was imposed on the congregation suddenly, without prior consultation or notice. Shelton did not immediately respond to emailed questions. I previously observed a worsening pattern of United Methodist bishops choosing to have fundamentally abusive relationships with the congregations they are trusted to lovingly shepherd. It is becoming increasingly normal for the...

"... Markets do not seem to have priced in a potential U.S. recession, despite forecasts that one is on the horizon, according to Alex Wolf, managing director of JPMorgan Private Bank and head of its investment strategy for Asia. Speaking to CNBC’s “Squawk Box Asia,” Wolf explained that while there has been a “long standing call” for a U.S. recession in the second half of 2023, the recent turmoil in the banking sector has “somewhat pulled forward our forecasts.”..."