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What the Bud Light Fiasco Reveals about the Ruling Class What were they thinking? How did someone believe that making “trans woman” Dylan Mulvaney the icon of a Bud Light ad campaign, complete with a beer can with her image on it, would be good for sales? With an ad featuring this person vamping around in the most preposterously possible way? Dylan, who had previously been interviewed on trans issues by President Biden himself, was celebrating “365 Days of Girlhood” with her grotesquely misogynistic caricature that would disgust just about the whole market for this beer. Indeed, this person’s cosplay...

What happens when you investigate the investigators? As we’ve seen with Russiagate, they don’t respond well. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg asked a federal judge Tuesday to block a House Judiciary Committee subpoena that seeks information on his office’s investigation into former President Donald Trump. A lawsuit filed in New York federal court seeks to block a congressional subpoena for testimony from Mark Pomerantz, a former special assistant district attorney who participated in the office’s investigation of Trump and his businesses. Bragg also asks the judge to preemptively block any further subpoenas for him or his employees from the committee...

A Florida middle school teacher has been arrested for hosting student fights and letting her kids brawl in the classroom, according to reports. Angel Footman, 23, allegedly allowed kids to sock each other senseless as she looked on from her desk, sometimes telling kids not to record the blows or attract attention by screaming and yelling.

(Last Updated On: April 7, 2023) NATIONAL PEACH COBBLER DAY National Peach Cobbler Day on April 13th each year recognizes a delicious dessert that originated during the 19th century. #NationalPeachCobblerDay Unable to make traditional suet puddings due to lack of suitable ingredients and cooking equipment, the settlers instead covered a stewed filling with a layer of uncooked plain biscuits or dumplings, fitted together. When the dish is fully cooked, the surface has the appearance of a cobbled street. The name may also derive from the fact that the ingredients are “cobbled” together. Some cobbler recipes resemble a thick-crusted, deep-dish pie...

Thomas Jefferson was born 280 years ago today in 1743. He wrote a first draft which a committee turned into these immortal words ........ "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Jefferson wrote the following himself: ............. "In matters of style swim with the current: in matters of principle, stand like a rock."

Amid all the excitement over the arrest of Donald Trump and the destruction of our republic, once again the public’s attention has been diverted away from just how badly the Biden regime is doing its job. Unless, of course, its primary job has been demonizing and destroying the possibility of political dissent in the United States, in which case it’s doing great. Americans are, nonetheless, noticing in large numbers that Old Joe Biden has been about as effective a president as Nancy Pelosi has been an effective spokesperson for sobriety. Biden, despite continuing to read off his teleprompter at every...

Thank goodness Merrick Garland was never allowed onto the Supreme Court. The former federal judge and current United States attorney general is being savaged for what definitely looks like false testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee last month about the targeting of traditionalist Catholic parishes by the FBI. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) penned the letter above, recounting specific questions he had asked Garland about an FBI document identifying Latin Mass Catholics as a potential terrorist threat. That document, which DOJ has since rescinded as "not meeting standards" for the FBI, was essentially cribbed from a 15-year-old fundraising appeal by the...

The Bible In Paintings ~ Encouragement for Applying and Appreciating God's Word ~ •Drawings•Engravings•Facades•Frescoes•Illuminations•Miniatures•Mosaics•Photographs•Reliefs•Statues•Tapestries•Windows• STEPHEN PREACHES, THEN IS STONED ֎ Featuring 31 Paintings, 5 Reliefs and 2 Tapestries ֎ A C T S «Chapters 6-8» Now Stephen, a man full of God’s grace and power, did great wonders and miraculous signs among the people. Opposition arose, however, from members of the Synagogue of the Freedmen. These men began to argue with Stephen, but they could not stand up against his wisdom or the Spirit by whom he spoke. Then they secretly persuaded some men to say, “We have heard...

AI DEPICTION OF OBAMA BEING SHOWERED WITH FOREIGN CASH. ============================================================= Leonardo DiCaprio testified in federal court last week that fugitive Malaysian fraudster Low Taek Jho, better known as Jho Low, sought to donate tens of millions of dollars to the Democrats during Barack Obama’s reelection campaign in 2012. By comparison, the total amount spent by the government of Russia in their microscopic Facebook “interference” case of 2016 was just $150,000, though the U.S. government managed to spend in excess of $32 million investigating the matter. China, Of Course. DiCaprio was in Washington, D.C. on Monday April 3rd, as news organizations...

International criminals have been targeting wealthy homes on America’s coast, but now those same thieves are moving into the heartland. Thieves from South America are making their way to the U.S., renting expensive cars to fit in with high-end neighborhoods, and then striking when homeowners are away. It’s called “crime tourism,” a type of organized crime that has been reported on America’s coasts in recent years. But more recently, these thieves are making their way to the central U.S., catching homeowners off guard and causing headaches for law enforcement. After speaking with neighbors in Carmel, Indiana, NewsNation’s Keleigh Beeson found...

Now, it is clear why the Biden administration has not been too keen on banning the TikTok app that is supersaturating the minds of millions of America’s Gen Zers on the much-disputed Tik Tok app.

An Oregon woman has sued an influential Buddhist monk and trusted mentor over a litany of alleged sexual offenses including rape and pressuring her to keep an unwanted pregnancy. Dzogchen Khenpo Choga Rinpoche, who also goes by Choying Rabjam, also allegedly asked her to sit in his lap and 'suck his tongue like a lollipop,' echoing accusations against the Dalai Lama earlier this week. Rachel Montgomery, now 30, has filed a lawsuit accusing him of sexual battery and sex trafficking in 2011, when she was just 19 years old. The two met when Montgomery was a teenager who studied under...

A woman declared herself 'done with' apparel giant Nike and burned a sports bra made by the company in response to its sponsorship deal with transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney. Last week, Mulvaney posted images of herself on Instagram in what was labelled a 'paid partnership' wearing a Nike Women sports bra and leggings and going through a workout routine. The choice to hire Mulvaney proved controversial, partly because she is not an athlete and has not yet had gender-reassignment surgery. A TikTok user who goes by the handle 'Chatterbox Mama' who describes herself as a 'Southern mama' posted to the...

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,...