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(Last Updated On: June 5, 2023) NATIONAL CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM DAY | JUNE 7 To observe National Chocolate Ice Cream Day on June 7th all you need is chocolate ice cream. Who says you have to stop there, though? You can have it in a cone or make it from scratch. Add sprinkles or syrup or whipped cream. #ChocolateIceCreamDay Chocolate ice cream is the second most common flavor, surpassed only by vanilla. The chocolate-flavored ice cream has been in existence well over a hundred years and has been popular in the United States since the late 19th century. Cocoa powder...

Nearly 5,000 churches have left the United Methodist Church denomination this year for deviating from the Bible on abortion, homosexuality and other issues. Pro-life pastors and members of the UMC have been increasingly concerned with the denomination’s actions on abortion. For years, the UMC was affiliated with the pro-abortion group Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, and some of its pastors promote killing unborn babies in abortions by “blessing” abortion facilities and praying for “abortion rights.” According to the Catholic News Agency, 4,876 churches officially disaffiliated from the denomination this year, many of them joining the biblically-based Global Methodist Church. Nearly...

An Anheuser-Busch (Bud Light) lobbyist is also a major bundler for Governor Ron DeSantis, POLITICO has revealed.Slater Bayliss, a former Jeb Bush “bundler” was even the third-largest bundler for the DeSantis campaign at one point during his Four Seasons donor meet the day of his campaign launch. Bayliss had raised at least $242,600 for DeSantis.Anheuser-Busch has seen $27bn wiped off its value since its endorsement from transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.

[Catholic Caucus] Finally Cornered, Archbishop Paglia Chooses Both Sides“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.” Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass In February 1994, Pope John Paul II founded the Pontifical Academy for Life “to study and provide information and training about the principal problems of law and biomedicine pertaining to the promotion and protection of life, especially in the direct relationship they have with Christian morality and the directives of the Church’s Magisterium.” Members of the Academy did just...

The DeSantis campaign has recently taken to using a Big Tech fact check facility to attempt to deflect from criticism of the Florida Governor. DeSantis spokesman Christina Pushaw has recently been vocal about her support for the often dubious fact-checks. Her stance is a total U-turn on her previous commentary on such matters, and the change appears to have occurred immediately after Elon Musk hired a World Economic Forum CEO, and then hosted DeSantis for his campaign launch.April 2022: I agree. It is absurd to think that anyone, including “content moderators” “fact checkers” or “experts”, can be arbiters of truth....

Apparently, Joe Biden's team is threatening to kill witnesses. It's one way to make sure investigations die. Rep. James Comer has been seeking an unclassified document which being held by the FBI. The document allegedly describes a Biden bribery scheme. Wednesday's subpoena comes alongside a letter sent that same day to Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland from Comer and Grassley, who wrote that based on "highly credible unclassified whistleblower disclosures" they believe the Department of Justice and FBI "possess an unclassified FD-1023 form that describes an alleged criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Biden and a foreign national relating to...

Fox News host Harris Faulkner drew condemnation from some fans of the network on Wednesday when she said the company will be forced to incorporate the left’s diversity, equity and inclusion agenda into its business model. The network is already on thin ice with many current viewers and lost almost half its audience after executives made the decision to oust host Tucker Carlson in April. More viewers vowed to leave for good after Faulkner said on “Outnumbered” that Fox News might no longer have a choice but to let identity politics guide its business practices. As she discussed the current...

Reddit, the social media platform known for woke politics and leftist censorship, is laying off approximately five percent of its employees and slowing its hiring process according to recent reports. The Wall Street Journal reports that leftist social media site Reddit, known for its extreme censorship of conservatives, is slowing its hiring process and laying off about five percent of its workforce. The action is part of a larger restructuring intended to improve operational efficiency and bring about financial stability. “Reddit is making these moves to address priorities, including funding projects and achieving our goal of breaking even next year,”...

Competitive pressure and creativity have made Chinese-designed and -built electric cars formidable competitors ...Then came reports that in the first quarter of 2023 it dethroned Japan as the world’s largest auto exporter. ...what set Chinese capitalism apart from its American counterpart. “In America, when you bring an idea to market you usually have several months before competition pops up, allowing you to capture significant market share,” he said, according to Fast Company, a technology magazine. “In China, you can have hundreds of competitors within the first hours of going live. Ideas are not important in China—execution is.”

WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — Two sisters in Washington D.C. are seeking a bishop’s approval to establish an order of religious sisters dedicated to pro-life work. In an exclusive LifeSiteNews interview, Sisters Adriana and Immolatia explain how they are living out their charism by praying for the unborn at abortion clinics as they await a bishop to approve the founding of a religious order dedicated to the dignity of the smallest of human life. “We see that for our little brothers and sisters, there is no voice for them, there is no recognition of them at the killing places where they...

A California school board meeting descended into chaos on Tuesday when protesters began fighting in the street amid a debate over whether to recognize Pride month. Glendale Unified School District was due to hold a vote on officially marking Pride this year - as they have done for the last four years. Protests had been peaceful during the day, but around 6pm scuffles broke out between around 200 protesters and counter-demonstrators. School administrators said many of the protesters did not have students in the district. Police deployed around 50 officers to the scene, CBS News reported. Cops used their batons...

Instagram’s recommendation algorithms have enabled a “vast” network of pedophiles seeking illegal underage sexual content and activity, according to a Wall Street Journal exposé. In a 2,800-word article published Wednesday, the Journal said it conducted an investigation into child pornography on Instagram in collaboration with researchers at Stanford and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. “Pedophiles have long used the internet, but unlike the forums and file-transfer services that cater to people who have interest in illicit content, Instagram doesn’t merely host these activities. Its algorithms promote them,” the Journal reported.

A man who was crowned “Miss San Francisco” will compete in the 2023 Miss California Pageant in July. Monroe Lace, a man who identifies as a woman, won the Miss San Francisco pageant in March, qualifying the “beauty queen” to compete for the Miss California title next month. Lace is the first trans-identifying man to be crowned Miss San Francisco in the competition’s 99-year history. Every time I put on the sash, the weight of it reminds me of the weight of my job; of the responsibility I have to make a difference for young children,” Lace told CBS Bay...

Fed inferno! One has to wonder about The Feral Reserve. Since The Great Recession of 2008, The Federal Reserve has printed a staggering amount of money (know as QE). There is still about $8.3 TRILLION in monetary stimulus sloshing around the economy. And M2 Money printing is up 167% since November 2008. So, despite the talking heads from The Fed and CNBC, etc blathering about Fed tightening, there remains over $8 TRILLION in monetary stimulus chasing asset prices. Is The Fed ACTUALLY the US economy? Or is The Fed the financing arm of the Democrat party? Yes, The Fed looks...

Chris Licht, the embattled chief executive and chairman of CNN, whose brief one-year tenure at the network was stained by a series of severe missteps, will depart the company. “I met with Chris and he will be leaving CNN,” David Zaslav, the chief executive of parent company Warner Bros. Discovery, told CNN employees at the start of the network’s daily editorial call Wednesday. Licht’s departure, which came days after a devastating 15,000-word profile in The Atlantic, capped a tumultuous year for CNN, marked by layoffs, historically low ratings, and rock-bottom employee morale. In the wake of The Atlantic article, Licht...

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The Irish government is facing a backlash after reports broke of a proposal to kill off as many as 200,000 cows over the next three years in an effort to meet the country’s emissions reduction goals.Cows chilling in a fieldLast week, the Irish Independent reported on a government document describing plans for a potential cull of up to 65,000 dairy cows per year for the next three years. The paper reportedly obtained the documents from Ireland’s Department of Agriculture through a freedom of information request. In all, killing off 200,000 cows would wipe out about 10 percent of Ireland’s dairy...

Fox News host Judge Jeanine Pirro pulled out of a Christian commentary show, “Flashpoint,” event, which was slated to take place in Ohio this week. The show’s host Gene Bailey told The Western Journal that Fox News apparently made Pirro withdraw from the “Flashpoint Live” event being held at the Faith Life Church in New Albany on Thursday and Friday. The registration site for the gathering still shows Pirro speaking at a Friday morning session and taking part in a signing afterwards for her new book, “Crimes Against America: The Left’s Takedown of Our Republic.” The Western Journal also reached...

Modelo Especial has now dethroned Bud Light as the top-selling beer in America after years of the longtime industry leader holding the top spot. In the four weeks ending May 28, Modelo Especial store sales soared past $333 million, a 15.6 percent rise on the same period last year.

No human has the power to make ugly what God has made good.As I write, our children’s schoolroom is festooned with rainbows. Christina Rossetti’s poem is on one shelf, Frederic Edwin Church’s painting on another. Hand-painted rainbows — colored with enthusiasm if not with Church’s skill — by our 5- and 3-year-olds hang on the walls. Are we taking a cue from the president, professional sports, and all the nation’s most powerful corporations and doing our part to celebrate pride in our little homeschooling way? No. Our lessons follow the seasons, and because it is spring, we have a week...