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Bud Light has, to put it mildly, had a challenging couple of months. Now the company is looking to win back drinkers with a new giveaway worth $10,000 a week. The prizes are part of a new ad campaign centered around the "Easy to Summer" commercial, a sequel to the "Easy to Drink, Easy to Enjoy" branding that launched during this year's Super Bowl. The new summer ads will feature NFL stars like Dak Prescott and Travis Kelce and will center on a theme of "make summer easy," according to a press release from the company. While the company has...

Obama's super-spreader birthday bash may have ruined the fall party scene in our nation's capital

The fate of the American Health Care Act, also dubbed as ‘Obamacare Lite’, is looking quite grim. The bill attracted unwavering criticism, even from conservatives. Thomas Massie slammed the AHCA, stating that it will engender the rise of prices and compel healthy Americans to desert the insurance market. Senator Rand Paul recently predicted that Speaker Ryan will be forced to withdraw the current healthcare bill and present a better alternative. The current bill is unfavorable to many conservatives because it retains a plethora of Obamacare’s main elements. In order to truly repeal Obamacare, Republicans must draft a new alternative to...

An Antioch police officer was reportedly shot in Pittsburg Wednesday night near Leland Road and Loveridge Road, police said. - - - The officer is now out of the hospital, police said. But Contra Costa County fire said at least four people were taken to the hospital after a car crash at the intersection at the time of the shooting. - - - A carjacking in Bay Point happened just before 6 p.m. and Antioch police officers responded, according to police. A victim told Contra Costa County sheriff that a Hispanic man armed with a shotgun had just stolen his...

The old bulls won. Pulled between his campaign rhetoric and his own party’s congressional barons, President Barack Obama largely sided with his Hill allies in unveiling an earmark proposal Wednesday that shies away from any strict crackdown on the practice. Obama proposed further transparency for the spending goodies prized by many members of Congress – but stopped far short of the kind of serious limits reformers wanted. “Rather than trying to fine tune a fundamentally flawed process, we should take aggressive steps to prevent unauthorized earmarks,” said Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wisc.), a leading anti-earmark critic on the Hill. Feingold’s GOP...

As expected, after years of news release after news release extolling the virtues of this beer, THE FIRST BEER FOR WOMEN with a “…touch of Clover Honey,” is on life support, and probably has been for awhile. The two female owners of this Amazonian beer, however, are spinning this story in a different way. Beautiful Brews Inc. has decided to put the entire operation up on e-Bay because they have “…not been able to raise enough capital to take the Honey Amber Rose to the next level” with one of the owners suggesting that “This is an opportunity for established...

Failure of Rumsfeld's 'War Lite' strategy leads Allies to bring in the heavies By Paul Vallely 29 March 2003 It was the day the war changed gear. As the Iraqis preened themselves on the success of their battlefield strategy to date and another apparently misdirected missile reaped the worst civilian death toll of any single incident in Baghdad, Washington and London tacitly acknowledged it was time for a rethink. They had tried it the easy way but Donald Rumsfeld's business-school approach of War Lite, with just-in-time levels of troops and supplies had failed. It was time to do it the...