Month: April 2021

Pastry Chef Turns Cakes Into Art With Photorealistic Bouquets of Buttercream Flowers

A South Korean pastry chef with an eye for photorealism is taking the internet by storm with her blooming creations. Transforming plain iced cakes with skilfully piped colorful bouquets of flowers, the buttercream petals look like they are straight out of a florist’s window display. Moreover, they’re not only visually stunning, they’re edible, too. Seoul-based…


Florida House Approves Vaccine Passport Ban

The Florida House on Wednesday approved a bill that would set in law Gov. Ron DeSantis’ executive order banning so-called “vaccine passports,” credentials that could take the form of an app or a physical document that indicate whether someone has been inoculated against the CCP virus, which causes the disease COVID-19. Lawmakers voted 76–40 to approve the…


Teen Saw Her Little Brother Hit by Car and Become Disabled, Finds Calling to Care for Disabled

A 17-year-old in Ireland found her vocation to work in health care, helping the disabled, after her little brother had a terrible accident that changed his life forever. Although the siblings from Bushmills in Northern Ireland aren’t blood relatives, when Lucy McCallum first laid eyes on little Liam, it was love at first sight. Her…


Three Men Hit With Hate Crime Charges in Death of Ahmaud Arbery

Three Georgia men were indicted on Wednesday on hate crime and other charges in the 2020 death of Ahmaud Arbery. Travis McMichael, 35; Travis’s father, Gregory McMichael, 65; and William “Roddie” Bryan, 51, were each charged with a count of interference with rights and a count of attempting kidnapping. The McMichaels were both charged with…


North Carolina Rep. Budd Enters Race for US Senate Seat

Rep. Ted Budd (R-N.C.), a strong supporter of former President Donald Trump, said on April 28 that he will seek to succeed retiring Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) in the U.S. Senate in 2022. Budd, 49, who owns a gun store, was first elected to Congress in 2016. “I’m a small businessman who was so fed…


Rep. Ted Budd Enters Race for North Carolina US Senate Seat

Rep. Ted Budd (R-N.C.) on Wednesday entered the race to succeed retiring Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) in the U.S. Senate. Budd, 49, is a strong supporter of former President Donald Trump. The gun store owner was first elected to Congress in 2016. “I’m a small businessman who was so fed up with the liberals’ attacks…


Why You Should Choose Love Over Fear

Reject fear, choose love. This is a popular refrain and wonderful advice. Many believe that there are only two primal emotions in the human being, love and fear, and that we can’t feel both at once. And in the same way that light removes darkness, love can remove fear. The choice to reject fear and choose love can feel…


Government Official Who Approved Improper Spying on Trump Staffer Tapped for Spy Court Advisory Role

Former Justice Department official Mary McCord will serve in an advisory role for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court earlier this month. McCord was one of the officials who reviewed and approved warrants to surveil former Trump campaign aide Carter Page. The FISC, which approved the warrants in 2016 and 2017, later excoriated government officials for…


Treatment of Teachers in Communist China vs Around the World: ‘It’s Killing Humanity’

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has one more blood-red feather in its Marxist cap for not hesitating to persecute—indefinitely incarcerate and even kill—school teachers who refuse to submit to its totalitarian ideologies. Needless to say, it is the duty of citizens and rulers to honor the dignity of their teachers who work hard to lay…


ACLU-Led Coalition Warns Biden Administration Against Menthol Ban, Citing ‘Racial Justice Implications’

A coalition led by the American Civil Liberties Union is urging the Biden administration not to ban menthol cigarettes. Such a ban would “have serious racial justice implications” and would “trigger criminal penalties, which will disproportionately impact people of color, as well as prioritize criminalization over public health and harm reduction,” the coalition wrote in…