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A technological development from an American company of a way to legally sell ammunition has been going viral. The use of vending machines to legally validate age and sell ammunition causes some people to ignore all facts and logic and emote “guns are bad!”The vending machines in question, from American Rounds, use computer technology to validate age with picture ID. If the person attempting to purchase ammunition is over 21 years old, they may purchase the ammunition using a picture ID, which the machine validates using facial recognition software. Only credit or debit card purchases seem possible. There does not...

“No one who is born of God practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God” (1 John 3:9). A decreasing pattern of sin in a believer’s life means his faith is genuine. A sinful life pattern is incompatible with salvation. If you could continue in the same sinful pattern after being saved from sin, that would mean salvation is ineffective. Therefore, 1 John 3 deals with the saving work of Christ and reveals just how effective it is. Verse 5 says Christ “appeared in order to take away sins.” If...

The attempted assassination of Donald Trump is not the kind of event that I would normally write about at Manhattan Contrarian. Like many other newsworthy events, it’s not that it’s not important; it’s that I don’t have any special expertise or insights to offer. But there is one aspect of this attempted assassination that cries out for comment. That is the truly incredible failure of the Secret Service that enabled the shooter to gain access to the vantage point to shoot. I don’t claim to have ever been involved in the security business, or to have any particular knowledge about...

Article Dig Deeper House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green on Sunday demanded documents and a briefing from the Department of Homeland Security following the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. "The Committee is grateful for the swift response of Secret Service agents to protect President Trump from further harm and quickly neutralize the shooter, though tragically one rally attendee was killed, and two others have been critically injured," the Tennessee congressman said in his letter to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

Democrat Senator Kamala Harris (CA) could be in for an unwelcome campaign surprise if she faces a constitutional eligibility challenge to her bid for the presidency.

King Charles wrote a private letter to former President Donald Trump on Sunday, Buckingham Palace said in a statement. The correspondence was delivered via the U.K. Embassy in Washington, D.C., the palace said on Monday. "We do not divulge contents of such private correspondence, but safe to surmise that the sentiments are in keeping with those communicated by the PM," the palace said, a reference to Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The prime minister said Sunday he was "appalled" by the assassination attempt.

This has been just a terrible fortnight for the Corporate Media and it couldn't happen to a worse, more dishonest group of partisan hacks. First, their Wizard-of-Oz curtain got pulled back to reveal Joe Biden as a befuddled, confused, inarticulate old coot filled with anger and rage at his predecessor and very likely successor -- with Biden acting as his own little dog Toto. Nearly four years of deliberate concealment of evidence that the president of the United States is a barely functioning rutabaga went up in smoke on CNN, with a horrified White House press corps unable to stop...

While seeking evidence last night of the motivations and ideology of President Trump’s would-be assassin, Thomas Matthew Crooks, I came across his Instagram page. It has now been deleted (of course!), but I took a screen shot, which is presented below the next few paragraphs. Aside from his identifying himself as an “Anti-fascist” (Antifa sympathies), his introduction page included this odd statement: It says: “@skvmlord made me do it.” Well, I did a web search and found little relating to “skvmlord” — that is, aside from this X account for it. Here is what’s weird, too: At 8:22pm on Saturday,...

New York CNN — MSNBC will not air “Morning Joe,” its celebrated politics roundtable program, on Monday, opting to instead air continued breaking news coverage of the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. The progressive news network confirmed the decision to preempt its influential and top-rated morning show after a CNN inquiry Sunday evening. The network said the show will resume airing Tuesday. The decision by MSNBC to leave one of its most recognizable programs on the sidelines amid a seismic politics-driven news cycle, with the Republican National Convention getting underway in the wake of the Saturday shooting at...

Three black trucks with United States government plates were spotted at the home of Ohio Senator and rumored vice presidential candidate JD Vance on Saturday. [cut] Vance, a big favorite with Trump's MAGA base, saw the extra protection at his house following the assassination attempt on Trump that the former president miraculously survived, with Vance blaming Joe Biden for the rhetoric leading to it. Some speculated on social media upon noticing the black trucks that they might be Secret Service agents, leading many to wonder if Vance had officially won the veepstakes. Trump is expected to make the announcement at...

15 July 2024 Saint Bonaventure, Bishop, Doctor on Monday of week 15 in Ordinary Time St. Bonaventure Parish, Plymouth, MAReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: B(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingIsaiah 1:10-17Take your wrongdoing out of my sightHear the word of the Lord,you rulers of Sodom;listen to the command of our God,you people of Gomorrah.‘What are your endless sacrifices to me?says the Lord.I am sick of holocausts of ramsand the fat of calves.The blood of bulls and of goats revolts me.When you come to present yourselves before me,who asked you to...

Time to Revisit the Anti-Federalists We live in a time where the federal government’s reach seems to extend into every aspect of our lives. From the broad interpretation of the Commerce Clause to the extensive surveillance programs justified by national security, the concerns raised by the Anti-Federalists over 200 years ago appear more relevant than ever. Maybe it’s time we revisit what they had to say. What Were They Worried About? The Anti-Federalists were a group of early American thinkers and politicians who opposed the ratification of the Constitution as it was originally proposed. They worried that a strong central...

Shares in Trump Media & Technology Group were 51% higher in premarket trading at 6:40 a.m. ET, off earlier highs...Analysts suggested the assassination attempt could make a Trump victory in the November election more likely...The stock plummeted nearly 50% in the three weeks following the felony conviction of Trump, who is also the firm's majority shareholder.

Folks, It is 4AM Monday morning 15JULY24. For me and millions of others it is just another Monday, but for the family of Corey Comperatore, it is the beginning of a lifetime of without their beloved father, husband, brother, etc. My profound heartfelt condolences and prayers go out to this family. I know the good people of this nation will also be praying for this family during this time of grief. I have no idea who the fallen, former fire chief, Corey Comperatore is. I do know he in someway has now involuntarily become the face of the folks supporting...

Let's cut to the chase - the US Secret Service: In on it? Or just totally crap? Well, I've thought the Secret Service were rubbish not just since we learned of the Cartagena hookers but for at least another decade before that. And increasingly, when it comes to American officialdom - from Kabul to Uvalde - to modify Henry Ford, you can get it in any colour as long as it's bloated, lavishly over-funded and entirely dysfunctional. And yet and yet... it's hard to believe even these guys (plus their bevy of five-foot-two-eyes-of-blue Keystone chorus girls) could be this crap....

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A historic moment: an attempted assassination, Trump’s heroic response, Secret Service failures, more unanswered questions, and how the Left’s violent rhetoric led to this after years of vilification. Give now to President Trump’s GoFundMe for Butler, PA victims: bit.ly/3VX5uxw

The two men whose remains were found in Bristol and London last week belong to a French national and his British ex-partner, police have revealed - as a 34-year-old man who had been staying with them is charged with murder. Yostin Andres Mosquera, 34, was charged with the murder of two men, named by the Met Police as 62-year-old Albert Alfonso and 71-year-old Paul Longworth. Detectives made the grisly discovery on Wednesday after two suitcases were allegedly dumped on Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol before further remains were found at the victims' flat in Scotts Road, west London, on Friday....

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OpenAI’s rumored project Strawberry is focused on enhancing the reasoning capabilities of its AI models. Strawberry is rumored to be based upon the QStar AI advance. QStar was a reasoning advance that supposedly triggered the power struggle inside OpenAI and temporary firing of CEO Sam Altman. Strawberry supposedly enables AI to perform long-horizon tasks (LHT), which require a model to plan ahead and execute a series of actions over an extended period of time. This technology aims to improve AI’s ability to understand and interact with the world, allowing it to autonomously search the internet and conduct deep research. By...