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A photo editor at a major news outlet has called on the media to bury the historic photo of former President Donald Trump standing defiant after the assassination attempt Saturday. The unnamed editor slammed the photo as “dangerous” and “free PR” for the Trump campaign.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The shooting at former President Donald Trump’s rally Saturday left Americans around the nation shocked. But he’s not the only president to face this kind of violence. Throughout U.S. history, there have been countless plots and attempts to assassinate U.S. presidents, including President Gerald R. Ford, who grew up in Grand Rapids. Ford survived not one, but two assassination attempts. “Ford mentioned that he didn’t want to be captive in the White House, he wanted to continue to move about the country, connect with the American people,” said Dr. Mirelle Luecke, supervisory curator. And that’s...

The strength of the American Revolution was its respect for the past and its privileging of legal precedent and the rights of Englishman over any ideologies. The same rights they claimed were guaranteed in the royal charters and documents of incorporation that each colony created at their inception. Before some of the charters were signed in America and after others, the English Bill of Rights of 1689 restated the common law rights of Englishmen. Yet, that document isn’t the origin of the rights fought for by British Americans. The Petition of Right of 1628 reaffirmed the controls upon the royal...

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) needled his rival, former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), on Tuesday while the two were on the floor of the Republican National Convention, tauntingly asking McCarthy when he was slated to speak. “What night are you speaking? Are you speaking tonight?” Gaetz mockingly asked McCarthy. “If you took that stage, you would get booed off of it,” he told McCarthy. “You would get booed off the stage.” Gaetz defended his previous comments in a brief interview with The Hill, saying he was counterpunching. “He was saying something very untrue and nasty about me to CNN. So, this...

[Catholic Caucus] Diocesan Latin Masses suppressed in Richmond as Vatican’s two-year indult expiresTraditional Latin Masses in three diocesan churches have come to a halt as Traditionis Custodes comes into full force in the Diocese of Richmond, Virginia.All diocesan Traditional Latin Masses have been suppressed in the Diocese of Richmond, Virginia due to the Vatican’s restrictions per Traditionis Custodes after the expiration of a two-year indult from Rome.The Latin Mass Directory website announced that as of July 5, the diocese implemented Pope Francis’ motu proprio Traditionis Custodes, according to which bishops are not to allow Traditional Latin Masses (TLM) in “parochial...

To be filled in. Sorry everyone, I have a medical situation and need to take care of my wife, Ann. Please pray for her. She is fine, but needs logistics for her return from the hospital. I'll post the regular thread with languages and saint of the day later. The Mass readings are universalis.com

To be filled in. Sorry everyone, I have a medical situation and need to take care of my wife, Ann. Please pray for her. She is fine, but needs logistics for her return from the hospital. I'll post the regular thread with languages and saint of the day later. The Mass readings are universalis.com

Father we lift up the young men of our nation to You for no matter their race, creed, color, family origin, life experiences or socioeconomic background, they need You. For those who have no hope, help them to understand that there is a glorious hope they can have in Christ Jesus. For those who feel unloved, let them know that you love them enough to have sent Your only begotten Son, Jesus Christ to die for them that they may have a relationship with You. For those who have no father, or an absent father, help them to know that...

The Unholy Alliance - as morbid as ever. Vice President Kamala Harris demonstrated once again why she would be a disastrous president if she were to succeed cognitively impaired Joe Biden. She just expressed her sympathy with the pro-Hamas, anti-Israel, anti-American agitators in an interview published on July 8th by the left-wing Nation Magazine.“They are showing exactly what the human emotion should be, as a response to Gaza,” said Vice President Harris, referring to the anti-Semitic demonstrators. “There are things some of the protesters are saying that I absolutely reject, so I don’t mean to wholesale endorse their points. But...

Russia has denied its ground offensive on Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region is failing after an official said he would seal off border villages to shield them from Ukrainian shelling. Belgorod’s regional governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said on Tuesday that civilian access to 14 Russian border villages would be restricted given the ongoing intensity of the attacks. Asked if this meant that the Kharkiv operation had failed, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday: “No, it doesn’t.”

My organization sponsors a quarterly poll in conjunction with our magazine. Meeting Street Insights conducts the poll for us. For our Summer issue, we thought it would be interesting to poll young people in Minnesota, which we defined as ages 18 through 34. To my knowledge, no one has done this before. We asked young Minnesotans not about their views on politics or policy, but about their lives and concerns.The results were stunning. Young people in Minnesota are deeply pessimistic about their futures, and their country’s future. We asked respondents whether their generation is better off economically than their parents’...

A hacking group known as NullBulge claimed to have released a vast trove of data for download from internal Disney Slack channels, including unreleased projects, login details and raw images and code. The apparent hacktivist group - which purports to defend artists from corporations that use their work to train artificial intelligence systems - said Friday it dumped 1.1 tebibytes of files and chat messages belonging to the entertainment and technology giant online. The hack affected Disney's workplace collaboration platform, Slack, which reportedly contained nearly 10,000 channels, in addition to countless messages and attachments. "Anything we could get our hands...

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Both CNN and the Washington Post reported yesterday that the Iranian regime is plotting to kill President Trump. Jewish World Review has posted the Washington Post story in accessible form here. Intelligence concerning the plot derives from a human source and is apparently unrelated to the attempted assassination of Trump over the weekend.NRO’s Jimmy Quinn quotes Rich Goldberg’s tweet on the rationale for such an operation: “Donald Trump is an existential threat to the Islamic Republic of Iran. The regime knows maximum pressure will return.”The incompetence of the Secret Service presents something of a national security crisis. The Post drily...

During Monday’s airing of ABC’s The View, host Joy Behar suggested a “20 year-old white guy” buying 50 rounds of ammunition “should be reported.” SkyNews.com.au noted Behar and the other hosts were discussing the failed assassination attempt on Donald Trump, which had occurred two days prior, and Behar said, “According to a CNN report, a senior law enforcement official said that [the would-be assassin] bought 50 rounds of ammunition from a local gun store hours before the rally.” Behar then looked up at her fellow hosts and said, “Shouldn’t that have been reported? Somebody buys 50, a 20-year-old white guy,...

The e-commerce leader in Europe is Amazon - but Chinese ventures into international e-commerce, for example AliExpress or more recently Temu, have made inroads. The following infographic, via Statista's Anna Fleck, looks specifically at the example of the Chinese company Pinduoduo, drawing from ecommmerceDB figures. You will find more infographics at StatistaAccording to this data, Pinduoduo will only be 13 percent behind Amazon in terms of gross merchandise volume in 2024. To put this in perspective: in 2019, Amazon's gross merchandise volume was more than twice as large as that of Pinduoduo.Pinduoduo also owns the online marketplace Temu.The Temu app...

Republican candidates owe it to voters — and the unborn — to be artful, clear, and convincing in defense of the pro-life cause.Make no mistake. Donald Trump is right that Republicans should be worried about abortion attacks in the 2024 election. His efforts to frame himself as moderate on abortion in the presidential debate, along with the significant reduction of pro-life language in the Republican platform, have made his perspective clear. And Trump’s instincts on how to handle the question in a debate are not terrible. But it can be done better.And it must.The uncomfortable fact about the next four...

Anyone else thinking about these Keystone cop clips lately? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nkkUZ6e3jM

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On July 13, Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania. It led to an iconic image of the former president, who had just escaped death from a would-be assassin, perched less than 200 yards from the stage, raising his fist in defiance, face bloody, telling his supporters to “fight.” It’s become a viral sensation. It’s also made some media photographers and editors queasy because—get this—it could hurt Biden and give “free PR” to Trump. You can’t make this up. They’re afraid to do their jobs because it could hurt the Democrats. This is precisely what’s wrong with the...