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At the 2024 SHOT Show industry day at the range, this correspondent stopped at the Diamondback Firearms booth. Unfortunately, they did not have any examples of their new .22 revolver, the Sidekick, available. This lead to a discussion of how the Sidekick, which strongly resembles the old Hi-Standard Double Nine revolver, was brought into production.Jimmy Stroda was the director of product development at Diamondback Firearms. He related the story to this correspondent. Diamondback had been looking at product sales in the United States. It is clear that .22 caliber single-action revolvers have a very large market share, as seen by...

Therefore—say, in a Tom Clancy novel—in some unfortunate, unknown circumstance, Huma Abedin-Weiner could become our first unelected Muslim President There are alleged, newly leaked e-mails between Huma Abedin-Weiner, Cheryl Mills, and Bill Clinton’s Wife, which reportedly reveal that if Bill Clinton’s Wife wins the Presidency, then Huma Abedin-Weiner will be appointed Secretary of State. This is fantastic news…if you are a Muslim, member of CAIR or the Muslim Brotherhood, or even just a casual Jihadist infiltrator with a confused view of true Holy Islam. And, Huma (rhymes with Poobah) would, indeed, make a fitting successor to John “I Love Me”...

Just a fan of the show. Years ago Pat Paulsen ran for President. Colbert has run for president. Why not a robot?

Troubled comic Artie Lange landed in the hospital after stabbing himself nine times in an apparent suicide attempt, sources told The Post.

While rumors of a possible Verizon-compatible iPhone in 2010 persist, one analyst has predicted that Apple will instead bring the iPhone to another GSM-based carrier in the U.S.: T-Mobile. In a note to investors released this week, Doug Reid of Thomas Weisel Partners said his firm believes that T-Mobile, and not Verizon, will be the beneficiary when Apple's exclusive agreement with AT&T expires next year... AT&T's exclusive contract with Apple for the iPhone is due to expire in 2010... While the iPhone in its current iteration is compatible with T-Mobile's network, it is not capable of connecting to its high-speed...

If you own a T-Mobile/Microsoft Sidekick smartphone I don’t have to tell you this. But if you are among the millions who don’t: on October 1st literally every user of the Sidekick data service lost the private personal records – emails, notes, calendar entries, contacts, etc. — they had stored on the system. Initially, it was believed that information was now lost forever. The official statement from Microsoft/Danger (the latter being the company that builds the Sidekick) and T-Mobile is that the data “almost certainly has been lost as a result of a server failure at Microsoft/Danger.”

NEW BEDFORD — A 21-year-old man recently walked along Orchard and Hawthorn streets, when a stranger approached and asked for a cigarette. The man felt uneasy and tried to run away. However, two men appeared and assaulted the victim. They stole the man's Sidekick — a high-tech cell phone with a flashy flip screen and keyboard popular among teens and young adults. Like Air Jordan sneakers and iPods before it, the Sidekick is also coveted by criminals. According to police reports, there have been 12 to 16 robberies in New Bedford this year in which someone was accosted for a...

It pains me to give this woman any more publicity, but Paris Hilton and her cracked cell phone, the Sidekick II, really woke a lot of people up. For those of you who recently returned from a stay in a monastary somewhere high up in the Himalayas, last month Paris Hilton had her Sidekick II hacked and the contents spread all over the Internet. We're talking some hot stuff here: private phone numbers of celebrities, childishly-written notes revealing all sorts of interesting personal and business details, and photos, including several nude pix (I'm not going to provide the link; just...

Private telephone numbers of celebrities have been unleashed on the Internet after an apparent hacking into Paris Hilton's T-MOBILE SIDEKICK Address Book, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. The DRUDGE REPORT has confirmed the authenticity of many of the unlisted and super-secret numbers: Private phone numbers and email addresses of Eminem, Lindsay Lohan, Christina Aguilera, Andy Roddick, Ashlee Simpson, Victoria Gotti, Vin Diesel, Anna Kournikova and many others! One top star reached Sunday morning expressed total outrage at Paris. "I gave her my number after we met in Miami, I did not know she f**king kept it on her cellphone!" the...