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This article starts with the Supreme Court agreeing to hear a case is known as Garland v Cargill.  It’s a Trump regulation, not a Biden one.  Not that Biden would have disagreed, but we need to recognize Trump’s accomplishments on banning bump stocks. The bump stock ban has always seemed unreasonable to me – a Read more

Getting enthused about scientific theories might be a niche hobby, but this one is something special. The Fructose Survival Hypothesis is a unifying theory. Not the unifying theory- this one is diet/evolution specific. In scientific fields, there are often a few mutually exclusive but otherwise apparently accurate theories. Physics is notorious for this, and still Read more

What do Muslims believe and do? Understanding the 5 pillars of Islam Kalpana Jain, The Conversation For people who would like to learn more about Islam, The Conversation is publishing a series of articles, available on our website or as six emails delivered every other day, written by Senior Religion and Ethics Editor Kalpana Jain. Over Read more

The front page of the TVNews, November 1 states the following:  The Montana Secretary of State election calendar gives Oct. 18 through Oct. 23 as valid ballot mailing dates, stating: “If conducting election by mail ballot, absentee ballots are sent during this period.  A single mailing date must be chosen that is 20-15 days before Read more

We tend to think that modern firearms all have serial numbers – but even the large manufacturers tended to avoid serial numbers before the Gun Control Act of 1968 made serial numbers compulsory.  If your old 22 rifle doesn’t have a serial number, it probably just means it was built before 1968. Remington serial numbered Read more

Louis Pasteur is credited with the observation that “Fortune favors the prepared mind.”  I suppose I started preparing to identify Lonesome Charley Reynolds’ Sharps rifle before I was 10.  I read my grandmother’s book Frontier and Indian Life by Joseph Henry Taylor, and the section on Lonesome Charley began “One day in the early summer Read more