In life and in death, the lives of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were bound by the events of July 4, 1776.
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An elderly man who uses a walker — but still has plenty of grit left in him — fought back in brutal fashion when a much younger male unleashed an attack on him with a wrench Thursday in Fresno, California.
The incident occurred on San Ramon Avenue near 4th Street just before 9 a.m., KFSN-TV reported.
'Self defense. I have a small custom-made machete. One can protect oneself by any means — fist, [knife], gun.'
Police told the station a 45-year-old male with a wrench approached a 65-year-old man using a walker.
Authorities told KFSN the younger male hit the older man with the wrench multiple times before the victim eventually used his walker as self-defense.
Fresno Police Sgt. Diana Trueba Vega told the Fresno Bee that the victim said the male with the wrench was acting erratically — possibly while under the influence — prior to allegedly striking him in the hands with the tool.
The older man then pulled a knife out of his walker and stabbed the suspect in the arm and chest, the station said.
Authorities told KFSN the suspect ran off before being taken into custody; he's being treated at Community Regional Medical Center. Police told the Bee the suspect was listed in stable condition.
Once medically cleared, the suspect will be booked into the Fresno County Jail, the station said. Police told the Bee he'll be booked on an assault charge and an outstanding warrant.
Police told KFSN the elderly man acted out of self-defense.
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Those reacting to the station's Facebook post about the incident seemed pleased the elderly victim came out on top:
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Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) spoke in a video for Breitbart News's American Tributes project about how "change is the one thing that is constant about America," sharing the story about how his grandfather had "picked cotton," and though he did not finish the third grade, he was able to live "long enough" to see Scott earn a seat in Congress.
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A tough-talking Hunter Biden has challenged Donald Trump Jr. to a cage fight in a lengthy social media post about how the UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House was offensive to him.
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Just months after integrating customers into its massive AI user base, Microsoft is walking back its promise of being the "everyday productivity app for work and life."
That is, of course, unless businesses are willing to pay.
'... it is not possible to offer Cowork as an unlimited service.'
In January, Microsoft quickly turned its customer base of more than 430 million paid users of Microsoft 365 into AI users by combining its Office Suite with its Copilot AI.
"The Microsoft 365 Copilot app is your everyday productivity app for work and life that helps you find and edit files, scan documents, and create content on the go," the company said at the time.
It seems, however, that Microsoft has realized what many companies have: Unfettered AI usage is awfully expensive. Therefore the Bill Gates brand says it will start charging companies using Copilot's Cowork feature based on how much they use.
Microsoft already charges and arm and a leg for its Microsoft 365 Business platforms, with prices ranging from $1,500 per year ($12.50 per person) for its standard version to $2,640 per year ($22 per person) for 10 business licenses, for example.
According to a new report by Axios, Microsoft will charge companies that use Copilot Cowork based on usage. Cowork is an AI service that "sends emails, schedules meetings, creates documents," and manages the user's calendar.
Charles Lamanna, Microsoft's executive VP for Copilot, told Axios that it is not possible to offer Cowork as an unlimited service.
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"We have users who do hundreds of tasks a week, which is great — they're way productive — but the consequence is the costs can go very high," Lamanna said.
Instead, Microsoft is considering offering a version of DeepSeek, a Chinese AI program, at a lesser price. Axios reported that the model would be offered as a lower-cost alternative that is fully hosted on Azure, Microsoft's cloud platform.
However, since DeepSeek typically withholds user data in China, the Microsoft version would keep user data in Western hands by storing it on its own service.
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Blaze News previously reported on large companies that were starting to understand the full cost of using metered AI services.
For example, Uber reportedly used up its entire 2026 budget for AI in just four months.
At the beginning of June, a report circulated from an AI consultant that said one company he worked with racked up around $500 million in AI usage in just one month.
AI pricing structures vary, but costs pile up when employees are encouraged to integrate AI into workflow, such as when making large documents.
Anthropic's Claude may charge just under $5 to produce around 1,000 average-sized images, but dollar signs stack when using the AI for coding or for large documents that charge based on tokens. For Claude, one token is equal to approximately four written characters in English text or "0.75 words."
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The Cuban Communist Party debuted a set of economic reforms on Thursday allegedly intended to facilitate attracting foreign investment.
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Just over half of Democrats believe there should be "no restrictions on abortion," a weekly survey from the Economist/YouGov revealed.
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A man suspected of attempted murder is already back out on the street in the United Kingdom even though he may have caused a toddler to end up in the crocodile enclosure at a zoo.
On Thursday at Johnsons of Old Hurst zoo, located about 80 miles north of London, a 3-year-old boy somehow ended up in the crocodile enclosure. How exactly he got there remains unclear, but it does not appear to have been an accident.
The man 'was assessed as not being fit for interview.'
A New York Times headline about the incident said a "man forced" the boy into the crocodile enclosure, though the article noted that "it was not immediately clear whether the boy was thrown" into it.
The BBC reported that at least one crocodile attacked the boy during the harrowing incident and that police have said the crocodiles have not been removed or put down.
Zoo staff rescued the boy, who received medical attention on site before he was transported to the hospital. In a news release Friday morning, the Cambridgeshire Constabulary said he suffered "serious injuries" and that he is in "critical but stable condition."
Within hours of the incident, a "30-year-old man from Norfolk" had been arrested for attempted murder, a news release from the constabulary indicated.
He was not in custody for long.
In the Friday morning news release update, the constabulary confirmed that the "30-year-old man" had been released on bail until September 18. The news release said the man "was assessed as not being fit for interview."
The BBC said that individuals in Britain can be deemed unfit for interview on account of their "physical or mental state."
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GB News reported Friday that the suspect has "learning difficulties" and that he was accompanied by a "carer when the boy was thrown into the enclosure."
The constabulary confirmed that the man and the boy do not know one another.
"Our enquiries are ongoing as we continue to understand the circumstances surrounding this distressing incident," said a statement from Det. Insp. Verity McCann.
"Our thoughts remain with the boy, and his family and specialist officers continue to support them through this difficult time."
The constabulary did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.
In a statement posted to social media on Thursday, Johnsons of Old Hurst said:
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Yann LeCun, regarded as one of the "Godfathers of AI," has publicly denounced Elon Musk's AI company xAI, describing it as a "failure" and claiming Musk faces significant challenges in attracting top talent because the SpaceX and Tesla CEO has "not behaved in very good ways towards the previous team."
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As a philosophy professor at a state university, I am surrounded by activist professors who use their classrooms to push DEI, LGBTQ, and decolonization agendas. They justify this by saying they pursue justice — one of the highest goals of education.
But America can remember chattel slavery as evil only because justice is not invented by activists, courts, or governments. Justice is grounded in the nature of man and the law of God.
Juneteenth reminds us that legal freedom came late to Texas. But the truth about human dignity was not late. It was there from creation.
Because of our founding ideals, Americans could fight to end slavery as an evil and a violation of natural law. And because many nations are governed by different ideas, slavery still persists in parts of the world today.
Juneteenth is not merely a celebration of delayed legal emancipation. It bears witness to a deeper truth: Chattel slavery was wrong before government finally acted against it. Moral law stands above human law. If America is going to remember Juneteenth truthfully, it must recover natural law and the Creator who grounds it.
Freedom did not create dignityOn June 19, 1865, enslaved people in Texas finally heard that they were free. The announcement did not create their dignity. It did not make them human. It did not suddenly endow them with rights. It publicly recognized what had already been true by nature: They were human beings made by God, and no man had the right to own them.
The tyrannical system that allowed slavery began in kidnapping and was propagated by brutal violence. Its laws were no laws at all because they violated the natural moral law given by God to all humanity.
Americans agree today that slavery was wrong. But why?
It was not wrong merely because Congress later acted against it. It was not wrong merely because public opinion changed. It was not wrong merely because the Union won the war. It was not wrong because history moved forward.
Slavery was wrong because human beings are not property.
Human beings have a nature that gives them a moral status no government creates. They are rational, moral, embodied persons made for duties before God and neighbor. Because of what man is, certain things cannot rightly be done to him.
That is Christian natural law reasoning.
Rights come from the CreatorNatural law begins with the insight that the good for a being is grounded in the nature of that being. The good for a horse is grounded in the nature of a horse. The good for a tree is grounded in the nature of a tree. The good for a human being is grounded in human nature.
This is why chattel slavery is not merely inefficient, outdated, or offensive. It is contrary to what a human being is.
A slaveholder may have legal power, social approval, economic incentives, and the capacity for tyrannical violence. But he does not have moral authority, because no human law can erase the nature of man.
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The Declaration of Independence does not say rights come from government. It says men are “created equal” and “endowed by their Creator” with “unalienable Rights.”
If rights come from government, government can redefine, restrict, or remove them. If rights come from social consensus, the majority can vote them away. If rights come from personal identity, rights become expressions of will and power.
But if rights come from the Creator, government is under judgment. The state does not create justice. It is accountable to justice.
This is why the Declaration was morally stronger than the compromise that tolerated slavery. The American founding contained a principle that condemned America’s own practice. Juneteenth reminds us that the principle had to be applied against the national sin.
The counterfeit of justiceSocial justice activists want the emotional power of moral judgment without the metaphysical foundation that makes moral judgment possible.
They want to say slavery was evil. They want to say racism is evil. They want to say oppression is evil. They want to say injustice is evil.
But many of these same activists reject the Creator, reject fixed human nature, reject moral law, and reduce justice to power, identity, or social construction. The same people who say slavery is wrong also tell us that human beings can redefine themselves as animals, objects, or anything else they imagine. They appeal to the Marxist dialectic of oppressor and oppressed while denying the moral order that makes oppression intelligible.
Their view is incoherent.
If justice is socially constructed, then one society constructs slavery and another constructs abolition. If morality is only the preference of the powerful, abolition is not more just than slavery. It is merely the victory of a different power. If human nature is whatever we decide it is, human dignity has no stable foundation.
Juneteenth cannot be explained by moral relativism. It requires moral realism.
DEI as secularized religionThe activist account of justice is a Marxist counterfeit of Christianity. It keeps some outward forms but denies the inner meaning. DEI programs often speak in the language of justice, oppression, liberation, and equality. But they detach those words from the Creator and natural law. Justice becomes group equity. Sin becomes systemic power. Repentance becomes political re-education. Redemption becomes ideological compliance.
That framework cannot explain why slavery was evil in the first place. It can describe power relations, but it cannot give a final account of why oppressors are morally guilty.
The Christian natural law tradition can.
A right observance of Juneteenth should include gratitude for emancipation, repentance for national sin, honor for those who suffered, and moral clarity about the nature of justice. But it should not become a ritual of permanent grievance or ideological manipulation.
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America is accountable to GodThe lesson is not that America is uniquely evil. The lesson is that America, like every nation, is accountable to a law higher than itself. When America violated that law, it was guilty. When America appealed to that law, it had the moral resources to correct itself.
Americans must repent of national sin and turn to Christ for redemption.
That is why Juneteenth should not be surrendered to radicals who despise the moral order that makes the holiday meaningful.
Juneteenth reminds us that legal freedom came late to Texas. But the truth about human dignity was not late. It was there from creation. The offer of redemption did not come late either. It is extended to all sinners.
The enslaved were human before emancipation. They had rights before government recognized them.
Slavery was evil before it was abolished. Justice was real before America obeyed it.
That is the lesson America needs now. We have national sins for which we must repent, and we must be clear that Christ is our redeemer.
Juneteenth only makes sense if natural law is real. And natural law only makes sense if a Creator’s justice stands above every court, legislature, plantation, university, and activist movement.
Marxist advocates can scream, but they cannot give a coherent account of justice.