Day: August 3, 2016

Every year, on August the 1st, the whole of Warsaw comes to a standstill at the W-Hour, 5pm, the start of the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. Pedestrians stop, streets turn into carparks. Seventy-two years ago, for almost two months, the Polish underground, chiefly Armia Krajowa or Home Army, fought the hopeless fight against the overwhelmingly

DENVER — The roofing business in Colorado can be competitive. An estimated 2,000 companies swarm into the state on average to knock on doors of customers impacted by hailstorms. In the industry it can be tough to stand out. WeatherProof Roofing is no longer having that problem. On Saturday, James Webb announced a “Get a Roof,

Anne Verrill, owner of Grace restaurant in Maine, is refusing service to anyone who owns an AR-15 or even supports the idea of owning one. According to The New York Times (NYT), Verrill used a Facebook post to alert customers and would-be customers that “anyone who owned a high-powered semiautomatic rifle similar to the one used

Wright v. D.C., just filed today, is a Second Amendment challenge to D.C.’s stun gun ban; the case is being litigated by lawyer George Lyon, who was one of the original plaintiffs in the Heller handgun case. Here is a summary of why the named plaintiffs want to have Tasers; I think it’s a very

I am republishing this true life story from 2007 for the same reason I republished Jew Without a Gun, my nightmarish report of being trapped with my family, unarmed and defenseless, in the 1992 L.A. Riots. This is another cautionary tale—not about the riots—but about one frightened and helpless young woman who was being stalked

Documentary film that makes use of archival films, photographs, works of art, and diaries. The film describes the activity of the underground archive of the Warsaw Ghetto that was created out of a sense of tremendous urgency and at the risk of human life; it also tells the story of Emmanuel Ringelblum who was the