“Jews of the Wild West shines a bright light on a critical chapter of the American Jewish story that deserves to be told.” Imagine seeing Fiddler on the Roof with cowboy boots. The film may have been silent, but the impact was that of a loud bang. “The Great Train Robbery,” known as the first
Read MoreI first met Kevin Costner several years ago when I was invited by an agent friend to join a handful of Hollywood A-listers for a feral boar hunt in the central coast of California. The prolific pigs had outbred their welcome and the farmers and wine growers needed relief in getting the swine populations under
Read MoreWhat so many people get so wrong America’s latest episode of mass homicide has sparked renewed advocacy for restrictions on gun ownership. Once again, the accompanying debate has many gun control advocates claiming the Second Amendment’s reference to a “well regulated militia” narrows the amendment’s scope if not rendering it altogether moot. Before we examine
Read MoreFor a significant portion of American history, gun laws bore the ugly taint of racism.1 The founding generation that wrote the Second Amendment had racist gun laws, including prohibitions on the possession or carrying of firearms by Black people, whether free or enslaved.2 A Florida law in 1825 authorized white people to “enter into all Negro houses”
Read MoreThere are myriad lessons to be learned from how gun owners are treated in other countries. Perhaps the most important one is: We must always be thankful our nation’s Founders had the foresight to recognize the importance of enshrining the protection of our right to arms in the Second Amendment. Afghanistan gives us the most
Read MoreMinimize your chances of being a carjacking victim by taking simple precautions. Carjacking—a criminal attempting to steal your vehicle while you are present—is a scary proposition, particularly for women and those who might have children with them. How to avoid becoming a victim? First, understand a little bit about carjacking and how it happens. Carjacking
Read MoreIn the late 1990s, a gun prohibition organization adopted a strategy previously used by Jim Crow government officials against the free press: filing abusive lawsuits designed to cripple the businesses through the sheer cost of litigation against meritless claims. In response, most states, Colorado included, enacted legislation against such misuse of the judicial process. Eventually,
Read MoreIn 1931, Germany’s Weimar Republic discovered plans for a Nazi takeover in which Jews would be denied food and all persons refusing to surrender their guns within 24 hours would be executed. Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson has just been dinged by the liberal media for the nth time for observing that the number of
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