Month: May 2021

If you think the .357 Magnum is too small, but you also think the .44 Magnum is too powerful, is there a revolver cartridge out there for you? Yes there is, the underappreciated .41 Magnum. Developed in the 1960s by famed cartridge designer Elmer Keith (who was also instrumental in creating the .357 and the […]

One of the keys behind the viability of jury trials is the concept that jurors should be impartial when they’re seated. Coming into a case with preconceived notions of a defendant’s guilt skews the outcome of the trial. And that’s why prosecutors and defense attorneys go through such great motions to ensure impartial juries. In […]

When President Bush pushed the Patriot Act in the aftermath of 9/11, principled conservatives spoke out forcefully against it, aware that any legislation ostensibly targeted at combating terrorists could just as easily be used against American citizens. Those conservatives were lambasted by the neocons who were in charge of the Republican Party, and were called […]

It’s fair to say that many on the left are guilty of projection. They accuse those on the right of being violent and unhinged, when in fact they’re the ones fantasizing about violence against their opponents. And in many cases, such as at Antifa rallies, they act on those fantasies. But what kind of conflict […]

The Biden administration has publicly announced that it wants to cut US greenhouse gas emissions by half by 2030. To say that’s ambitious is a bit of an understatement. That would require significant changes to the US economy and to US patterns of consumption, among them the consumption of meat. You may have seen headlines […]

When we normally think about survival, we think about some sort of existential crisis – the aftermath of a hurricane, the weeks after severe flooding, or the possibility of a long grid-down situation. But we hardly ever imagine that daily life at some point could become a survival scenario. We have become so used to […]

The 4th Amendment to the US Constitution states: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and […]