TGGP drops a link to an article (republished by the ever-daring LewRockwell.com) by a HuffingtonPost contributor who fancies himself a purveyor of "Renegade History". Thaddeus Russell says America has Jewish and Italian gangsters to thank for: Jazz music Las Vegas Hollywood Racial mixing "Gay liberation" I especially enjoyed Russell's retelling of how plucky Jewish gangsters and movie makers warded off attempts by Thomas Edison's thugs to defend Edison's intellectual and physical property: