In recent years it has become common to refer to the president as ?Our Commander-in-Chief.? That description is only proper when used by active-duty military personnel who have been called into service by Congress. The designation ?Commander-i… more »

In late January, fifth-grade students at Reese Road Elementary School in Frankfort, New York, celebrated ?Law Enforcement Day? by being run through simulated arrests. Students were fingerprinted and subjected to biometric scans. The personal informa… more »

Idaho State Representative JoAnn Wood, who chairs the House Transportation Committee, has been excoriated as a ?dictator? for bottling up a highway safety bill intended to tighten laws governing seat belt and child safety seat use. Rep. Wood's cr… more »

Derek Hale of Manassas, Virginia retired from the Marines in January 2006 after two tours of duty in Iraq. Last November 6, Derek was killed by police in Wilmington, Delaware. He had traveled there with members of his motorcycle club to promote the… more »

How can America regain control of its borders? One approach would be to remove the perverse incentives that drive illegal immigration. Economist Mark Thornton points out that the current wave of immigration from Mexico has a lot to do with the hous… more »

Any time government declares war on an impersonal enemy, the real target is freedom. This is true whether we're discussing the so-called war on terror or its predecessor, the war on drugs. Several weeks ago, Boise's NBC affiliate KTVB profiled an ex-… more »

The words of John Adams are stark and unavoidable: ?Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.? Joseph Galloway, co-author of the Vietnam saga ?We Were Soldiers Once ? And Young,? describes Iraq as a ?war in the wrong place, against the w… more »

Under the common law, citizens have a right to resist illegal armed intrusions by agents of the state. Last week, Florida Circuit Judge Rick De Furia validated that right in a case involving John Coffin, a Sarasota County resident who beat two sherif… more »

In her 1943 essay entitled ?The Humanitarian With the Guillotine,? Isabel Patterson wrote: ?Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persev… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute March 15, 2007 Writing in 1785, James Madison, often called the Father of the US Constitution, warned that Americans must ?take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties.? ?The freemen of America did no… more »

One of the most dangerous provisions in the so-called Patriot Act permits the FBI to use national security letters, which allow the Bureau to obtain vast amounts of personal information on American citizens without a warrant or subpoena. Subjects of nat… more »

It is quite likely that Alberto Gonzalez, the Bush administration's Attorney General, may soon find himself out of a job. This would happen not because of the role he has played in large-scale violations of constitutional principles ? for instance… more »

A bill of attainder is a law that imposes punishment without trial. This is forbidden by the US Constitution, and the constitutions of most states. An anti-gang ordinance passed in January by the City of Ontario, Oregon, and adopted by Malheur Count… more »

Amazing as it may seem, the Bush administration has attempted, on more than one occasion, to extradite US citizens to stand trial before Iraqi courts. On February 9, the US Court of Appeals for Washington, DC ruled unanimously against the administra… more »

When our nation was attacked on September 11, 2001, our military ? particularly the National Guard and Reserves -- was already critically overstretched because of ongoing peacekeeping operations in the Balkans, Asia, the Middle East, and elsewhere.… more »

Doug Melvin, former head of the Boise office of the Federal Transportation Security Administration, was recently forced to resign after he was found walking nude through a hotel in Idaho Falls. Melvin's degenerate behavior came roughly a year after… more »

All over the Middle East, writes religious affairs scholar Robert Spencer, Christians are finding it increasingly difficult to locate a safe haven. ?Christian communities that date back to the dawn of Christianity have been steadily decreasing in… more »

For roughly the past two decades, the federal government has been tabulating so-called ?hate crimes.? Many states have laws which impose additional penalties to sentences for assault and other violent offenses if they are identified as hate crimes a… more »