Will Grigg's Liberty Minute July 31, 2007 Being sent to prison on the word of a paid perjurer is a nightmare no American should face. Dozens of people have been imprisoned on the testimony of drug informant Jerrell Bray. Like most people in th… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute July 30, 2007 The right to petition elected leaders for redress of grievances is central to our Anglo-Saxon heritage of liberty under law. Under the Bush-Cheney regime, however, exercising that right is considered assau… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute July 27, 2007 In May 1918, while Americans were dying in the battlefields of a European war that was none of our nation's business, Congress passed the Sedition Act, which imposed fines of up to $10,000 and prison terms… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute July 26, 2007 Young boys dealing with the hormonal turbulence of early adolescence often misbehave. Cory Mashburn and Ryan Cornelison, 13-year-olds from McMinnville, Oregon, certainly did last Spring when they ran throu… more »

Article Article 1, Section 2 of the United States Constitution authorizes the federal government to conduct an ?enumeration? of the US population every decade in order to allocate congressional seats and electoral votes. This is the only legitim… more »

As a military prosecutor at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, Lt. Col. Stuart Couch confronted a poignant dilemma. Couch was assigned to prosecute Mohammadeou Ould Slahi, accused of organizing the hijacking of United Flight 175. That was the pla… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute June 20, 2007 Congressman Peter DeFazio is a member of the House Homeland Security Committee. As such the Oregon Democrat is permitted to view classified documents in a secure room in the Capitol. Rep. DeFazio rece… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute Addressing the Constitutional Convention on June 29, 1787, James Madison offered timeless insights about what is now called the Military-Industrial Complex: "A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will n… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute The Senate recently passed, by a 97-0 vote, a resolution condemning Iran for its alleged role in supporting attacks on US soldiers in Iraq. In fact, the Shiite Muslim regime in Iran supports the Shiite-dominated Iraqi… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute In testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, former White House Political Director Sara Taylor declared: "I took an oath to the president, and I take that oath very seriously." Senator Patrick Leahy reminded Miss… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute Will the Chinese government be your next landlord? If you haven't paid off your mortgage, this is a serious possibility, particularly if your mortgage is backed by the federal government. Secretary of Housing and Urban… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute George F. Will, a Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist and respected television commentator, warned on July 15 of the possibility of what he called a ?Weimar moment in our politics.? That expression refers… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute It often seems that the Bush administration is not a government, but rather a crime wave in perpetual session. Mr. Bush recently ordered former White House counsel Harriet Miers to defy a congressional subpoena to answer q… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute Several Senate Republicans have recently called for a US withdrawal from Iraq. Others, such Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, support a bill that would bring about that withdrawal by the end of next April. House Republican lead… more »

Conservative actor Ben Stein has fervently supported the Iraq war. In a recent essay, he describes an epiphany he had following a speech in Washington to a support group for families of soldiers who have fallen in Iraq: ?Why are we in Iraq? Most I… more »

Betty Perry of Orem, Utah is a 70-year-old grandma and widow who was assaulted and spent and hour in jail because she can't afford to water her lawn. When a police officer materialized on her front porch to issue a citation under the city zoning ord… more »

Lewis ?Scooter? Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Cheney, was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice by a jury of his peers. Libby was covering up White House involvement in exposing the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame.… more »

Although it sounds like the stuff of science fiction, a British government panel has approved the creation of interspecies clones -- human-animal hybrids for use in medical experiments. The British panel insisted that these genetically engineered e… more »

Montana resident Tim Sundles was recently sentenced by a federal court to six days in jail and two years of probation for attempting to kill wolves with poisoned meat. That effort went awry when the pesticide-laced meatballs were eaten a neighbor's pet… more »

For too many Americans, Independence Day has become an opportunity to celebrate the power of the central government, rather than to reflect on the principles of liberty. In parades and other events across the nation today, extravagant tribute will b… more »

A law recently enacted in Texas requires couples to take an eight-hour ?successful marriage? class before receiving a free marriage license. Those who decline to take the course will have to pay $60 in order to receive a license, which is double the… more »

David Burch of White Cloud, Michigan spent a weekend in jail because a local judge didn't like the condition of his yard. When Burch purchased his home last fall, the contractor who built it was supposed to finish the lawn, but didn't. After Burch m… more »