Will Grigg's Liberty Minute September 28, 2007 The book The Starfish and the Spider describes the Australian government's effort to protect the Great Barrier Reef from an exploding starfish population. Divers were sent to kill as many starfish as… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute September 27,2007 Pardoned by the Florida Clemency Board after more than three years in prison, Dr. Richard Paey was returned to his family on September 21. Confined to a wheelchair after an automobile accident and an i… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute September 26, 2007 The last time the Canadian dollar, known as the ?Loonie,? was equal in value to the Greenback, Gerald Ford was in the White House. In May 2004 the Canadian Loonie was worth 72 cents. On September… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute September 25, 2007 Washington State residents Alan and Stephne Roos knew that their son Thomas had drug problem. They didn't know that he was using the family's automobiles ? a late-model Nissan and a refurbished 1970… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute September 24, 2007 Deputy David B. Thompson of Oregon's Multnomah County Sheriff's Department finds some peculiar rewards in his work. ?Seeing someone get Tasered is second only to pulling the trigger,? wrote Dep… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute September 21, 2007 After being assaulted by an off-duty police officer, 20-year-old Brett Darrow installed a video camera in his car to record encounters with law enforcement. In early September, Darrow recorded a… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute September 20, 2007 There are few if any problems that cannot be made much worse through the dubious blessing of government intervention. For example: Thanks to the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, or Freddie… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute September 19, 2007 The French diplomat Talleyrand was among history's most cunning political survivors, somehow holding on to power while his comrades were sent to the guillotine. Asked late in life why he'd never wri… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute September 18, 2007 During the first day of his much-hyped congressional testimony regarding the troop surge in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus made a stunning admission: The Bush administration's strategy in Iraq has nothing… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute September 17, 2007 Apart from original sin, the single biggest source of human misery ? violent death, destruction, poverty, and oppression ? is government. Because of our fallen human nature, government of some for… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute September 14, 2007 Philosopher Hannah Arendt, one of the most astute analysts of totalitarianism, observed: ?Power is the ability to force compliance with one?s demands; authority is the ability to command voluntary… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute September 13, 2007 A few weeks ago we reviewed the July visit of US Housing Secretary Alphonso Jackson to Beijing. Jackson tried to persuade the Chinese central bank to buy mortgage-backed investment bonds. The Chin… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute September 12, 2007 If you listen carefully, you might hear the pillars of our debt-based economy collapsing beneath us. The Sunday Telegraph of London reported on September 9 that Britain's largest banks faced a ?… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute September 11, 2007 The atrocity committed against our nation six years ago is widely seen as a spontaneous manifestation of unprovoked evil. But the policies of the political elite in Washington sowed the seeds for the… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute September 10, 2007 In January 2004, Jack Goldsmith was head of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, where he was responsible to advise the president regarding the constitutional and statutory limits on his… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute September 7, 2007 In 1849, Henry David Thoreau wrote: ?How does it become a man to behave toward this American government today? I answer that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.? The siege at Ruby… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute September 6, 2007 Legal analyst Bruce Fein is a top-rank scholar whose conservative credentials are impeccable. He served in the Justice Department under Ronald Reagan. It is Fein's opinion that President Bush has c… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute September 5, 2007 When security guard Richard Jewell spotted a suspicious-looking backpack during the July 1996 Atlanta Olympics, he quickly ushered people away from it. Shortly thereafter, a bomb inside the backpack ex… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute September 4, 2007 As Sigmund Freud famously said, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. And sometimes foot-tapping in a public restroom stall is simply a nervous tic, rather than a secret signal conveying a desire to commi… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute September 3, 2007 Not satisfied with eviscerating the Bill of Rights and destroying what remains of the Constitution, our rulers are determined to repeal every guarantee of individual rights wrested by the people from g… more »