Will Grigg's Liberty Minute November 30, 2007 From Fredericksburg, Texas comes a story that usefully illuminates the hopeless insanity of the so-called war on drugs. In 2004, Deputy Sheriff Clinton Stewart stopped Roxanne Lavender for a traff… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute November 29, 2007 Taser International, the company that manufactures the supposedly non-lethal stun guns used by police, has a tax-exempt foundation to support the families of officers killed in the line of duty. Admira… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute November 28, 2007 About a year ago, Oregon pro-life activist David Brownlow and his family were were accosted by Oregon State Trooper Ken Moore and threatened with arrest for the supposed offense of holding up an anti-w… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute November 27, 2007 ?Thieves for their robbery have authority when judges steal themselves.? This mordant observation by Shakespeare is brought to mind by the case of Richard McLean, a retired judge and former mayo… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute November 26, 2007 Article I, section 3 of the New Jersey State Constitution promises: ?No person shall be deprived of the inestimable privilege of worshiping Almighty God in a manner agreeable to the dictates of his o… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute November 23, 2007 The United States Constitution specifies that Congress has the authority to coin money; it also explicitly forbids the use of ?any Thing but gold and silver Coin [as] a Tender in Payment of Debts....… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute November 22, 2007 Even more than Independence Day, Thanksgiving embodies the ideals of our nation. We acknowledge our insurmountable indebtedness to our Creator for everything we cherish. It wasn't just the English p… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute November 21, 2007 We are frequently told that our conflict with radical Islam will continue for the foreseeable future. But few understand that our own government has been the single biggest promoter of radical Islam.… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute November 20, 2007 The ruling party of Iraq under Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is called the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, or SIIC. It was organized in 1982 by Iraqi exiles living in Iran. Despite the fact that th… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute November 19, 2007 The roots of our long and deepening involvement in Iraq go back more than three decades. In 1975, a highly placed Pentagon policy-maker published an anonymous essay in Harper's magazine entitled ?… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute November 16, 2007 In his justly famous Farewell Address, George Washington urged Americans to embrace a foreign policy based on American independence and non-intervention in the affairs of others: ?The great rule o… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute November 15, 2007 Supermodel Gisele Bundchen has no particular expertise where monetary policy is concerned, but she has enough common sense to recognize that the dollar is in trouble. That's why Gisele, the world's hig… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute November 14, 2007 The post-World War II trial of Nazi leaders at Nuremberg led most nations to accept a set of guidelines called the Nuremberg Principles. Under the Nuremberg Principles it is a war crime to plan, prepar… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute November 13, 2007 From Harvard University Law Professor Alan Dershowitz comes a novel defense of the torture techniques used by the Bush administration in the so-called war on terror: We must abandon our practical objec… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute November 12, 2007 During the four decades of its existence, East Germany developed what was probably history's most comprehensive police state. Thick and detailed files were compiled by the Stasi secret police on a… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute November 9, 2007 On this day in 1938, Germany succumbed to a government-organized outbreak of anti-Jewish violence known to history as Kristallnacht ? the ?Night of Broken Glass.? The triggering incident was t… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute November 8, 2007 For nearly 20 years, Laura Soelberg has conducted a fall garage sale in the church lot next to her mother's old house. This year, police arrived to shut down the event and to issue a citation to the 72-… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute November 6, 2007 During his Senate confirmation hearings, Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey was asked about the legal status of ?waterboarding? -- an interrogation technique best described as controlled, non-… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute November 7, 2007 George Orwell observed that ?In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.? For decades, presidents and their advisers have emitted a dense fog of deceit regarding the… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute November 5, 2007 Pakistani ruler Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency on November 3, suspending that country's Constitution. General Musharraf claimed that this drastic action was necessary in order to pro… more »

If you are puzzled about the current war in Iraq, you'll want to attend the lively debate which is scheduled for Friday, November 16 at the College of Idaho. Be at the Langroise Center Recital Hall at 7 PM for the debate between author and journalist Wi… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute November 2, 2003 On October 26, a Pennsylvania court sentenced convicted murderer Leslie Mollett to life in prison. Mollett's victim, Joseph R. Pokorny, was a Corporal in the State Highway Patrol killed during a Decembe… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute November 1, 2007 When they arrived in Minnesota in early September for a brief tour, three of Finland's most popular musicians were detained by Homeland Security agents and subjected to more than two hours of interrogat… more »