Will Grigg's Liberty Minute December 21, 2007 Joe Vento is owner of Geno's Steaks, a Philadelphia restaurant famed for its Philly Cheesesteak sandwiches. In October 2005 he posted a small sign at his establishment reading: ?This is America. Whe… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute December 20, 2007 Taser International's C2 stun gun is a civilian weapon that delivers the same incapacitating 50,000-volt charge emitted by the police model. Police reaction to this new civilian self-defense weapo… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute December 19, 2007 The New York Police Department is in an enviable position: They have so thoroughly banished crime from that city that they have free time to manufacture incidents of petty theft. The NYPD ? which… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute December 18, 2007 Not long ago, the US Supreme Court agreed to hear the case challenging the constitutionality of Washington, DC's ultra-strict gun control laws. The case, Columbia vs. Heller, may require the Court… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute December 17, 2007 A young woman on a Christmas shopping spree in New York City complained to the New York Times: ?We had trouble spending all our money.? Dear listener, when was the last time you had that proble… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute December 14, 2007 The Bush administration has embraced a medieval concept of law by abolishing the habeas corpus guarantee, which forbids imprisonment without trial. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has proposed a m… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute December 13, 2007 As the parent of a son who suffered the singular horror of sexual molestation, Ivan Oliver was understandably suspicious of strangers who moved into his neighborhood. When he learned that his new n… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute December 12, 2007 After igniting fires that threaten to consume the world, the international league of arsonists met and announced a plan to fight those fires with gasoline. Of course, this didn't actually happen. Bu… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute December 11, 2007 On December 6, CIA Director Michael Hayden admitted that the agency had destroyed video recordings of the 2005 interrogations of terrorist suspects. This was done, Hayden insists, to protect the safety… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute December 10, 2007 During a United Nations peacekeeping mission in Yugoslavia in the mid-1990s, the U.S. Military unveiled a remarkable new unmanned aircraft called the Predator. Its mission was to locate Serb artillery… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute December 7, 2007 Forty-four years before the Imperial Japanese attack on the United States, an Hawaiian leader referred to the loss of Pearl Harbor as ?a day of infamy in Hawaiian history.? Lilioukalani, who woul… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute December 6, 2007 As Article I of the Constitution acknowledges, the Founding Fathers recognized the existence of ?the law of nations.? This is definitely not the same concept known today as ?international law,?… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute December 5, 2007 Sovereign Wealth Funds, or SWFs, are huge, State-controlled financial entities that are used by governments to buy key financial or infrastructure assets from other countries. The world's largest SW… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute December 4, 2007 President Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki recently signed a Joint Security Declaration providing for a continued US military presence in Iraq. US forces would remain as long as necessary ?… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute December 3, 2007 In a totalitarian state, every individual ? regardless of his occupation ? is required to be an informant at all times. The very possibility that a friend, co-worker, or helpful bureaucrat might be… more »