Will Grigg's Liberty Minute February 29, 2008 In a New York Times opinion column published last June, Air Force Colonel Morris D. Davis, chief prosecutor for the Pentagon?s Office of Military Commissions, defended those tribunals as ?a fair pr… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute February 28, 2008 Debbie Hirst of London suffers from an aggressive form of breast cancer. Britain?s National Health Service is unwilling to provide her with Avastin, a cancer drug widely in use here in the U.S. and e… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute February 27, 2008 During the 1930s, the tiny principality of Liechtenstein joined Switzerland in enacting banking secrecy laws that protected the assets of Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany. Today, under Chancell… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute February 26, 2008 In October of last year, Boston attorney Simon Glik used his cellphone to record an arrest in which police used what he considered to be excessive force to subdue a suspect. He made no attempt to conce… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute February 25, 2008 How would Americans react if a foreign regime with overwhelming economic and military superiority bombed our nation for 78 days to punish us for supposed human rights offenses against illegal immigrant… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute February 21, 2008 Thomas Paine once warned: ?He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute February 20, 2008 England?s Northern Rock bank may be the first pebble in a global banking avalanche. Newcastle-based Northern Rock is England?s fifth-largest mortgage lender. Last September, amid the global c… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute February 19, 2008 It was after midnight when Yee Moua [MOO-ah], a Minneapolis resident of Hmong descent, heard the sound of a window shattering, followed by the quiet murmur of male voices. She frantically dialed 911 to… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute February 18, 2008 The enrichment of government power increases the vulnerability of innocent. This is illustrated by an unfolding scandal in Florida. Al Zimmerman, a 41-year-old former television news reporter, was… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute February 15, 2007 St. John Chrysostom, a fourth century father of the Christian Church, once pointed out that drunkenness results from a lack of self-discipline, rather than society's refusal to abolish alcohol. Thos… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute February 14, 2008 The proliferation of no-knock police raids does nothing to improve the safety of law-abiding citizens. But it is making matters easier for criminals. In early February, two men identifying themselve… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute February 13, 2008 In 1999, Russia's secret police, successors to the notorious KGB, created a program to carry out the real-time surveillance of electronic communications without a warrant. Russian privacy activist… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute February 12, 2008 The most destructive natural force known to man is the cosmic phenomenon called a black hole -- a gravity well so powerful that nothing can escape. Its boundary ? a point of no return -- is called th… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute February 11, 2008 In recent years, public-private partnerships have proliferated in the realm of national security. Blackwater, a private security firm, has deployed tens of thousands of mercenaries to Iraq, as well… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute February 8, 2008 FBI Special Agent Mark Lundgren explains that each of the Bureau's 102 Joint Terrorism Task Forces is governed by Dick Cheney's ?One Percent Doctrine? -- that is, if there is just a one percent chan… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute February 7, 2008 Speaking at the 1980 Republican Convention, Ronald Reagan condemned a common form of political idolatry he called ?`Trust Me' Government?: ?`Trust me' government is government that asks that we… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute February 6, 2008 Seven years ago, George W. Bush became the first US president to propose a two trillion dollar federal budget. This week he became the first to present a three trillion dollar budget. During that sa… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute February 5, 2008 In ways too numerous to count and too common for most people to notice, the government that rules us acts on assumptions derived directly from the Communist Manifesto. Sure, we grumble occasionally… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute February 4, 2008 If you're the victim of an assault, it might be best not to call the police. You could be assaulted a second time by the police, arrested, strip-searched, and left naked in a holding cell for six hours.… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute February 1, 2008 Last July, Dibor Roberts, a 47-year-old nurse from Sedona, Arizona, was driving home on a deserted rural road when what appeared to be a police car pulled behind her with running lights flashing. Wo… more »