Archives for: March 2008
Nationalizing Wall Street: Socialism for the Ultra-Rich March 31, 2008
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
March 31, 2008
The Federal Reserve has laid the foundation for a revolution in economic affairs.
?[S]omething big just happened,? wrote Wall Street Journal columnist David Kessel on March 27. ?It happened wit… more »
Criminalizing Accountability* March 26, 2008
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
March 26, 2008
Joe Arpaio, Sheriff of Arizona?s Maricopa County, styles himself the ?World?s Toughest Sheriff.? Yet he fell apart when a journalist published his home address on the internet.
Arpaio launche… more »
The Economic Insanity of the Iraq War ,March 25, 2008
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
March 25, 2008
In addition to being a moral obscenity, the war in Iraq is a prolonged act of economic insanity.
In 2003, we were told the Iraq war would essentially pay for itself through oil revenues. However, as… more »
The Unalloyed Arrogance of Our Rulers March 24, 2008
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
March 24, 2008
During a television interview conducted in Oman on March 19, Vice President Dick Cheney was asked about growing public opposition to the occupation of Iraq. When the reporter noted that two-thirds of the pu… more »
Prosecutors, Prostitutes, and the PATRIOT Act March 21, 2008
by Will
Will Grigg's Liberty Minute
March 21, 2008
Disgraced former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer built a political career atop the rubble of the Bill of Rights.
As state Attorney General, Spitzer specialized in the creative use of the law to crimin… more »
Bureaucracy: Enemy of Mankind March 20, 2008
by Will
Will Grigg's Liberty Minute
March 20, 2008
The bureaucratic mind may be mankind?s single greatest impediment to justice and genuine progress. The government school system provides the bureaucratic mind with unique opportunities to maximize hum… more »
Iraq: Again, May God Forgive Us March 19, 2008
by Will
Will Grigg's Liberty Minute
March 19, 2008
Five years ago today, without the constitutionally required declaration of war, propelled by malign ambition and acting behind a barricade of conscious lies, George W. Bush committed our nation to a use… more »
Police as Subsidy Junkies March 18, 2008
by Will
Will Grigg's Liberty Minute
March 18, 2008
A nation-wide narcotics crack-down entitled ?Operation Byrne Blitz? took place on March 8. Police across the country seized millions of dollars, thousands of pounds of contraband, and hundreds of su… more »
The Bank Runs Begin; Are You Ready? March 17, 2008
by Will
Will Grigg's Liberty Minute
March 17, 2008
At the end of the trading day on March 14, Bear Stearns investment bank was valued at more than three and a half billion dollars. Over the weekend, JP Morgan Chase bought out Bear Stearns for a mere $236… more »
How Torture Endangers All of Us March 13, 2008
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
March 13, 2008
In early March, Spain dropped its request to extradite Jamil-el-Banna and Omar Deghayes, who were suspected of involvement with an al-Qaeda cell in Madrid.
As the Guardian of London notes, Spanish of… more »
The Crash Is Coming March 12, 2008
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
March 12, 2008
Financial analyst John Williams tracks and reports the so-called US Government ?shadow statistics? -- figures about public spending and economic health Washington would like us to ignore.
Acc… more »
Spare The Needle? March 11, 2008
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
March 11, 2008
Last November, hundreds of children were herded into a Maryland courthouse at gunpoint. There, surrounded by riot police and guard dogs, they were forcibly vaccinated. Their parents had been threatened… more »
Family First; The State, Last March 10, 2008
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
March 10, 2008
The government ruling us will occasionally stand unveiled in its full malignant majesty. A recent California appeals court decision offered such an opportunity.
The court ruled that "parents do not… more »
The Perfect Law of Liberty* March 7, 2008
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
March 7, 2008
Scholar George H. Smith, a professed atheist, has written an essay for the Acton Institute celebrating Christianity?s central role in defining and defending individual liberty.
Smith notes that ?… more »
The NAU's Quite Conquest March 6, 2008
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
March 6, 2008
Without congressional approval or widespread media coverage, a significant military accord was signed by the US and Canada on February 14.
The agreement, called the Civil Assistance Plan, ?paves th… more »
When a Hug is a Felony March 5, 2008
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
March 5, 2008
The case of Veronica Rodriguez, a 27-year-old Oregon resident imprisoned for hugging a teenager, helps illustrate why our country has the largest prison population in the world.
Two years ago, as a co… more »
Greenspan's Final Insult March 4, 2008
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
March 4, 2008
During his nearly 20-year tenure as Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan did everything in his considerable power to ruin the value of the dollar.
The so-called ?dot-com? bubble, which… more »
An Ambivalent Victory March 3, 2008
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
March 3, 2008
A Bear Lake County, Idaho jury convicted former policeman Kevin Buttars of assault -- only to see the verdict undermined by an inexcusably lenient sentence.
In March 2007, Officer Buttars became aggra… more »