Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute July 30, 2008 This September, a group of political and corporate elitists will convene a two-day ?Service Nation Summit? in New York City. The organizers support a proposal to re-instate conscription for all 1… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute July 30, 2008 Robert Jordan of New London, Connecticut, a 48-year-old insurance salesman, wanted to be a policeman. In 1996, Jordan applied to the police department. Like all applicants, he took a pre-employment i… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute July 29, 2008 The Senate convened in a special Saturday session on July 26, to pass a measure supposedly intended to provide relief for embattled homeowners who face foreclosure. In fact, the so-called ?Foreclos… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute August 1,2008 Every summer, political activists in New York stage a mass bicycle ride called Critical Mass. During last Friday?s Critical Mass event, a rider named Christopher Long was arrested by Police Officer Pat… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute July 25, 2008 The Iraq invasion introduced the practice of pre-emptive war. Public comments by Vice President Cheney and others have promoted the concept of pre-emptive nuclear war as a means of aborting Iran?s nucl… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute July 24, 2008 During Federal Reserve Chief Ben Bernanke?s most recent congressional testimony, Texas Congressman Ron Paul pointed out that since inflation is a tax, Bernanke is the ?biggest taxer in the country.?… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute July 23, 2008 Law enforcement authorities in Dallas recently arrested four career criminals who formed the nucleus of an armed gang that had terrorized seven counties for more than three years. The gang stole more tha… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute July 22, 2008 It didn?t take long for the Bush administration?s authoritarian assumptions to trickle down to local police agencies. For seven years, the Bush administration has treated the Fourth Amendment as… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute July 21, 2008 The phrase ?moral hazard? refers to incentives that abet immoral or irresponsible behavior. Asset forfeiture laws permitting police to seize property and cash without charging the owners with a crime… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute July 18, 2008 According to media-anointed terrorism expert Neil Livingstone, ? flying isn?t a right, it?s a privilege.? Livingstone?s description of the freedom to travel as a privilege came during a t… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute July 17, 2008 In this year?s presidential campaign, one candidate may be disqualified because of the circumstances of his birth. One might expect that candidate to be Barack Obama, given his exotic background. In fa… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute July 16, 2008 In what sense is this a republic when the people who write and enforce the law can modify it at whim to make their crimes legal? For several years, the Bush administration conducted a program of warra… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute July 15, 2008 Last November, federal agents seized roughly $3 million in coins produced by the Indiana-based Liberty Dollar movement. During the past decade, a small but growing number of fully informed buyers and se… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute July 14, 2008 To the surprise of nobody who has followed the meltdown of our financial system, the federal government has stepped in to rescue Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two government-sponsored enterprises that… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute July 11, 2008 Fifty years ago, the Air Force compiled a study entitled ?Communist Attempts to Elicit False Confessions from Air Force Prisoners of War.? That document examined the use of torture against U.S. servi… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute July 10, 2008 Ross and Micah Curtis, who own 55 acres of land near Big Sur, California, had to take quick action when a range fire threatened their property. Thanks to a computer model, the state fire protection agen… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute July 9, 2008 John Adams acknowledged that his patriotic service was inspired by his family obligations. In a 1780 letter to his wife Abigail, Adams explained that he studied and practiced politics so that their childr… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute July 8, 2008 While agribusiness giant Archer-Daniels-Midland feasts at the taxpayer trough, the Third World starves. Archer-Daniels Midland, or ADM, is the chief producer of ethanol, a supposedly eco-friendly fuel… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute July 7, 2008 Former prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi is the author of the most controversial book most Americans have never heard of: It?s entitled The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder. Bugliosi is a best-sel… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute July 4, 2008 Were the Signers of the Declaration of Independence to visit us today, how would they react? Would they be more astonished by our technology, or by the docility with which we submit to government regim… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute July 3, 2008 A unanimous three-judge federal panel, led by a conservative Reagan appointee, has overturned the Bush administration?s designation of Guantanamo detainee Huzaifa Parhat as an ?enemy combatant.?… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute July 2, 2008 For those who have forgotten the horrors of Communism, the violence, misery, and poverty afflicting the African nation Zimbabwe offers suitable refresher course. When it was known as Rhodesia, the coun… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute July 1, 2008 Gun rights advocates celebrated the recent Supreme Court ruling District of Columbia v. Heller, which decreed that the Second Amendment forbids ?the absolute prohibition of handguns held and used for se… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute June 30, 2008 By a 5-4 vote, the US Supreme Court has ruled that the 2006 Military Commissions Act was an unconstitutional attempt to scuttle the habeas corpus guarantee. That fundamental due process protection pr… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute June 27, 2008 For roughly four years, Scott McClellan served as George W. Bush?s press secretary. In that job he was required to retail the administration?s views and assertions as if they were gospel truth. M… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute June 25, 2008 The US Supreme Court recently refused to hear the case of DuPuy vs. McEwen. That lawsuit deals with the practice, by child protection agencies, of threatening to seize children in order to compel parents… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute June 24, 2008 Since 9/11, many commentators have warned that unless we fight an aggressive war against radical Islam our country will eventually find itself ruled by Sharia law ? that is, the Muslim religious code.… more »