Archives for: October 2008

Devouring a Widow's Home October 31,2008

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute October 31,2008 Since 1977, Ageda Camargo has lived in a small three-bedroom house in La Quinta, California. In fact, at the time Ageda bought her home, the City of La Quinta didn?t exist. Now its government is tr… more »

Charity, Not Coercion October 30, 2008

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute October 30, 2008 Earlier this year, Joseph Prudente of Bayonet Point, Florida opened his doors to his daughter and grandchildren when they lost their home. Then his mortgage reset, leaving Joseph with an additional m… more »

Greenspan: Destroyer, Sellout, Liar October 29, 2008

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute October 29, 2008 In 1967, a notorious anti-government radical published an essay defending the gold standard and assailing central banking. ?In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savi… more »

Iceland's Economic Meltdown October 28, 2008

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute October 28, 2008 A few years ago, Iceland was ranked fifth among the world?s nations in per capita income, and was rated the second most ?livable? country by the United Nations. In just one month, however, th… more »

The Economic Tsunami: Head for the High Ground October 27, 2008

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute October 27, 2008 Those who have survived a tsunami recall that the cataclysm was preceded by a loud sucking noise as the sea suddenly recedes from the shoreline. When this occurs, the only hope for survival is to find… more »

Federally Funded Thieves October 24, 2008

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute October 24, 2008 Over the past several years, Pythias Brown of Maplewood, New Jersey built a thriving business selling digital cameras, laptop computers, mp3 players, and other expensive consumer electronics on eBay.… more »

The ATF's Thought Police October 23, 2008

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute October 23, 2008 Pensacola, Florida resident Karen Kilpatrick remembers the slaughter of 86 innocent people by the Federal Government near Waco, Texas on April 19, 1993. Three years ago Karen staged a quiet but effec… more »

The Terror of "Zero Tolerance" October 22, 2008

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute October 22, 2008 Those with school-age children who may be assigned to write Halloween-themed short stories should be warned that displaying exceptional creativity could result in criminal charges under school ?Zero… more »

Welcome Aboard, Comrade Bush! October 21, 2008

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute October 21, 2008 Venezuelan ruler Hugo Chavez is an unabashed proponent of Marxism. Like his mentor and role model, the aging Cuban despot Fidel Castro, Chavez has worked to centralize control over his oil-rich nation… more »

Support Your Local Armed Robbers?* October 20, 2008

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute October 20, 2008 Lester and Mary Smith of Philo, California, suffer from heart disease, emphysema, and other afflictions. Under state and county law the elderly couple is entitled to grow and use marijuana to relieve… more »

Immigration Subsides October 17, 2008

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute October 17, 2008 Hidden in the relentlessly bad news about the economy we can find an ambivalent bit of good news: America?s economic downturn has apparently led to a radical decline in the rate of illegal immigrati… more »

The Tainted Blue Line October 16, 2008

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute October 16, 2008 As police departments expand, recruitment standards for police appear to be slipping. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution recently reported: ?More than one-third of recent Atlanta Police Academy gradua… more »

Sound Money October 15, 2008

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute October 15, 2008 He was scorned by the Republican Party leadership, mocked and slandered for his morally sound opposition to the Iraq War, and forbidden a speaking role at the recent convention. But former presidentia… more »

The October Revolution of 2008* October 14, 2008

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute October 14, 2008 We are witnessing an October Revolution in 2008 that may prove to be fill in words hereeven more destructive than the one that gripped Russia in 1917. The earlier revolution brought to power a rut… more »

Fiction about the Great Depression October 13, 2008

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute October 13, 2008 As our economic crisis deepens, the media is inundating the public with entirely dishonest accounts of the causes of the Great Depression of the 1930s. In the typical account we?re told that the… more »

Bin Laden's Mission is Accomplished* October 10, 2008

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute October 10, 2008 As our financial system reels, our markets collapse, and an economic abyss looms directly ahead, the question must be asked yet again: Why won?t our rulers end the pointless and counter-productive… more »

Socialism for the Rich, Penury for the Poor October 9, 2008

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute October 9, 2008 The Federal Reserve, which serves as the official counterfeiting arm of the Regime that rules us, has announced it will buy up huge amounts of commercial short-term debt . This means that in additi… more »

"Crimes" of Opinion October 8, 2008

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute October 8, 2008 Like millions of other people, German-born Australian citizen Gerald Toben maintains a website he uses to publish his opinions. Mr. Toben, a self-described historical revisionist, used his website to… more »

The Dictatorship is Unveiled October 7, 2008

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute October 7, 2008 In the teeth of nearly unanimous opposition from the electorate, Congress enacted a $700 billion measure to bail out Wall Street interests damaged by the credit crisis. The measure was an austere t… more »

Beyond Orwell's Imagination October 3, 2008

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute October 3, 2008 George Orwell would have recognized the name of our Homeland Security Department as something perfectly suited to the dystopian society he described in 1984. But it?s doubtful that even his uniquely… more »

Drop that Sudafed! October 2, 2008

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute October 2, 2008 The Cold and Flu season is nigh on arrival. So it?s important to remember that the government that rules us has criminalized ownership of what it regards as excessive amounts of decongestant. In 2… more »

Corporate Socialism and Cronyism October 1, 2008

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute October 1, 2008 During the last week of September, the Federal Reserve disgorged roughly $700 billion into the global financial system. This came before Congress acted on legislation authorizing another $700 billion t… more »

Support Your Local Paramilitary Thug? September 30, 2008

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute September 30, 2008 At first glance, the novelty t-shirt seems to be a calculated insult to the Denver police. Produced in commemoration of the recent Democratic National Convention in Denver, the shirt depicts a h… more »

Bipartisan Assault on Free Speech September 29, 2008

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute September 29, 2008 Whichever major party candidate wins the election this November, the First Amendment -- at least, what?s left of it ? will take a beating. John McCain famously helped write a so-called cam… more »