Archives for: December 2008

Freedom: The Promise of Christmas - Christmas, 2008

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Will Grigg's Liberty Minute Christmas, 2008 It was a tax collection decree that brought Joseph and Mary to Bethlehem, the village where the Almighty Creator of the Universe became flesh in order to redeem mankind from death and sin. Many ofte… more »

Martial Law on the Horizon? December 24, 2008

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Will Grigg's Liberty Minute December 24, 2008 In ways both subtle and obvious, the government ruling us is preparing for the imposition of martial law. Among the overt measures being taken toward that objective is the creation of an active-dut… more »

Prosecutors Who Live in Glass Houses December 23, 2008

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Will Grigg's Liberty Minute December 23, 2008 In July 2007 we reviewed the case of Cory Mashburn and Ryan Cornelison we reviewed the case of Cory Mashburn and Ryan Cornelison, two 13-year-old Oregon boys who were prosecuted for a middle school p… more »

When Zoning and Charity Collide December 22, 2008

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Will Grigg's Liberty Minute December 22, 2008 A conflict in Middletown, New York displays the deliberate perversity of the bureaucratic mind at work. That town's United Presbyterian Church has established a shelter for homeless people during… more »

The Family, The State, and "Gay Marriage" December 19, 2008

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Will Grigg's Liberty Minute December 19, 2008 In the mid-18th Century, Jesuit scholar Guillaume Francois Berthier accurately assessed the potential for violence displayed by the forces of supposed tolerance. Addressing secularists, Berthier wr… more »

SWAT Abuse: No Right to Redress* December 18, 2008

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Will Grigg's Liberty Minute December 18, 2008 Last July 29, Cheye Calvo of Berwyn Heights, Maryland was changing for an appointment when .a group of heavily armed police charged into his house They dragged him downstairs in his underwear, h… more »

Wealth Redistribution is Un-American December 17, 2008

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Will Grigg's Liberty Minute December 17, 2008 After the Senate blocked a measure intended to bail out the Big Three automakers, Michigan Governor Janet Granholm denounced the vote as ?un-American. "It is unacceptable for this un-American, fr… more »

The Irrelevant Congress December 16, 2008

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Will Grigg's Liberty Minute December 16, 2008 After the Senate rejected the proposed bailout of the Big Three automakers, the White House announced that it would proceed without congressional help. The Treasury Department said it would redire… more »

The "Paranoid" Framers of the Bill of Rights December 15, 2008

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Will Grigg's Liberty Minute December 15, 2008 Were they alive today, the men who drafted the Bill of Rights might be considered clinically paranoid. Harvard history Bernard Bailyn has documented that the colonial patriots who won our indepen… more »

Obama's Globalist Ambitions December 12, 2008

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute December 12, 2008 In his book The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama asserted that the United States has a moral responsibility to submit to UN-issued international laws and regulations in order to demonstrate that ?the… more »

Peaceful Protests as "Terrorism" December 11, 2008

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute December 11, 2008 For two years, a young woman in her twenties known as either Lucy Shoup or Lucy McDonald attended protest rallies of various kinds in Maryland. Even though Lucy never took a hands-on role in preparin… more »

Stinging the Police* December 10, 2008

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute December 10, 2008 Barry Cooper of Austin, Texas is a former narcotics officer who has become an outspoken opponent of the war on drugs. He and his associates rented a house in Odessa, Texas. Inside they placed t… more »

December 5, 2008

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute December 5, 2008 On Thanksgiving night, a highly trained SWAT team in New Jersey engaged in an hour-long armed standoff with what proved to be a cardboard cutout. The night before, a woman in Washington, D.C. beca… more »

Victim Disarmament and Mass Murder in India December 4, 2008

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute December 4, 2008 The world watched in horror as a handful of armed slaughtered scores of innocent people at ten locations in Mumbai, India. Many important questions remain unanswered about the origins and connecti… more »

Commending, and Condemning, Torture December 3, 2008

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute December 3, 2008 William Kristol, Fox News commentator and columnist for the New York Times, has urged President Bush to issue pre-emptive pardons for any official who violated laws against torture. The point of tho… more »

Tyranny Without Pretense December 2, 2008

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute December 2, 2008 Since they had lived under the heel of British army of occupation, the Framers of our Constitution inserted safeguards into the Constitution and Bill of Rights to prevent the federal government from… more »

They Know What They're Doing* December 1, 2008

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute December 1, 2008 Since September 28, the federal bank bailout has cost much more than the $700 billion authorized by Congress. By the end of November, the total bailout bill was an estimated eight trillion dollars.… more »

Economic Malpractice November 28,2008

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute November 28,2008 Barack Obama has outlined a huge and massively expensive economic package that would spend hundred of billions of dollars on public works projects. He insists that huge public expenditures are neces… more »

Thanksgiving and Repentance November 27, 2008

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute November 27, 2008 Among the blessings for which Americans should give thanks this day is this: We live in a country in which politics is not a life-and-death proposition. The growth of government has expanded and… more »

The "Drug War": End It, Already! November 26, 2008

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute November 26, 2008 More than a trillion dollars has been spent by Washington in the so-called war on drugs. That war has produced no measurable benefit in terms of a reduction in the rates of drug use or the size of th… more »

Persecuting Mark Cuban* November 25, 2008

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute November 25, 2008 In addition to being a self-made billionaire, internet entrepreneur Mark Cuban is owner of the NBA?s Dallas Mavericks and a proponent of libertarian politics. In early 2007, Cuban expressed… more »

Bush's Final Betrayal November 24, 2008

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute November 24, 2008 For all of his weaknesses and errors, George W. Bush has been seen by many a stalwart defender of US independence. However, at the recently concluded G-20 Summit in Washington, Mr. Bush agreed to… more »