Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute May 26 2009 With the economy continuing to collapse and pools of taxable income drying up, state and local governments are on the prowl for new sources of revenue. County commissioners in Ohio have made a suggestion… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute May 25, 2009 A few weeks ago, the San Diego Union-Tribune newspaper was purchased by Platinum Equity, an investment fund from Beverly Hills. Platinum Equity is capitalized by the $30 billion pension fund of the Los An… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute May 22, 2009 Roughly twenty state legislatures have enacted resolutions affirming their reserved powers under the Tenth Amendment. Montana has enacted a law exempting firearms made and sold within that state from fed… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute May 21, 2009 The USA, once the world standard in individual liberty, is now leading the effort to build a comprehensive electronic police state. In an electronic police state, observes the privacy activist group Cr… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute May 20, 2009 In an 1824 letter, Thomas Jefferson offered a concise description of our federated constitutional republic. "With respect to our State and federal governments, I do not think their relations [are] corr… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute May 19, 2009 We know for certain that dramatic and terrifying changes are underway in our nation when Washington?s embrace of socialist economics is criticized in the pages of Pravda. Yes, that Pravda ? the news… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute May 18, 2009 Lynne Boynton of Wallingford, Connecticut was in her driveway when the stormtroopers arrived. Fifteen federal agents and local police, some of them wielding machine guns, swarmed the home she shares with… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute May 14, 2009 It?s tragically common for appellate judges to ratify abuses of fundamental rights. It?s less common for them to urge police and policy makers to commit such violations. This recently happened in Wisc… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute May 13, 2009 During the 78-day US-led NATO war on Yugoslavia in 1999, the headquarters of Radio Television Serbia (or RTS) were destroyed by an airstrike. This was a deliberate, premeditated attack on a civilian media… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute May 12, 2009 A bill before the House of Representatives -- HR 2159 -- would make it a crime to provide firearms to dangerous terrorists. It is about thirty years too late, and targeted at the wrong people. The fede… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute May 11, 2009 Last week I referred to Ashton Lundeby, a 16-year-old from North Carolina who was arrested and held, under the PATRIOT act, on suspicion of making bomb threats. The federal prosecutor heading the case… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute May 8, 2009 "Which is better - to be ruled by one tyrant three thousand miles away or by three thousand tyrants one mile away?" asked Boston clergyman Byles Mather in 1776. Rev. Mather was wrong about independence,… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute May 7, 2009 Political elitists routinely enhance their power through measures supposedly intended to protect the proverbial little guy. Campaign finance reform laws, for instance, were supposed to reduce the influenc… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute May 6, 2009 During the reign of George W. Bush, many crucial constitutional protections and due process guarantees suffered grave injury, or were effectively abolished. The Fourth Amendment ?s protection from warran… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute May 5, 2009 Since early March, 16-year-old Ashton Lundeby, whose home is in North Carolina, has sat in a juvenile detention center in South Bend, Indiana. The home-school student was seized by FBI agents the night of… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute May 4, 2009 Ten years ago, a US-led NATO force bombed Serbia for 78 days, supposedly to prevent the genocide of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. The Serbs had been fighting a radical Islamic separatist movement led by… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute May 1, 2009 On April 29, the House of Representatives continued the federal government?s war on the principle of equal protection under law by enacting the Federal Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act o… more »