Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute July 31, 2009 Since 1980, the number of Americans behind bars has increased nearly five-fold. This is, in large measure, because of the federal government?s perverse insistence on criminalizing nearly every activit… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute July 30, 2009 The Fort Carson-based 4th Infantry Division?s 4th Brigade Combat Team, which experienced some of the heaviest fighting during the early stages of the Iraq war, suffered a widespread breakdown of morale… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute July 29, 2009 During a recent congressional hearing, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke could not explain what had happened to more than half a trillion dollars the Fed lent to foreign central banks. What kind of i… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute July 28, 2009 During its eight years in power, the Bush administration cut down many of the constitutional safeguards of individual liberty. So it was interesting to learn of an instance in which the administration de… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute July 27, 2009 President Obama?s statement that Cambridge, Massachusetts police had ?acted stupidly? in the arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates is sound, even if his perception of the motives behind it… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute July 24, 2009 Let?s give Congress and the Obama administration the benefit of the doubt and assume that they are not deliberately seeking to destroy what remains of America?s middle class and our country?s econo… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute July 23, 2009 Ten years ago today, police officers and federal DEA agents swarmed Tulia, Texas. By the end of the day, 47 people, all of them black and poor, were under arrest on suspicion of drug dealing. Eventual… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute July 22, 2009 Government is pure consumption without useful productivity. The only things that government can actually make are criminals out of innocent people, and corpses out of living human beings. The former p… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute July 21, 2009 Too many public officials treat every instance of social conflict as a suitable opportunity for police intervention. This is particularly true of public schools that follow ?Zero Tolerance? policies… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute July 20, 2009 The first manned landing on the Moon forty years ago today was a bold and inspiring accomplishment. While the benefits of the space program ? however one assesses them ? are seen, what we don?t… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute July 17, 2009 Vito Congine of Crivitz, Wisconsin invested hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy and develop a building for use as an Italian restaurant. In June his application for a business license was turned down… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute July 16, 2009 Among the myriad legislative horrors pending in Washington, D.C. is a measure mandating ?home interventions? by government workers to ?improve immunization coverage? of youngsters. The measure… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute June 15, 2009 For some people of a leftist political persuasion, practically any kind of political speech with which they disagree is to be considered ?hate speech.? Typical of such people is Bonnie Erbe, a com… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute July 14, 2009 John Holdren, formerly of Harvard?s Kennedy School of Government, is Barack Obama?s chief science advisor, or so-called ?Science Czar.? His role is to help define federal policy, particularly in… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute July 13, 2009 Toward the end of the recent G-8 summit in Italy, each national leader was given a gold coin specially minted in Belgium for the occasion by a group called United Future World Currency. The coin, cal… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute July 10, 2009 A decade ago, Switzerland was beset with spurious claims that its banks were hoarding gold stolen from victims of the Nazi Holocaust. Twice before Switzerland had conducted open and thorough investigatio… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute July 9, 2009 Oscar Wilde once said that building socialism would ?take too many evenings.? The ambitious social engineers in the Obama administration are discovering that centrally planning the U.S. economy can ta… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute July 8, 2009 Bob Campeau-Laurion was headed for the restroom during the Seventh Inning Stretch at Yankee Stadium when he was grabbed by two police officers and dragged from the game. Several years ago the Yankees… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute July 7, 2009 In recent years, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has mounted campaigns against so-called ?tax havens? and ?unfair tax competition? in the effort to discourage member stat… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute July 6, 2009 When Tucumcari, New Mexico resident Stacy Atkin sought help from the police to deal with her 14-year-old daughter, she expected receiving some useful advice. She certainly didn?t anticipate that her dau… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute July 3, 2009 During the American Revolution, British statesman Edmund Burke raised his voice in defense of the rights of the American colonists. Burke warned that the corruption and power-lust of the imperial British… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute July 2, 2009 When Joseph Stalin ruled the Soviet Union, his regime made war against the so-called Kulaks, or Ukrainian peasant farmers. They were targeted for extinction in an engineered famine during the 1930s that k… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute July 1, 2009 Cedric Glover is Mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana, a city afflicted ? as are so many these days ? with a hideously corrupt municipal police force. Mr. Glover also belongs to a group called Mayors Aga… more »