Archives for: June 2010
The Greatest Depression: God Is Not Mocked June 30, 2010
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
June 30, 2010
Imagine an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in which the self-appointed leader extols the supposed merits of drunkenness, and you?ll capture some of the weirdness of the recently concluded G20 Summit in To… more »
Making Grandma Ride the Taser June 29, 2010
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
June 29, 2010
El Reno, Oklahoma resident Lonnie Tinsley was worried that his ailing 86-year-old grandmother, Lona Varner, had overdosed on her medication. He dialed 911 to summon help from an EMT. Instead, Officer… more »
Johnny Law Can't Read Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute June 28, 2010
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
June 28, 2010
Denver resident Amy Shroff was awarded a restraining order preventing Greg Kruse, the violent man who fathered her child, from approaching within 100 yards.
The shared custody agreement required that Sh… more »
Why Do We Tolerate This? June 25, 2010
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
June 25, 2010
They have no idea what they are doing, or what will happen as a result ? but the people who presume to rule us are . finishing plans for the comprehensive restructuring of the nation?s financial sy… more »
Subsidized Shylocks June 24, 2010
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
June 24, 2010
With the exception of the Federal Reserve ? the government?s official counterfeiting arm ? no institution did more to inflate the recently collapsed housing bubble than Fannie Mae.
By acting a… more »
The Persecution of Sholom Rubashkin June 23, 2010
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
June 23, 2010
Until recently, 51-year-old Sholom Rubashkin ran Glatt Kosher Agriprocessors in Potsville, Iowa. Federal investigators staged a military raid against the plant in 2008.
To investigate allegations… more »
Will McChrystal be the New MacArthur? June 22, 2010
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
June 22, 2010
General Stanley McChrystal, military commander in Afghanistan, was summoned to the White House by President Obama after the General publicly disparaged top administration officials. His remarks appear… more »
Darth Lieberman's Internet "Kill Switch" June 21, 2010
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
June 21, 2010
Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman bears a striking physical resemblance to the fictional Senator Palpatine from the Star Wars film series. Palpatine?s mild and unassuming manner concealed bottomless… more »
"Charity" for the Wealthy and Well-Connected June 18, 2010
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
June 18, 2010
Before announcing his retirement from the Senate, Connecticut Democrat Chris Dodd proposed a large-scale reform of the banking industry. Predictably, it would ignore the fundamental problem ? the inc… more »
How DARE You Hurt a Torturer's Feelings? June 17, 2010
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
June 17, 2010
Sending an innocent man to be tortured in Syria is an exercise of official discretion ? but hurting the feelings of those who did so by questioning their motives is unconscionable cruelty.
This i… more »
Government: A Monopoly on Uselessness June 16, 2010
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
June 16, 2010
Ryan Snodgrass, a Colorado rafting guide, was arrested and charged with ?obstructing government operations.? His supposed crime was to jump into Clear Creek and save a young rafting student while go… more »
The Shadows of Empire June 15, 2010
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
June 15, 2010
Puerto Rico is now being patrolled by troops who recently returned from Iraq. National Guard personnel are manning checkpoints and conducting other police duties in response to a recent uptick in viole… more »
Snapshots Of A Dying Economy June 14, 2010
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
June 14, 2010
In a gesture fraught with symbolic significance, Detroit Mayor Dave Bing has announced that the city will relocate the headquarters of the police and fire departments to the long-vacant MGM Grand Detroi… more »
The Census Fraud June 11, 2010
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
June 11, 2010
Of the 431,000 jobs supposedly created by the U.S. economy in May, 411,000 were temporary positions with the Census Bureau, which is engaging in deliberate fraud to inflate employment statistics.
Cen… more »
The New Debtors' Prison June 10, 2010
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
June 10, 2010
No later than 2012, the federal government?s aggregate debt will exceed the gross domestic product. That same government is siphoning away what remains of the private wealth of our country, lavishing… more »
How to Prolong a Depression June 9, 2010
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
June 9, 2010
It sometimes seems as if incurable economic illiteracy is a prerequisite of a political career. North Carolina Congressman Brad Miller offers a splendid example of this disability in his proposed ?Re… more »
Palestinian Terrorism: Made in Washington, D.C. June 8, 2010
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
June 8, 2010
During an August 1997 counter-terrorism conference at the University of Illinois-Chicago, your correspondent saw a presentation by ATF official Kathleen Kiernan in which she explained how the agency was… more »
Murderous Impunity June 7, 2010
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
June 7, 2010
As St. Augustine observed, a government is a criminal gang that has given itself permission to murder, torture, and steal.
This fact was made vivid in a recent speech by former President George W. Bus… more »
We Bought the Bullets June 4, 2010
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
June 4, 2010
The bullets used to kill 19-year-old American citizen Furkan Dogan were fired by soldiers in a foreign army, but they were paid for by U.S. tax dollars.
Dogan was shot five times at close range ? fo… more »
For Tax-Feeders, a "Guess" is as Good as a Fact June 3, 2010
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
June 3, 2010
In July 2008, Mark Jenney was stopped by Officer Christopher Santimarino in a speed trap outside Copely, Ohio. Santimarino issued Jenney a ticket for driving 79 miles per hour in a 60 MPH zone. When Jenne… more »
The Enemy At Their Backs June 2, 2010
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
June 2, 2010
When Ethiopia was ruled by the Communist butcher Mengistu, the families of those slaughtered in state-run firing squads were billed for the bullets used to murder their loved ones.
The Pentagon?s tre… more »
Piracy Isn't "Self-Defense" June 1, 2010
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
June 1, 2010
Samuel Adams defined his political strategy quite simply: Put your enemies in the wrong, and keep them in the wrong.
Adams? approach has been employed by modern independence movements -- among them… more »
The "Tax Mahal": A Shrine to the Omnivorous State May 31, 2010
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
May 31, 2010
There is no better illustration of the corrupt futility of the so-called economic stimulus program than the $92 million being spent to renovate the IRS compound in Andover, Massachusetts.
According to th… more »