Archives for: March 2011

The Warfare State: Simultaneously Sowing and Harvesting Misery March 28, 2011

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute March 28, 2011 Every foreign military entanglement is an exercise in simultaneously reaping and sowing misery. The patently illegal war in Libya perfectly exemplifies this principle. In 1969, the CIA manipulated a… more »

Shouldn't Believers Settle Disputes Among Themselves? March 25, 2011

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute March 25, 2011 The blogosphere was set ablaze by an innocuous preliminary ruling from Tampa Circuit Court Judge Richard Nielsen in a lawsuit involving current and former trustees of a Florida mosque. The mosque?… more »

Monetizing Micturition: Toilet Taxes, Ancient and Modern March 24, 2011

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute March 24, 2011 During the reign of the Emperor Vespasian, Rome imposed a city-wide tax on public toilets. The emperor?s son, Titus criticized the measure as undignified. In response, the Emperor reportedly held up a… more »

Lights, Camera, Tyranny! March 23, 2011

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute March 23, 2011 Sheriff Joe Arpaio has cost taxpayers in Arizona?s Maricopa County millions of dollars in legal settlements arising from instances in which prisoners have been abused ? sometimes with lethal conseq… more »

The UN: Engine of Perpetual War March 22, 2011

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute March 22, 2011 Rep. Illena Ros-Lehtinen of Florida, Chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is among Republican critics of the Obama administration?s new war in Libya. That war was supposedly authorized b… more »

Where Terrorists and Gangsters Reign March 21, 2011

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute March 21, 2011 Terrorism, according to Bill Clinton, consists of ?killing and robbery and coercion by people who do not have state authority?.? Obviously this means that such crimes committed through the suppo… more »

Another Federal Home Invasion Robbery March 17, 2011

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute March 17, 2011 The invaders arrived at 7:00 a.m. After beating down the back door, the armed intruders stormed into the Buffalo, New York home, seizing the terrified businessman who lived there and dragging him bodily… more »

Sit Down, Shut Up, and Give Us Your Money March 16, 2011

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute March 16, 2011 Civic groups in Wenatchee, Washington are circulating a petition on behalf of a ballot measure forbidding the city government to install or use so-red light cameras without prior, express approval by vo… more »

Terrorist "Turducken": A Meal fit for Rep. Peter King March 15, 2011

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute March 15, 2011 People given to shameless self-indulgence might appreciate an odd delicacy called ?Turducken.? This consists of a roasted turkey that is stuffed with a boneless duck that itself is filled with a de-… more »

When the UN Declares War March 14, 2011

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute March 14, 2011 The Arab League has passed a resolution calling for the UN Security Council to impose a ?no-fly zone? on Libya, which is in the throes of a civil war. The Obama administration had insisted that… more »

How Are Muslims Radicalized? Ask the FBI March 11, 2011

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute March 11, 2011 The House Homeland Security Committee?s hearings about the radicalization of American Muslims are a gratuitous exercise. The process through which young Muslims are radicalized is not a mystery; the F… more »

Department of Homeland Perversity March 10, 2011

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute March 10, 2011 The Transportation Security Administration, a branch of the Department of Homeland Security, is running an advertising campaign to recruit new agents to grope and fondle strangers at airports. Given th… more »

Anti-Christian Terrorism in Egypt: Your Tax Dollars at Work March 9, 2011

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute March 9, 2011 Shortly after midnight on New Year?s Day, an explosion ripped apart Saints Church in Alexandria, Egypt, killing dozens and wounding roughly one hundred others. The outrage felt by Egypt?s long-op… more »

What Would Our Founding Rebels Say? March 8, 2011

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute March 8, 2011 On March 5, thousands of demonstrators swarmed the Cairo-area offices of the Egyptian State Security Investigations agency. ?We are fetching documents and looking for detainees,? explained Mohammed… more »

"Equal Justice" -- The Chicago Way March 7, 2011

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute March 7, 2011 Seven years ago, Chicago resident Richard Venecko committed an unprovoked assault that ended in the death of David Koschman. Venecko was roughly a foot taller and one hundred pounds heavier than Koschman… more »

Commissar Moore: I Keep My Stash, But Your Bank Account Belongs to "Us" March 4, 2011

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute March 4, 2011 As I?ve noted before, the credo of Communists and other collectivists is the following: What?s mine is mine; what?s yours is ours. People who subscribe to collectivist ideologies typically use such… more »

Support Your Local Union Thug March 3, 2011

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute March 3, 2011 Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker was careful to exempt police unions from his proposed modifications to the state?s collective bargaining agreement. Yet unionized police have expressed solidarity with t… more »

Mohammed Babar: Federally Protected Terrorist March 2, 2011

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute March 2, 2011 Last December, convicted terrorist Mohammed Janaid Babar was paroled after serving roughly four and a half years in prison. Terrorists trained by Babar murdered 52 people and wounded hundreds more in co… more »

Environmentalism: The Real "Religion of Hate" March 1, 2011

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute March 1, 2011 There is a deeply morbid strain of misanthropy running through the environmentalist movement. Last October, the ?10:10 Campaign,? a British eco-radical group, unveiled an allegedly hilarious pub… more »

The Judicial Cartel Strikes February 25, 2011

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute February 25, 2011 Julian Heicklen may be sent to prison for the supposed crime of informing the public of the rights and duties of jurors. Heicklen, a 78-year-old former Penn State chemistry professor, distributes… more »

First, They Criminalized the Muslims.... February 24, 2011

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute February 24, 2011 Speaking at a time when English Catholics and Protestants were killing each other, Queen Elizabeth I said: ?I have no desire to open windows into men?s souls.? Government has no jurisdiction ov… more »