Archives for: May 2013

Now it's a "Crime" to Give a Cop a Dirty Look?

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute May 30 2013 Tremaine McMillian, a 14-year-old from Miami, was roughhousing  with friends on a beach not far from his home when police officers arrived on ATVs and told him that he would have to stop.  One of the officer… more »

Police Chief as Judge, Jury, and Executioner

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute May 28, 2013 Jason Ellis of Bardstown, Kentucky was murdered in the early morning hours of May 25. He was a K-9 officer with the local police department. Of infinitely greater importance, this young man was a husband and… more »

When the Vicious Sit in Judgment

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute May 27 2013 Illinois resident Michael Cook has been charged with drug and firearms offenses in East St. Louis following the death of a colleague from a cocaine overdose. Cook and his friend, Joe Christ, were staying at a h… more »

A Congressman who Doesn't Cotton to the Constitution

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LibertyMinute May 23 2013   Republican Congressman Tom Cotton of Arkansas somehow managed to graduate from Harvard Law School and take several oaths to uphold the US Constitution without studying the Constitution in adequate detail. Rep. Cotton has p… more »

Bill Nye, Global Warming Opportunist Guy

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 Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute May 22, 2013 Television personality Bill Nye, a former Boeing engineer and standup comedian, may call himself ?The Science Guy,? but his May 20 appearance on Piers Morgan?s CNN program dealt with speculation, rath… more »

Partisanship is Petty, But it isn't "Treason"

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute May 21, 2013 During the Bush presidency, a conservative filmmaker produced a documentary entitled ?Michael Moore hates America,? which accused the left-leaning director of undermining the national interest. Now that B… more »

Master Yourself Before Presuming to Govern Others

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  Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute May 20, 2013 Ever since Adam tried to avoid answering a direct question by re-directing blame at his wife, human beings have done everything we can to evade responsibility for our transgressions. This is a universal f… more »

Behind the Boise "Terrorism" Raid

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute May 17, 2013 On May 16, the Homeland Security Department raided the Boise home of an Uzbek national named Fazluddin Kurbanov, who has been accused of providing material support to an organization called the Islamic Moveme… more »

Gitmo-izing Air Passengers

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute May 16, 2013 Sometimes the most unpleasant and important truths are disclosed in unintended ways. Clive Stafford Smith, a British human rights activist, is the head of the legal group Reprieve, which documents abuses inf… more »

Leniency for a Uniformed Sexual Predator

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  Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute May 14, 2013 In November 2010, 17-year-old Utah resident Tamsen Reid was stopped by former Box Elder County, Utah, Sheriff?s Deputy Scott Womack. She and her two friends were told to get out of the car, stand barefo… more »

Is this Sandpoint, Idaho -- or Soviet Russia?

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute May 13, 2013 Rita Hutchens is a 57-year-old quilt artist from Sandpoint, Idaho. Until two years ago, she had never experienced trouble with the police. After checking on a rental property, Rita was followed home by an off… more »