Archives for: July 2013

All True Journalism is Adversarial

by Will

LibertyMinute July 15 2013 Thomas Jefferson famously said that he would prefer to have a newspaper without a government over having a government without a newspaper. Unfortunately, those running the contemporary news media see themselves as allies to,… more »

He Could Bear Arms for the Government -- But Not For Himself

by Will

Liberty Minute July 12 2013 Before he retired from the Army in 1993, Houston resident Ron Kelly spent decades firing machine guns, tanks, and other high-performance weapons. Kelly estimates that during his military career he fired 100,000 rounds of amm… more »

Firefighters who Moonlight as Arsonists

by Will

Liberty Minute July 11 2013 The Justice Department?s Community Relations Service, or CRS, describes itself as the agency?s ?`peacemaker? for community conflicts and tensions arising from differences of race, color, and national origin. It is de… more »

The Murderous Socialist Alchemy called "War"

by Will

Liberty Minute July 10 2013 As the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan is drawn down, the Pentagon is preparing to demolish a huge operations center that was built for the Marines. The facility, which is located in the country?s Helmand Province,… more »

Politicians Poach Credit for the Bravery of Other Men

by Will

Liberty Minute July 9 2013 Just as the government doesn?t produce any of the wealth it plunders, politicians do not display any of the valor they celebrate. This fact is illustrated by today?s memorial service in Prescott, Arizona to honor the 19 f… more »

Another Reason to Pity the Police: Mundanes Don't Get Their Jokes

by Will

Liberty Minute July 8 2013 In Denver, prior to the 2008 Democratic National Convention, the local police union distributed T-shirts depicting a fearsome, nightstick-wielding police figure arising from the skyline surrounded by a caption reading: ?We… more »

When Vice Enforcement is a Capital Crime

by Will

Liberty Minute for July 5 2013 Alexa Hamme of Salt Lake City was 25 years old when she died in a jail cell. She had been arrested four days earlier on suspicion of drug possession and endangerment of a child or adult. That last charge is a sentence enh… more »

The Redcoats Had NOTHING on Today's Local Police

by Will

Liberty Minute July 4 2013 Dustin Theoharis of Auburn, Washington was asleep in a basement bedroom when he was shot 16 times by officers who had come to the home looking for someone else. He was not a criminal suspect and had no access to a weapon when… more »

Who is this that "Makes Nations Tremble"?

by Will

(For context, read Isaiah 14:12-17 ) Liberty Minute July 3 2013 ?What kind of a man is he that he makes the whole nation tremble?? Those words were spoken by a waitress in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, during the visit of Barack Obama to the city. M… more »

Edward Snowden's "Safe and Dreary" Global Prison

by Will

Liberty Minute July 2 2013 The "empire of the Romans filled the world," recalled Edward Gibbon, with some exaggeration. This meant that the known world became "a safe and dreary prison" for anyone who had provoked the Emperor's displeasure. "On every… more »

What Reasonable Person WOULDN'T Avoid the Cops?

by Will

LibertyMinute July 1 2013 Why do we even pretend that the Fourth Amendment exists, when the federal government conducts all-encompassing warrantless surveillance, and local police routinely conduct searches without warrants or probable cause? In 2000,… more »