Liberty Minute September 30 2013 Princeton historian Gary J. Bass points out that the Supreme Court of Bangladesh recently sentenced a former politician named Abdul Quader Mollah to death for war crimes committed during that country?s 1971 war for inde… more »

Liberty Minute September 27 2013 Columbia University professor Prahhjot Singh was beaten by a mob in New York City on September 21st. Like other Sikh men, Professor Singh ? who was born and raised in the United States and offers medical services in H… more »

Liberty Minute September 26 2013 One year has elapsed since Iranian-born U.S. citizen Saeed Abedini was arrested while visiting his native country on a mission trip. Last January, Pastor Saeed was sentenced to eight years in prison for undermining stat… more »

Liberty Minute September 25 2013 In June 2010, as an official in the Justice Department?s Office of Legal Counsel, David Barron signed a secret memorandum justifying the summary execution of U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaki through a drone strike in Yeme… more »

Liberty Minute September 24 2013 To be a Progressive is to believe that officially sanctioned coercion is the magic ingredient that makes government policies and institutions morally superior to private, voluntary association. Progressives treat the St… more »

Liberty Minute September 23 2013 In June 2011, police in Laguna Beach, California dispatched a SWAT team to raid the Rowland Heights home of Marilyn Injeyan, a 71-year-old retired schoolteacher. Her son, Vahan, was described as a ?person of interest? i… more »

Liberty Minute September 20 2013 A couple in Idaho Falls had a Saturday evening backyard barbecue to celebrate their daughter?s sixth birthday. A woman living more than a block away called police to complain about the noise, despite the fact that non… more »

Liberty Minute September 19 2013 Government is the only human enterprise that profits through failure. This would explain why bureaucracies established for the supposed purpose of crisis management routinely impede solutions. Leading the roster of such… more »

Liberty Minute September 18 2013 A few weeks ago, the US government confessed to something that had long been known, but officially denied: The CIA had organized the 1953 coup that overthrew Mohammed Mossadegh, the elected president of Iran. This led t… more »

Liberty Minute September 17 2013   When Barack Obama signed the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (or NDAA), he insisted that he would not enforce a key provision of that measure allowing the indefinite detention of Americans accused of providi… more »

Liberty Minute September 16 2013  Among the euphemisms employed to describe the hideous crime of abortion is the expression ?termination of pregnancy.? What abortion advocates defend is the violent and premature termination of a baby?s life, not… more »

Liberty Minute September 12 2013 Don?t go borrowing trouble. If people were to heed that time-honored admonition from a long-forgotten sage, life would be much more pleasant, and much less difficult. Yet for some reason many people are determined to… more »

LibertyMinute September 11 2013 On the eve of the 12th anniversary of 9/11, the President of the United States made a televised national address reiterating his willingness to intervene in the Syrian civil war on the side of al-Qaeda. The dominant elem… more »

Liberty Minute September 6 2013 Canada is in many ways a very appealing country. Canadians have a well-earned reputation for politeness. Its government, unfortunately, has taken that trait and perverted it into a suffocating form of politically correct… more »

Liberty Minute September 4 2013 Police departments  in and around Fresno, California are implementing a program of ?predictive policing? that critics are comparing to the totalitarian ?pre-crime? system depicted in the film ?Minority Report.… more »

Liberty Minute August 3 2013 Seeking to clinch the case for war with Syria, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi described to reporters a recent conversation with her five-year-old grandson. The child asked if Pelosi favored war in Syria. Pelosi tried to… more »

Liberty Minute August 30, 2013 For the first time since 1792, the British Parliament has refused to authorize the Prime Minister to take the country to war. The House of Commons rejected a resolution authorizing British involvement in a US ?led milit… more »

  Liberty Minute August 29 2013 Stockton May is an 11-year-old boy from Pleasant Grove, Utah who suffers from Dravet Syndrome, a severe form of epilepsy. There is no known cure for the condition. It can cause fatal swelling of the brain or sudden dea… more »

Liberty Minute August 28 2013 Under what circumstances is it justifiable for a police officer to assault an uncooperative but non-violent pregnant woman? In a video that recently surfaced on YouTube, an unidentified Rochester, New York Police Officer… more »

Liberty Minute August 27 2013 On Monday, Secretary of State John Kerry insisted that it was ?undeniable? that the Syrian government had conducted a chemical attack on civilians, and then had made a ?cynical attempt to cover it up.? Western che… more »

Liberty Minute August 23 2013 What would happen if people could develop the intellectual equivalent of a computer utility that would remove uniforms, badges, and titles from news accounts of fatal police raids? This would help people to determine if wh… more »

LibertyMinute August 22 2013 Police inRossford,Ohiostaged a training exercise in which an armed man hijacked a schoolbus, which was then stormed by masked SWAT operators armed with assault rifles. School teachers and administrators watched the drill un… more »

Liberty Minute August 16 2013 Totalitarian regimes are often lenient in dealing with offenders who commit crimes against persons and property ? but they are pitiless in punishing political dissidents. This explains why the Regime in Washington went… more »

Liberty Minute August 14 2013 In a totalitarian system it is a crime to speak ill of the ruler. That being the case, what does it tell us that a silly rodeo stunt involving a clown in an Obama mask can be treated not only as a display of bad taste, but… more »

Liberty Minute August 13 2013 What will happen when bureaucrats, rather than doctors, are in charge of medical treatment decisions? The case of Atlanta teenager Anthony Stokes provides one potentially terrifying answer. Stokes is an otherwise healthy… more »

Liberty Minute August 9 2013 Ladar Levison, who operates the Lavabit e-mail service, sent a notice to his customers that he was shutting down his company rather than becoming ?complicit in crimes against the American people.? Levison had been tar… more »

Liberty Minute August 7 2013   Thanks to world skateboard champion Tony Hawk, the world has been made aware of an incident in which a Virginia State Police trooper ran down a skateboarder on the streets of Richmond. The officer made an illegal U-turn… more »

Liberty Minute August 2 2013 New York Republican Congressman Peter King, a one-time fundraiser for the terrorist Irish Republican Army, has criticized Barack Obama?s decision to seek congressional approval of any military action against Syria. King lam… more »