Liberty Minute for February 28 2014 Alfred Whitehead heard screams outside his home in Alamogordo, New Mexico at 11 PM on February 23. He also heard the voice of a small boy yelling, ?Don?t hurt my mommy.? When Whitehead looked out the window he… more »

Liberty Minute February 27 2014 Susan Stuckey, an emotionally troubled 47-year-old resident of Prairie Village, Kansas, didn?t want to go to the mental hospital. When police materialized on her doorstep at dawn on March 31, 2010, they told her they w… more »

Liberty Minute February 26 2014 Like many other countries cobbled together from disparate cultural elements, Ukraine has been held together through force, and its population ruled by competing bands of gangsters. Speaking in broad geographic terms, res… more »

Liberty Minute February 25 2014 A slave is a person who has no right to say ?no? ? to withhold his consent to a transaction, or to refuse participation in a proposed undertaking. Slaves do not own themselves or any property they acquire. Everythi… more »

Liberty Minute February 24 2014  Those seeking to bring about a cultural revolution employ a tactic that could be described as ?victimidation.? The ongoing campaign for what is called ?gay rights? exemplifies this approach.  No morally respo… more »

Liberty Minute February 21 2014  The Massachusetts Legislature is considering a measure that would forbid prison staff to handcuff pregnant inmates during childbirth. The bill has taken roughly a decade to work its way through the system. If it passes… more »

LibertyMinute February 20 2014  Benjamin Franklin observed that ?Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.? That warning about the prohibitive price of persistent foolishness has been lost on millions of Americans who are e… more »

Liberty Minute February 19 2014 A character played by John Wayne once dismissed an irritating fellow as someone who was merely spitting out words in order to watch them splatter. In similar fashion, the leftist publication Salon continues to emit anti-… more »

LibertyMinute February 18 2014 A SWAT team operated by North Carolina?s Wilson County Sheriff?s Office executed  a ?high risk search warrant? on a narcotics suspect. The operators, clad in black armor, bucket helmets, and balaclavas, found wha… more »

Liberty Minute February 17 2014 The routine operations of the Transportation Security Administration, or TSA, constitute an ?abuse of public funds and trust,? according to former TSA agent James Edward Harrington.  Harrington, who was employed at… more »

Liberty Minute February 14 2014 The death, by heroin overdose, of Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman inspired media discussion of what has been called the ?heroin epidemic.? Little, if any, attention has been devoted to the fact that such a… more »

LibertyMinute February 13 2014  Attorney General Eric Holder, displaying the self-adoring parochialism that typifies the political class, thought he was conferring a compliment on Hank Aaron when he depicted the baseball immortal as the forerunner to… more »

Liberty Minute February 12 2014 To understand why refugee NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden can?t come home, one need only consider the recent plea bargain extracted from former State Department contractor Stephen Kim. A year ago it was revealed that… more »

Liberty Minute February 11 2014 Henry Magee was sleeping when armed intruders burst into his home last December 19. Knowing only that he and his family were at mortal risk, Magee grabbed a gun and opened fire, fatally wounding Sgt. Adam Sowers, who was… more »

Liberty Minute February 10 2014 Last August, Victor and Alissa Madrigal held a birthday party for their daughter at their home in Idaho Falls. The celebration was a little noisy, but none of the next-door neighbors was troubled by it. One woman severa… more »

Liberty Minute February 7 2014 The one thing tyrants can?t stand is ridicule. They thrive on flattery, they pretend to indulge principled criticism, they feel a sense of perverse satisfaction when made the targets of hatred ? but they are infuriate… more »

 Liberty Minute February 6 2014  It has been said that the most important question in human affairs is this: Was man created just below the angels, or has he risen just above the apes?  Those who accept the Bible?s view of man as a special creati… more »

LibertyMinute February 5 2014 The Christian existentialist philosopher Soren Kierkegaard once commented that many people will more easily tolerate public displays of inspired oddness than a simple profession of Christian faith. It over-taxes the word… more »

Liberty Minute February 4 2014 According to statist political theory, the government exists to provide indispensable services that are not offered through private, voluntary action. Without such intervention, we are told, people would die of starvation… more »

Liberty Minute February 3 2014 As a member of Congress nearly 20 years ago, New York Democratic Senator Charles Schumer was part of a special panel investigating the Federal massacre of the Branch Davidians outside Waco, Texas. During those hearings, S… more »