Liberty Minute March 28 2014   Charlottesville, Virginia resident Gerry Mitchell, who is confined to a wheelchair, was run down by a driver while trying to use a crosswalk. A few days later, while recuperating in a nearby hospital, Mitchell received… more »

Liberty Minute March 27 2014 Is marijuana more dangerous than alcohol? Although death by alcohol poisoning is commonplace, there is not a single reliable account of a marijuana-induced overdose. Fatal alcohol-involved traffic accidents occur every da… more »

Liberty Minute March 26 2014  Michael Smith was sleeping when he heard a loud noise outside his home in Norridgewock, Maine. Shirtless and annoyed, Smith opened his door to find a crew from the local electric utility cutting down trees in his yard. He… more »

Liberty Minute March 25 2014  About a year ago, Nicholas Teausant, a 20-year-old college student from Acampo, California, made some ill-advised comments on social networking sites. In one post he expressed an interest in going to Syria to fight on beh… more »

Liberty Minute March 24 2014  Russian President Vladimir Putin is a career KGB agent who has surrounded himself with people of similar backgrounds from Russia's military and intelligence elite. These officials are called ?siloviki,? a term that me… more »

Liberty Minute March 20 2014 The creation of a totalitarian state could be described as a process in which government steadily appropriates all of the functions of the family. Benito Mussolini concisely summarized the same idea with a terse entry in hi… more »

Liberty Minute March 19 2014 Georgia resident Adam Bennett was a passenger in a truck driven by his girlfriend. A police officer stopped them and said that the truck was missing a rear bumper. Rather than performing a license check, the officer immedia… more »

Liberty Minute March 18 2014 For people of an entrepreneurial perspective, technical innovations are a blessing that can be used to improve human life. Those burdened with a statist view see such advances as the means of controlling other human beings… more »

Liberty Minute March 17 2014 In 1999, the US government, with the aid of the NATO alliance, bombed Serbia for 78 days, killing thousands of people and inflicting billions of dollars? worth of damage to the country?s infrastructure. Serbia never attacke… more »

Liberty Minute March 14 2014 Prosecutorial misconduct is ubiquitous, in large measure because it is almost impossible to hold a prosecutor accountable. Last year, South Carolina State Supreme Court Justice Donald Beatty gave a speech in which he took n… more »

Liberty Minute March 13 2014 At some point, we should formally excise the Fourth Amendment from the Bill of Rights. From the National Security Agency to the local police department, government agencies are contemptuous of the idea of limits on their po… more »

Liberty Minute March 12 2014 As a patrol officer in Minneapolis, Michael Griffin is paid at least $60,000 a year, but the expenses he has inflicted on the city?s tax victims are much higher. Two lawsuits filed against Griffin for crimes committed off… more »

Liberty Minute March 11 2014 All governments, as St. Augustine observed, begin as criminal syndicates that achieve dominance over a territory. They distinguish themselves from ordinary robber bands "not by the renouncing of aggression but by the attain… more »

Liberty Minute March 10 2014 Vermont resident Robert Taylor, a homeless man and long-term alcoholic, died sometime last December of starvation and related neglect while in the Burlington County Jail. Taylor should have been taken to a hospital, but ja… more »

Liberty Minute March 7 2014 Oklahoma City resident Robert Biegler heckled a police officer during a traffic stop, which may be a bad idea, but it?s not a crime. Biegler, who was driving a pickup, yelled ?Road rage sucks!? when he saw Sgt. Matt D… more »

Liberty Minute March 6 2014 Anthony Vuona of Worcester, Massachusetts was beaten and robbed by two unidentified assailants during a home invasion. He called the police, who have failed to find the suspects or the stolen cash and jewelry. However, they… more »

Liberty Minute March 5 2014 New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez was a regular customer of hair stylist Antonio Darden. About two years ago, Darden decided that he would no longer accept the Governor?s business because of her opposition to the novel s… more »

Liberty Minute for March 4 2014   A measure before the Idaho Legislature has been described by its sponsors as a pre-emptive strike against the imposition of Islamic law. At very best, that bill represents a dubious solution in search of a non-existen… more »

LibertyMinute March 3 2014   The purpose of diplomacy is to protect the nation's interests in a fashion that maximizes advantages while minimizing potential problems.  American diplomacy during recent decades has followed exactly the opposite course… more »