Liberty Minute April 28 2014 Whatever his other faults, Cliven Bundy is not a racist ? at least on the evidence of the carefully edited statement originally publicized by the New York Times. In an impromptu speech to supporters on April 19, the emba… more »

Liberty Minute April 25, 2014   Every failure of government to carry out its self-defined task of protecting the public results in the enhancement of the power of the officials and institutions responsible for that failure ? and no accountability f… more »

Liberty Minute for April 24 2014 Parents have a duty to monitor the attitudes and enthusiasms of their children, and report them to law enforcement if they display symptoms of incipient extremism. This is the view of Lisa Monaco, Barack Obama?s Secur… more »

LibertyMinute April 23 2014 Defenders of the federal crackdown on Cliven Bundy?s ranch pretend that the theft of his cattle is both a legal and reasonable response to trespassing. From a constitutional perspective the Feds have no authority to claim… more »

Liberty Minute April 22 2014 The family of Cliven Bundy achieved world-wide publicity when they and their supporters forced the BLM to relinquish several hundred head of cattle that had been confiscated after Bundy had refused to pay grazing fees to th… more »

Liberty Minute April 21 2014   It is difficult, if not impossible, for the mind of man to conjure a more depraved expression than ?Combatant children.? That obscenity is inscribed on a plaque found on a monument just north of Preston, Idaho, whic… more »

Liberty Minute April 18 2014 Ryan Holle never sold drugs, never stole anything, and certainly never killed anybody. He was asleep in his apartment when a friend to whom he had lent his car did all of those things. No evidence was ever provided that Hol… more »

Liberty Minute April 17 2014 Arizona resident Jefferson Duncan was walking by an apartment complex in Phoenix when he and a friend named Jonathan Parker were approached by two off-duty police officers who had been hired as security guards. Despite the… more »

LibertyMinute April 16 2014  Where the U.S. Constitution is concerned, rights can be subtracted through addition ? in this case, by adding five words to the Second Amendment. Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, a long-time opponent of t… more »

LibertyMinute April 15 201   When the ATF attacked the Branch Davidians outsideWacoin February 1993, the expectation was a quick and painless victory over an eccentric religious sect and a public relations boost for the scandal-plagued agency. This i… more »

Liberty Minute April 14 2014 After a week-long standoff in the southern Nevada desert, the BLM announced that it would return cattle that had been confiscated from rancher Cliven Bundy. Mr. Bundy, whose family has operated cattle ranches in southeaster… more »

Liberty Minute April 11   Elane Huguenin, a wedding photographer from New Mexico, was arraigned before that state?s ?human rights? soviet for politely declining to provide her services to a lesbian couple planning a ?commitment ceremony.?… more »

Liberty Minute April 10 2014   Sheriff's deputies in Kootenai County, Idaho detained a teenager from Arizona at a rest stop on suspicion of being a runaway. The girl managed to slip free of her handcuffs and commandeer the vehicle, leading police on… more »

Liberty Minute April 9 2014 After former Vice President Dick Cheney reiterated his claim that waterboarding isn?t torture, Independent Senator Angus Young of Vermont offered a perfectly reasonable suggestion. Speaking in an interview with MSNBC, Sen… more »

Liberty Minute April 8 2014 Sherri Watson is a 48-year-old mother of two who lives with her husband and children in the tiny town of Genola, Utah. With great reluctance, Sherri and her family are selling the house her father built and leaving the state… more »

Liberty Minute April 7 2014 Forty years ago, Marxist academic Herbert Marcuse devised a doctrine called ?Repressive Tolerance? in which the concept of tolerance was weaponized in the service of cultural revolution. While revolutionaries were out of… more »

Liberty Minute April 5 2014 About five years ago, I suffered a very serious gastrointestinal disorder that came respectably close to killing me. This condition, which made me pass nearly my entire blood volume over the course of about five days, was pr… more »

Liberty Minute for April 4 2014 Rape is a violent crime, and child rape is among the most abhorrent acts found within the compass of fallen man?s depravity. Assuming that prisons should exist, men who sexually molest children deserve to fill them, an… more »

Liberty Minute April 3 2014 Two years ago, Chicago-area voters reelected a criminal court judge named Cynthia Brim despite the fact that she was declared legally insane. Her state-certified mental illness was the only thing that kept Brim from being se… more »

Liberty Minute April 3 2014 Two years ago, Chicago-area voters reelected a criminal court judge named Cynthia Brim despite the fact that she was declared legally insane. Her state-certified mental illness was the only thing that kept Brim from being se… more »

Liberty Minute April 2 2014  Climate change ideology is a dogma masquerading as science. Proponents of the theory of human-generated global warming insist that their views are rooted in objective data ? yet they also insist that subjecting their con… more »

Liberty Minute April 1 2014  David Johnson and his family were asleep in their two-bedroom apartment in Caldwell, Idaho when they heard a noise later described as sounding like the walls were caving in. David went to open the front door, but it was sh… more »