Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute August 3, 2009 Recently in Houston, Texas, an off-duty police officer working as a security guard came upon a couple involved in a domestic quarrel. When he intervened, the officer was overpowered by the man, who… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute July 31, 2009 Since 1980, the number of Americans behind bars has increased nearly five-fold. This is, in large measure, because of the federal government?s perverse insistence on criminalizing nearly every activit… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute July 30, 2009 The Fort Carson-based 4th Infantry Division?s 4th Brigade Combat Team, which experienced some of the heaviest fighting during the early stages of the Iraq war, suffered a widespread breakdown of morale… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute July 29, 2009 During a recent congressional hearing, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke could not explain what had happened to more than half a trillion dollars the Fed lent to foreign central banks. What kind of i… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute July 28, 2009 During its eight years in power, the Bush administration cut down many of the constitutional safeguards of individual liberty. So it was interesting to learn of an instance in which the administration de… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute July 27, 2009 President Obama?s statement that Cambridge, Massachusetts police had ?acted stupidly? in the arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates is sound, even if his perception of the motives behind it… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute July 24, 2009 Let?s give Congress and the Obama administration the benefit of the doubt and assume that they are not deliberately seeking to destroy what remains of America?s middle class and our country?s econo… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute July 23, 2009 Ten years ago today, police officers and federal DEA agents swarmed Tulia, Texas. By the end of the day, 47 people, all of them black and poor, were under arrest on suspicion of drug dealing. Eventual… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute July 22, 2009 Government is pure consumption without useful productivity. The only things that government can actually make are criminals out of innocent people, and corpses out of living human beings. The former p… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute July 21, 2009 Too many public officials treat every instance of social conflict as a suitable opportunity for police intervention. This is particularly true of public schools that follow ?Zero Tolerance? policies… more »