Category: Liberty Minutes

Dispelling Second Amendment Sophistries December 18, 2007

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Will Grigg's Liberty Minute December 18, 2007 Not long ago, the US Supreme Court agreed to hear the case challenging the constitutionality of Washington, DC's ultra-strict gun control laws. The case, Columbia vs. Heller, may require the Court… more »

Beggars CAN Be Choosers December 17, 2007

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Will Grigg's Liberty Minute December 17, 2007 A young woman on a Christmas shopping spree in New York City complained to the New York Times: ?We had trouble spending all our money.? Dear listener, when was the last time you had that proble… more »

Preventive Detention: Totalitarian "Justice" December 14, 2007

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Will Grigg's Liberty Minute December 14, 2007 The Bush administration has embraced a medieval concept of law by abolishing the habeas corpus guarantee, which forbids imprisonment without trial. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has proposed a m… more »

Privatizing Preventive War? December 13, 2007

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Will Grigg's Liberty Minute December 13, 2007 As the parent of a son who suffered the singular horror of sexual molestation, Ivan Oliver was understandably suspicious of strangers who moved into his neighborhood. When he learned that his new n… more »

Arsonists Fighting Fire With Gasoline December 12, 2007

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Will Grigg's Liberty Minute December 12, 2007 After igniting fires that threaten to consume the world, the international league of arsonists met and announced a plan to fight those fires with gasoline. Of course, this didn't actually happen. Bu… more »

The Torture State In Action December 11, 2007

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Will Grigg's Liberty Minute December 11, 2007 On December 6, CIA Director Michael Hayden admitted that the agency had destroyed video recordings of the 2005 interrogations of terrorist suspects. This was done, Hayden insists, to protect the safety… more »

Police State Predators in American Skies December 10, 2007

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Will Grigg's Liberty Minute December 10, 2007 During a United Nations peacekeeping mission in Yugoslavia in the mid-1990s, the U.S. Military unveiled a remarkable new unmanned aircraft called the Predator. Its mission was to locate Serb artillery… more »

Imperialism and a Day of Infamy December 7, 2007

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Will Grigg's Liberty Minute December 7, 2007 Forty-four years before the Imperial Japanese attack on the United States, an Hawaiian leader referred to the loss of Pearl Harbor as ?a day of infamy in Hawaiian history.? Lilioukalani, who woul… more »

Imperial Kidnapping December 6, 2007

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Will Grigg's Liberty Minute December 6, 2007 As Article I of the Constitution acknowledges, the Founding Fathers recognized the existence of ?the law of nations.? This is definitely not the same concept known today as ?international law,?… more »

The Arabs Buy In, December 5, 2007

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Will Grigg's Liberty Minute December 5, 2007 Sovereign Wealth Funds, or SWFs, are huge, State-controlled financial entities that are used by governments to buy key financial or infrastructure assets from other countries. The world's largest SW… more »

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