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 »