Will Grigg's Liberty Minute November 20, 2007 The ruling party of Iraq under Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is called the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, or SIIC. It was organized in 1982 by Iraqi exiles living in Iran. Despite the fact that th… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute November 19, 2007 The roots of our long and deepening involvement in Iraq go back more than three decades. In 1975, a highly placed Pentagon policy-maker published an anonymous essay in Harper's magazine entitled ?… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute November 16, 2007 In his justly famous Farewell Address, George Washington urged Americans to embrace a foreign policy based on American independence and non-intervention in the affairs of others: ?The great rule o… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute November 15, 2007 Supermodel Gisele Bundchen has no particular expertise where monetary policy is concerned, but she has enough common sense to recognize that the dollar is in trouble. That's why Gisele, the world's hig… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute November 14, 2007 The post-World War II trial of Nazi leaders at Nuremberg led most nations to accept a set of guidelines called the Nuremberg Principles. Under the Nuremberg Principles it is a war crime to plan, prepar… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute November 13, 2007 From Harvard University Law Professor Alan Dershowitz comes a novel defense of the torture techniques used by the Bush administration in the so-called war on terror: We must abandon our practical objec… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute November 12, 2007 During the four decades of its existence, East Germany developed what was probably history's most comprehensive police state. Thick and detailed files were compiled by the Stasi secret police on a… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute November 9, 2007 On this day in 1938, Germany succumbed to a government-organized outbreak of anti-Jewish violence known to history as Kristallnacht ? the ?Night of Broken Glass.? The triggering incident was t… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute November 8, 2007 For nearly 20 years, Laura Soelberg has conducted a fall garage sale in the church lot next to her mother's old house. This year, police arrived to shut down the event and to issue a citation to the 72-… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute November 6, 2007 During his Senate confirmation hearings, Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey was asked about the legal status of ?waterboarding? -- an interrogation technique best described as controlled, non-… more »