In late January, fifth-grade students at Reese Road Elementary School in Frankfort, New York, celebrated ?Law Enforcement Day? by being run through simulated arrests. Students were fingerprinted and subjected to biometric scans. The personal informa… more »

Idaho State Representative JoAnn Wood, who chairs the House Transportation Committee, has been excoriated as a ?dictator? for bottling up a highway safety bill intended to tighten laws governing seat belt and child safety seat use. Rep. Wood's cr… more »

Derek Hale of Manassas, Virginia retired from the Marines in January 2006 after two tours of duty in Iraq. Last November 6, Derek was killed by police in Wilmington, Delaware. He had traveled there with members of his motorcycle club to promote the… more »

How can America regain control of its borders? One approach would be to remove the perverse incentives that drive illegal immigration. Economist Mark Thornton points out that the current wave of immigration from Mexico has a lot to do with the hous… more »

Any time government declares war on an impersonal enemy, the real target is freedom. This is true whether we're discussing the so-called war on terror or its predecessor, the war on drugs. Several weeks ago, Boise's NBC affiliate KTVB profiled an ex-… more »

The words of John Adams are stark and unavoidable: ?Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.? Joseph Galloway, co-author of the Vietnam saga ?We Were Soldiers Once ? And Young,? describes Iraq as a ?war in the wrong place, against the w… more »

Under the common law, citizens have a right to resist illegal armed intrusions by agents of the state. Last week, Florida Circuit Judge Rick De Furia validated that right in a case involving John Coffin, a Sarasota County resident who beat two sherif… more »

In her 1943 essay entitled ?The Humanitarian With the Guillotine,? Isabel Patterson wrote: ?Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persev… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute March 15, 2007 Writing in 1785, James Madison, often called the Father of the US Constitution, warned that Americans must ?take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties.? ?The freemen of America did no… more »