Liberty Minute September 19 2013 Government is the only human enterprise that profits through failure. This would explain why bureaucracies established for the supposed purpose of crisis management routinely impede solutions. Leading the roster of such… more »

Liberty Minute September 18 2013 A few weeks ago, the US government confessed to something that had long been known, but officially denied: The CIA had organized the 1953 coup that overthrew Mohammed Mossadegh, the elected president of Iran. This led t… more »

Liberty Minute September 17 2013   When Barack Obama signed the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (or NDAA), he insisted that he would not enforce a key provision of that measure allowing the indefinite detention of Americans accused of providi… more »

Liberty Minute September 16 2013  Among the euphemisms employed to describe the hideous crime of abortion is the expression ?termination of pregnancy.? What abortion advocates defend is the violent and premature termination of a baby?s life, not… more »

Liberty Minute September 12 2013 Don?t go borrowing trouble. If people were to heed that time-honored admonition from a long-forgotten sage, life would be much more pleasant, and much less difficult. Yet for some reason many people are determined to… more »

LibertyMinute September 11 2013 On the eve of the 12th anniversary of 9/11, the President of the United States made a televised national address reiterating his willingness to intervene in the Syrian civil war on the side of al-Qaeda. The dominant elem… more »

Liberty Minute September 6 2013 Canada is in many ways a very appealing country. Canadians have a well-earned reputation for politeness. Its government, unfortunately, has taken that trait and perverted it into a suffocating form of politically correct… more »

Liberty Minute September 4 2013 Police departments  in and around Fresno, California are implementing a program of ?predictive policing? that critics are comparing to the totalitarian ?pre-crime? system depicted in the film ?Minority Report.… more »

Liberty Minute August 3 2013 Seeking to clinch the case for war with Syria, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi described to reporters a recent conversation with her five-year-old grandson. The child asked if Pelosi favored war in Syria. Pelosi tried to… more »

Liberty Minute August 30, 2013 For the first time since 1792, the British Parliament has refused to authorize the Prime Minister to take the country to war. The House of Commons rejected a resolution authorizing British involvement in a US ?led milit… more »