Liberty Minute July 8 2013 In Denver, prior to the 2008 Democratic National Convention, the local police union distributed T-shirts depicting a fearsome, nightstick-wielding police figure arising from the skyline surrounded by a caption reading: ?We… more »

Liberty Minute for July 5 2013 Alexa Hamme of Salt Lake City was 25 years old when she died in a jail cell. She had been arrested four days earlier on suspicion of drug possession and endangerment of a child or adult. That last charge is a sentence enh… more »

Liberty Minute July 4 2013 Dustin Theoharis of Auburn, Washington was asleep in a basement bedroom when he was shot 16 times by officers who had come to the home looking for someone else. He was not a criminal suspect and had no access to a weapon when… more »

(For context, read Isaiah 14:12-17 ) Liberty Minute July 3 2013 ?What kind of a man is he that he makes the whole nation tremble?? Those words were spoken by a waitress in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, during the visit of Barack Obama to the city. M… more »

Liberty Minute July 2 2013 The "empire of the Romans filled the world," recalled Edward Gibbon, with some exaggeration. This meant that the known world became "a safe and dreary prison" for anyone who had provoked the Emperor's displeasure. "On every… more »

LibertyMinute July 1 2013 Why do we even pretend that the Fourth Amendment exists, when the federal government conducts all-encompassing warrantless surveillance, and local police routinely conduct searches without warrants or probable cause? In 2000,… more »

Liberty Minute June 27 2013   Friedrich Nietzsche famously said, ?Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has is stolen.? The truth of Nietzsche?s axiom is embodied by the band of thieves and terrorists called the Internal Revenue… more »

Liberty Minute June 26 2013 Two days ago, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a provision of the Voting Rights Act requiring federal supervision of local elections in some southern states. Because it was seen as outdated and unnecessary, that provision… more »

Liberty Minute June 25 2013 In his memoir Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, former  US intelligence asset John Perkins describedhow he and fellow ?Economic Hit Men? were used by Washington in a global loan-sharking scheme.  His job was to indu… more »

Liberty Minute June 24 2013   Since late 2001, the federal government has behaved as if the U.S. Constitution doesn?t exist with respect to matters of national security. Rather than acting under the limited and revocable grants of authority provid… more »