Category: Liberty Minutes
Sovietizing Kootenai County, Idaho
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
September 28, 2012
The Kootenai, Idaho County Commission is promoting a ballot measure that would supposedly ?streamline? the county government by making it bigger, more expensive, and less accountable.
If approved,… more »
Want to be Healthy? Do the Opposite of What the Government Recommends
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
September 27, 2012
As is often the case with large-scale public problems, the ever-increasing rate of childhood obesity is a joint product of individual weakness and misguided government intervention.
For decades, the fe… more »
All Laws and Rights Yield to the Imperative of "Officer Safety"
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
September 26, 2012
When a police officer conducts a traffic stop, the laws and the Constitution are instantly rendered irrelevant; all that matters is ?officer safety.? This admission was provided by Corry Bassett, a… more »
Is the Golden Rule Spiritually "Empty"?
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
September 25, 2012
In the study of logic, philosophy students are taught to avoid a fallacy called the category error, in which things of one kind are presented as if they belong in another. A recent critique of libertari… more »
Sovietizing the Homeland Security State
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
September 24, 2012
On Independence Day 1994, then-FBI Director Louis Freeh traveled to Moscow to visit the Lubyanka Square headquarters of the Russian secret police ? which is now known as the FSB. During the Stalin-era… more »
USA: Land of Military Slavery for Young Mothers
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
September 21, 2012
Kimberly Rivera, the mother of four small children, was arrested at the Canadian border while returning to theUnited States. She faces a term of two to five years in prison for deserting the U.S. Army.… more »
Do NOT Teach Your Children to Trust the Police
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
September 20, 2012
Shortly after Ruben Delgadillo graduated from the Idaho Police Academy, the Governor?s Task Force on Children at Risk held a conference to examine how to deal with child predators. That event included… more »
Obama and Romney: Interchangeable Corporate Socialists
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
September 19, 2012
In secretly recorded remarks to campaign donors that were leaked to the media, Republican presidential aspirant Mitt Romney observed that roughly 47 percent of the electorate is dependent on gov… more »
Barack Obama: "Constitutional" Dictator
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
September 18, 2012
When he affixed his signature to the National Defense Authorization Act last December, Barack Obama issued a signing statement declaring that he would not make use of a provision permitting the indefini… more »
Our Long-Dead "Living Constitution"
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
September 17, 2012
The document that was completed inPhiladelphiaon this day in 1787 was a written Constitution intended to limit the powers of the central government by specifically defining its functions. Anything t… more »
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