Will Grigg's Liberty Minute August 12 2011 Forty years ago this August 15, the Nixon administration closed the ?gold window? ? that is, it defaulted on the federal government?s debts by severing the connection between the dollar and gol… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute August 11, 2011 With the support of a majority of City Commissioners, Mary Lee Cook, the 84-year-old Mayor of Oak Hill, Florida, recently fired the city?s six-member police force. This came several weeks after the p… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute August 9 2011 According to the Sacramento Bee, the migratory wave from Mexico to California has gone into reverse. While the official unemployment rate in the U.S. is around ten percent, in Mexico the rate is lower th… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute August 8, 2011 Like thousands of other police union officials nation-wide, John Barnes of Michigan?s Warren Police Association is infuriated that he and his comrades may have to start paying a larger share of their… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute August 5, 2011 Police in in Renton, Washington seek to arrest and prosecute an anonymous satirist who created several animated cartoons mocking the scandal-plagued police department. The videos ?target specific… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute August 4, 2011 In a memorable scene from the 1970s film ?Animal House,? the odious Dean Wormer of fictional Faber University informs the slovenly misfits of the Delta House fraternity that they?ve been on ?dou… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute August 3, 2011 During the overwrought and ultimately pointless Capitol Hill melodrama over raising the debt ceiling, the public was routinely told that it would be unprecedented for the federal government to ?defaul… more »

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute August 2, 2011 Sterling Heights, Michigan resident Ramsey Tossa is an Iraqi expatriate who served as a translator for U.S. troops occupying his country. He lived under the reign of one-time Washington subcontractor Sa… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute August 1, 2011 For a crime to exist, three conditions must be met: There must be criminal intent, a violation of a specific criminal statute, and a victim. Any act failing to meet all three of those criteria cannot legi… more »

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute July 29, 2011 When the economy takes a nose-dive, households tighten their belts. Governments, on the other hand, tighten nooses. Household budgets confront dramatic increases in the cost of non-discretionary items… more »