Howdy, you-all. Look here: Our little old Institute has been doing great things. First of all a very generous donor has pledged to match donations of $100 or more for the next $15,000. An amazing opportunity for you to double the impact of your gift. For $100 you also...
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From the Director: Re: Fund Drive, Progress Report
by Scott Horton | Mar 5, 2021 | Featured Articles, Scott Horton
To: Institute supporters, readers and listeners From: the Director: Here's a bit of an Institute progress report. We're in the middle of our Fund drive, which is going great. We've already raised more than $40,000 out of the $50,000 we're pushing for, and a generous...
Christopher Tapp Suing Idaho Falls Police Over Wrongful Murder Conviction
by Scott Horton | Dec 28, 2019 | Blog
The cops, DAs and judges from Idaho Falls ought to all be caged like the criminals they are for the next 20 years to pay for what they did to this innocent man. Instead the same people responsible will be their own judges, will hand themselves immunity and then if...
12/13/19 Sheldon Richman on Trump’s Loyalty to Israel
by Scott Horton | Dec 16, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show, Will Grigg Radio
Sheldon Richman discusses America's relationship to Israel in the wake of President Trump's speech to Sheldon Adelson's Israeli-American Council. Trump has received criticism as being anti-semitic for saying that American Jews, particularly democrats, do not "love...
Looking Ahead to New Institute Published Books
by Scott Horton | Dec 5, 2019 | Featured Articles, Scott Horton
Building on the great success of Fool's Errand, No Quarter, The Great Ron Paul and Coming to Palestine, the Libertarian Institute will be publishing at least three new books in the new year: I am hard at work on my new book Enough Already: Time to End the War on...
Death and Taxes? How About Life and Liberty? Join us as we build a better Institute.
by Scott Horton | Dec 5, 2019 | Scott Horton
On a shoestring budget since our founding in 2016, we have done our best to hold the line on libertarian principle while prioritizing the fight against the government’s worst depredations first. In 2017 we published our director Scott Horton’s acclaimed book Fool’s...
4/28/17 Sheldon Richman on The Libertarian Institute’s future and US policy on North Korea
by Scott Horton | Apr 28, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show
Sheldon Richman, Executive Editor of The Libertarian Institute and author of many books, discusses The Libertarian Institute's future without co-founder William Norman Grigg, who recently passed away; the slate of new up-and-coming libertarian writers and the general...
Will Grigg Was a Mighty Voice for Justice and Liberty
by Dan Sanchez | Apr 12, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Will Grigg Radio
William Norman Grigg died this afternoon. He was a journalist, broadcaster, editor, musician, father, husband, and a self-described Christian Individualist. He was also my hero. Will’s main beat was stories about individual victims of the state: particularly Americans...
Chris Tapp case update: The Bastards of Bonneville County Have Won
by Will Grigg | Mar 21, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice, Will Grigg
Update re: The Last Full Measure of Malice: Bonneville County Seeks Plea Deal with Christopher Tapp "A deal has been reached in the Christopher Tapp case," reports today's Idaho Falls Post-Register. Appellate attorney John Thomas, who will discuss the details of the...
The Stolen Life of Christopher Tapp
by Will Grigg | Mar 11, 2017 | Will Grigg Radio, Will Grigg's Freedom Zealot Radio
Freedom Zealot Podcast March 11, 2017: If he can withstand one final assault from the evil people who have stolen 20 years from his life, Christopher Tapp -- wrongfully convicted of murder in 1998 -- can walk out of prison a free man on April 25....
The Last Full Measure of Malice: Bonneville County Seeks Plea Deal with Christopher Tapp (Updated, March 21, 2017)
by Will Grigg | Mar 8, 2017 | Will Grigg
(See the update below) Idaho Falls resident Christopher Tapp has spent more than two decades behind bars for a murder he did not commit. He was convicted on the basis of a confession extracted from him through psychological torture -- a fact that even the Bonneville...
The Slow-Motion State Murder of Michael Whiteley
by Will Grigg | Jan 19, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice, Will Grigg
Facing the prospect of life in prison – and the plausible threat of execution – Idaho Falls resident Michael Whiteley had every conceivable reason to plead guilty to a charge of second-degree kidnapping, save one: He didn’t commit the crime. “I have to plead not...
12/7/16 Will Grigg on the wrongful imprisonment of Christopher Tapp for a murder he didn’t commit
by Scott Horton | Dec 7, 2016 | The Scott Horton Show
Will Grigg, the Managing Editor of The Libertarian Institute, discusses the nineteen year wrongful imprisonment of Christopher Tapp for the 1996 murder of Angie Dodge in Idaho Falls; and why Angie's mother Carol is convinced Tapp was railroaded by the police and...
‘Justice Has No Expiration Date’: The Continued Wrongful Imprisonment of Christopher Tapp
by Will Grigg | Nov 28, 2016 | Featured Articles, Will Grigg
There were about twenty people gathered in an Idaho Falls courtroom on November 22 for a hearing about Christopher Tapp’s appeal for post-conviction relief. That Tapp is serving a life sentence for a murder he didn’t commit was known by everyone in that room. Two of...
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Christopher Hitchens Lied About the Cause of Terrorism
"The suicide murder community is almost perfectly faith based." - Christopher Hitchens On Real Time With Bill Maher, Hitchens claims that because an Islamist in the 1800's used the Koran to justify atrocities, it means that today the issue with Al-Qaeda is due to the...
War is a Euphemism for Mass Murder
To kill one man is to be guilty of a capital crime, to kill ten men is to increase the guilt tenfold, to kill a hundred men is to increase it a hundredfold. This the rulers of the earth all recognize, and yet when it comes to the greatest crime — waging war on another...
Empower the Working Class: Abolish Occupational Licensing
It's time to consistently apply the "my body my choice" principle. If consenting adults want to engage in economic activity, no third party should forcibly stop them. Democrats always say "voting once every two years between two politicians is how you express...
Death By Climate: Down 97% in Last 100 Years
Our schools provide many hours of lessons on climate change, but I wonder how many teachers, let alone pupils, are aware that climate-related deaths have decreased by as much as 97 per cent over the past 100 years, as the OFDA / CRED data show. - Why don’t we ever...
Black Youth Unemployment: Before and After Progressives Started “Helping”
A constant trend is progressivism is to use the state to coercively control others under the guise of "helping" them, make things worse, then ignore the problems you caused and never apologize. Sallie Mae loans didn't make college affordable. The Federal Reserve...
What Kind of Liberal?
Not to put too fine a point on it, but I am a Locke-Smith liberal.
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