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Thomas L. Knapp is director and senior news analyst at the William Lloyd Garrison Center for Libertarian Advocacy Journalism (thegarrisoncenter.org). He lives and works in north central Florida.
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Saturday, January 3, 2026Peace President? Yeah, Right. As Christmas approaches, I'm all in favor of "on earth peace, goodwill toward men." But I find Trump's claims and promises on that subject less believable than stories about Santa Claus.
Saturday, January 3, 2026January 3: The "Peace President's" Latest Date Which Will Live in Infamy Trump's attack on Venezuela was entirely optional. There was no plausible, let alone imminent, threat against the United States by the Venezuelan regime that could have served as an excuse for "retaliation" or any plea of "necessity."
Saturday, January 3, 2026Cannabis: Don't Just Reschedule, Deschedule The war on drugs has always been stupid and evil; its application to marijuana particularly so. Far too many people have spent far too many years in prison for possession and use of a common and benign plant, and taxpayers have been mulcted of far too much money to put them there.
Sunday, December 14, 2025First They Came for the Tourists ... As a practical matter, all this snooping just gums up the works of everyone's life so more government employees can collect more paychecks. It doesn't protect "America" and it doesn't protect you.
Sunday, December 14, 2025Regime Change: Adam Smith Talks One Game and Spends on Another So long as Congress keeps paying presidents to wage wars, presidents will happily take that money, and enthusiastically deliver the goods.
Monday, December 1, 2025You Must Refuse Illegal Orders. If This Be Treason, Make The Most Of It. You must refuse illegal orders. If it's "treason" or "sedition" to state that fact, then every instructor in every basic training class on military law is a traitor who's been teaching treason and preaching sedition to every recruit since 1950, when the UCMJ was adopted ... and probably long before that.
Monday, December 1, 2025Quiet, Piggy: Reporters Aren't Trump's Subordinates Trump's only subordinates (with respect to his position as president of the United States) are employees of the federal government's executive branch. Literally everyone else in the country is either his equal or his superior.
Monday, December 1, 2025Taiwan: Takaichi Strikes a Long-Needed Blow Against "Strategic Ambiguity" Taiwan is not now, and never has been, part of the People's Republic of China.
Saturday, November 8, 2025SCOTUS Passport Ruling: A Distraction from the Real Issue If the purpose of a passport is to establish that the government has issued a particular person a Very Special Important Permission Slip to Travel, matching that person's fingerprint to a fingerprint on the passport is sufficient. Anything more is about bureaucratic control fetishes, not a desire to identify travelers.
Thursday, November 6, 2025Against Moral Panic: Or, Dolls Aren't Real Kids Do we want fewer or more child molesters? If the former, we'll stop letting moral panic drive our legal and political demands.
Monday, November 3, 2025The Administration Just Admitted War Powers Don't Cover Trump's Caribbean Murder Spree If the drone strike campaign in the Caribbean isn't war, what is it? It's not law enforcement. In law enforcement, there are investigations, charges filed, judicial warrants issued, and attempts at arrest. These drone strikes include none of those elements except, supposedly, investigations. They also take place entirely outside the legal jurisdiction of the United States. Not war. Not law enforcement. What, then? Murder.
Monday, November 3, 2025Tariffs: The Truth May Hurt Trump, But Trump's Lies Hurt You Estimates vary -- in large part because Trump's tariffs rates seem to change by the minute on the basis of his whims and tantrums -- but over the last few months he's hiked your household's annual tax bill by at least $2,500, and probably closer to $5,000. That's a lot of money to spend humoring one guy's "throw myself on the floor and hold my breath 'til I turn blue" approach to trade/tax policy.
Tuesday, October 21, 2025Gaza: Yes, It's A War Trying to separate war from the genocide and ethnic cleansing that often accompanies it is cheap moralizing for propaganda points.
Thursday, October 9, 2025Should Healthcare Be a Commodity? Depends on Whether You Actually Want Healthcare Without large-scale commodification and money as medium of exchange, we'd all be -- and once were -- much, much poorer than we are now, even if enterprises were "worker-owned."
Thursday, October 9, 2025Social Security: Instead of Robbing the "Gabillionaires," Stop Fleecing the "Regular Workers" Jim Hightower ... wants, in the common parlance, to "redistribute wealth," in the form of retirement income. Social Security already does that, but in a different direction: It forces black men to subsidize the retirements of white women.
Sunday, October 5, 2025"National Defense Strategy": A Novel And Unlikely, But Welcome, Proposition We should welcome even the slightest reorientation of US military policy toward "national defense" rather than foreign meddling.
Sunday, October 5, 2025Yes, James Comey is a Liar ... and a Distraction It seems like Comey's tenure was mostly lies. So pardon me if I decline to break out even the world's smallest violin for his current legal problems. On the other hand, it's also true that this prosecution has nothing whatsoever to do with the alleged lie in question.
![Lincoln Memorial during the Government Shutdown [explored], From CreativeCommonsPhoto](https://www.opednews.com/populum/visuals/2025/09/2025-09-76576-350-CreativeCommonsPhotos-3821_10040280235_c70e9dea38_b.jpg "Lincoln Memorial during the Government Shutdown [explored], From CreativeCommonsPhoto")
Sunday, October 5, 2025Shutdown Theater, Briar Patch Edition The two wings of America's single-party state, and their pet media, treat the threat of a "government shutdown" as existential, and spend a lot more time trying to pre-emptively apportion blame to each other than trying to do a deal. In reality, these "shutdowns" are pure Hollywood magic, all special effects -- "no animals or bureaucrats were harmed in this production."
Tuesday, September 23, 2025Trump, RFK Jr. May Be Right About Acetaminophen, But Why The Rush? Maybe there's really no causal link to autism/ADHD; maybe there is. But with any number of pain relief options out there, does it really make sense to continue using a drug we already knew was bad for us?
Tuesday, September 23, 2025Brendan Carr and Donald Trump: Another Jawbone, Another Ass There's nothing new about "jawboning," the practice of politicians and bureaucrats using political condemnation, often coupled with regulatory or legal threats, to bludgeon private sector actors into submission.
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