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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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Thursday, June 12, 2025
Take Those Masks Off (Not You, Protesters -- You, Cops) As a private citizen, who you are and what you look like is none of the government's business until and unless there's probable cause to believe you've committed, or are in the act of committing, a crime. As a government employee, who a cop is and what he or she looks like is entirely the public's business any time we want it to be.
Thursday, June 12, 2025Take Those Masks Off (Not You, Protesters -- You, Cops) As a private citizen, who you are and what you look like is none of the government's business until and unless there's probable cause to believe you've committed, or are in the act of committing, a crime. As a government employee, who a cop is and what he or she looks like is entirely the public's business any time we want it to be.
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Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Occupied LA: Don't Riot -- Boycott and Shun The better answer to the occupation of LA is to greet it with institutional boycotts and individual ostracism.
Wednesday, June 11, 2025Occupied LA: Don't Riot -- Boycott and Shun The better answer to the occupation of LA is to greet it with institutional boycotts and individual ostracism.
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Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Trump Alienates Even His Own Supporters With Desperation Play on Immigration Why are ordinary people, living ordinary lives, some even seeking to become American citizens, finding themselves in cages and facing deportation? ... Because Donald Trump's promise to deport millions of immigrants has, so far, proven itself an epic fail.
Wednesday, June 4, 2025Trump Alienates Even His Own Supporters With Desperation Play on Immigration Why are ordinary people, living ordinary lives, some even seeking to become American citizens, finding themselves in cages and facing deportation? ... Because Donald Trump's promise to deport millions of immigrants has, so far, proven itself an epic fail.
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Monday, June 2, 2025
The Answer to the Trump/Harvard $3 Billion Question is "Markets" The government does not and cannot know how many welders, carpenters, and auto mechanics the economy "needs," let alone how many it will "need" a year from now or in 2035 ... just as it has no way of knowing whether Little Bobby should rack up tens of thousands of dollars in student loan debt while hoping to become an elementary school math teacher or university physics researcher. That's what markets are for.
Monday, June 2, 2025The Answer to the Trump/Harvard $3 Billion Question is "Markets" The government does not and cannot know how many welders, carpenters, and auto mechanics the economy "needs," let alone how many it will "need" a year from now or in 2035 ... just as it has no way of knowing whether Little Bobby should rack up tens of thousands of dollars in student loan debt while hoping to become an elementary school math teacher or university physics researcher. That's what markets are for.
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Monday, June 2, 2025
Motive For Murder: There's Plenty of "Anti-Semitism" To Go Around As in George Orwell's Animal Farm, "all animals are equal -- but some animals are more equal than others."
Monday, June 2, 2025Motive For Murder: There's Plenty of "Anti-Semitism" To Go Around As in George Orwell's Animal Farm, "all animals are equal -- but some animals are more equal than others."
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Saturday, May 24, 2025
Politicians Talk "Transparency" While Hiding Anything Inconvenient or Unpleasant The claim that Joe Biden's "aggressive" prostate cancer went from "undetected" to "stage 5 metastatic" in the four months since he left office is risible.
Saturday, May 24, 2025Politicians Talk "Transparency" While Hiding Anything Inconvenient or Unpleasant The claim that Joe Biden's "aggressive" prostate cancer went from "undetected" to "stage 5 metastatic" in the four months since he left office is risible.
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Saturday, May 24, 2025
Comey's Numbers Aren't News -- Or A Threat Comey doesn't like Trump, Trump doesn't like Comey, and neither of them ever skips an opportunity to tell us so. Big whoop. Any serious editor would classify a story on the seashell photo as "dog bites man." It's just not "news" by any traditional definition. Trump, however, has mastered the art of creating fake "news" as a distraction whenever the real news ... makes him look bad.
Saturday, May 24, 2025Comey's Numbers Aren't News -- Or A Threat Comey doesn't like Trump, Trump doesn't like Comey, and neither of them ever skips an opportunity to tell us so. Big whoop. Any serious editor would classify a story on the seashell photo as "dog bites man." It's just not "news" by any traditional definition. Trump, however, has mastered the art of creating fake "news" as a distraction whenever the real news ... makes him look bad.
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Saturday, May 24, 2025
Comey's Numbers Aren't News -- Or A Threat Comey doesn't like Trump, Trump doesn't like Comey, and neither of them ever skips an opportunity to tell us so. Big whoop. Any serious editor would classify a story on the seashell photo as "dog bites man." It's just not "news" by any traditional definition. Trump, however, has mastered the art of creating fake "news" as a distraction whenever the real news ... makes him look bad.
Saturday, May 24, 2025Comey's Numbers Aren't News -- Or A Threat Comey doesn't like Trump, Trump doesn't like Comey, and neither of them ever skips an opportunity to tell us so. Big whoop. Any serious editor would classify a story on the seashell photo as "dog bites man." It's just not "news" by any traditional definition. Trump, however, has mastered the art of creating fake "news" as a distraction whenever the real news ... makes him look bad.
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Saturday, May 24, 2025
Comey's Numbers Aren't News -- Or A Threat Comey doesn't like Trump, Trump doesn't like Comey, and neither of them ever skips an opportunity to tell us so. Big whoop. Any serious editor would classify a story on the seashell photo as "dog bites man." It's just not "news" by any traditional definition. Trump, however, has mastered the art of creating fake "news" as a distraction whenever the real news ... makes him look bad.
Saturday, May 24, 2025Comey's Numbers Aren't News -- Or A Threat Comey doesn't like Trump, Trump doesn't like Comey, and neither of them ever skips an opportunity to tell us so. Big whoop. Any serious editor would classify a story on the seashell photo as "dog bites man." It's just not "news" by any traditional definition. Trump, however, has mastered the art of creating fake "news" as a distraction whenever the real news ... makes him look bad.
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Thursday, May 22, 2025
Blink Or Head Fake? Tariff Uncertainty Remains The Biggest Problem The obvious question is whether Trump blinked after his tariff madness produced predictably damaging economic results for Americans and those Americans noticed, or whether this is another one of his head fakes .... continuing uncertainty, even more than the obvious and irrefutable stupidity of protective tariffs, is the problem.
Thursday, May 22, 2025Blink Or Head Fake? Tariff Uncertainty Remains The Biggest Problem The obvious question is whether Trump blinked after his tariff madness produced predictably damaging economic results for Americans and those Americans noticed, or whether this is another one of his head fakes .... continuing uncertainty, even more than the obvious and irrefutable stupidity of protective tariffs, is the problem.
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Friday, May 16, 2025
There's No Rebellion, But Suspending Habeas Corpus Might Justify One Neither the US nor any portion of it is currently in rebellion. Neither the US nor any portion of it is currently being invaded. There's no "emergency" imperiling the "public safety." There's just Donald J. Trump throwing a tantrum over the courts following the law instead of letting him do whatever he wants to do.
Friday, May 16, 2025There's No Rebellion, But Suspending Habeas Corpus Might Justify One Neither the US nor any portion of it is currently in rebellion. Neither the US nor any portion of it is currently being invaded. There's no "emergency" imperiling the "public safety." There's just Donald J. Trump throwing a tantrum over the courts following the law instead of letting him do whatever he wants to do.
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Friday, May 16, 2025
No, The Qataris Aren't "Corrupting" Trump To "corrupt" a person or thing (per the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary) is to "draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty ... debase or render impure by alterations or innovations." In order for the Qataris to "corrupt" Trump, he'd necessarily have displayed some semblance of "rectitude" prior to their interactions.
Friday, May 16, 2025No, The Qataris Aren't "Corrupting" Trump To "corrupt" a person or thing (per the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary) is to "draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty ... debase or render impure by alterations or innovations." In order for the Qataris to "corrupt" Trump, he'd necessarily have displayed some semblance of "rectitude" prior to their interactions.
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Friday, May 9, 2025
Trump's Mass Deportation Scheme Is Failing. Good. Who on Earth would trust the US government, Donald Trump, or Kristi Noem with their location and other information, or believe that the supposed future path to "return legally," or even that the plane ticket and thousand bucks would actually happen? ... And why the sudden honey to hide the smell of the vinegar?
Friday, May 9, 2025Trump's Mass Deportation Scheme Is Failing. Good. Who on Earth would trust the US government, Donald Trump, or Kristi Noem with their location and other information, or believe that the supposed future path to "return legally," or even that the plane ticket and thousand bucks would actually happen? ... And why the sudden honey to hide the smell of the vinegar?
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Tuesday, May 6, 2025
The Childbirth / "Great Replacement" Double Con If you want a higher birth rate, throwing out the people who have kids makes zero sense. Unless, that is, you couple the "demographic decline" panic with a "Great Replacement" theory positing that people who come to the United States and have kids are being "imported" for the express purpose of changing American politics and culture in particular and negative ways.
Tuesday, May 6, 2025The Childbirth / "Great Replacement" Double Con If you want a higher birth rate, throwing out the people who have kids makes zero sense. Unless, that is, you couple the "demographic decline" panic with a "Great Replacement" theory positing that people who come to the United States and have kids are being "imported" for the express purpose of changing American politics and culture in particular and negative ways.
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Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Texas Pols Think They Get To Control Speech. Nope. There are no circumstances under, nor any subject upon which, the Texas legislature gets to infringe upon speech or prohibit its exercise in any way, shape, manner, or form. At least not without a fight.
Tuesday, May 6, 2025Texas Pols Think They Get To Control Speech. Nope. There are no circumstances under, nor any subject upon which, the Texas legislature gets to infringe upon speech or prohibit its exercise in any way, shape, manner, or form. At least not without a fight.
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Friday, May 2, 2025
Tariffs: Amazon, Walmart Shouldn't Assist Trump In Hiding His Tax Hikes Imposing taxes on consumers is a "hostile and political act." From a business point of view, it makes sense to let customers know who's imposing these latest massive tax hikes. That way the customers know who to blame for -- and who to hold accountable for -- unnecessarily higher prices.
Friday, May 2, 2025Tariffs: Amazon, Walmart Shouldn't Assist Trump In Hiding His Tax Hikes Imposing taxes on consumers is a "hostile and political act." From a business point of view, it makes sense to let customers know who's imposing these latest massive tax hikes. That way the customers know who to blame for -- and who to hold accountable for -- unnecessarily higher prices.
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Friday, May 2, 2025
RFK Jr.'s Food Coloring Policies: A Hill To Dye On? In the normal course of things, I might or might not give credence to RFK Jr.'s opinion on the matter when deciding what to put in my shopping cart and in my body. You might or might not as well. That's fine. What's not fine is him just deciding for all of us, whether we like it or not.
Friday, May 2, 2025RFK Jr.'s Food Coloring Policies: A Hill To Dye On? In the normal course of things, I might or might not give credence to RFK Jr.'s opinion on the matter when deciding what to put in my shopping cart and in my body. You might or might not as well. That's fine. What's not fine is him just deciding for all of us, whether we like it or not.
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Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Where Your Money Is Concerned, The Trump v. Powell Fight Is A Sideshow The Fed shouldn't lower -- or raise -- interest rates. The Fed should dissolve, or be dissolved, and the job of "creating money" should be left entirely to a free market.
Tuesday, April 29, 2025Where Your Money Is Concerned, The Trump v. Powell Fight Is A Sideshow The Fed shouldn't lower -- or raise -- interest rates. The Fed should dissolve, or be dissolved, and the job of "creating money" should be left entirely to a free market.
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Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Every Accusation is a Confession: "Insurrection" Edition Federal judges doing what federal judges are, at the moment, authorized to do (issue injunctions) based on what they're constitutionally bound to support (due process) doesn't really seem very insurrectiony, though. Can you think of something, anything, that sounds more like an "insurrection" -- defined as "obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States?"
Tuesday, April 29, 2025Every Accusation is a Confession: "Insurrection" Edition Federal judges doing what federal judges are, at the moment, authorized to do (issue injunctions) based on what they're constitutionally bound to support (due process) doesn't really seem very insurrectiony, though. Can you think of something, anything, that sounds more like an "insurrection" -- defined as "obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States?"
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Sunday, April 20, 2025
Freer Trade Makes Us Richer. Protectionism Makes Us Poorer. The real problem with Trump's trade war nonsense isn't that he's a mercurial nitwit, although that's true. The real problem with Trump's trade war nonsense is that freer trade makes us richer and economic "protectionist" schemes make us poorer.
Sunday, April 20, 2025Freer Trade Makes Us Richer. Protectionism Makes Us Poorer. The real problem with Trump's trade war nonsense isn't that he's a mercurial nitwit, although that's true. The real problem with Trump's trade war nonsense is that freer trade makes us richer and economic "protectionist" schemes make us poorer.
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