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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, August 30, 2025
Trump's Flag-Burning Order: Nothing New, Just The Same Old Contempt For Freedom Whether something is "sacred" is a matter of opinion. Whether you "cherish" the flag, or don't, is entirely up to you to decide. As for Trump, he routinely -- if metaphorically -- defecates on everything he claims the flag stands for, then wipes his posterior with it ... while also wrapping himself in it.
Saturday, August 30, 2025Trump's Flag-Burning Order: Nothing New, Just The Same Old Contempt For Freedom Whether something is "sacred" is a matter of opinion. Whether you "cherish" the flag, or don't, is entirely up to you to decide. As for Trump, he routinely -- if metaphorically -- defecates on everything he claims the flag stands for, then wipes his posterior with it ... while also wrapping himself in it.
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Saturday, August 30, 2025
Cracker Barrel vs. The Crack-Brained, Round Two COVID-19 hit most restaurants pretty hard, but Cracker Barrel caters to an older, presumably more cautious, customer base that was already shrinking. Last year, CEO Julie Masino noted that 16% of customers hadn't returned since the pandemic hit. Getting targeted by moral panic scammers like Starbuck doesn't help, of course, and this isn't the first time.
Saturday, August 30, 2025Cracker Barrel vs. The Crack-Brained, Round Two COVID-19 hit most restaurants pretty hard, but Cracker Barrel caters to an older, presumably more cautious, customer base that was already shrinking. Last year, CEO Julie Masino noted that 16% of customers hadn't returned since the pandemic hit. Getting targeted by moral panic scammers like Starbuck doesn't help, of course, and this isn't the first time.
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Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Ukraine War: Let Trump Be Trump! It's not like there's any shortage of things to complain about when it comes to Trump. Why turn this into one of those things?
Wednesday, August 27, 2025Ukraine War: Let Trump Be Trump! It's not like there's any shortage of things to complain about when it comes to Trump. Why turn this into one of those things?
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Friday, August 22, 2025
Three Positions On Childhood Vaccination: Only One Is Correct Individual/parental choice is always preferable to letting politicians and bureaucrats choose for everyone.
Friday, August 22, 2025Three Positions On Childhood Vaccination: Only One Is Correct Individual/parental choice is always preferable to letting politicians and bureaucrats choose for everyone.
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Friday, August 22, 2025
Parents: Stop Giving Your Kids (And Everyone Else's) To The Government When you fob your parental responsibilities off ON the government, you're giving your kids (and everyone else's) TO the government.
Friday, August 22, 2025Parents: Stop Giving Your Kids (And Everyone Else's) To The Government When you fob your parental responsibilities off ON the government, you're giving your kids (and everyone else's) TO the government.
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Monday, August 18, 2025
The Shoe Removal Rule Is Gone! Now Let's Get Rid of TSA Too. An entire generation of those travelers has never known an air travel paradigm that didn't entail spending hours in airports awaiting constitutionally prohibited searches and creepy "pat-downs" by haughty government agents.
Monday, August 18, 2025The Shoe Removal Rule Is Gone! Now Let's Get Rid of TSA Too. An entire generation of those travelers has never known an air travel paradigm that didn't entail spending hours in airports awaiting constitutionally prohibited searches and creepy "pat-downs" by haughty government agents.
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Saturday, August 16, 2025
Trump Replaces Manager of Jobs Data Massage Parlor Government manipulation of data starts with deciding what information to gather, how to gather it, and who to gather it from. Then that information gets massaged to tell the story that the masseuse or masseur wants you to hear.
Saturday, August 16, 2025Trump Replaces Manager of Jobs Data Massage Parlor Government manipulation of data starts with deciding what information to gather, how to gather it, and who to gather it from. Then that information gets massaged to tell the story that the masseuse or masseur wants you to hear.
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Saturday, August 16, 2025
There's a Cheap, Effective Way to Reduce Pedestrian Fatalities. Florida's Government Prefers the Fatalities. Fewer dead people seems a lot more more important than owning the libs.
Saturday, August 16, 2025There's a Cheap, Effective Way to Reduce Pedestrian Fatalities. Florida's Government Prefers the Fatalities. Fewer dead people seems a lot more more important than owning the libs.
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Thursday, August 7, 2025
Attack of the Bubble Boy Pols America treats its politicians like the kid in that old Seinfeld episode, "The Bubble Boy" -- isolated and coddled lest contact with regular human beings harm them. The rest of us apparently exist only to provide these power-mongers with votes, and occasionally with audiences carefully curated for high levels of adoration and applause.
Thursday, August 7, 2025Attack of the Bubble Boy Pols America treats its politicians like the kid in that old Seinfeld episode, "The Bubble Boy" -- isolated and coddled lest contact with regular human beings harm them. The rest of us apparently exist only to provide these power-mongers with votes, and occasionally with audiences carefully curated for high levels of adoration and applause.
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Tuesday, August 5, 2025
Trump's Tariffs Come For Your Morning Wake-Up Routine "DON'T MESS WITH PEOPLE'S COFFEE" strikes me as one of the most basic rules implicit in the maintenance of civil society, but apparently Trump didn't get the memo.
Tuesday, August 5, 2025Trump's Tariffs Come For Your Morning Wake-Up Routine "DON'T MESS WITH PEOPLE'S COFFEE" strikes me as one of the most basic rules implicit in the maintenance of civil society, but apparently Trump didn't get the memo.
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Sunday, August 3, 2025
Election 2026: Here Come The Gerrymanderers We should no more draw congressional districts based on the proportion of Republicans to Democrats or the proportion of whites to blacks to Latinos, etc., than we should draw them on the proportion of plumbers to sous chefs or the proportion of Led Zeppelin fans to Swifties.
Sunday, August 3, 2025Election 2026: Here Come The Gerrymanderers We should no more draw congressional districts based on the proportion of Republicans to Democrats or the proportion of whites to blacks to Latinos, etc., than we should draw them on the proportion of plumbers to sous chefs or the proportion of Led Zeppelin fans to Swifties.
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Saturday, August 2, 2025
Republicans Push Census Senselessness (and Lawlessness) to Rig Elections Non-citizens can't vote, but the fiction used to justify shaking them down for taxes is that they're "represented" in Congress by virtue of being counted for House apportionment in the census. MTG and friends want to abandon even that farfetched excuse in a ham-handed attempt to cling to political power for just a little longer.
Saturday, August 2, 2025Republicans Push Census Senselessness (and Lawlessness) to Rig Elections Non-citizens can't vote, but the fiction used to justify shaking them down for taxes is that they're "represented" in Congress by virtue of being counted for House apportionment in the census. MTG and friends want to abandon even that farfetched excuse in a ham-handed attempt to cling to political power for just a little longer.
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Saturday, August 2, 2025
West Bank: Would Annexation Include Citizenship For The Annexed? If Israel annexed the West Bank, it seems to follow that its inhabitants would all instantly become Israeli citizens, with full freedom to travel at will between (for example) Ramallah and Tel Aviv. And, of course, they'd presumably enjoy voting rights and representation in the Knesset. I have to suspect Amir Ohana doesn't see things quite that way.
Saturday, August 2, 2025West Bank: Would Annexation Include Citizenship For The Annexed? If Israel annexed the West Bank, it seems to follow that its inhabitants would all instantly become Israeli citizens, with full freedom to travel at will between (for example) Ramallah and Tel Aviv. And, of course, they'd presumably enjoy voting rights and representation in the Knesset. I have to suspect Amir Ohana doesn't see things quite that way.
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Friday, July 4, 2025
Regarding Ken Paxton: "Now Let Him Enforce It!" Government control over what we may or may not see and hear on the Internet is far too dangerous to allow.
Friday, July 4, 2025Regarding Ken Paxton: "Now Let Him Enforce It!" Government control over what we may or may not see and hear on the Internet is far too dangerous to allow.
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Friday, July 4, 2025
The Battle For LA Begins To Take Shape Letting this mess escalate to full-on civil war wouldn't be good for anyone involved. On the other hand, ICE, the California National Guard, and the US Marine Corps need to read and heed the sign LA is hanging out. It says: NOT WELCOME.
Friday, July 4, 2025The Battle For LA Begins To Take Shape Letting this mess escalate to full-on civil war wouldn't be good for anyone involved. On the other hand, ICE, the California National Guard, and the US Marine Corps need to read and heed the sign LA is hanging out. It says: NOT WELCOME.
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Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Will Trump Continue Seeking War? If So, Here's Why. As tariffs and deportations continue to decimate our ability to buy food, housing, and other necessities, it becomes more and more likely that he'll try to pull an FDR.
Tuesday, June 24, 2025Will Trump Continue Seeking War? If So, Here's Why. As tariffs and deportations continue to decimate our ability to buy food, housing, and other necessities, it becomes more and more likely that he'll try to pull an FDR.
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Sunday, June 22, 2025
The Constitution Won't Save Us From Trump's War Idiocy Realistically, Congress isn't any more likely to reassert its power over US war-making this time around than it did with Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and numerous other belligerent actions/involvements. We've been living in a "post-constitutional" era, featuring an "imperial" presidency, for at least 80 years, with Congress exercising about as much power as the Roman Senate under the Caesars.
Sunday, June 22, 2025The Constitution Won't Save Us From Trump's War Idiocy Realistically, Congress isn't any more likely to reassert its power over US war-making this time around than it did with Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and numerous other belligerent actions/involvements. We've been living in a "post-constitutional" era, featuring an "imperial" presidency, for at least 80 years, with Congress exercising about as much power as the Roman Senate under the Caesars.
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Thursday, June 19, 2025
At This Point, A Nuclear Iran Is Probably The Least Bad Option If there's any lesson to learn from two decades of US and Israeli pressure on Iran to shut down a non-existent "nuclear weapons program," starting with economic sanctions and leading inevitably to Israeli airstrikes and open war on the apt date of Friday the 13th, it's that an Iran with nuclear weapons just might be the best option if the goal is to calm down the Middle East.
Thursday, June 19, 2025At This Point, A Nuclear Iran Is Probably The Least Bad Option If there's any lesson to learn from two decades of US and Israeli pressure on Iran to shut down a non-existent "nuclear weapons program," starting with economic sanctions and leading inevitably to Israeli airstrikes and open war on the apt date of Friday the 13th, it's that an Iran with nuclear weapons just might be the best option if the goal is to calm down the Middle East.
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Tuesday, June 17, 2025
What I Saw At My City's "No Kings" Rally Whether the organizers intended it or not, the nationwide simultaneous rallies became, in effect, the Democratic Party's first major campaign event for the 2026 midterms and 2028 presidential election. Those of who oppose Trump but aren't Democrats came along for the ride. Our support was co-opted whether we liked it or not.
Tuesday, June 17, 2025What I Saw At My City's "No Kings" Rally Whether the organizers intended it or not, the nationwide simultaneous rallies became, in effect, the Democratic Party's first major campaign event for the 2026 midterms and 2028 presidential election. Those of who oppose Trump but aren't Democrats came along for the ride. Our support was co-opted whether we liked it or not.
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Sunday, June 15, 2025
The Better Israel/Iran Explanation: Trump Got Played Having failed upward into the presidency, his strategy remains the same: Promote a Trump "brand" built on the pretense that he's either competent or in charge. When both prove false, just change the story to fit the image.
Sunday, June 15, 2025The Better Israel/Iran Explanation: Trump Got Played Having failed upward into the presidency, his strategy remains the same: Promote a Trump "brand" built on the pretense that he's either competent or in charge. When both prove false, just change the story to fit the image.
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