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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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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, 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.
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."
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.
Friday, September 19, 2025Charlie Kirk: The Value of a Legacy Is Subjective In a perfect world, Charlie Kirk's supporters would focus on, and mine the legacy value of, his reputation as an advocate of free speech and debate. Whatever one thinks of the views he promoted and defended, there's 24-karat gold in the notion that verbal argument is, in both moral and practical terms, better than physical violence as a means of resolving disputes. We do not live in a perfect world.
Tuesday, September 16, 2025Hoplophobes Say The Strangest Things Yes, they're scared, but that kind of goes with the whole "irrational fear" thing, doesn't it? For some reason, though, they say they're MORE scared of "open carry" than of "concealed carry."
Sunday, September 14, 2025Charlie Kirk: This Too Shall Pass, Unfortunately If there's one thing we should all be able to agree on, it's that no one should be murdered for speaking. In the aftermath of Charlie "Prove Me Wrong" Kirk's murder at a Utah campus event, it's clear that no, we don't all agree on that.
Sunday, September 14, 2025Now The Feds Want In On The University Patent Racket If the feds won't eliminate patents and government research funding, they should at least eliminate any and all combinations of the two, rather than demanding their own taste of the racket's revenues.
Wednesday, September 10, 2025Shutdown Theater: Every Play Eventually Ends Its Run It's Max Bialystock's and Leo Bloom's wildest dream: "Springtime for Hitler" isn't just a money-making (for them, but nobody else) flop, it's history's longest-running such flop! The last time US politicians actually (and very temporarily) paid off their ever-growing debt was 190 years ago in 1835. The last time they even managed to theoretically balance one year's budget was 24 years ago in 2001.
Thursday, September 4, 2025Murder On The High Seas: Trump May Be Immune, But Are His Co-Conspirators? When someone credibly confesses to murder, announces an intent to commit further murders, and clearly possesses the means to do so, it seems to me that whatever law applies should be brought to bear.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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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