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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, November 2, 2024
How Joe Biden Could Save Lives And Change American Politics On His Way Out The Door If Biden does possess a conscience, or even just desires a big "legacy" accomplishment, he'll cut the Israeli regime off come November 6.
Saturday, November 2, 2024How Joe Biden Could Save Lives And Change American Politics On His Way Out The Door If Biden does possess a conscience, or even just desires a big "legacy" accomplishment, he'll cut the Israeli regime off come November 6.
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Saturday, November 2, 2024
That's Entertainment: Popular Alternatives to the Presidential Campaign Circus Media coverage of presidential campaigns makes them out to be the most important things going on, 24/7, for months on end. Americans obviously disagree. They'd rather take in a concert, a sports event, or a movie than attend a campaign event. I suspect many of them would rather mow the lawn, or do laundry, too. And who can blame them?
Saturday, November 2, 2024That's Entertainment: Popular Alternatives to the Presidential Campaign Circus Media coverage of presidential campaigns makes them out to be the most important things going on, 24/7, for months on end. Americans obviously disagree. They'd rather take in a concert, a sports event, or a movie than attend a campaign event. I suspect many of them would rather mow the lawn, or do laundry, too. And who can blame them?
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Friday, November 1, 2024
If Musk Wants To Give Away Money, Let Him If Musk's scheme is an "illegal lottery," so is every voter registration drive and "get out the vote" event that hands out random merch.
Friday, November 1, 2024If Musk Wants To Give Away Money, Let Him If Musk's scheme is an "illegal lottery," so is every voter registration drive and "get out the vote" event that hands out random merch.
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Friday, November 1, 2024
Non-Endorsement Isn't "Neutrality" or "Objectivity" We'd all be better informed if media just went back to wearing their biases on their sleeves.
Friday, November 1, 2024Non-Endorsement Isn't "Neutrality" or "Objectivity" We'd all be better informed if media just went back to wearing their biases on their sleeves.
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Saturday, October 26, 2024
Election 2024: Prediction and Reasoning A vote in the hand may not be worth two in the bush, but it's worth more than one. Election Day votes may never happen due to flat tires, emergency trips out of town, etc. Early votes aren't in the bush, they're in the bank. Harris has momentum. Trump's stuck with inertia.
Saturday, October 26, 2024Election 2024: Prediction and Reasoning A vote in the hand may not be worth two in the bush, but it's worth more than one. Election Day votes may never happen due to flat tires, emergency trips out of town, etc. Early votes aren't in the bush, they're in the bank. Harris has momentum. Trump's stuck with inertia.
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Saturday, October 26, 2024
Garland v. VanDerStok: A Supreme Court Ghost Story The Supreme Court's job isn't to determine whether an unconstitutional regulation conforms to the meaning of an unconstitutional law. The Supreme Court's job is to forbid enforcement of the unconstitutional.
Saturday, October 26, 2024Garland v. VanDerStok: A Supreme Court Ghost Story The Supreme Court's job isn't to determine whether an unconstitutional regulation conforms to the meaning of an unconstitutional law. The Supreme Court's job is to forbid enforcement of the unconstitutional.
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Friday, October 18, 2024
Florida Abortion Measure: Ron DeSantis Angles for a Mistrial As an anarchist, I can't say I really trust "the voters" very much. If nothing else, it's worth noting that these particular voters elected Ron DeSantis governor. Twice. But I trust them at least a little more than I trust DeSantis (or Andrew Gillum or Charlie Crist if one of those two had defeated DeSantis). DeSantis obviously doesn't trust the voters very much, either.
Friday, October 18, 2024Florida Abortion Measure: Ron DeSantis Angles for a Mistrial As an anarchist, I can't say I really trust "the voters" very much. If nothing else, it's worth noting that these particular voters elected Ron DeSantis governor. Twice. But I trust them at least a little more than I trust DeSantis (or Andrew Gillum or Charlie Crist if one of those two had defeated DeSantis). DeSantis obviously doesn't trust the voters very much, either.
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Friday, October 18, 2024
The Virtue of Selfies-Ness Revisited In the US, speech is protected by the First Amendment. The government doesn't get to tell you what to say or how to say it. Except, many state governments insist, when it comes to ballot selfies.
Friday, October 18, 2024The Virtue of Selfies-Ness Revisited In the US, speech is protected by the First Amendment. The government doesn't get to tell you what to say or how to say it. Except, many state governments insist, when it comes to ballot selfies.
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Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Yes, Forced Prison Labor Is Slavery Mandatory prison work is redistribution, to the state, of the prisoner-slaves' property rights in their labor. It is economically manipulative insofar as wages, if paid, are set by the state rather than by the market. And it's an attempt to establish a pattern of society which treats people as property of the state.
Tuesday, October 1, 2024Yes, Forced Prison Labor Is Slavery Mandatory prison work is redistribution, to the state, of the prisoner-slaves' property rights in their labor. It is economically manipulative insofar as wages, if paid, are set by the state rather than by the market. And it's an attempt to establish a pattern of society which treats people as property of the state.
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Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Failure to Indulge to Oren Cass's Nationalist Delusions Isn't An "Externality" The consumer who prefers paying $1 for a widget made in China to paying $2 for a widget made in the US, Oren Cass correctly argues, "will probably not consider the broader importance of making things in America." Question: Why SHOULD that consumer consider that "broader importance?"
Tuesday, October 1, 2024Failure to Indulge to Oren Cass's Nationalist Delusions Isn't An "Externality" The consumer who prefers paying $1 for a widget made in China to paying $2 for a widget made in the US, Oren Cass correctly argues, "will probably not consider the broader importance of making things in America." Question: Why SHOULD that consumer consider that "broader importance?"
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Sunday, September 15, 2024
Election 2024: Cats, Childlessness, And The Politics Of Subtraction A time-tested rule tells us that politics is about addition, not subtraction. There are exceptions, but for the most part, you win an election by getting more people to like you; getting more people to hate your opponent is your opponent's job. Since 2016, Republicans and Democrats alike have worked to reverse that approach, relentlessly attacking their opponents and hoping the "hate vote" goes their way.
Sunday, September 15, 2024Election 2024: Cats, Childlessness, And The Politics Of Subtraction A time-tested rule tells us that politics is about addition, not subtraction. There are exceptions, but for the most part, you win an election by getting more people to like you; getting more people to hate your opponent is your opponent's job. Since 2016, Republicans and Democrats alike have worked to reverse that approach, relentlessly attacking their opponents and hoping the "hate vote" goes their way.
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Sunday, September 15, 2024
Election 2024: Finally Weird Enough? I woke up this morning thinking about Hunter S. Thompson, wondering if Election 2024 might just possibly have changed his mind on how weird it can get.
Sunday, September 15, 2024Election 2024: Finally Weird Enough? I woke up this morning thinking about Hunter S. Thompson, wondering if Election 2024 might just possibly have changed his mind on how weird it can get.
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Sunday, September 15, 2024
Would-Be Censors Peddle Yet Another Election Meddle Does the Russian regime "meddle" in US elections? Of course it does. All powerful regimes meddle in other countries' elections. The US regime has a long record of doing so, up to and including sponsoring coup attempts when other countries' elections don't go its preferred way. Even smaller regimes get in on the election meddling game.
Sunday, September 15, 2024Would-Be Censors Peddle Yet Another Election Meddle Does the Russian regime "meddle" in US elections? Of course it does. All powerful regimes meddle in other countries' elections. The US regime has a long record of doing so, up to and including sponsoring coup attempts when other countries' elections don't go its preferred way. Even smaller regimes get in on the election meddling game.
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Sunday, September 8, 2024
Demagoguery is the Midwife of Moral Panic; Credulity is its Mother Fearful people are more likely to support politicians who pose as their savior -- even if their fears are completely unfounded, and even if those politicians were the ones who scared them in the first place. Where you find fear, you're likely to find lies as well. Why? Because lying to you is easier for a politician than discovering you've been lied to is for you.
Sunday, September 8, 2024Demagoguery is the Midwife of Moral Panic; Credulity is its Mother Fearful people are more likely to support politicians who pose as their savior -- even if their fears are completely unfounded, and even if those politicians were the ones who scared them in the first place. Where you find fear, you're likely to find lies as well. Why? Because lying to you is easier for a politician than discovering you've been lied to is for you.
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Wednesday, September 4, 2024
There's Nothing Really New About "Active Listening" If your phone notices you visited Home Depot or Lowe's and your browser history shows you looking at gazebo plans, you'll probably start seeing ads for tools and building materials shortly thereafter. Now we have evidence of actual eavesdropping on your conversations.
Wednesday, September 4, 2024There's Nothing Really New About "Active Listening" If your phone notices you visited Home Depot or Lowe's and your browser history shows you looking at gazebo plans, you'll probably start seeing ads for tools and building materials shortly thereafter. Now we have evidence of actual eavesdropping on your conversations.
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Tuesday, September 3, 2024
Marijuana: Your Permission Isn't Really Necessary Floridians who want to use weed already use weed. They use weed in private. They use weed in public. They'll continue to do so. They don't need your approval or your permission.
Tuesday, September 3, 2024Marijuana: Your Permission Isn't Really Necessary Floridians who want to use weed already use weed. They use weed in private. They use weed in public. They'll continue to do so. They don't need your approval or your permission.
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Tuesday, September 3, 2024
Tax On "Unrealized" Gains: Weird, Evil, and Stupid, But No Different In Principle Taxation is a continuing and coercive demand that you pay for "services" you may neither need or want, and may even actually oppose the existence of. It's getting continuously mugged, from sales tax on the first package of gum you buy with your childhood allowance, to income and other taxes, right up until the day you die (and possibly beyond).
Tuesday, September 3, 2024Tax On "Unrealized" Gains: Weird, Evil, and Stupid, But No Different In Principle Taxation is a continuing and coercive demand that you pay for "services" you may neither need or want, and may even actually oppose the existence of. It's getting continuously mugged, from sales tax on the first package of gum you buy with your childhood allowance, to income and other taxes, right up until the day you die (and possibly beyond).
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Sunday, September 1, 2024
Electing Trump Probably Wouldn't Get Us Any Closer to the Truth About the JFK Assassination Weasel-word "tasking" a government agency, commission, or board with this or that deliverable is the go-to method by which a politician accomplishes nothing while claiming he kept a promise.
Sunday, September 1, 2024Electing Trump Probably Wouldn't Get Us Any Closer to the Truth About the JFK Assassination Weasel-word "tasking" a government agency, commission, or board with this or that deliverable is the go-to method by which a politician accomplishes nothing while claiming he kept a promise.
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Saturday, August 31, 2024
RFK Jr. Was Never Really The Alternative He Pretended To Be He saw, and seized, his opportunity to sell out. Voters who thought he was the "real deal" got conned.
Saturday, August 31, 2024RFK Jr. Was Never Really The Alternative He Pretended To Be He saw, and seized, his opportunity to sell out. Voters who thought he was the "real deal" got conned.
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Monday, August 19, 2024
Vote? Sure, Why Not? Just Don't Expect Results. Even after so-called "change" elections, policy shifts tend to be minor and occur at the margins, no matter how revolutionary and game-changing they may sound.
Monday, August 19, 2024Vote? Sure, Why Not? Just Don't Expect Results. Even after so-called "change" elections, policy shifts tend to be minor and occur at the margins, no matter how revolutionary and game-changing they may sound.
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