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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, October 31, 2026Frivolous Litigation Watch: Alaska Already Solved This "Problem" Three big problems with DOJ's case: There's no law against voter stupidity, nor is there any law against similarly named candidates seeking the same office, nor are there any laws against political dirty tricks as such. I'm not a lawyer, but so far as I can tell there's just no legal basis for the suit. It's DOJ plaintively whining "give us what we want, because we want it."
Saturday, October 31, 2026Report Expunged, But Hope Florida Springs Eternal Courts can expunge reports, but once the truth is out, it stays out.
Saturday, October 31, 2026The Media Credentials Cops Come for Katie Zacharia If you "practice law," you're a "lawyer" or "attorney," whether you have government credentials saying so or not. And to the best of my knowledge, Katie Zacharia has never falsely claimed to have such credentials.
Sunday, October 11, 2026Kimberly Guilfoyle Accusations Aren't Really a "Scandal" The only thing extraordinary or unexpected about the self-enriching conduct of the Trump crime family is that, for the most part, it's all done right out in the open. From cryptocurrency scams to insider trading to sweetheart contracts, the Donald and his offspring operate their corruption machine in a refreshingly transparent manner.
Friday, October 2, 2026Making Healthcare More Expensive: "Bipartisanship" Strikes Again It's simply not Congress's business to decide what kind of testing or treatment your insurer or other healthcare provider may, or even must, offer.
Saturday, September 26, 2026Mike Johnson Proves That No Man's Life, Liberty or Property are Safe While the Legislature Isn't in Session When Johnson thinks he's going to lose a vote -- with "lose" defined as upsetting or defying president Donald Trump -- he just sends everyone home until he can whip a few more House members into line, or at least until the loss might come at a slightly less embarrassing point in the news cycle.
Friday, September 25, 2026Get the Flock Out of Law Enforcement! The biggest reason to oppose use of ALPRs is that they create an ongoing, persistent, nationwide web of warrantless search and surveillance that encompasses everyone who drives, without probable cause to believe that those drivers have committed particular crimes or even that those particular crimes have actually occurred. That's something the government isn't supposed to be able to do.
Friday, September 25, 2026Big AI: How About a Nice Game of Monopoly? When "industry leaders" start advocating for government regulation -- or even, initially, for industry-internal "standards" bodies leading to such regulation -- they're not riding to the rescue of humankind, they're looking out for their own bottom lines.
Sunday, September 6, 2026Dog Bites Man: Florida Pols Rigged an Election Using Stolen Taxpayer Money It's not their fault they embezzled taxpayer money to rig an election, see? It's everybody else's fault for finding out! If that grand jury had minded its own business, if that whistleblower had kept the report under wraps, if the media hadn't told the public about it, IF IT WEREN'T FOR THOSE MEDDLING KIDS ...
Saturday, September 5, 2026Stars and Stripes, Perhaps Not Forever Stars and Stripes is largely funded by, and its operations and distribution are almost completely enabled by, the US government. "Editorial independence" may sound like a wonderful idea, but there's always been a leash. We're just watching the leash get shorter.
Saturday, September 5, 2026Note to Rick Scott: Stop Tweeting and Cut Up That Government Credit Card Scott's perennial "someone should do something!" tweets on the debt might be good politics, but even a cursory look at his actions demonstrates that he's someone NOT doing something.
Monday, August 31, 2026Korean Peninsula: One Small Step in the Right Direction American taxpayers have been throwing blood and treasure at South Korea for most of a century even as it has become an economic powerhouse that competes with US producers, and that commitment also feeds into US entanglement in every regional argument involving not just the Koreas, but China, Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines, etc. It's a raw deal for America.
Saturday, August 1, 2026Fauci Unmasked, Despite the Fifth Amendment Diary excerpts unmask (pun entirely intended) Fauci as a not very likable bureaucrat, flattered by attention and susceptible to that flattery, constantly butthurt by any attack on or even public disagreement with his pronouncements, and laser-focused not on "public health" as such nearly so much as on maintaining his position and reputation as America's top "public health authority."
Saturday, August 1, 2026Free Sam Tunick -- and Make the Privacy Tool He Used the Universal Standard Both Android and iOS offer or allow various features that help, but don't quite rise to the "enter a PIN, the phone gets erased" level of privacy protection GrapheneOS includes by default. The Android Open Source Project and Apple Inc. should correct that oversight.
Sunday, July 19, 2026Rubio's Anti-ICC Campaign is an Anti-"Sovereignty" Project Rubio's demand of ICC member states is "global sovereignty for the US, no sovereignty for anyone else."
Sunday, July 19, 2026The Dishonesty of Political Buyer's Remorse There's an old saying: "You can't cheat an honest man." Are voters honest? They keep falling for politicians who turn out to be even worse than average ... and then complaining endlessly about it.
Sunday, July 19, 2026Trump Says the Ceasefire is Over. The Law Says -- Twice -- the Iran War is Over. If Congress owned anything resembling collective spine, every signpost along this road to fiasco would have read "this way to Trump's impeachment and removal." Waging an illegal war is, by any plausible definition, a "high crime" requiring that.
Saturday, July 4, 2026Why Jason Watson is Wrong, Even if You Agree With What He Stands For If you're in the military, but would rather be involved in politics, hang the uniform up, not on.
Saturday, July 4, 2026Meh on the Fourth of July: In Dependence Day Today's America is built on dependence, not independence.
Saturday, July 4, 2026Mail Voting Proposal: Make an Example of Steiner This is such a clear-cut case of a government official openly announcing that he's conspired with others to violate the laws he's sworn to abide by and enforce that just suing for relief isn't enough.
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