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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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Friday, June 19, 2026Rip Van Trumple Contradicts His Own Ballroom Argument Trump clearly didn't believe his own claims concerning presidential security, or he wouldn't have decided to catch 40 winks in front of thousands of angry basketball fans.
Friday, June 19, 2026We Don't Need AI to Tell Us Donald is a Red What separates Donald Trump from other, actually admitted, socialists like Bernie Sanders and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani isn't that they're any more or less committed to "socialism," it's the specific TYPE of socialism.
Monday, June 15, 2026Florida Property Tax Debate: The Right Answer is Always "Cut Government Spending" It seems to me that SOME kind of correction is in order. Government keeps taking, and spending, more of our money, but our earnings aren't keeping up with either that government growth or the cost of living.
Sunday, May 24, 2026Computer "Age Verification" is About Political Control, Not Child Safety Unfortunately, lots of people obey even evil and idiotic laws. Equally unfortunately, the big players in any given industry usually find it easier and cheaper to just comply with, rather than contest, those evil and idiotic laws. ... All, however, is not lost.
Saturday, May 9, 2026AI Regulation: More of the Risk, Less of the Benefit "Whatever can happen," Augustes De Morgan wrote in 1866, "will happen if we make trials enough." To which I must add, if "we" don't make trials enough, someone else will. AI will inevitably be pushed to whatever, if any, limit it has.
Saturday, May 9, 2026Ted Turner: 24 Hours That Changed The News World Since CNN's launch, "the news" has gone from short daily feeds covering pre-deadline events to 24/7/365 real-time coverage of far more things, in far more detail, by numerous and varied outlets. In theory, that should make the public much better informed than we used to be.
Tuesday, May 5, 2026OK, "Gun Control" Had Its Chance -- Here Are The Results "Gun control" had chance after chance after chance to prove it could thwart Cole Tomas Allen's plans. And. It. Didn't.
Sunday, May 3, 2026Instead of Ending the DHS "Shutdown," Make It Real ... and Permanent Any sane policy discussion, at this point, should center around how quickly DHS can be defunded permanently and abolished entirely.
Monday, April 27, 2026Trump: An Alternative Hypothesis As goes biz buzz, so goes political thinking. Quoth the late Scott Adams: "What Trump does is he shakes the box. He just wants to see where the pieces land, because wherever they land is a different situation than the one he's in."
Monday, April 27, 2026Nothing Special About April 15 -- Every Day is Tax Day Taxation isn't about "helping the poor" or "defending the country" or any other supposedly good cause. It's about taking money out of your pocket (which to some extent means taking food out of your mouth) and putting it into politicians' hands. That's all it's ever been about.
Friday, April 17, 2026The Real AIpocalypse Is Probably Already Here The real AIpocalypse is a massive decrease in our ability to know what's true and what isn't.
Friday, April 17, 2026Iran War: And The Winner Is ... US president Donald Trump says that his war in Iran -- currently in a supposed ceasefire -- resulted in "total and complete victory. 100%. No question about it." The Iranian regime, via a statement from its Supreme National Security Council, also claims "great victory." If the war is really over (I'm skeptical), who actually won? Well, not you.
Wednesday, April 8, 2026Stop Pretending Military Spending is About "Defense" In what universe does the already bloated US military need nearly half again as much money next year as this year, and twice as much as it needed during previous wars?
Thursday, April 2, 2026Chiles v. Salazar: One Cheer for SCOTUS As both a legal matter and cultural norm, it's understood that parents and guardians have broad authority to make medical decisions for children ... but there are limits.
Thursday, April 2, 2026OK, Fine, Give TSA Agents Back Pay ... But Then Send Them Home For Good The very existence of the TSA has been a costly 25-year mistake. Now, with the DHS funding dispute still in full swing, it's time to correct that mistake by abolishing the agency, sending its workfare clients back into the productive sector, and returning airport security responsibility to airports and airlines.
Saturday, March 28, 2026A California Jury Tries to Repeal the 21st Century Google and Meta provided services which K.G.M. was free to use, not use, or use as much or as little, and in whatever ways, she pleased. The availability of those services neither, as Thomas Jefferson might put it, picked K.G.M.'s pocket nor broke K.G.M.'s leg.
Saturday, March 28, 2026Autarky: Terrible at Political Scale, But Great as Individual Self-Defense At the level of a society or national government, autarky is a stump-stupid idea. It makes people poorer by thwarting competitive advantage. ... At the level of the individual American, on the other hand, a certain amount of "energy independence" -- autarky! -- makes a good deal of sense.
Tuesday, March 24, 2026Congress Can Halt the Iran War by Doing Nothing. It Should. Since Congress hasn't declared war, the executive branch has no authority to wage war. Congress shouldn't fund something that only Congress has the power to approve when it hasn't exercised that power.
Tuesday, March 24, 2026"But Kamala!" Yeah, So What? "But Kamala!" explains nothing, nor is Trump the real problem. We can't vote our way out of the messes we keep voting ourselves into. Elections aren't a substitute for freedom.
Wednesday, March 18, 2026Automatic Draft Registration: Everything Old is New Again Given current events, the prospect understandably gives off sinister vibes -- "but without a draft, who would do the necessary work of murdering Iranian elementary school students and Venezuelan fisherme ... er, 'narco-terrorists?'" -- so you might be surprised to learn that "automatic draft registration" is old news.
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