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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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Thursday, May 11, 2017
The US Postal Service is Dying. Let it. Like most monopolies, the US Postal Service isn't interested in changing its business model. An enterprise hemorrhaging cash in a free market would cut prices, improve service, look for new revenue streams, or simply close its doors. The USPS solution, as usual, is to raise prices and hope for the best. Alternative proposal: Let's put it out of its misery.
Thursday, May 11, 2017The US Postal Service is Dying. Let it. Like most monopolies, the US Postal Service isn't interested in changing its business model. An enterprise hemorrhaging cash in a free market would cut prices, improve service, look for new revenue streams, or simply close its doors. The USPS solution, as usual, is to raise prices and hope for the best. Alternative proposal: Let's put it out of its misery.
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Friday, October 28, 2022
Musk, Twitter, and Friedman's Social Responsibility Observation Why did Musk buy Twitter? "I didn't do it to make more money," he writes. "I did it to try to help humanity, whom I love." That might seem an odd approach toward the people who use Twitter to make more money, and of course there's always the question of whether to believe him. But he sets out a vision that those advertisers should find attractive.
Friday, October 28, 2022Musk, Twitter, and Friedman's Social Responsibility Observation Why did Musk buy Twitter? "I didn't do it to make more money," he writes. "I did it to try to help humanity, whom I love." That might seem an odd approach toward the people who use Twitter to make more money, and of course there's always the question of whether to believe him. But he sets out a vision that those advertisers should find attractive.
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Tuesday, February 15, 2022
O Canada: Let Us Now Praise the "Freedom Convoy" COVID-19 police statism looks like it's on the defense in some places, in full retreat in others, and on the verge of total collapse everywhere. Why? Because some truckers in Canada finally said "no more" and resolved to make it stick.
Tuesday, February 15, 2022O Canada: Let Us Now Praise the "Freedom Convoy" COVID-19 police statism looks like it's on the defense in some places, in full retreat in others, and on the verge of total collapse everywhere. Why? Because some truckers in Canada finally said "no more" and resolved to make it stick.
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Monday, May 29, 2023
Pre-Election Advice: Try Looking at Yourself the Way Politicians Do The usual way of thinking about politicians is: What do we think of them? ... I suggest trying to look at them from the other direction. What do those politicians think about us, and what do their attitudes toward us tell us about them?
Monday, May 29, 2023Pre-Election Advice: Try Looking at Yourself the Way Politicians Do The usual way of thinking about politicians is: What do we think of them? ... I suggest trying to look at them from the other direction. What do those politicians think about us, and what do their attitudes toward us tell us about them?
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Saturday, June 17, 2023
UFOs: I Want to Believe, But I Trust No One (Well, No One from the Government, Anyway) I truly do want to believe that at least some "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena" (aka UFOs) are spacecraft of extraterrestrial origin. But to really believe it, I'd need to see real proof, not just claims un-backed by physical evidence, no matter how seemingly credible the source.
Saturday, June 17, 2023UFOs: I Want to Believe, But I Trust No One (Well, No One from the Government, Anyway) I truly do want to believe that at least some "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena" (aka UFOs) are spacecraft of extraterrestrial origin. But to really believe it, I'd need to see real proof, not just claims un-backed by physical evidence, no matter how seemingly credible the source.
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Sunday, December 8, 2019
Congress: The Snail's Pace Race On one hand, I often thank the Almighty for gridlock. If Congress isn't doing anything, Congress isn't doing anything stupid or evil, right? On the other hand, if Congress isn't doing anything, why do we continue to pay their salaries, hand them significant portions of our earnings, and listen to them flap their gums 24/7 about how important they are?
Sunday, December 8, 2019Congress: The Snail's Pace Race On one hand, I often thank the Almighty for gridlock. If Congress isn't doing anything, Congress isn't doing anything stupid or evil, right? On the other hand, if Congress isn't doing anything, why do we continue to pay their salaries, hand them significant portions of our earnings, and listen to them flap their gums 24/7 about how important they are?
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Thursday, November 28, 2019
Non-Intervention: An Imperfect Solution to a Terrible Problem Yes, Hong Kong was "returned" to a "China" completely different from the "China" it was torn from, but nobody gets to tell the new "China" what to do within the agreed borders. At least, it seems, not for more than 20 years or so. I don't like that, but I don't have to like it. That's how it is whether I like it or not.
Thursday, November 28, 2019Non-Intervention: An Imperfect Solution to a Terrible Problem Yes, Hong Kong was "returned" to a "China" completely different from the "China" it was torn from, but nobody gets to tell the new "China" what to do within the agreed borders. At least, it seems, not for more than 20 years or so. I don't like that, but I don't have to like it. That's how it is whether I like it or not.
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Friday, May 13, 2022
"Privacy": Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others Your right to protest the actions of Very Special Important People like Supreme Court justices is subordinate to their right to not be annoyed, embarrassed, or in even the slightest manner inconvenienced by such protests.
Friday, May 13, 2022"Privacy": Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others Your right to protest the actions of Very Special Important People like Supreme Court justices is subordinate to their right to not be annoyed, embarrassed, or in even the slightest manner inconvenienced by such protests.
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Saturday, July 20, 2019
Power, Not Policy, Drives American Politics From any debate between candidates for public office, one may collect a veritable basket full of promises. But listen closely to the promises and you'll find that unless the candidate is a Libertarian, they're always conditional: Give me more power, give me more money, and I'll give you X.
Saturday, July 20, 2019Power, Not Policy, Drives American Politics From any debate between candidates for public office, one may collect a veritable basket full of promises. But listen closely to the promises and you'll find that unless the candidate is a Libertarian, they're always conditional: Give me more power, give me more money, and I'll give you X.
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Tuesday, June 27, 2023
The Rosenberg Case is Closed. Time to Open the Books. It's been 70 years since the executions of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg on charges of spying for the Soviet Union. ... But we still don't know the whole truth, and not everyone who's interested in the truth has forever to wait around for it.
Tuesday, June 27, 2023The Rosenberg Case is Closed. Time to Open the Books. It's been 70 years since the executions of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg on charges of spying for the Soviet Union. ... But we still don't know the whole truth, and not everyone who's interested in the truth has forever to wait around for it.
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Friday, June 19, 2020
No, We're Not All Antifa Now. But We Should Be. With respect to fascism, there are three possible orientations: Fascist, anti-fascist, and politically neutral. If the whole idea of antifa has you up in arms, you're clearly neither of the last two. Kind of narrows things down, doesn't it?
Friday, June 19, 2020No, We're Not All Antifa Now. But We Should Be. With respect to fascism, there are three possible orientations: Fascist, anti-fascist, and politically neutral. If the whole idea of antifa has you up in arms, you're clearly neither of the last two. Kind of narrows things down, doesn't it?
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Wednesday, September 4, 2019
War in All But Name as US State Department Offers Bribes to Pirates The US State Department is offering cash bribes to captains of Iranian ships if they sail those ships into ports where the US government can seize them. The offers are funded from a "Rewards for Justice" program authorizing payouts of up to $15 million for "counter-terrorism" purposes. It's not about counter-terrorism, though. It's about doubling down on US President Donald Trump's decision to violate the Iran nuclear deal.
Wednesday, September 4, 2019War in All But Name as US State Department Offers Bribes to Pirates The US State Department is offering cash bribes to captains of Iranian ships if they sail those ships into ports where the US government can seize them. The offers are funded from a "Rewards for Justice" program authorizing payouts of up to $15 million for "counter-terrorism" purposes. It's not about counter-terrorism, though. It's about doubling down on US President Donald Trump's decision to violate the Iran nuclear deal.
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Tuesday, October 29, 2019
Don't Make Mark Zuckerberg America's Political Truth Czar Politics consists of conflicting narratives. No two opposing narratives can both be true. In fact, both could be false. The question is not whether politicians' claims should be fact checked. The question is who should do the checking. In an even remotely free society, the only answer is "all of us."
Tuesday, October 29, 2019Don't Make Mark Zuckerberg America's Political Truth Czar Politics consists of conflicting narratives. No two opposing narratives can both be true. In fact, both could be false. The question is not whether politicians' claims should be fact checked. The question is who should do the checking. In an even remotely free society, the only answer is "all of us."
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Saturday, August 3, 2019
Afghanistan: In Search of Monsters to Not Destroy Afghanistan is not and never has been a military threat to the United States, let alone the kind of existential threat that would justify 18 years of war. Yesterday isn't soon enough to bring this fiasco to an end. But Lindsey Graham and company would, given their way, drag it out forever.
Saturday, August 3, 2019Afghanistan: In Search of Monsters to Not Destroy Afghanistan is not and never has been a military threat to the United States, let alone the kind of existential threat that would justify 18 years of war. Yesterday isn't soon enough to bring this fiasco to an end. But Lindsey Graham and company would, given their way, drag it out forever.
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Monday, July 22, 2019
Peckerwood Populism is About Political Strategy, Not Personal Belief Peckerwood Populism is enjoying a nasty resurgence in the Age of Trump (and Trump is far from its sole practitioner). Why? Because the Republican Party has failed to expand its base. ... If you can't expand your base, you win by working harder to get more of that base out to the polls.
Monday, July 22, 2019Peckerwood Populism is About Political Strategy, Not Personal Belief Peckerwood Populism is enjoying a nasty resurgence in the Age of Trump (and Trump is far from its sole practitioner). Why? Because the Republican Party has failed to expand its base. ... If you can't expand your base, you win by working harder to get more of that base out to the polls.
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Friday, May 31, 2019
The First Amendment Protects Ex-Politicians Too Yes, powerful entities with lots of money like to hire former members of Congress to lobby on their behalf. Yes, there's a "revolving door" between Congress, the federal bureaucracy, and those lobbying jobs that lends itself to corruption and sweetheart dealing. Yes, that's a problem. No, a ban on those practices isn't the solution.
Friday, May 31, 2019The First Amendment Protects Ex-Politicians Too Yes, powerful entities with lots of money like to hire former members of Congress to lobby on their behalf. Yes, there's a "revolving door" between Congress, the federal bureaucracy, and those lobbying jobs that lends itself to corruption and sweetheart dealing. Yes, that's a problem. No, a ban on those practices isn't the solution.
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Tuesday, August 6, 2019
Don't Let Mass Shooters and the New York Times Destroy Freedom of Speech Free speech is a core moral value for any society that aspires to freedom of any kind and to any degree. We must -- MUST -- have the right to form our own opinions, and to express those opinions, no matter how ugly others may find those opinions. Without that freedom, no other freedoms can survive.
Tuesday, August 6, 2019Don't Let Mass Shooters and the New York Times Destroy Freedom of Speech Free speech is a core moral value for any society that aspires to freedom of any kind and to any degree. We must -- MUST -- have the right to form our own opinions, and to express those opinions, no matter how ugly others may find those opinions. Without that freedom, no other freedoms can survive.
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Thursday, December 19, 2019
Trial and Error: Pelosi's Foolish Impeachment Ploy To the extent that the third presidential impeachment in US history is a "victory" -- the public jury is still out on that question and likely to remain so for some time -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) seems determined to snatch defeat from its jaws.
Thursday, December 19, 2019Trial and Error: Pelosi's Foolish Impeachment Ploy To the extent that the third presidential impeachment in US history is a "victory" -- the public jury is still out on that question and likely to remain so for some time -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) seems determined to snatch defeat from its jaws.
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Wednesday, September 7, 2016
DEA Declares (Kr)atomic War on Americans Why is the DEA picking on kratom? The agency offers numerous excuses -- insufficient testing for the plant to have an approved medical use, its historical use as an opium substitute, its increasing use "to self-treat chronic pain and opioid withdrawal symptoms, with users reporting its effects to be comparable to prescription opioids." DEA says that last bit like it's a bad thing.
Wednesday, September 7, 2016DEA Declares (Kr)atomic War on Americans Why is the DEA picking on kratom? The agency offers numerous excuses -- insufficient testing for the plant to have an approved medical use, its historical use as an opium substitute, its increasing use "to self-treat chronic pain and opioid withdrawal symptoms, with users reporting its effects to be comparable to prescription opioids." DEA says that last bit like it's a bad thing.
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Thursday, March 19, 2020
Don't Let Politicians Use Pandemic as an Excuse for Dictatorship A month ago half of us didn't trust Donald Trump, half of us didn't trust Nancy Pelosi, and many of us trusted neither. Now all of a sudden most of us seem to be practically begging both of them, and their henchmen, to order us around.
Thursday, March 19, 2020Don't Let Politicians Use Pandemic as an Excuse for Dictatorship A month ago half of us didn't trust Donald Trump, half of us didn't trust Nancy Pelosi, and many of us trusted neither. Now all of a sudden most of us seem to be practically begging both of them, and their henchmen, to order us around.
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