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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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Monday, May 13, 2024
We've Already Got an "Antisemitism Awareness Act." It's Called the First Amendment. By adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's "working definition of antisemitism," the Antisemitism Awareness Act reveals itself as just another underhanded attempt to suppress freedom of speech by placing new conditions on federal funding.
Monday, May 13, 2024We've Already Got an "Antisemitism Awareness Act." It's Called the First Amendment. By adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's "working definition of antisemitism," the Antisemitism Awareness Act reveals itself as just another underhanded attempt to suppress freedom of speech by placing new conditions on federal funding.
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Monday, May 13, 2024
Public Service Announcement: No, Trump and Kennedy Aren't Libertarian Presidential Candidates Three things: 1. Donald Trump isn't a libertarian; 2. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. isn't a libertarian; and 3. Neither Trump nor Kennedy will be the Libertarian Party's 2024 presidential nominee.
Monday, May 13, 2024Public Service Announcement: No, Trump and Kennedy Aren't Libertarian Presidential Candidates Three things: 1. Donald Trump isn't a libertarian; 2. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. isn't a libertarian; and 3. Neither Trump nor Kennedy will be the Libertarian Party's 2024 presidential nominee.
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Monday, May 6, 2024
Jesus (Sort Of) Versus the Long Arm of Washington's Reichsfluchtsteuer So far as I can tell, even the Third Reich didn't display anything like the sheer gall and temerity of the US regime, chasing down emigrants years later and extorting additional money from them. Hitler's goons limited themselves to things like pawing through emigrants' luggage and stealing their jewelry.
Monday, May 6, 2024Jesus (Sort Of) Versus the Long Arm of Washington's Reichsfluchtsteuer So far as I can tell, even the Third Reich didn't display anything like the sheer gall and temerity of the US regime, chasing down emigrants years later and extorting additional money from them. Hitler's goons limited themselves to things like pawing through emigrants' luggage and stealing their jewelry.
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Friday, May 3, 2024
FTC's Noncompete Rule: A Poor Solution to a Self-Solving Problem The existence of vengeful, authoritarian managers/owners is a terrible reason for letting a vengeful, authoritarian Federal Trade Commission seize even more control over how American businesses operate. If you have a problem with a prospective employer's demand that you accept a noncompete clause, there's a simple solution: Don't accept the job.
Friday, May 3, 2024FTC's Noncompete Rule: A Poor Solution to a Self-Solving Problem The existence of vengeful, authoritarian managers/owners is a terrible reason for letting a vengeful, authoritarian Federal Trade Commission seize even more control over how American businesses operate. If you have a problem with a prospective employer's demand that you accept a noncompete clause, there's a simple solution: Don't accept the job.
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Friday, May 3, 2024
Gun Safety Reminder: There Are Only Two Kinds of Shootings The phrase "accidental shooting" is usually a contradiction in terms. There are, in the normal course of events, only two kinds of shootings: Intentional and negligent.
Friday, May 3, 2024Gun Safety Reminder: There Are Only Two Kinds of Shootings The phrase "accidental shooting" is usually a contradiction in terms. There are, in the normal course of events, only two kinds of shootings: Intentional and negligent.
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Friday, May 3, 2024
US Foreign Policy: "No Daylight" Is Where Peace Dies In Darkness If the US left Israel to its own devices, or at the very least conditioned its billions of dollars in annual aid -- not to mention its support in every argument -- on good behavior, we might see some progress toward peace.
Friday, May 3, 2024US Foreign Policy: "No Daylight" Is Where Peace Dies In Darkness If the US left Israel to its own devices, or at the very least conditioned its billions of dollars in annual aid -- not to mention its support in every argument -- on good behavior, we might see some progress toward peace.
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Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Third Party Candidates Are America's Fortune-Tellers Political establishments are "conservative." They tend to hold on to old ways of doing things, refusing to make more than minor tweaks to the system, until and unless they're forced to make real changes. Historically, those changes have been first proposed by "third party" political candidates, after which growing public support has eventually forced "major party" adoption.
Tuesday, April 23, 2024Third Party Candidates Are America's Fortune-Tellers Political establishments are "conservative." They tend to hold on to old ways of doing things, refusing to make more than minor tweaks to the system, until and unless they're forced to make real changes. Historically, those changes have been first proposed by "third party" political candidates, after which growing public support has eventually forced "major party" adoption.
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Monday, April 1, 2024
The Big Question About the UN Security Council's Gaza Ceasefire Resolution Now that the UN Security Council has issued its demands, how are UN member states, especially the US, going to enforce those demands?
Monday, April 1, 2024The Big Question About the UN Security Council's Gaza Ceasefire Resolution Now that the UN Security Council has issued its demands, how are UN member states, especially the US, going to enforce those demands?
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Monday, April 1, 2024
Election 2024: The More The Merrier, But Candidates Should Stay In Their Own Lanes RFK, Jr. is a poor fit for the Libertarian Party's objectives, and the party really doesn't have as much to offer him as the Politico article implies. Which is not to say he shouldn't run for president. That's his call. But he should run in his own lane instead of trying to get the Libertarian Party to run itself off the road for him.
Monday, April 1, 2024Election 2024: The More The Merrier, But Candidates Should Stay In Their Own Lanes RFK, Jr. is a poor fit for the Libertarian Party's objectives, and the party really doesn't have as much to offer him as the Politico article implies. Which is not to say he shouldn't run for president. That's his call. But he should run in his own lane instead of trying to get the Libertarian Party to run itself off the road for him.
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Monday, April 1, 2024
Government Debt versus Stein's Law As I write this, Congress owes its creditors about $35 trillion, leaving you on the hook -- or so they claim, anyway -- for more than $100,000. And no, they're not making any effort to pay that debt down.
Monday, April 1, 2024Government Debt versus Stein's Law As I write this, Congress owes its creditors about $35 trillion, leaving you on the hook -- or so they claim, anyway -- for more than $100,000. And no, they're not making any effort to pay that debt down.
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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Frozen In The Headlights: Or, A Glaring Case of Excess Death By Government Even with instant approval, the long life of the average car means that ADB headlights would take years to completely supplant "traditional" headlights ... and NHTSA pettifogging keeps pushing that time further and further out into the future. As of 2022, according to the Governors Highway Safety Association, moving vehicles killed more than 7,500 pedestrians -- more than 20 per day.
Tuesday, March 19, 2024Frozen In The Headlights: Or, A Glaring Case of Excess Death By Government Even with instant approval, the long life of the average car means that ADB headlights would take years to completely supplant "traditional" headlights ... and NHTSA pettifogging keeps pushing that time further and further out into the future. As of 2022, according to the Governors Highway Safety Association, moving vehicles killed more than 7,500 pedestrians -- more than 20 per day.
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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Election 2024: Closer, And Less Important, Than You Probably Think None of the candidates, nor anyone else, is qualified to rule "the United States," or the people who live here. That's true regardless of HOW the ruler is chosen, and it doesn't really matter much WHICH ruler is chosen.
Tuesday, March 19, 2024Election 2024: Closer, And Less Important, Than You Probably Think None of the candidates, nor anyone else, is qualified to rule "the United States," or the people who live here. That's true regardless of HOW the ruler is chosen, and it doesn't really matter much WHICH ruler is chosen.
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Friday, March 15, 2024
Congress Can Only Take Away Your TikTok If You Let Them The proposed TikTok ban isn't about "national security," nor is it about your privacy. It's about cultivating short-term moral panic for their political benefit. It's about establishing their longer-term control over anything and everything you might choose to do. And it won't take long to learn which American Big Tech lobbyists and campaign contributors it was ALWAYS about giving an economic gift to.
Friday, March 15, 2024Congress Can Only Take Away Your TikTok If You Let Them The proposed TikTok ban isn't about "national security," nor is it about your privacy. It's about cultivating short-term moral panic for their political benefit. It's about establishing their longer-term control over anything and everything you might choose to do. And it won't take long to learn which American Big Tech lobbyists and campaign contributors it was ALWAYS about giving an economic gift to.
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Friday, March 15, 2024
UFOs: Don't Expect The Truth From Government The US government isn't telling us everything it knows about UFOs. And we can be certain that at least some of what it IS telling us is untrue.
Friday, March 15, 2024UFOs: Don't Expect The Truth From Government The US government isn't telling us everything it knows about UFOs. And we can be certain that at least some of what it IS telling us is untrue.
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Sunday, March 10, 2024
The Danger in Medicalizing Murder While some people tend to unduly write off avoidable atrocity as unavoidable tragedy, it's difficult to deny that brain trauma -- natural or artificial -- can play a role in turning otherwise reasonable people into killers.
Sunday, March 10, 2024The Danger in Medicalizing Murder While some people tend to unduly write off avoidable atrocity as unavoidable tragedy, it's difficult to deny that brain trauma -- natural or artificial -- can play a role in turning otherwise reasonable people into killers.
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Sunday, March 10, 2024
When Time Is Money, "Dynamic Pricing" Makes Everything Cheaper Everything else being equal, nobody wants to pay more for food than necessary. But everything else is never equal. For some people, saving time is worth a little extra money; for others, saving money is worth a little extra time. For businesses, keeping demand more steady is profitable.
Sunday, March 10, 2024When Time Is Money, "Dynamic Pricing" Makes Everything Cheaper Everything else being equal, nobody wants to pay more for food than necessary. But everything else is never equal. For some people, saving time is worth a little extra money; for others, saving money is worth a little extra time. For businesses, keeping demand more steady is profitable.
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Tuesday, March 5, 2024
Then There Was The Time Tom Cotton Bemoaned "Extremism" To Cotton's mind, the Israeli regime's murders of civilians in Gaza -- the current toll stands at 30,000 or more -- are morally justifiable and worthy of his support, while killing one's self in protest against genocide is "extremist" and supportive of "terrorism."
Tuesday, March 5, 2024Then There Was The Time Tom Cotton Bemoaned "Extremism" To Cotton's mind, the Israeli regime's murders of civilians in Gaza -- the current toll stands at 30,000 or more -- are morally justifiable and worthy of his support, while killing one's self in protest against genocide is "extremist" and supportive of "terrorism."
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Thursday, February 29, 2024
Return of the "Student Loan Forgiveness" Vote-Buying Scheme Like previous rounds of "student loan forgiveness," this latest write-off is a $1.2 billion campaign expenditure, one that doesn't have to come out of the Biden campaign's $56 million in cash reserves, or be raised with donation drives.
Thursday, February 29, 2024Return of the "Student Loan Forgiveness" Vote-Buying Scheme Like previous rounds of "student loan forgiveness," this latest write-off is a $1.2 billion campaign expenditure, one that doesn't have to come out of the Biden campaign's $56 million in cash reserves, or be raised with donation drives.
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Thursday, February 29, 2024
Alabama IVF Ruling: When The Law Has A Personal Problem What -- who -- is a "person" or "child" deserving of particular rights and protections? As a philosophical topic, that question quickly becomes interesting and highly debatable. As a political and legal question, it's likewise highly debatable and any answer produces controversial consequences.
Thursday, February 29, 2024Alabama IVF Ruling: When The Law Has A Personal Problem What -- who -- is a "person" or "child" deserving of particular rights and protections? As a philosophical topic, that question quickly becomes interesting and highly debatable. As a political and legal question, it's likewise highly debatable and any answer produces controversial consequences.
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Thursday, February 29, 2024
"Solution" Or Not, There's Already a Palestinian State Whenever there's talk of a "two-state solution" to the Israeli-Arab conflict in Palestine, Israel and its backers -- especially the US -- pretend that any "second state" is a proposal for the future, a proposal that can be rejected, temporarily or permanently. That little bit of propagandizing becomes less and less useful as time goes on. The state of Palestine is not a proposal, it's a fact.
Thursday, February 29, 2024"Solution" Or Not, There's Already a Palestinian State Whenever there's talk of a "two-state solution" to the Israeli-Arab conflict in Palestine, Israel and its backers -- especially the US -- pretend that any "second state" is a proposal for the future, a proposal that can be rejected, temporarily or permanently. That little bit of propagandizing becomes less and less useful as time goes on. The state of Palestine is not a proposal, it's a fact.
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