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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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Sunday, December 14, 2025
First They Came for the Tourists ... As a practical matter, all this snooping just gums up the works of everyone's life so more government employees can collect more paychecks. It doesn't protect "America" and it doesn't protect you.
Sunday, December 14, 2025First They Came for the Tourists ... As a practical matter, all this snooping just gums up the works of everyone's life so more government employees can collect more paychecks. It doesn't protect "America" and it doesn't protect you.
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Sunday, December 14, 2025
Regime Change: Adam Smith Talks One Game and Spends on Another So long as Congress keeps paying presidents to wage wars, presidents will happily take that money, and enthusiastically deliver the goods.
Sunday, December 14, 2025Regime Change: Adam Smith Talks One Game and Spends on Another So long as Congress keeps paying presidents to wage wars, presidents will happily take that money, and enthusiastically deliver the goods.
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Monday, December 1, 2025
You Must Refuse Illegal Orders. If This Be Treason, Make The Most Of It. You must refuse illegal orders. If it's "treason" or "sedition" to state that fact, then every instructor in every basic training class on military law is a traitor who's been teaching treason and preaching sedition to every recruit since 1950, when the UCMJ was adopted ... and probably long before that.
Monday, December 1, 2025You Must Refuse Illegal Orders. If This Be Treason, Make The Most Of It. You must refuse illegal orders. If it's "treason" or "sedition" to state that fact, then every instructor in every basic training class on military law is a traitor who's been teaching treason and preaching sedition to every recruit since 1950, when the UCMJ was adopted ... and probably long before that.
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Monday, December 1, 2025
Quiet, Piggy: Reporters Aren't Trump's Subordinates Trump's only subordinates (with respect to his position as president of the United States) are employees of the federal government's executive branch. Literally everyone else in the country is either his equal or his superior.
Monday, December 1, 2025Quiet, Piggy: Reporters Aren't Trump's Subordinates Trump's only subordinates (with respect to his position as president of the United States) are employees of the federal government's executive branch. Literally everyone else in the country is either his equal or his superior.
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Monday, December 1, 2025
Taiwan: Takaichi Strikes a Long-Needed Blow Against "Strategic Ambiguity" Taiwan is not now, and never has been, part of the People's Republic of China.
Monday, December 1, 2025Taiwan: Takaichi Strikes a Long-Needed Blow Against "Strategic Ambiguity" Taiwan is not now, and never has been, part of the People's Republic of China.
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Saturday, November 8, 2025
SCOTUS Passport Ruling: A Distraction from the Real Issue If the purpose of a passport is to establish that the government has issued a particular person a Very Special Important Permission Slip to Travel, matching that person's fingerprint to a fingerprint on the passport is sufficient. Anything more is about bureaucratic control fetishes, not a desire to identify travelers.
Saturday, November 8, 2025SCOTUS Passport Ruling: A Distraction from the Real Issue If the purpose of a passport is to establish that the government has issued a particular person a Very Special Important Permission Slip to Travel, matching that person's fingerprint to a fingerprint on the passport is sufficient. Anything more is about bureaucratic control fetishes, not a desire to identify travelers.
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Thursday, November 6, 2025
Against Moral Panic: Or, Dolls Aren't Real Kids Do we want fewer or more child molesters? If the former, we'll stop letting moral panic drive our legal and political demands.
Thursday, November 6, 2025Against Moral Panic: Or, Dolls Aren't Real Kids Do we want fewer or more child molesters? If the former, we'll stop letting moral panic drive our legal and political demands.
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Monday, November 3, 2025
The Administration Just Admitted War Powers Don't Cover Trump's Caribbean Murder Spree If the drone strike campaign in the Caribbean isn't war, what is it? It's not law enforcement. In law enforcement, there are investigations, charges filed, judicial warrants issued, and attempts at arrest. These drone strikes include none of those elements except, supposedly, investigations. They also take place entirely outside the legal jurisdiction of the United States. Not war. Not law enforcement. What, then? Murder.
Monday, November 3, 2025The Administration Just Admitted War Powers Don't Cover Trump's Caribbean Murder Spree If the drone strike campaign in the Caribbean isn't war, what is it? It's not law enforcement. In law enforcement, there are investigations, charges filed, judicial warrants issued, and attempts at arrest. These drone strikes include none of those elements except, supposedly, investigations. They also take place entirely outside the legal jurisdiction of the United States. Not war. Not law enforcement. What, then? Murder.
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Monday, November 3, 2025
Tariffs: The Truth May Hurt Trump, But Trump's Lies Hurt You Estimates vary -- in large part because Trump's tariffs rates seem to change by the minute on the basis of his whims and tantrums -- but over the last few months he's hiked your household's annual tax bill by at least $2,500, and probably closer to $5,000. That's a lot of money to spend humoring one guy's "throw myself on the floor and hold my breath 'til I turn blue" approach to trade/tax policy.
Monday, November 3, 2025Tariffs: The Truth May Hurt Trump, But Trump's Lies Hurt You Estimates vary -- in large part because Trump's tariffs rates seem to change by the minute on the basis of his whims and tantrums -- but over the last few months he's hiked your household's annual tax bill by at least $2,500, and probably closer to $5,000. That's a lot of money to spend humoring one guy's "throw myself on the floor and hold my breath 'til I turn blue" approach to trade/tax policy.
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Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Gaza: Yes, It's A War Trying to separate war from the genocide and ethnic cleansing that often accompanies it is cheap moralizing for propaganda points.
Tuesday, October 21, 2025Gaza: Yes, It's A War Trying to separate war from the genocide and ethnic cleansing that often accompanies it is cheap moralizing for propaganda points.
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Thursday, October 9, 2025
Social Security: Instead of Robbing the "Gabillionaires," Stop Fleecing the "Regular Workers" Jim Hightower ... wants, in the common parlance, to "redistribute wealth," in the form of retirement income. Social Security already does that, but in a different direction: It forces black men to subsidize the retirements of white women.
Thursday, October 9, 2025Social Security: Instead of Robbing the "Gabillionaires," Stop Fleecing the "Regular Workers" Jim Hightower ... wants, in the common parlance, to "redistribute wealth," in the form of retirement income. Social Security already does that, but in a different direction: It forces black men to subsidize the retirements of white women.
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Thursday, October 9, 2025
Should Healthcare Be a Commodity? Depends on Whether You Actually Want Healthcare Without large-scale commodification and money as medium of exchange, we'd all be -- and once were -- much, much poorer than we are now, even if enterprises were "worker-owned."
Thursday, October 9, 2025Should Healthcare Be a Commodity? Depends on Whether You Actually Want Healthcare Without large-scale commodification and money as medium of exchange, we'd all be -- and once were -- much, much poorer than we are now, even if enterprises were "worker-owned."
![Lincoln Memorial during the Government Shutdown [explored], From CreativeCommonsPhoto](https://www.opednews.com/populum/visuals/2025/09/2025-09-76576-350-CreativeCommonsPhotos-3821_10040280235_c70e9dea38_b.jpg "Lincoln Memorial during the Government Shutdown [explored], From CreativeCommonsPhoto")
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Sunday, October 5, 2025
Shutdown Theater, Briar Patch Edition The two wings of America's single-party state, and their pet media, treat the threat of a "government shutdown" as existential, and spend a lot more time trying to pre-emptively apportion blame to each other than trying to do a deal. In reality, these "shutdowns" are pure Hollywood magic, all special effects -- "no animals or bureaucrats were harmed in this production."
Sunday, October 5, 2025Shutdown Theater, Briar Patch Edition The two wings of America's single-party state, and their pet media, treat the threat of a "government shutdown" as existential, and spend a lot more time trying to pre-emptively apportion blame to each other than trying to do a deal. In reality, these "shutdowns" are pure Hollywood magic, all special effects -- "no animals or bureaucrats were harmed in this production."
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Sunday, October 5, 2025
Yes, James Comey is a Liar ... and a Distraction It seems like Comey's tenure was mostly lies. So pardon me if I decline to break out even the world's smallest violin for his current legal problems. On the other hand, it's also true that this prosecution has nothing whatsoever to do with the alleged lie in question.
Sunday, October 5, 2025Yes, James Comey is a Liar ... and a Distraction It seems like Comey's tenure was mostly lies. So pardon me if I decline to break out even the world's smallest violin for his current legal problems. On the other hand, it's also true that this prosecution has nothing whatsoever to do with the alleged lie in question.
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Sunday, October 5, 2025
"National Defense Strategy": A Novel And Unlikely, But Welcome, Proposition We should welcome even the slightest reorientation of US military policy toward "national defense" rather than foreign meddling.
Sunday, October 5, 2025"National Defense Strategy": A Novel And Unlikely, But Welcome, Proposition We should welcome even the slightest reorientation of US military policy toward "national defense" rather than foreign meddling.
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Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Trump, RFK Jr. May Be Right About Acetaminophen, But Why The Rush? Maybe there's really no causal link to autism/ADHD; maybe there is. But with any number of pain relief options out there, does it really make sense to continue using a drug we already knew was bad for us?
Tuesday, September 23, 2025Trump, RFK Jr. May Be Right About Acetaminophen, But Why The Rush? Maybe there's really no causal link to autism/ADHD; maybe there is. But with any number of pain relief options out there, does it really make sense to continue using a drug we already knew was bad for us?
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Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Brendan Carr and Donald Trump: Another Jawbone, Another Ass There's nothing new about "jawboning," the practice of politicians and bureaucrats using political condemnation, often coupled with regulatory or legal threats, to bludgeon private sector actors into submission.
Tuesday, September 23, 2025Brendan Carr and Donald Trump: Another Jawbone, Another Ass There's nothing new about "jawboning," the practice of politicians and bureaucrats using political condemnation, often coupled with regulatory or legal threats, to bludgeon private sector actors into submission.
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Friday, September 19, 2025
Charlie Kirk: The Value of a Legacy Is Subjective In a perfect world, Charlie Kirk's supporters would focus on, and mine the legacy value of, his reputation as an advocate of free speech and debate. Whatever one thinks of the views he promoted and defended, there's 24-karat gold in the notion that verbal argument is, in both moral and practical terms, better than physical violence as a means of resolving disputes. We do not live in a perfect world.
Friday, September 19, 2025Charlie Kirk: The Value of a Legacy Is Subjective In a perfect world, Charlie Kirk's supporters would focus on, and mine the legacy value of, his reputation as an advocate of free speech and debate. Whatever one thinks of the views he promoted and defended, there's 24-karat gold in the notion that verbal argument is, in both moral and practical terms, better than physical violence as a means of resolving disputes. We do not live in a perfect world.
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Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Hoplophobes Say The Strangest Things Yes, they're scared, but that kind of goes with the whole "irrational fear" thing, doesn't it? For some reason, though, they say they're MORE scared of "open carry" than of "concealed carry."
Tuesday, September 16, 2025Hoplophobes Say The Strangest Things Yes, they're scared, but that kind of goes with the whole "irrational fear" thing, doesn't it? For some reason, though, they say they're MORE scared of "open carry" than of "concealed carry."
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Sunday, September 14, 2025
Charlie Kirk: This Too Shall Pass, Unfortunately If there's one thing we should all be able to agree on, it's that no one should be murdered for speaking. In the aftermath of Charlie "Prove Me Wrong" Kirk's murder at a Utah campus event, it's clear that no, we don't all agree on that.
Sunday, September 14, 2025Charlie Kirk: This Too Shall Pass, Unfortunately If there's one thing we should all be able to agree on, it's that no one should be murdered for speaking. In the aftermath of Charlie "Prove Me Wrong" Kirk's murder at a Utah campus event, it's clear that no, we don't all agree on that.
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