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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, January 19, 2025
Veterans and Violence: Chicken or Egg? Does military "service" make one more likely to engage in violent conduct? Or does a proclivity for such conduct cause future mass shooters to seek out such "service?" Maybe it's a bit of both. Maybe there are other factors. But the correlation seems strong enough to believe there's a connection of SOME kind.
Sunday, January 19, 2025Veterans and Violence: Chicken or Egg? Does military "service" make one more likely to engage in violent conduct? Or does a proclivity for such conduct cause future mass shooters to seek out such "service?" Maybe it's a bit of both. Maybe there are other factors. But the correlation seems strong enough to believe there's a connection of SOME kind.
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Sunday, January 19, 2025
Politics Makes People -- Including Supreme Court Justices -- Stupid That the vote went 5-4 instead of 9-0 constitutes a far greater scandal than anything Trump stands convicted of.
Sunday, January 19, 2025Politics Makes People -- Including Supreme Court Justices -- Stupid That the vote went 5-4 instead of 9-0 constitutes a far greater scandal than anything Trump stands convicted of.
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Sunday, January 19, 2025
BOHICA: Or, What to Expect When You're Expecting a New President Every president, without exception, finds ways to be worse than the previous one. Some presidents also find ways to be better than their predecessors.
Sunday, January 19, 2025BOHICA: Or, What to Expect When You're Expecting a New President Every president, without exception, finds ways to be worse than the previous one. Some presidents also find ways to be better than their predecessors.
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Thursday, January 2, 2025
What Would You Say This War Is About, Tom Knapp? The war is, and always has been, about whether poor, politically corrupt -- but resource-rich, and geographically located in ways that maximize its strategic importance -- Ukraine will go forward as the US/EU/NATO imperial satrapy it became in 2014, or revert to its former status as a Russian imperial satrapy. In other words, it's about profits for Rome on the Potomac versus profits for Constantinople on the Moskva.
Thursday, January 2, 2025What Would You Say This War Is About, Tom Knapp? The war is, and always has been, about whether poor, politically corrupt -- but resource-rich, and geographically located in ways that maximize its strategic importance -- Ukraine will go forward as the US/EU/NATO imperial satrapy it became in 2014, or revert to its former status as a Russian imperial satrapy. In other words, it's about profits for Rome on the Potomac versus profits for Constantinople on the Moskva.
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Saturday, December 28, 2024
A Man, A (Bad) Plan, A Canal, Panama President-elect Donald Trump proposes that the US regime regain control of the Panama Canal, ceded to Panama in 1999 pursuant to a 1977 treaty proposed by then-president Jimmy Carter and ratified by the US Senate. Implementing Trump's proposal would likely require another invasion, another conquest, another occupation, and imposition of another regime change.
Saturday, December 28, 2024A Man, A (Bad) Plan, A Canal, Panama President-elect Donald Trump proposes that the US regime regain control of the Panama Canal, ceded to Panama in 1999 pursuant to a 1977 treaty proposed by then-president Jimmy Carter and ratified by the US Senate. Implementing Trump's proposal would likely require another invasion, another conquest, another occupation, and imposition of another regime change.
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Thursday, December 19, 2024
The Right To Die Is Part Of The Right To Life If you don't possess the right to end your life, you possess no rights at all.
Thursday, December 19, 2024The Right To Die Is Part Of The Right To Life If you don't possess the right to end your life, you possess no rights at all.
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Thursday, December 19, 2024
Brian Mast As Foreign Policy Indicator: New Boss, Same As The Old Boss Trump's backing of Mast for a key foreign policy position establishes, to a high degree of confidence, that Trump has no intention of a second term that's even kinda-sorta, maybe-a-little-bit, "antiwar."
Thursday, December 19, 2024Brian Mast As Foreign Policy Indicator: New Boss, Same As The Old Boss Trump's backing of Mast for a key foreign policy position establishes, to a high degree of confidence, that Trump has no intention of a second term that's even kinda-sorta, maybe-a-little-bit, "antiwar."
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Thursday, December 19, 2024
I Heartily Agree With Donald Trump (And It's About Time!) Every year, twice a year, Americans' bodies spend days or weeks adjusting to a sudden one-hour real (as opposed to clock-designated) change in when we go to bed and when we get up. That's both annoying and costly.
Thursday, December 19, 2024I Heartily Agree With Donald Trump (And It's About Time!) Every year, twice a year, Americans' bodies spend days or weeks adjusting to a sudden one-hour real (as opposed to clock-designated) change in when we go to bed and when we get up. That's both annoying and costly.
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Sunday, December 8, 2024
Netanyahu, Gallant, and "That Juris-My-Diction Crap" Which is it going to be? Does the ICC have jurisdiction or doesn't it? If it doesn't have jurisdiction to issue the warrants, it doesn't have jurisdiction to hear an appeal of those warrants.
Sunday, December 8, 2024Netanyahu, Gallant, and "That Juris-My-Diction Crap" Which is it going to be? Does the ICC have jurisdiction or doesn't it? If it doesn't have jurisdiction to issue the warrants, it doesn't have jurisdiction to hear an appeal of those warrants.
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Sunday, December 8, 2024
Hey, Joe, Pardon Me (And Everyone Else) While Joe Biden's on this pardon subject, how about the rest of us? Yes, all of us -- or at least most of us.
Sunday, December 8, 2024Hey, Joe, Pardon Me (And Everyone Else) While Joe Biden's on this pardon subject, how about the rest of us? Yes, all of us -- or at least most of us.
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Sunday, December 8, 2024
Americans' Healthcare Upset Isn't Really About "Insurance" The system we've lived under since the early 1970s and the inception of the "Health Maintenance Organization" / "Preferred Provider Organization" isn't "insurance" -- it's "prepaid healthcare."
Sunday, December 8, 2024Americans' Healthcare Upset Isn't Really About "Insurance" The system we've lived under since the early 1970s and the inception of the "Health Maintenance Organization" / "Preferred Provider Organization" isn't "insurance" -- it's "prepaid healthcare."
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Thursday, November 28, 2024
Pre-Inauguration Proposal: Arm The Undocumented When someone attempts to abduct, cage, or deport an immigrant, even under color of one of those void unconstitutional "immigration laws," that person is just a common criminal, attempting to commit a violent crime. The prospective victim, and/or others acting in the defense of the prospective victim, are entitled by both right and constitutional protection to resist, up to and including the use of deadly force.
Thursday, November 28, 2024Pre-Inauguration Proposal: Arm The Undocumented When someone attempts to abduct, cage, or deport an immigrant, even under color of one of those void unconstitutional "immigration laws," that person is just a common criminal, attempting to commit a violent crime. The prospective victim, and/or others acting in the defense of the prospective victim, are entitled by both right and constitutional protection to resist, up to and including the use of deadly force.
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Wednesday, November 27, 2024
Yes, Biden Should Pardon Trump. Here's Why. If Biden pardon that he didn't need a pardon because he did nothing wrong will embed his past crimes in the public consciousness more firmly and for longer. A pardon for all his PAST crimes will encourage him to get even more brazen about his FUTURE crimes. He's going to commit those crimes anyway. Why not get louder and more boastful public confessions out of the deal?
Wednesday, November 27, 2024Yes, Biden Should Pardon Trump. Here's Why. If Biden pardon that he didn't need a pardon because he did nothing wrong will embed his past crimes in the public consciousness more firmly and for longer. A pardon for all his PAST crimes will encourage him to get even more brazen about his FUTURE crimes. He's going to commit those crimes anyway. Why not get louder and more boastful public confessions out of the deal?
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Wednesday, November 27, 2024
Trump's Second-Term "Efficiency" Offering: Microwaved Leftovers When it comes to recommendations on how to "dismantle government bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures and restructure federal agencies," the difference between your conversation with a neighbor and DOGE's recommendations comes down, mostly, to who's buying the coffee donuts consumed during the talking.
Wednesday, November 27, 2024Trump's Second-Term "Efficiency" Offering: Microwaved Leftovers When it comes to recommendations on how to "dismantle government bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures and restructure federal agencies," the difference between your conversation with a neighbor and DOGE's recommendations comes down, mostly, to who's buying the coffee donuts consumed during the talking.
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Wednesday, November 27, 2024
A Serious Question About the US Constitution As Rita Mae Brown wrote in 1983 (you may have seen the quote attributed to others), "insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results." That's "constitutionalism" in a nutshell.
Wednesday, November 27, 2024A Serious Question About the US Constitution As Rita Mae Brown wrote in 1983 (you may have seen the quote attributed to others), "insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results." That's "constitutionalism" in a nutshell.
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Saturday, November 23, 2024
Social Media Users Can Walk And Chew Gum. Why Abandon One For The Other? If you just can't stand the "MAGAts" on X, or the "leftards" on Bluesky, you can leave one platform or the other ... or you can learn to walk and chew gum at the same time by following, ignoring, and blocking to create the experiences you want in more than one forum.
Saturday, November 23, 2024Social Media Users Can Walk And Chew Gum. Why Abandon One For The Other? If you just can't stand the "MAGAts" on X, or the "leftards" on Bluesky, you can leave one platform or the other ... or you can learn to walk and chew gum at the same time by following, ignoring, and blocking to create the experiences you want in more than one forum.
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Friday, November 15, 2024
Bloomin' Onion! Or, Alex Jones And Poetic Injustice It's depressing to learn that Alex Jones's former property will be used to promote exactly the same kind of harm done to the Sandy Hook victims and their families, in the name of "justice" for the latter and at the expense of someone who didn't do that harm.
Friday, November 15, 2024Bloomin' Onion! Or, Alex Jones And Poetic Injustice It's depressing to learn that Alex Jones's former property will be used to promote exactly the same kind of harm done to the Sandy Hook victims and their families, in the name of "justice" for the latter and at the expense of someone who didn't do that harm.
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Friday, November 15, 2024
Election 2024: The Obligatory Explanation Column Donald Trump won the election by getting, and because he got, 312 electoral votes, which is more than the 270 required to win a presidential election. Kamala Harris lost the election by getting, and because she got, 226 electoral votes, which is less than the 270 required to win a presidential election. Yes, it really is that simple. Yes, it really is that concise.
Friday, November 15, 2024Election 2024: The Obligatory Explanation Column Donald Trump won the election by getting, and because he got, 312 electoral votes, which is more than the 270 required to win a presidential election. Kamala Harris lost the election by getting, and because she got, 226 electoral votes, which is less than the 270 required to win a presidential election. Yes, it really is that simple. Yes, it really is that concise.
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Sunday, November 10, 2024
Election 2024: Neither "Landslide" Nor "Mandate" About 57% of the population didn't vote for ANYONE for president. Some of them had no opinion. Some of them had an opinion but chose not to vote. Some may or may not have had an opinion but just weren't allowed to vote. So if you hear someone claiming a "landslide" or "mandate" for anyone but NOTA, well, now you know better.
Sunday, November 10, 2024Election 2024: Neither "Landslide" Nor "Mandate" About 57% of the population didn't vote for ANYONE for president. Some of them had no opinion. Some of them had an opinion but chose not to vote. Some may or may not have had an opinion but just weren't allowed to vote. So if you hear someone claiming a "landslide" or "mandate" for anyone but NOTA, well, now you know better.
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Saturday, November 2, 2024
How Joe Biden Could Save Lives And Change American Politics On His Way Out The Door If Biden does possess a conscience, or even just desires a big "legacy" accomplishment, he'll cut the Israeli regime off come November 6.
Saturday, November 2, 2024How Joe Biden Could Save Lives And Change American Politics On His Way Out The Door If Biden does possess a conscience, or even just desires a big "legacy" accomplishment, he'll cut the Israeli regime off come November 6.
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