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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, September 6, 2026Dog Bites Man: Florida Pols Rigged an Election Using Stolen Taxpayer Money It's not their fault they embezzled taxpayer money to rig an election, see? It's everybody else's fault for finding out! If that grand jury had minded its own business, if that whistleblower had kept the report under wraps, if the media hadn't told the public about it, IF IT WEREN'T FOR THOSE MEDDLING KIDS ...
Saturday, September 5, 2026Stars and Stripes, Perhaps Not Forever Stars and Stripes is largely funded by, and its operations and distribution are almost completely enabled by, the US government. "Editorial independence" may sound like a wonderful idea, but there's always been a leash. We're just watching the leash get shorter.
Saturday, September 5, 2026Note to Rick Scott: Stop Tweeting and Cut Up That Government Credit Card Scott's perennial "someone should do something!" tweets on the debt might be good politics, but even a cursory look at his actions demonstrates that he's someone NOT doing something.
Monday, August 31, 2026Korean Peninsula: One Small Step in the Right Direction American taxpayers have been throwing blood and treasure at South Korea for most of a century even as it has become an economic powerhouse that competes with US producers, and that commitment also feeds into US entanglement in every regional argument involving not just the Koreas, but China, Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines, etc. It's a raw deal for America.
Saturday, August 1, 2026Fauci Unmasked, Despite the Fifth Amendment Diary excerpts unmask (pun entirely intended) Fauci as a not very likable bureaucrat, flattered by attention and susceptible to that flattery, constantly butthurt by any attack on or even public disagreement with his pronouncements, and laser-focused not on "public health" as such nearly so much as on maintaining his position and reputation as America's top "public health authority."
Saturday, August 1, 2026Free Sam Tunick -- and Make the Privacy Tool He Used the Universal Standard Both Android and iOS offer or allow various features that help, but don't quite rise to the "enter a PIN, the phone gets erased" level of privacy protection GrapheneOS includes by default. The Android Open Source Project and Apple Inc. should correct that oversight.
Sunday, July 19, 2026Rubio's Anti-ICC Campaign is an Anti-"Sovereignty" Project Rubio's demand of ICC member states is "global sovereignty for the US, no sovereignty for anyone else."
Sunday, July 19, 2026The Dishonesty of Political Buyer's Remorse There's an old saying: "You can't cheat an honest man." Are voters honest? They keep falling for politicians who turn out to be even worse than average ... and then complaining endlessly about it.
Sunday, July 19, 2026Trump Says the Ceasefire is Over. The Law Says -- Twice -- the Iran War is Over. If Congress owned anything resembling collective spine, every signpost along this road to fiasco would have read "this way to Trump's impeachment and removal." Waging an illegal war is, by any plausible definition, a "high crime" requiring that.
Saturday, July 4, 2026Why Jason Watson is Wrong, Even if You Agree With What He Stands For If you're in the military, but would rather be involved in politics, hang the uniform up, not on.
Saturday, July 4, 2026Meh on the Fourth of July: In Dependence Day Today's America is built on dependence, not independence.
Saturday, July 4, 2026Mail Voting Proposal: Make an Example of Steiner This is such a clear-cut case of a government official openly announcing that he's conspired with others to violate the laws he's sworn to abide by and enforce that just suing for relief isn't enough.
Friday, June 26, 2026Reflecting Pool Solution: It's Right There in the Name! Have you ever noticed what that tourist area's called? "The National Mall." But good luck finding a Nordstrom or Bath & Body Works there. It's mostly just museums and statues of, or for, dead people.
Friday, June 26, 2026Term Limits? OK, But Here's How To Do Them Right I'm skeptical that term limits, as envisioned by their promoters, would do much to restrain or improve the quality of government, and as a political matter their opponents aren't wrong when they point out that "we already have term limits, they're called elections." But if we want to give term limits a real try, I have some ideas on the matter.
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.
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