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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, March 24, 2025
Cleveland Rocks (In Some Ways Trump Should But Doesn't) Cleveland, of course, has been noticed lately for some of his similarities with Trump. The differences between the two, however, are more interesting.
Monday, March 24, 2025Cleveland Rocks (In Some Ways Trump Should But Doesn't) Cleveland, of course, has been noticed lately for some of his similarities with Trump. The differences between the two, however, are more interesting.
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Thursday, March 20, 2025
Turn Off That (Government) Radio! I'd personally prefer a more combative and inquisitive American press to "private sector" government propaganda mills, but that ship has sailed. Why continue paying government to do what it's managed to cow the "private sector" into doing for it? Give USAGM the ax.
Thursday, March 20, 2025Turn Off That (Government) Radio! I'd personally prefer a more combative and inquisitive American press to "private sector" government propaganda mills, but that ship has sailed. Why continue paying government to do what it's managed to cow the "private sector" into doing for it? Give USAGM the ax.
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Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Schumer's Surrender: Much Ado About Nothing Surprising Political government itself is "non-essential" and then some, at least to normal people. Its sole purpose is to transfer wealth and power from the productive class to the political class. It's only "essential" to the preening, posturing sociopaths who sit in, or visit to lobby, offices on Capitol Hill.
Wednesday, March 19, 2025Schumer's Surrender: Much Ado About Nothing Surprising Political government itself is "non-essential" and then some, at least to normal people. Its sole purpose is to transfer wealth and power from the productive class to the political class. It's only "essential" to the preening, posturing sociopaths who sit in, or visit to lobby, offices on Capitol Hill.
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Wednesday, March 19, 2025
One Way The Other: Is Trump Driving Us Down The Road To War? At some point, Trump's options will come down to extracting his cranium from his rectum on trade and economics, or distracting you with a war. The likelihood of the former, based on his record, looks slim.
Wednesday, March 19, 2025One Way The Other: Is Trump Driving Us Down The Road To War? At some point, Trump's options will come down to extracting his cranium from his rectum on trade and economics, or distracting you with a war. The likelihood of the former, based on his record, looks slim.
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Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Jeff Bezos: Going Post "L?" If I had a nickel for every time the word "libertarian" -- or even phrases like "personal liberties and free markets" -- got used incorrectly or dishonestly, I could spend my time racing my Ferrari between a Manhattan apartment and a gated-community LA McMansion instead of submitting libertarian op-eds to newspapers.
Tuesday, March 11, 2025Jeff Bezos: Going Post "L?" If I had a nickel for every time the word "libertarian" -- or even phrases like "personal liberties and free markets" -- got used incorrectly or dishonestly, I could spend my time racing my Ferrari between a Manhattan apartment and a gated-community LA McMansion instead of submitting libertarian op-eds to newspapers.
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Tuesday, March 11, 2025
The Press Is More Important Than The President -- And Should Start Acting Like It I suspect many Americans wish that the president (not just this one -- I'm speaking of the office, not the man) acted a lot less like Dr. Phil (loud, annoying, omnipresent) and more like Punxsutawney Phil (silent, cute, and only very occasionally demanding our attention). That said, if the press wants to cover the presidency, I suggest that the agencies, publications, and journalists get together and turn the tables.
Tuesday, March 11, 2025The Press Is More Important Than The President -- And Should Start Acting Like It I suspect many Americans wish that the president (not just this one -- I'm speaking of the office, not the man) acted a lot less like Dr. Phil (loud, annoying, omnipresent) and more like Punxsutawney Phil (silent, cute, and only very occasionally demanding our attention). That said, if the press wants to cover the presidency, I suggest that the agencies, publications, and journalists get together and turn the tables.
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Tuesday, March 11, 2025
I Asked Elon Musk's AI For Its Government Efficiency Recommendation I asked Grok, the generative AI chatbot associated with Elon Musk's X (formerly Twitter) platform, to "suggest the most efficient organizational chart for the federal government's executive branch."
Tuesday, March 11, 2025I Asked Elon Musk's AI For Its Government Efficiency Recommendation I asked Grok, the generative AI chatbot associated with Elon Musk's X (formerly Twitter) platform, to "suggest the most efficient organizational chart for the federal government's executive branch."
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Saturday, February 22, 2025
"DOGE Dividend": Stimulus Redux That "DOGE Dividend" check, if it comes, will just be Trump trying to buy back your love with your own money, to partially and insufficiently make up for the damage he's doing to you.
Saturday, February 22, 2025"DOGE Dividend": Stimulus Redux That "DOGE Dividend" check, if it comes, will just be Trump trying to buy back your love with your own money, to partially and insufficiently make up for the damage he's doing to you.
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Saturday, February 22, 2025
Without Congressional Action, DOGE Is Mostly Just An Enjoyable Distraction Maybe we WILL actually see a more "efficient" executive branch out of all this, an organization with fewer extraneous employees and with less inclination to pay (an old example) $435 for a $15 hammer. But without congressional action to cut spending, it will all end up costing us at least as much, and probably more, than it did before.
Saturday, February 22, 2025Without Congressional Action, DOGE Is Mostly Just An Enjoyable Distraction Maybe we WILL actually see a more "efficient" executive branch out of all this, an organization with fewer extraneous employees and with less inclination to pay (an old example) $435 for a $15 hammer. But without congressional action to cut spending, it will all end up costing us at least as much, and probably more, than it did before.
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Saturday, February 15, 2025
Why Trump Shouldn't Negotiate With Putin On Ukraine Donald Trump negotiating with Vladimir Putin on behalf of Ukraine can't plausibly produce an agreement which either side -- let alone the Ukrainian side -- considers itself bound by.
Saturday, February 15, 2025Why Trump Shouldn't Negotiate With Putin On Ukraine Donald Trump negotiating with Vladimir Putin on behalf of Ukraine can't plausibly produce an agreement which either side -- let alone the Ukrainian side -- considers itself bound by.
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Saturday, February 15, 2025
Sleeping or Not, DOGEs Lie As Friedrich Nietzsche noted in the 19th century, "everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen." A collective entity built on lies must necessarily be made up of individual liars.
Saturday, February 15, 2025Sleeping or Not, DOGEs Lie As Friedrich Nietzsche noted in the 19th century, "everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen." A collective entity built on lies must necessarily be made up of individual liars.
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Saturday, February 15, 2025
Trump's Tariff Schemes Hurt Even More When He Flip-Flops "In this world," Benjamin Franklin wrote in 1789, "nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." Tariff roulette removes even that second element of certainty. And all we get in exchange is reduced general prosperity.
Saturday, February 15, 2025Trump's Tariff Schemes Hurt Even More When He Flip-Flops "In this world," Benjamin Franklin wrote in 1789, "nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." Tariff roulette removes even that second element of certainty. And all we get in exchange is reduced general prosperity.
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Friday, February 7, 2025
Why The New Boss Could Be Worse Than The Old Boss ... By Being The Same As The Old Boss While there are good reasons for actors both good and bad to consider Trump an especially dangerous politician, he is and always has been just a politician.
Friday, February 7, 2025Why The New Boss Could Be Worse Than The Old Boss ... By Being The Same As The Old Boss While there are good reasons for actors both good and bad to consider Trump an especially dangerous politician, he is and always has been just a politician.
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Friday, February 7, 2025
Trump/Musk "Buyout" Program: A Win For America, But Only On One Condition The federal government employs about three million people, not including military personnel (who presumably didn't receive the buyout offer). Given the limited scope and power of that government, according to its own Constitution, cutting the federal workforce by 90% would probably leave it still much fatter than it has any plausible reason to be.
Friday, February 7, 2025Trump/Musk "Buyout" Program: A Win For America, But Only On One Condition The federal government employs about three million people, not including military personnel (who presumably didn't receive the buyout offer). Given the limited scope and power of that government, according to its own Constitution, cutting the federal workforce by 90% would probably leave it still much fatter than it has any plausible reason to be.
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Thursday, January 30, 2025
Trump's "Return to Office" Order: The Opposite of DOGE? From a "government efficiency" standpoint, the "return to office" mandate is a disaster in conception and will likely prove a disaster in execution. Let us count the ways.
Thursday, January 30, 2025Trump's "Return to Office" Order: The Opposite of DOGE? From a "government efficiency" standpoint, the "return to office" mandate is a disaster in conception and will likely prove a disaster in execution. Let us count the ways.
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Wednesday, January 29, 2025
No Tax On Tips: One of Trump's (And Harris's) Better Ideas What are tips? They're NOT part of the purchase price. You don't HAVE to give them, in any amount or at all. They're. Gifts. But the federal government wants to have it both ways.
Wednesday, January 29, 2025No Tax On Tips: One of Trump's (And Harris's) Better Ideas What are tips? They're NOT part of the purchase price. You don't HAVE to give them, in any amount or at all. They're. Gifts. But the federal government wants to have it both ways.
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Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Let There Be Light -- And Let People Choose How They Get It One of newly inaugurated (for a second time) president Donald Trump's executive orders -- "Unleashing American Energy" -- promises to "safeguard the American people's freedom to choose from a variety of goods and appliances, including but not limited to lightbulbs." Let us rejoice! Or at least ask -- for my son -- whether we can expect old-school incandescent lightbulbs to make a comeback.
Wednesday, January 29, 2025Let There Be Light -- And Let People Choose How They Get It One of newly inaugurated (for a second time) president Donald Trump's executive orders -- "Unleashing American Energy" -- promises to "safeguard the American people's freedom to choose from a variety of goods and appliances, including but not limited to lightbulbs." Let us rejoice! Or at least ask -- for my son -- whether we can expect old-school incandescent lightbulbs to make a comeback.
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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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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
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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