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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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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, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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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