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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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Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Will Trump Continue Seeking War? If So, Here's Why. As tariffs and deportations continue to decimate our ability to buy food, housing, and other necessities, it becomes more and more likely that he'll try to pull an FDR.
Tuesday, June 24, 2025Will Trump Continue Seeking War? If So, Here's Why. As tariffs and deportations continue to decimate our ability to buy food, housing, and other necessities, it becomes more and more likely that he'll try to pull an FDR.
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Sunday, June 22, 2025
The Constitution Won't Save Us From Trump's War Idiocy Realistically, Congress isn't any more likely to reassert its power over US war-making this time around than it did with Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and numerous other belligerent actions/involvements. We've been living in a "post-constitutional" era, featuring an "imperial" presidency, for at least 80 years, with Congress exercising about as much power as the Roman Senate under the Caesars.
Sunday, June 22, 2025The Constitution Won't Save Us From Trump's War Idiocy Realistically, Congress isn't any more likely to reassert its power over US war-making this time around than it did with Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and numerous other belligerent actions/involvements. We've been living in a "post-constitutional" era, featuring an "imperial" presidency, for at least 80 years, with Congress exercising about as much power as the Roman Senate under the Caesars.
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Thursday, June 19, 2025
At This Point, A Nuclear Iran Is Probably The Least Bad Option If there's any lesson to learn from two decades of US and Israeli pressure on Iran to shut down a non-existent "nuclear weapons program," starting with economic sanctions and leading inevitably to Israeli airstrikes and open war on the apt date of Friday the 13th, it's that an Iran with nuclear weapons just might be the best option if the goal is to calm down the Middle East.
Thursday, June 19, 2025At This Point, A Nuclear Iran Is Probably The Least Bad Option If there's any lesson to learn from two decades of US and Israeli pressure on Iran to shut down a non-existent "nuclear weapons program," starting with economic sanctions and leading inevitably to Israeli airstrikes and open war on the apt date of Friday the 13th, it's that an Iran with nuclear weapons just might be the best option if the goal is to calm down the Middle East.
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Tuesday, June 17, 2025
What I Saw At My City's "No Kings" Rally Whether the organizers intended it or not, the nationwide simultaneous rallies became, in effect, the Democratic Party's first major campaign event for the 2026 midterms and 2028 presidential election. Those of who oppose Trump but aren't Democrats came along for the ride. Our support was co-opted whether we liked it or not.
Tuesday, June 17, 2025What I Saw At My City's "No Kings" Rally Whether the organizers intended it or not, the nationwide simultaneous rallies became, in effect, the Democratic Party's first major campaign event for the 2026 midterms and 2028 presidential election. Those of who oppose Trump but aren't Democrats came along for the ride. Our support was co-opted whether we liked it or not.
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Sunday, June 15, 2025
The Better Israel/Iran Explanation: Trump Got Played Having failed upward into the presidency, his strategy remains the same: Promote a Trump "brand" built on the pretense that he's either competent or in charge. When both prove false, just change the story to fit the image.
Sunday, June 15, 2025The Better Israel/Iran Explanation: Trump Got Played Having failed upward into the presidency, his strategy remains the same: Promote a Trump "brand" built on the pretense that he's either competent or in charge. When both prove false, just change the story to fit the image.
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Thursday, June 12, 2025
Take Those Masks Off (Not You, Protesters -- You, Cops) As a private citizen, who you are and what you look like is none of the government's business until and unless there's probable cause to believe you've committed, or are in the act of committing, a crime. As a government employee, who a cop is and what he or she looks like is entirely the public's business any time we want it to be.
Thursday, June 12, 2025Take Those Masks Off (Not You, Protesters -- You, Cops) As a private citizen, who you are and what you look like is none of the government's business until and unless there's probable cause to believe you've committed, or are in the act of committing, a crime. As a government employee, who a cop is and what he or she looks like is entirely the public's business any time we want it to be.
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Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Occupied LA: Don't Riot -- Boycott and Shun The better answer to the occupation of LA is to greet it with institutional boycotts and individual ostracism.
Wednesday, June 11, 2025Occupied LA: Don't Riot -- Boycott and Shun The better answer to the occupation of LA is to greet it with institutional boycotts and individual ostracism.
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Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Trump Alienates Even His Own Supporters With Desperation Play on Immigration Why are ordinary people, living ordinary lives, some even seeking to become American citizens, finding themselves in cages and facing deportation? ... Because Donald Trump's promise to deport millions of immigrants has, so far, proven itself an epic fail.
Wednesday, June 4, 2025Trump Alienates Even His Own Supporters With Desperation Play on Immigration Why are ordinary people, living ordinary lives, some even seeking to become American citizens, finding themselves in cages and facing deportation? ... Because Donald Trump's promise to deport millions of immigrants has, so far, proven itself an epic fail.
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Monday, June 2, 2025
Motive For Murder: There's Plenty of "Anti-Semitism" To Go Around As in George Orwell's Animal Farm, "all animals are equal -- but some animals are more equal than others."
Monday, June 2, 2025Motive For Murder: There's Plenty of "Anti-Semitism" To Go Around As in George Orwell's Animal Farm, "all animals are equal -- but some animals are more equal than others."
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Monday, June 2, 2025
The Answer to the Trump/Harvard $3 Billion Question is "Markets" The government does not and cannot know how many welders, carpenters, and auto mechanics the economy "needs," let alone how many it will "need" a year from now or in 2035 ... just as it has no way of knowing whether Little Bobby should rack up tens of thousands of dollars in student loan debt while hoping to become an elementary school math teacher or university physics researcher. That's what markets are for.
Monday, June 2, 2025The Answer to the Trump/Harvard $3 Billion Question is "Markets" The government does not and cannot know how many welders, carpenters, and auto mechanics the economy "needs," let alone how many it will "need" a year from now or in 2035 ... just as it has no way of knowing whether Little Bobby should rack up tens of thousands of dollars in student loan debt while hoping to become an elementary school math teacher or university physics researcher. That's what markets are for.
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Saturday, May 24, 2025
Comey's Numbers Aren't News -- Or A Threat Comey doesn't like Trump, Trump doesn't like Comey, and neither of them ever skips an opportunity to tell us so. Big whoop. Any serious editor would classify a story on the seashell photo as "dog bites man." It's just not "news" by any traditional definition. Trump, however, has mastered the art of creating fake "news" as a distraction whenever the real news ... makes him look bad.
Saturday, May 24, 2025Comey's Numbers Aren't News -- Or A Threat Comey doesn't like Trump, Trump doesn't like Comey, and neither of them ever skips an opportunity to tell us so. Big whoop. Any serious editor would classify a story on the seashell photo as "dog bites man." It's just not "news" by any traditional definition. Trump, however, has mastered the art of creating fake "news" as a distraction whenever the real news ... makes him look bad.
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Saturday, May 24, 2025
Comey's Numbers Aren't News -- Or A Threat Comey doesn't like Trump, Trump doesn't like Comey, and neither of them ever skips an opportunity to tell us so. Big whoop. Any serious editor would classify a story on the seashell photo as "dog bites man." It's just not "news" by any traditional definition. Trump, however, has mastered the art of creating fake "news" as a distraction whenever the real news ... makes him look bad.
Saturday, May 24, 2025Comey's Numbers Aren't News -- Or A Threat Comey doesn't like Trump, Trump doesn't like Comey, and neither of them ever skips an opportunity to tell us so. Big whoop. Any serious editor would classify a story on the seashell photo as "dog bites man." It's just not "news" by any traditional definition. Trump, however, has mastered the art of creating fake "news" as a distraction whenever the real news ... makes him look bad.
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Saturday, May 24, 2025
Politicians Talk "Transparency" While Hiding Anything Inconvenient or Unpleasant The claim that Joe Biden's "aggressive" prostate cancer went from "undetected" to "stage 5 metastatic" in the four months since he left office is risible.
Saturday, May 24, 2025Politicians Talk "Transparency" While Hiding Anything Inconvenient or Unpleasant The claim that Joe Biden's "aggressive" prostate cancer went from "undetected" to "stage 5 metastatic" in the four months since he left office is risible.
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Saturday, May 24, 2025
Comey's Numbers Aren't News -- Or A Threat Comey doesn't like Trump, Trump doesn't like Comey, and neither of them ever skips an opportunity to tell us so. Big whoop. Any serious editor would classify a story on the seashell photo as "dog bites man." It's just not "news" by any traditional definition. Trump, however, has mastered the art of creating fake "news" as a distraction whenever the real news ... makes him look bad.
Saturday, May 24, 2025Comey's Numbers Aren't News -- Or A Threat Comey doesn't like Trump, Trump doesn't like Comey, and neither of them ever skips an opportunity to tell us so. Big whoop. Any serious editor would classify a story on the seashell photo as "dog bites man." It's just not "news" by any traditional definition. Trump, however, has mastered the art of creating fake "news" as a distraction whenever the real news ... makes him look bad.
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Thursday, May 22, 2025
Blink Or Head Fake? Tariff Uncertainty Remains The Biggest Problem The obvious question is whether Trump blinked after his tariff madness produced predictably damaging economic results for Americans and those Americans noticed, or whether this is another one of his head fakes .... continuing uncertainty, even more than the obvious and irrefutable stupidity of protective tariffs, is the problem.
Thursday, May 22, 2025Blink Or Head Fake? Tariff Uncertainty Remains The Biggest Problem The obvious question is whether Trump blinked after his tariff madness produced predictably damaging economic results for Americans and those Americans noticed, or whether this is another one of his head fakes .... continuing uncertainty, even more than the obvious and irrefutable stupidity of protective tariffs, is the problem.
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Friday, May 16, 2025
There's No Rebellion, But Suspending Habeas Corpus Might Justify One Neither the US nor any portion of it is currently in rebellion. Neither the US nor any portion of it is currently being invaded. There's no "emergency" imperiling the "public safety." There's just Donald J. Trump throwing a tantrum over the courts following the law instead of letting him do whatever he wants to do.
Friday, May 16, 2025There's No Rebellion, But Suspending Habeas Corpus Might Justify One Neither the US nor any portion of it is currently in rebellion. Neither the US nor any portion of it is currently being invaded. There's no "emergency" imperiling the "public safety." There's just Donald J. Trump throwing a tantrum over the courts following the law instead of letting him do whatever he wants to do.
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Friday, May 16, 2025
No, The Qataris Aren't "Corrupting" Trump To "corrupt" a person or thing (per the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary) is to "draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty ... debase or render impure by alterations or innovations." In order for the Qataris to "corrupt" Trump, he'd necessarily have displayed some semblance of "rectitude" prior to their interactions.
Friday, May 16, 2025No, The Qataris Aren't "Corrupting" Trump To "corrupt" a person or thing (per the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary) is to "draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty ... debase or render impure by alterations or innovations." In order for the Qataris to "corrupt" Trump, he'd necessarily have displayed some semblance of "rectitude" prior to their interactions.
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Friday, May 9, 2025
Trump's Mass Deportation Scheme Is Failing. Good. Who on Earth would trust the US government, Donald Trump, or Kristi Noem with their location and other information, or believe that the supposed future path to "return legally," or even that the plane ticket and thousand bucks would actually happen? ... And why the sudden honey to hide the smell of the vinegar?
Friday, May 9, 2025Trump's Mass Deportation Scheme Is Failing. Good. Who on Earth would trust the US government, Donald Trump, or Kristi Noem with their location and other information, or believe that the supposed future path to "return legally," or even that the plane ticket and thousand bucks would actually happen? ... And why the sudden honey to hide the smell of the vinegar?
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Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Texas Pols Think They Get To Control Speech. Nope. There are no circumstances under, nor any subject upon which, the Texas legislature gets to infringe upon speech or prohibit its exercise in any way, shape, manner, or form. At least not without a fight.
Tuesday, May 6, 2025Texas Pols Think They Get To Control Speech. Nope. There are no circumstances under, nor any subject upon which, the Texas legislature gets to infringe upon speech or prohibit its exercise in any way, shape, manner, or form. At least not without a fight.
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Tuesday, May 6, 2025
The Childbirth / "Great Replacement" Double Con If you want a higher birth rate, throwing out the people who have kids makes zero sense. Unless, that is, you couple the "demographic decline" panic with a "Great Replacement" theory positing that people who come to the United States and have kids are being "imported" for the express purpose of changing American politics and culture in particular and negative ways.
Tuesday, May 6, 2025The Childbirth / "Great Replacement" Double Con If you want a higher birth rate, throwing out the people who have kids makes zero sense. Unless, that is, you couple the "demographic decline" panic with a "Great Replacement" theory positing that people who come to the United States and have kids are being "imported" for the express purpose of changing American politics and culture in particular and negative ways.
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