“Young investors have a new strategy,” National Public Radio’s Tim Mak reported on September 21: “Watching financial disclosures of sitting members of Congress for stock tips.”…
Posts tagged as “Opinion”
Thomas Knapp: ‘For The Children’ is the Last Refuge of Anti-Encryption Scoundrels
The UK’s Home Office, Rolling Stone reports, is ramping up for a new offensive against end-to-end encryption, starting with a $750,000 payment to advertising agency M&C Saatchi for a publicity campaign aimed at scaring the bejabbers out of parents.…
Thomas Knapp: Photo ID to Vote? Well, OK, But…
One perennial proposal in the ongoing “fight” (actually more a set of dueling theatrical productions a la professional wrestling) over “election integrity” is a requirement that voters produce official, government-issued identification documents, complete with photo, at polling places.…
Thomas Knapp: We Do Need a Great Reset — and a Different Burden of Proof
In 2020, the world’s political and economic elites gathered in Switzerland to discuss ways of restructuring society after the COVID-19 pandemic. The occasion: The 50th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, themed “The Great Reset.”…
Thomas Knapp: When It Comes to Legislation, Reading Should Be Fundamental
“Congress is gradually moving toward having only one bill per year,” former congressman Justin Amash (L-MI) tweeted recently. And that bill will have “everything stuffed into it, negotiated by just a few congressional leaders, completely behind closed doors, with no floor amendments permitted.”
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7 Facts That Destroy Gun Control
This is an editorial by the owner of IPR.
While Democrats and Greens are wrong on gun control, Republicans and most gun rights supporters rarely use the right facts.…
Thomas L. Knapp: “Election 2016: It’s a Presidential Campaign, Not a Geography Quiz”
By Thomas L. Knapp, Libertarian activist and IPR contributor, originally published at TheGarrisonCenter.org on September 9th, 2016:
On September 8, Libertarian Party presidential candidate Gary Johnson appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, where panelist Mike Barnicle hit him with the question:
“What would you do if you were elected about Aleppo?”…
Cody Quirk: Coming Out As Libertarian
by Cody Quirk (American Third Party Report, September 6th, 2016):
This editorial has been long overdue for those that have followed, or paid close attention to my political progression over the past 4 years, of which has changed a bit drastically since our last presidential election.…








