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By Thomas L. Knapp Guest Commentary I don’t care much for politicians and their works. Political government is a stupid and evil way of doing things. It makes us all […]

By Thomas L. Knapp Guest Commentary The deadline for filing US federal income tax returns falls (usually) on April 15, a date that’s worked its way into the American vocabulary […]

By Thomas L. Knapp COMMENTARY “Rather than letting gabillionaires like Elon Musk put practically none of their massive incomes into” Social Security, Jim Hightower writes at CounterPunch, “make them pay […]

By Thomas L. Knapp Guest Commentary Here we go again. It’s time for another performance of American politicians’ favorite off-Broadway play, “Shutdown Panic.” “Congress only has a few weeks to […]

Guest Commentary I might have missed Grover Cleveland’s 188th birthday on March 18 if Paul Jacob hadn’t pointed it out in his own column on the man who (as Jacob […]

wallets with … but anything to take the edge off, right? If the purpose and outcome of the buyout is a substantial reduction in the number of government employees, we’ll […]

By Thomas L. Knapp With 9 5 % of precincts reporting nationwide according to Wikipedia (as of 4am on Saturday, November 9), it’s safe to say that the US presidential […]

By Thomas L. Knapp Guest Commentary It’s “year in review” time for most political columnists, so here’s my opinion on 2024, along with a recommendation for 2025. Opinion: Zero out […]

By Thomas L. Knapp Guest Commentary Let’s get my “news hook” out of the way: President-elect Donald Trump has been offering up names for appointments to his cabinet, and rattling […]

By Thomas L. Knapp If there’s such a thing as rolling in one’s grave, the seismographs around Santa Ana, California’s Fairhaven Memorial Park must be going nuts. A Tesla motor […]