Author: Thomas L. Knapp

Source: Property and Environment Research Center
by Jonathan Wood

“Two years before he authored the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson set out to conserve Virginia’s Natural Bridge—and pioneered a uniquely American model of voluntary stewardship.” (06/24/26)

https://www.perc.org/2026/06/24/thomas-jefferson-the-lost-founding-father-of-american-conservation/

Source: The Price of Liberty
by Nathan Barton

“Today, too many people think of ‘technology’ as having only to do with information technology. Others (rightly) speak of the evils of ‘technocracy’ as a form of increased government control by a self-chosen elite. But there is much more, and technology offers solutions to many problems we face today. Just as it has in the past. However, it is also just as dangerous and wrong to think that every problem can be solved with technology or that any problem can be solved only with application of technology.” (06/24/26)

https://thepriceofliberty.org/2026/06/24/technology-overcoming-challenges/

Source: Reason
by Eric Boehm

“Her plan to fix Social Security’s fiscal flaws would ask workers to cover the full cost. Some Republicans are supporting it too.” (06/24/26)

https://reason.com/2026/06/24/elizabeth-warren-wants-to-raise-taxes-and-give-all-the-money-to-senior-citizens/

Source: JimBovard.com
by James Bovard

“I blundered on Saturday by failing to check the latest updated terrorist profile before visiting Washington, DC. How was I to know that National Guard troops would be on the lookout for 60ish bicyclists who are too damn curious about algae? I went riding around downtown Washington to check the latest Trump administration efforts to make Washington ‘safe and beautiful’ for the 250th birthday celebration next month. … I wanted to see the Reflecting Pool that President Trump boasted was twice as long as the Empire State building—except that the pool is flat. Arriving at the Pool, I was stunned to discover that that waterway was almost as heavily militarized as the Strait of Hormuz. National Guard troops swarmed the scene. The heavy troop presence reminded me of what I saw on the streets of East Berlin in 1986.” (06/24/26)

https://jimbovard.com/blog/2026/06/24/do-i-look-like-a-radical-left-lunatic-vandal/

Source: CounterPunch
by Dean Baker

“Remember Elon Musk running around in his DOGE garb with sunglasses and a chainsaw? The Republicans are hoping that you don’t. The ostensible point of Musk’s ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ was rooting out trillions of dollars of government waste, fraud, and abuse. Musk gathered together a group of “super-high-IQ” MAGA boys who worked 80 hours a week ransacking all the various government agencies and departments in this effort. … when Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn claimed a few months back that 12 million people were fraudulently added to the exchange created by the Affordable Care Act, she was claiming that Elon Musk and his super-high IQ boys were too incompetent to find 12 million fraudulent enrollees. That is roughly half of all the people on the exchanges.” (06/25/26)

https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/06/25/gop-claims-of-massive-fraud-imply-the-musk-is-a-moron/