Author: Thomas L. Knapp

Source: The Price of Liberty
by Nathan Barton

“Today, we are bombarded with claims that the lands of the Fifty States (i.e., the United States) are ‘stolen lands.’ And demands that the only option is to give the ‘LandBack.’ (An organization based in South Dakota, demanding that the Black Hills be returned to the ‘Great Sioux Nation’ (a/k/a the Seven Council Fires, consisting of the Dakota, Nakota, and Lakota people.) … Obviously, as lovers of liberty, we understand that going around stealing people’s land is a heinous act …. But we detect just a few problems with the proposed solution of returning hundreds of millions of acres of land to the descendants (and presumably heirs) of millions of people who owned that land from 400 to 150 or so years ago. And forcing more millions of people who live on that land (and think they own it) to go someplace else – where back where they came from or somewhere else.” (03/16/26)

https://thepriceofliberty.org/2026/03/16/history-immigration-and-the-blame-game/

Source: Astral Codex Ten
by Scott Alexander

“I hate the term ‘hallucinations’ for when AIs say false things. It’s perfectly calculated to mislead the reader — to make them think AIs are crazy, or maybe just have incomprehensible failure modes. AIs say false things for the same reason you do. At least, I did. In school, I would take multiple choice tests. When I didn’t know the answer to a question, I would guess. Schoolchild urban legend said that ‘C’ was the best bet, so I would fill in bubble C. … So the interesting question isn’t why AIs hallucinate: during training, guessing correctly is rewarded, guessing incorrectly isn’t punished, so the rational strategy is to always guess (and increase your chance of being right from 0 to 0.001%). Since AIs in normal consumer use follow the strategies they learned during training, they guess there too.” (03/16/26)

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/shameless-guesses-not-hallucinations

Source: The Hill
by Jos Joseph

“Any historian will tell you that propaganda is part of warfare. One can see plenty of cartoons from World War II that made the Japanese look subhuman including Superman shorts. As a kid, I remember t-shirt makers using ‘The Simpsons’ to make light of Desert Storm and Saddam Hussein. As a young man after 9/11 I was convinced that the perpetrators were simpletons who lived in caves. Whether we have won the war, lost it, or finagled our way out of losing it, the same themes emerged. Our enemy is subhuman and brutal might is the way to beat them. Except they aren’t and it isn’t. And Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is playing into the same trap with potentially even worse consequences.” (03/16/26)

https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/5785246-hegseth-iran-war-strategy/

Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
by Ron Paul

“Trump’s repeated promises to not start new wars, especially in the Middle East, have turned out to be empty, and Republicans are set for a crippling defeat in the upcoming midterm elections. Iran had been warning for months – since the last US/Israeli surprise attack in June – that if they were attacked again they would not hold back on US bases in the region and that they would close the Straits of Hormuz. Trump and Netanyahu attacked anyway, and Iran has done what it said it would do. Now the Strait of Hormuz is closed, oil is about to go out of control, and the global economy – along with the US dollar – seems about to implode.” (03/16/26)

http://www.ronpaullibertyreport.com/archives/just-get-out-now

Source: Macroeconomic Policy Nexus
by David Beckworth

“Why integrating the Discount Window into liquidity regulation could reduce reserve demand, shrink the Fed’s footprint, and strengthen financial stability.” (03/16/26)

https://macroeconomicpolicynexus.substack.com/p/more-buffer-less-stigma-the-case