Author: Thomas L. Knapp

Source: Karl Dickey’s Freedom Vanguard
by Karl Dickey

“Mother Jones claims seizing private wealth solves the 2032 shortfall. I show you why government plans to raid your retirement accounts violate individual liberty and ignore structural insolvency.” (06/22/26)

https://palmbeachexaminer.substack.com/p/the-social-security-crisis-is-real

Source: Law & Liberty
by Paul Seaton

“Steven Sarson uncovers the Declaration’s colonial context, but misses its soul.” (06/22/26)

https://lawliberty.org/book-review/the-providential-declaration/

Source: Antiwar.com
by Greg Pence

“For more than twenty years now, American leaders from both parties have talked about turning over a new leaf in the Middle East. One president pushed hard for democracy promotion, another tried diplomatic outreach, and someone else swore we’d finally end the ‘forever wars.’ Yet every time a crisis hits, Washington’s first move is rarely sitting down to hammer out a political deal. Instead, it reaches for sanctions, sends in more troops, ramps up deterrence, and leans on the threat – or actual use – of force. This pattern raises a tough question. If the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq didn’t create stable governments, if years of pressure haven’t really changed Iran’s behavior, and if coercion keeps delivering only mixed results, why does the U.S. keep relying on the same old toolbox?” (06/22/26)

https://original.antiwar.com/greg_pence/2026/06/21/the-security-states-middle-east-why-washington-keeps-choosing-pressure-over-diplomacy/

Source: The Atlantic
by Yvonne Wingett Sanchez

“Not so long ago, the Republicans who ran elections in one of the nation’s most important battlegrounds—Maricopa County, Arizona—largely got along. There were egos and quibbles, sure. But in the face of unyielding attacks on elections led by President Trump, the recorder and board of supervisors—which together split election duties—resolved conflicts without blowing up a delicate system built on trust and cooperation. Today’s recorder and board, a mostly new cast chosen by voters in 2024, are different. They’re locked in an all-out war over the machinery, money, and operations that make the democratic process possible. Both sides agree that the standoff threatens their ability to carry out November’s midterm elections free of complications for the county’s 2.6 million voters, more than half the state’s total.” (06/22/26)

https://archive.is/bn7Si

Source: Washington Post
by Rachel Manteuffel

“It’s difficult to say this without bragging, but I have faxed. This year. The earliest fax machines used telegraph lines; fax machines are (still!) transmitters of information over space, but also over time. Jules Verne, predicting 1960 from 1863, imagined fax machines all over Paris. Journalists, doctors and governments still demand to be faxed from time to time, as I found out. I have now done it twice since the heyday of faxing. The first time was last year, and it went okay after 45 or so minutes of squinting and with the help of two other office professionals. … The second came in the year of our Lord twenty-twenty-six. This time, I knew exactly what to do and could do it alone. But I didn’t. I walked over to some desks near mine. ‘Interns,’ I said, ‘want to watch me send a fax?'” (06/22/26)

https://archive.is/fjcve