Author: Thomas L. Knapp

Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger

“America’s immigration-control system is based on the socialist principle of central planning. Government planners are expected to study the demand for labor in rural America (and everywhere else) and then determine how many immigrants are needed to match up with that demand. Additionally, the planners are expected to evaluate the educational background, the credentials and skills of each immigrant, and the ages of the immigrants to make certain that supply equals demand. It simply cannot be done. There is no way for central planners, no matter how brilliant they might be, to perform such an impossible task, especially given ever-changing market conditions.” (07/22/21)

https://www.fff.org/2021/07/22/the-chimera-of-immigration-reform/

Source: From the Freedom Files
by Andrew P Napolitano

“Former President Donald J. Trump recently filed a lawsuit in federal district court in Miami against the Big Tech companies that have denied him a platform. He has targeted Twitter and Facebook, whose media platforms he had used with spectacular success before and during his presidency to advance his ideas and to attack his opponents. … The platforms that Trump has sued are indisputably private. Thus, they … are free to invite whomever they wish and to exclude whomever they wish. Trump’s lawyers know this, as it is deeply rooted and well established in our history, law and values. … To get around this private property obstacle, Trump’s lawyers have employed a rarely used tool called state action. This doctrine can impose upon a private property owner the same restraints as those imposed upon the government when the government and the private property owner are in a symbiotic relationship.” (07/22/21)

http://www.judgenap.com/post/free-speech-and-private-property

Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Paul R Pillar

“One of the true goals of opponents of the JCPOA, dating from the agreement’s earliest days, was to oppose any significant accomplishment by the Democratic president Barack Obama. This brand of hyperpartisanship lives on, as openly acknowledged by the Republican leadership in opposing accomplishments by the Democratic president Joe Biden. Another of the goals also has little to do with what Iran actually does — the goal of treating Iran forever as a bete noire on which almost everything bad in the Middle East can be blamed. This objective exemplifies how hardliners in different countries play off each other to their mutual political benefit. It is why American hardliners welcomed, usually tacitly but sometimes even explicitly, the election of Ebrahim Raisi to the Iranian presidency.” (07/22/21)

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/07/22/the-phoniness-of-opposition-to-the-iran-nuclear-agreement

Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Mark Thornton

“This retrospective, covering half a century, is a personal history of modern libertarianism. It provides some historical perspective on the growth of libertarianism and its impact on society, especially for those who were born into an existing libertarian movement, including political and academic paths. As outsiders, Austrians and libertarians can expect more than their share of difficult times and roadblocks, although that situation has improved over time. It also shows the limitations of the political path to liberty and the importance of the Austrian view that society changes via emphasis on sound economic science, its practicality, and its subsequent impact on ideology. Finally, it conveys the importance of solving practical problems and puzzles via the thin, radical version of libertarianism.” (07/22/21)

https://mises.org/library/libertarianism-fifty-year-personal-retrospectivea