Author: Thomas L. Knapp

Source: The Daily Economy
by Paul Mueller

“In his new book ‘Recession,’ economist Tyler Goodspeed argues that economic downturns are caused by real shocks, not predictable business cycles.” (06/09/26)

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/recessions-as-murder-mysteries-are-business-cycles-just-a-myth/

Source: Bluegrass Institute
by Caleb O Brown, Amye L Bensenhaver, Kate Miller, & Heather Lemire

“Kentucky built its Open Records Act on a simple, powerful premise: that free and open examination of public records is in the public interest. For nearly 50 years, that premise provided a basic guarantee that Kentuckians could see what their government was doing in their name. That premise is now under a growing threat — from the legislature, and increasingly from the courts.” (06/09/26)

https://www.bluegrassinstitute.org/open-door-transparency/

Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger

“Even before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the ‘patsy,’ Lee Harvey Oswald, was a ‘Dead Man Walking.’ There was no way that the orchestrators of the assassination and the cover-up would have ever permitted him to come to trial. Silencing Oswald by killing him immediately after the assassination was always part and parcel of the assassination and its cover-up. How can we be certain of this? By examining the circumstances surrounding the fraudulent autopsy that the U.S. national-security establishment conducted on President Kennedy’s body on the very evening of the assassination.” (06/09/26)

https://www.fff.org/2026/06/09/lee-harvey-oswald-dead-man-walking-2/

Source: CounterPunch
by Bruce Schneier & Jon Penney

“Younger Americans have soured on the second Donald Trump presidency, but they are not protesting it. Despite an unpopular Iran war and an even more unpopular Trump administration, college campus protests nationwide have gone silent. And at many schools, student activism is virtually nonexistent. This silence comes in the wake of a relentless Trump administration war on campus speech that has involved lawsuits, arrests, deportations and expulsions. … It’s increasingly clear to us that these impacts are not incidental or ancillary to Trump administration policy. Rather, the chilling effects are the point. This is the closest thing to a consistent governing strategy in Trump’s second term.” (06/09/26)

https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/06/09/chilling-effects-of-trumps-war-on-free-speech-extend-far-beyond-campus-walls-and-thats-the-point/

Source: Law & Liberty
by John G Grove

“‘Strict construction’ is a taboo phrase, not just for judicial activists looking for unlimited government, but also for most originalists. Perhaps that is because the phrase can mean several different things; or perhaps it is a concession to the reality of the expansive national state in the twentieth century, as if to say Yes, I want to impose some limits, but I’m not one of those crazies. Or, as Antonin Scalia was often known to quip, ‘I am a textualist. I am an originalist. I am not a nut.’ It is therefore a daring endeavor to put forward an entire, clause-by-clause guide to the Constitution explicitly committed to strict construction. That is what William J. Watkins Jr. of the Independent Institute has done with The Independent Guide to the Constitution.” (06/09/26)

https://lawliberty.org/book-review/a-strict-construction-handbook/