Is it just me, or is Cal Thomas’s popularity and success a mystery? He has that stiff, weird, vaguely inbred, almost Down’s Syndrome look a lot of suspenders-wearing small-town fundamentalist types do, no?
Coda: Pete Canning scared me by sending me these two pix. Oh no! 
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Stephan Kinsella is a libertarian writer and retired patent attorney in Houston, Texas. He has published widely on various areas of libertarian legal theory and on legal topics such as intellectual property law and international law. His publications include Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Papinian Press, 2023), Against Intellectual Property (Mises Institute, 2008), International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner’s Guide (Oxford, 2020), and The Universal Principles of Liberty (2025).
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