Tag: liberty

Hope vs. Fear or Control vs. Liberty?

Published last fall at Northern Illinois Liberty I happened to be listening to NPR this morning, and heard an astounding speech from Obama on Saturday. He said something like this, “You know, America has done this before. FDR heard the same thing when he introduced Social Security. They said it was socialist. They did. Verbatim.” If this wasn’t my president, I’d laugh, it is so absurd. Obama says, Americans claimed Social Security was socialist [as if you couldn’t tell by the name] and look, it is alright, isn’t it? Social Security isn’t socialist, right? Yeah right. Then he goes on to…

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Away Down the Hill, Chapter Two

When I turned thirteen my aunt came to see me.  I was in the kitchen, chopping carrots, and Sister Mary told me someone was here to visit me. I rinsed my hands and went back into the courtyard. “My! What a nice looking girl you are! You have plumped out, haven’t you! You were always just as skinny as could be.  So today you are thirteen years old! How does it feel?” I had forgotten the day of my birth; the nuns cared nothing for dates and numbers. “It feels fine, aunt. How are you doing?” “Me? Oh, just the…

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Ideas: The Content of Cognition and the Flames of a Revolution

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Ideas are formally known as “the content of cognition” or the main thing of which you are thinking. That may be the dictionary (or technically the Wikipedia) definition, but for many of us, ideas are much more than that. Ideas were a common theme in Ron Paul’s presidential campaign. From the Rally for the Republic he said, “Ideas spread, they cannot stop them. Ideas whose time has come cannot be stopped by any government or any army.” I think an important difference between Ron Paul’s campaign, and the campaigns of other candidates, especially Obama’s, is that Ron Paul wasn’t trying…

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Away Down the Hill, Chapter One

My name is Adele.  But the other sisters call me Catherine. So I do not know who I am. My mother was French.  My father was German. My father’s family was angry because he married a foolish French woman. After my parents died I was given to a nunnery, and have lived there ever since. I remember the day, when I was four years old. My aunt Matilda pulled me impatiently through the streets and stopped at the nunnery door. She crossly straightened my little brown dress and tied the old shoes that were too big for me, and then…

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Away Down the Hill

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A Short Story by Savannah Liston Excerpts published below, the whole will be published in serial throughout the next few weeks. My name is Adele.  But the other sisters call me Catherine. So I do not know who I am. I crept to the bed and pulled myself up to the window again. The moon was shining brightly, and that helped to sooth my worry. I watched it shining on the cold ground until it moved beyond my sight. Then I lay down and cried myself to sleep. Thus was my first day at St. Margaret’s Nunnery. The streets were…

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The Big Bad Firm and Other Stories

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Note, the title of this post was for the literary quality only, because there are no other stories, just The Big Bad Firm. Didn’t want to disappoint you! I have noticed that one of the major problems people have with the free market, is their fear of monopolies. And I do want to point out that if you believe the government should create laws and regulations to prevent monopolies, you do not believe in the free market. You might be a believer in the quasi-free market, but not the real thing. So, what is it about monopolies that scare people…

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My Encounter with Keynesian Propaganda…er, I mean, Teaching

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I had the great privilege recently of attending an economics class at a local college with some of my friends.  Very fascinating, a different way to do school, that’s for sure. Reminds me of Einstein, “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” But I’ll try to keep myself confined to only speaking about Keynesian economics, at least for now. I met the teacher before the class, so we spoke for a few minutes. I had a chance to look around his office a bit. Didn’t see any Mises or Rothbard, but I glimpsed, “Macro Economics” by…

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