Tag: the free market

Tuesday Morning

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I don’t really have time to launch into one of those subjects I keep meaning to write about. I must prepare my economic and history classes for the week. Yesterday I was working on the first lesson for my online class starting next semester. Exclusive information: If I can get this class prepared in the next few weeks, I might even do another one on American history! So for the first lesson I went back to Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas and the Scholastics. It was very interesting. I had studied Aristotle and Aquinas from a religious perspective so it was fun…

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Report on the Economic Workshop

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My initial reaction to the whole day: Wow. I’m tired. Not sleeping well the night before certainly doesn’t help. I made more mistakes today than usual, “why does a value have good? Oh, oops…I mean, why does a good have value?” but I couldn’t really help that. I don’t know about everyone else, but I certainly had fun. That was a great day! It was more enjoyable than having to cram as much as I could into 30 minutes or something like that, as when I speak at other events. I actually stayed on-time and we had plenty of time…

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No News, Really

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Perhaps it is too early in the morning…I just can’t seem to find something to write about. My mind is very focused (okay, no, I’m never very focused, how can one be on a Mac? But I’m trying pretty hard to stay concentrated) on the Economic Workshop on Saturday. Thanks to a generous friend, Jeremy Davis of Houston, I’ve been able to buy a large grease-board, markers, etc…and also I splurged and bought my own color ink cartridge. You don’t know how ridiculous this is. There is no one in Winnebago who prints color anymore. No one. Not the library. Not…

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Wednesday Report

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Sadly, there isn’t much to report…last night while playing piano I thought of some really good topic to discuss here, but of course I didn’t write it down, so I can’t remember now. Here are some odds and ends. Yesterday the girls and I had a history class. It is usually on Wednesdays, but they were begging me to do it a day early. We were talking about the writing of the Constitution. I’m eager to buy Hans Hoppe’s book, “Democracy: The God That Failed.” I don’t think the girls quite understand the fundamental shift that occurred when the Articles…

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The Free Market: Amazing

So last week I listened to a great deal of BBC radio music. I had forgotten but the reason I went with BBC over local stations was because iTunes wasn’t working and so it was very difficult to get the local stations to play on my computer. BBC has a built-in player that does all the work for you. Then yesterday I went to play an online Christian station that I listen to on Sundays, but they must have changed something because I could no longer listen to it through the website. I had to do it through iTunes…but of…

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A Little Bit of This and That

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Thanks to the Mises Institute, I ran across this fascinating website and wanted to share it. The “Seasteading Institute” is working to build communities on the ocean outside the realm of any government or country. Their logic is, since governments have claimed all the land, we must turn to the sea for freedom. It is really interesting. I’d love to try it someday. In fact, I’m tempted to sign up to be one of those 150 individuals in 5 years to try it out. I can’t express how exciting this is to me. Who would have dreamed 100 years ago…

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Another Rant on the “Illegals”

Note 1: If you are a supporter of closed borders, killing illegals, deporting them, etc…then think carefully before you read this post. Note 2: I put the word “illegal” in quotations to emphasize that the idea of people crossing an imaginary line without the permission of the government being somehow “wrong” is rather ridiculous. I was recently treated to speech on illegal immigration. The speaker was comparing our immigration policy to that of North Korea (if you illegally cross the North Korea border you get 12 years in prison or something terrible like that), to Saudi Arabia, to Iran, etc…and…

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Report on the Townhall

And that reminds me that I need to take down the button advertising it. But I’ll write my blog post first. The Tea Party Townhall on Saturday, September 25th. It was an interesting day. One of the best parts? Discovering there is an Austrian economist teaching at ISU, Bloomington. I couldn’t see that he was an adjunct scholar for the Mises Institute, so I was rather skeptical. Very skeptical. I was even expecting perhaps a Milton Friedmanite monetarist. Hey, one never knows quite what to expect. Come to find out, he’s an Austrian. He had an amazing presentation on the history…

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Thoughts on the “Pledge to America”

I was going to write a whole long blog post ranting about the “Pledge to America.” I decided not to bother. I wrote it, but didn’t publish it. I write things just to feel better, it doesn’t really matter if other people read it or not. But I thought I would take this opportunity to instead point you to some very good articles: The Bush Betrayal And  The Reagan “Revolution” The point of me posting these articles is that I hope they serve as a reminder to all of us. Deep down inside we want to be hopeful. We want…

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So What Is Going On?

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You may have noticed the new buttons (graphics, not little round things on your clothes) on the right side of my site. While I know graphic artists who would do far better at this than I ever could, I don’t like to intrude on them all the time, so I’m slowly figuring out how to do it myself. You might be looking at all of that and thinking, “how does she find time to sleep!?” which is a correct question to ask as I am extremely busy. If you recall, I’m also doing two private classes for my special students…

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