Category Archives: Ideas for liberty

2021: In defense of free speech

Posted on 2022-05-04 by TPOL Nathan

The recent creation of the Disinformation Governance Board should prompt us to again consider this basic and essential human right. Was this prompted by Musk’s terrorizing the world by buying Twitter? Was it caused by more and more people calling … Continue reading →

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Some thoughts on gun-owner databases

Posted on 2022-05-03 by TPOL Nathan

Greg Taggart’s commentary on central gun-owner databases (CGODB) addressed many excellent issues regarding gun registration. All of these arguments, including his examples, are valuable to use in persuading people who favor gun-control and registration the error of this twisted little … Continue reading →

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Death of a city?

Posted on 2022-04-26 by TPOL Nathan

Hopefully. I also hope that the suburbs of the City of Houston experience a MASSIVE building boom as hundreds of businesses close up shop in this pitiful perversion of a government. Especially in Texas. Why? Apparently (according to this ABC … Continue reading →

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Taking another look: Is it time yet? Freedom = I won’t

Posted on 2022-02-19 by TPOL Nathan

About a year ago, I asked the same questions: How can we, to quote Harry Browne, live free in an unfree world? Is it, to restate Claire Wolfe’s question, time to shoot them?

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Libertarian Lessons Learned: the Knights Templar

Posted on 2022-02-04 by TPOL Nathan

NOTE: This may be the first of a new, occasional series of commentaries looking at events and organizations of the past with the idea of learning lessons from what they did, good or bad. So that we lovers of liberty … Continue reading →

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The dangers of math illiteracy

Posted on 2022-02-02 by TPOL Nathan

The other day, I listened and watched as my wife (a management analyst by profession, specializing in solid waste management) taught a woman in her thirties – an intelligent woman – how to calculate interest rates and loan payments. Things … Continue reading →

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How about giving the FedGov a report card?

Posted on 2022-01-17 by TPOL Nathan

The FedGov, under the Constitution of 1787, established enumerated (specific) and limited powers, with the 10th Amendment explicitly stating that everything else – EVERYTHING ELSE – was reserved to the States or to the people themselves. How well is DC … Continue reading →

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The shopping cart test of self-governance

Posted on 2022-01-12 by TPOL Nathan

Gareth was the first person to bring this idea to the attention of the rest of us here at The Price of Liberty. Readers should consider it – fun and with at least some utility. The shopping cart assessment (SCA) … Continue reading →

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A Baker’s Dozen: Teaching children in these times about what is wrong

Posted on 2022-01-06 by TPOL Nathan

With many thanks to Paul Rosenberg of FreemansPerspective.Org, who first developed most of these ideas. These are things which apply to all children, but especially to those we are attempting to raise as lovers of liberty able to be responsible … Continue reading →

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Looking forward – Anno Domini 2022

Posted on 2021-12-31 by TPOL Nathan

We are constantly urged to be optimistic when entering a new year, and to put the old things aside. Can we do that? After all, we have centuries and millennia of problems and failure and pessimism to overcome. But read … Continue reading →

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