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Stuart Browning's response to SiCKO

The Cato Institute's weekly video features Stuart Browning of Free Market Cure discussing his reaction to Michael Moore's new movie SiCKO. There has to be a better way than socialised medicine to my mind. Read more →

Ayaan Hirsi Ali. A remarkable story

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a scholar with the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research is an interesting story of the human spirit. She has an interesting new book out titled Infidel and it is a great read. However, if you don't want to read the book The Cato Institute features... Read more →

Cruise Ships Pull Out From The Bahamas

by Bruce Raine The cruise ships are pulling out of Nassau and we are surprised ! Bay Street merchants have been telling successive Governments for years that downtown Nassau has degenerated into a dump, a slum, a shanty town. And we are surprised? Cruise ships are, no more, nor no... Read more →

Let the Bahamas lead the way with real justice

by Sidney Sweeting, DDS Finally, an Attorney General who will listen. It would surely be difficult to find anyone who was not outraged and sickened by the report of the six year old girl being assaulted, raped and sodomized and kept overnight in an abandoned car and yet the court... Read more →

National Insurance in The Bahamas - A Dangerous Financial Product?

With our virtually bankrupt National Insurance Board here in The Bahamas, Dr. Don Boudreaux, over at Cafe Hayek, one of my favourite blogs, had this recent post that is spot on. It is reprinted here with Dr. Boudreaux's kind permission and as usual he is most instructive. A Dangerous Financial... Read more →

Freedom, not climate, is at risk - Vaclav Klaus

From the Financial Times. Vaclav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic, argues in the Financial Times that ambitious environmentalism is the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity. Mr Klaus writes that “global warming hysteria has become a prime example of the truth versus propaganda problem” and... Read more →

Ian Hunter - Song of the week - June 25, 2007

One of my favourite old time English rockers, Ian Hunter has released a great new album called Shrunken Heads. Ian was the musical genius behind Mott the Hoople for those that might remember them. Listening to this new album by the 68 year old songwriter reminded me of a great... Read more →

Solution for The Bahamas Straw Market

For decades now the straw vendors have been a vocal group that seemed to get whatever they want from the Bahamian government, but this has changed in recent years. After the fire of 2001 that destroyed the straw market, a tent was erected for them with promises of building them... Read more →

Word Play

One of our faithful readers sent this fun word play. Hope you enjoy it. The Earthquakes - That Queer Shake Dormitory - Dirty Room Presbyterian - Best In Prayer Astronomer - Moon Starer Desperation - A Rope Ends It The Eyes - They See George Bush - He Bugs Gore... Read more →

A quote worth remembering

Everyone is entitled to his own opinions, but not his own facts." Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Found in The Science of Success by Charles Koch, CEO of Koch Industries, Inc. Page 31. Now that is a quote worth remembering, particularly at election time. Read more →