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Little Feat - Song of the week - August 13, 2007

A favourite band of mine is Little Feat. I preferred the voice and music of Lowell George but they are a great band just the same. Listen to Down on the farm, from their LP by the same name below: Listen to a great live version of A Apolitical Blues... Read more →

Incredible meteor shower to light up the sky tonight

Fiona Macrae has the following story in the Daily Mail: Astronomers are promising a spectacular meteor shower tonight. Multi-coloured shooting stars will race toward the Earth at the rate of more than one a minute. Clear skies and the weak light of a new moon are set to make the... Read more →

OSWALD BROWN WRITES: Cynthia "Mother" Pratt An extraordinarily amazing story

Guest Editorial Originally published as a column for the Freeport News and the Nassau Guardian, Saturday, August 11, 2007. Reprinted here with the kind permission of Mr. Brown. An extraordinarily amazing story She has not yet closed the book on her political career, but her accomplishments so far have been... Read more →

PLP's new political culture

Press reports indicate that Malcolm Adderley, PLP Member of Parliament, has agreed to stay on as chairman of The Bahamas Gaming Board under the new FNM administration. This has also allegedly created an uproar within the ranks of the PLP parliamentary group, and press reports indicate that Mr. Adderley is... Read more →

The Return of the Idiot

Alvaro Vargas Llosa, gives us a lot to think about in the May/June issue of Foreign Policy magazine. Here's an excerpt: Throughout the 20th century, Latin America’s populist leaders waved Marxist banners, railed against foreign imperialists, and promised to deliver their people from poverty. One after another, their ideologically driven... Read more →

Progressive -- not!

Don Boudreaux, chairman of the Department of Economics at George Mason University and blogger over at Cafe Hayek is simply brilliant. But don't take my word, read his article about regressives below: My son, Thomas, 10, sometimes amuses himself with a game he calls "Opposite." Whenever he is struck by... Read more →

Cato Unbound on Why Self-Government Works Better Than you Think

Cato Unbound has a most intriguing debate going on about anarchy. Here's a snippet from the lead article by Peter T. Leeson: No sane person believes that anarchy generates order. The idea that anarchy could be superior to government in some cases seems even more absurd.[1] Everyone from Thomas Hobbes... Read more →

Let's not fetter businesses with any more laws.

by Sidney Sweeting, DDS Much has been said and writtten about the merger of the printing and distribution of the Tribune and the Guardian with some people expressing the fear that the Tribune will be taking over the Guardian.They have both clearly stated what their intentions are and I believe... Read more →

Heartland Institute's Health Care News

The August 2007 issue of The Heartland Institute's, Health Care News publication is packed with great stuff from cover to cover. Following are excerpts from two of the articles: Experts Warn Against Socialized Health Care Written By: Karla Dial Published In: Health Care News Publication Date: August 1, 2007 Publisher:... Read more →

Happy Emancipation Day Bahamas

Today is a public holiday here in The Bahamas. Emancipation Day, the day of celebration set aside for the observation of the emancipation of slaves, and is marked on the first Monday in August each year. Fox Hill, a community toward the eastern end of the island of New Providence... Read more →