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David Laflamme Band - Song of the week - July 26, 2010 - Girl with No Eyes

Rick Lowe It's A Beautiful Day and David Laflamme did some excellent stuff. They remind me of a band called Rennaisance with Annie Haslam if you remember them? I only own the first It's A Beautiful Day LP and David Laflamme's Beyond Dreams CD. If you only buy those, you'll... Read more →

Lessons in Freedom: Two Insidious Trends in America

Tibor R. Machan Two powerful intellectual developments are ruining America. One is egalitarianism, the other pragmatism. The former is an effort at the highest levels of American education, at institutions such as Harvard University and the University of Chicago, for example, to help establish a regime or political system that... Read more →

Libertarianism: A political philosophy whose time has come

Rick Lowe I'm about a third of the way through Libertarianism: A political philosophy whose time has come, by Dr. John Hospers. Released in 1971 when Dr. Hospers was the presidential candidate in the US for the Libertarian Party, it is a very clearly written manifesto for everyone, not only... Read more →

Forgotten Dreams: A people's desire to chart their own course in Abaco, Bahamas. Part One

Rick Lowe Back on July 13, 2010 I mentioned in this post... that part one of a two part "short-story" about the history of the Abaco Independence Movement (AIM) was about to be released. Well it was released last night by The Nassau Institute. Click on the picture of the... Read more →

Freedom and Exchange in Communist Cuba

Rick Lowe I often think about the loss of freedom that the people in Cuba have endured under their maximum leader Fidel Castro over the years and thank my lucky stars that I was born these few miles away. Who would have thought it could get worse than under the... Read more →

Lessons in Freedom: What Irritates the Statists

Tibor R. Machan Speculating about motives isn’t my cup of tea. I really don’t know why so many folks find it attractive to run other people’s lives, to dictate to them, to regiment or regulate them endlessly. Ultimately I suspect this deepest of the deeper of human flaws has to... Read more →

The Law: Frederic Bastiat

Rick Lowe As we approach silly season, known as election campaigning this book is required reading for every citizen so they can prepare themselves for the political rhetoric. Introduction: "When a reviewer wishes to give special recognition to a book, he predicts that it will still be read "a hundred... Read more →

Price Controls in The Bahamas need to go

Rick Lowe We've returned to this subject from time to time, but I over heard a comment in the food store on the weekend to the effect that, "the government needs to come in here and put price controls on everything." Obviously this is out of frustration at rising prices... Read more →

Lessons in Freedom: Obama’s Professor Yoo

Tibor R. Machan Don’t believe it for a moment. The American Left, as a whole, does not support civil liberties. All that protestation of about Bush and Cheney’s allegedly unconstitutional expansion of presidential powers was just a bunch of empty hand-waiving. The New York Times has made it abundantly clear... Read more →

PLP Rhetoric - Continually dividing to conquer the Bahamas

Rick Lowe I was recently involved in a matter whereby a PLP Senator, Jerome Fitzgerald, stated in the Upper Chamber of Parliament that the company I work for "committed an egregious offence against the Stamp Tax" Act. In a nutshell, we submitted an entry on May 25, 2010, for goods... Read more →