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The Blue Voodoo Duo - Song of the week - October 25, 2010 - Black Magic Woman

Rick Lowe As you might know by now my wife and I really enjoy blues, and whenever we're in a big city we look for a blues bar. So when we were in Vancouver in September to visit the kids we all went to The Yale to listen to The... Read more →

Celebrate the lives of Joseph Spence and Tony McKay at Doongalik Studios next Thursday, October 28, 2010. Only two weeks left

Rick Lowe On Thursday past, October 21, 2010, we enjoyed another excellent evening at Doongalik Studios listening to people recount the lives of Joseph Spence and Tony McKay. Fred Furguson opened the evening with another superb performance playing in the style of Mr. Spence. Man can he play that guitar!!!... Read more →

Waiting for Superman to fix education? The Cato Institute says we should be "Waiting for Realityman"

Rick Lowe Neal McCluskey posting at Cato @ Liberty about the new movie about education that: "The edu-documentary Waiting for ‘Superman’ continues to generate lots of noise about fixing American education. Unfortunately, like the film itself, most of the noisemakers ultimately ignore reality: The only way to make educators truly... Read more →

FM 98.1 - The Bahamas 24/7 Classical Music Station

Rick Lowe Dr. Sweeting informed us about a great new radio station here in this post... last week. If you haven't listened in yet, you don't know what you're missing. And I can't help but share this new ad we'll be placing with them. Hope you enjoy FM 98.1 and... Read more →

Will Union Members fall for anything in The Bahamas?

by Jerome Pinder ZNS has certainly caught our attention over the last couple of weeks and it should be no surprise that the Union once again added its stupidity to the situation. An idiot could see the writing on the wall when it came to ZNS! It was an overstaffed,... Read more →

Matt Ridley on Trade, Growth, and the Rational Optimist on how great things really are

Rick Lowe As mentoned previously I'm currently in the middle of The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley and I thoroughly enjoyed his interview by Russ Roberts last night. Please visit Dr. Roberts EconTalk archives at the Library of Economics and Liberty. Read more →

Bahamas Customs and Immigration to merge?

Rick Lowe Now this story... in the Nassau Guardian yesterday morning was most interesting. And not so much from their suggested ability to become more efficient, although that's a good thing. I'm thinking more along the lines of costs. With the country in desperate shape for revenue, this could go... Read more →

Lessons in Freedom: Sharron Angle & the Right to be Armed

Tibor R. Machan It is not an unfamiliar ploy--if you have no arguments, try to ridicule or just be snide, belittle your adversary. This is what has been going on with the messages sent by the Tea Party. "...Don’t they even sense how hypocritical it is for them to champion... Read more →

The Broadcasting Corporation of The Bahamas (BCB) and layoffs

Rick Lowe Well the day finally arrived when the government has had to layoff staff from the bloated ranks of the BCB or ZNS as we know it. This is an extremely difficult decision to make as many people in the private sector know. On the one hand, it is... Read more →

Mr. Lawrence Reed on The Value of Economic Education at Cato

Rick Lowe Check out this post... over at The Nassau Institute. It's a brief audio interview with Mr. Lawrence Reed, one of my favourite economists. I bet you'll enjoy it. Read more →