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Here's to you for a great 2012

Thank you for visiting WeblogBahamas throughout 2011, we hope we have added to the debate in a meaningful way, and we wish you and yours all the best for 2012. Image found at I - Celebes. Read more →

Cuba trying to improve its international image or is real change afoot?

Rick Lowe After announcing more economic reforms recently General President Raul Castro has advised that Cuba will grant amnesty to 2,900 prisoners prior to the Pope's visit there next Spring. The release, he said, showed the "generosity and strength" of his brothers "revolution". Of course people in the "know" on... Read more →

Machan’s Archives: Libertarianism and Americanism

Tibor R. Machan Given that in the main the American political system is still the closest to protecting varieties of individual liberty—regarding speech, commerce, religion, due process, etc.—most of those who peddle political ideas want to hitch their wagon to the ideas of the American Founders. Socialists, conservatives, populists, agrarians... Read more →

Are government bureaucracies hopeless?

Rick Lowe Many of us think government bureaucracies are hopeless, particularly when we have to deal with them on a daily basis. And the unfortunate thing is, we can't usually take our business elsewhere like we can when we don't like how we're treated in the private sector. Nicholas Snow... Read more →

Nice to see free market reforms in Cuba

Rick Lowe BBC World News reports that from January 1, 2012 "workers including carpenters, locksmiths, photographers and repairmen will be allowed to become self-employed." [More…] This comes on the heels of initiative earlier this year when President Raul Castro allowed Cubans to buy and sell cars and homes for the... Read more →

Lessons in Freedom: The BBC’s Sorry Journalism

Tibor R. Machan The BBC recently published the following in a report about the Republican primary contest in Iowa: “Correspondents say a Ron Paul victory in Iowa would be a major embarrassment to the Republican party as many of his views are seen as too libertarian and isolationist. Mr. Paul... Read more →

Political Propaganda is starting to roll out

Rick Lowe With elections constitutionally required by May 2012, we knew it had to start and as usual the political propaganda is predictable. The first group through the neighbourhood so far is the Democratic National Alliance - The DNA, and their standard bearer for Montagu, Ben Albury left a flyer... Read more →

Tyler Cowen at TedxMidAtlantic on "Stories"

Rick Lowe Tyler Cowen of GMU and Marginal Revolution at TedXMidAtlantic. Enjoy. Read more →

Lessons in Freedom: Property Rights and the Free Press

Tibor R. Machan Not as if the point hasn’t been made often by now, but repeating it may be of some benefit: without a firm protection of the right to private property, the rights to freedom of speech, press, religious worship, etc., are under constant threat. The most recent demonstration... Read more →

Long John Baldry - Song of the week - December 26, 2011 - Iko Iko

Rick Lowe Written by James "Sugar Boy" Crawford of New Orleans, this song tells of a collision of a two tribes of Mardi Gras Indians in a parade, and as usual, Long John makes it his own. The fourth of eleven songs on his excellent "Everything Stops for Tea" album,... Read more →