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But what about welfare you ask

Rick Lowe A reader of our post yesterday, while sympathetic to the point raised, wondered what happened to those people in society that cannot work or help themselves. This is a legitimate question, although she was conferring the responsibility to help on the "government". I quickly pointed out that private... Read more →

Poverty is the problem, not the wealth of other people

Rick Lowe Listening to the "fairness" debate around the water cooler reminded me of Dr. Deepak Lal's book, Reviving the Invisible Hand: The Case For Classical Liberalism In The Twenty-First Century, that was released in 2006. Click on image to enlarge The liner notes explain that Dr. Lal: "Taking a... Read more →

Lessons in Freedom: The bottom line on Obama-economics!

Tibor R. Machan Economic fairness is impossible: an oxymoron. Since economic activities are inherently varied and often competitive and since one size doesn’t fit all and not everyone can win in a competition, no such thing as fairness is possible unless it simply means no one may be prevented from... Read more →

Gregg Allman - Song of the week - January 30, 2012 - Before The Bullets Fly

Rick Lowe We just went to see Gregg Allman and his band in Florida, and what a treat it was. The band was fabulous and he had his old friend Floyd Miles with him who also performed two songs. Hope you enjoy the studio version of Before The Bullets Fly... Read more →

Bahamas Elections 2012. An interesting new site

Rick Lowe Check out this new site, Bahamas Elections 2012, it's still under development, but so far we can view: Candidates with their pictures Constituencies The list of Candidates, and Polling Divisions. Still under development is an option to make predictions by Constituency for each candidate, a comment box and... Read more →

The FNM, PLP, DNA and the Brookfield Myth

Rick Lowe When Mr. Brave Davis Deputy Leader of the PLP broke with the story of some secret deal hatched in the Cabinet Office between Brookfield and Atlantis, it seemed almost believable. Then Mr. Perry Christie, Leader of the PLP and Mr. Branville McCartney, Leader of the DNA, followed up... Read more →

Child killed in traffic mishap. Who is to blame?

Rick Lowe Well we all knew the day would come again when a pedestrian would be killed by a Jitney, and this time it's a four year-old girl. What a tragedy. Unfortunately from the eye witness report in The Tribune, it seems to indicate both the mother and the driver... Read more →

Abner Pinder recalled to post as chief councillor for Spanish Wells as Gilbert Pinder steps aside

Rick Lowe I was taken by this recent letter to The Tribune indicating that Gilbert Pinder of the PLP had resigned after being voted to serve as Chief Councillor back in June 2011, paticularly after this PLP web site made such a fuss about it. It is heartening news that... Read more →

Some prosper while others decay

Rick Lowe The following two articles should make us all sit up and take notice. First, Dr. Burt Folsom points to the reasons why Detroit, Michigan in the USA has gone backwards over the decades in this post... He notes: "The lesson for the U.S. today is clear. If we... Read more →

Lessons in Freedom: TSA & a Free Country: Are the Compatible?

Tibor R. Machan Why does the TSA annoy so many of us? Not having the resources to do a survey, I resort here to what might be called educated speculation. I suspect it is because free men and women consider it invasive for government agents to order them around--pat them... Read more →