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Van Morrison to release new CD tomorrow (Oct 1, 2012)

by Rick Lowe Can't wait until tomorrow to buy Born To Sing : No Plan B! And there's no doubt, the Man can sing!!! Van Morrison is one of my all time favourite singer songwriters, bar none! Check out his official You Tube site here… Visit his web site here…... Read more →

The Significance of Mises's Socialism

by Rick Lowe I know I blogged about Mises yesterday, but I couldn't resist this new introduction to the reprint of his book Socialism by Professor Peter Boettke. By the way, why not join the Laissez Faire Club?… The Significance of Mises’s Socialism Peter J. Boettke · September 20, 2012... Read more →

Mr. Frank Pinder, a gentleman's gentleman, passes on

by Rick Lowe The Bahamas has lost a fine man. According to his funeral brochure (reworded slightly here), Mr. Pinder was born in Palmetto Point, Eleuthera on October 8, 1928. His family later moved to Rock Sound, and he eventually moved to Nassau. He married Mrs. Doris "Dot" Kemp on... Read more →

Ludwig von Mises would have been 131 today

by Rick Lowe Born September 29, 1881, Ludwig von Mises was "One of the most notable economists and social philosophers of the twentieth century…" Read a brief bio of him from the Ludwig von Mises Institute here… There's a great photo library there too. Ludwig von Mises archive at the... Read more →

Why is politics so divisive? Photo ID for voters makes sense.

by Rick Lowe One group throws a jab and the other a left hook, and so it continues with insults and rhetoric with neither group offering any real alternative policy to right the ship of state. And in America it all seems to have come off the tracks. Take the... Read more →

Team Obama knows too much?

by Rick Lowe Marc Ambinder's blog at The Week (my favourite weekly news magazine) raises some interesting points about ones personal information that is so easily available to the Obama campaign. He says: "They know if you're registered to vote or not. They know, because of the magazines you subscribe... Read more →

The infamous Mercedes Benz for the Prime Minister

by Rick Lowe The country is running huge deficits each year with unprecedented debt levels over the past 20 years and in the deepest recession since the 1980's and the former government orders a vehicle worth more than $100,000 (initial reports were $185,000) for the Prime Minister to be chauffeured... Read more →

Lessons in Freedom: American Exceptionalism Revisited

by Tibor R. Machan A fairly prominent perception across the globe is that America has had certain exceptional features. While these are mixed in with various traditional ones, they still manage -- or have managed -- to make the country unusual in human history. The American revolution, for example, is... Read more →

Response to Mrs. Nicki Kelly on subsidies and tax breaks

by Rick Lowe Mrs. Kelly gave me "honourable" (or should I say not so honourable?) mention in Monday's Punch in her Between The Lines column in response to this post. Download her article here (pdf)... She argues that manufacturers (assemblers) here employ more people than the automotive industry and local... Read more →

Morals and Motives

by Edward Hutcheson One of the dangers the Church faces when they address moral and social problems is the possibility of interrupting their primary mission in the world, that of reconciling man to his maker. There is a very thin line that separates dogma and dogmatism; especially when there is... Read more →