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Video: Avoid the "fiscal cliff". Maybe the US should go over?

by Rick Lowe The following brief video is some sound advice The Bahamas Government should heed. But before you get to that consider the following comments from Professor Steven Horwitz on the fiscal cliff: "I have never believed that "going over the fiscal cliff" (love that image) would be a... Read more →

Lessons in Freedom: On Rape and Pragmatism

by Tibor R. Machan Something not often noted in the discussion of rape across the globe is that in an age that prizes pragmatism as opposed to firm principles of conduct, even rape can be excused based on the expected benefit to the rapist versus injury to the victim. If... Read more →

Buddy Guy gets Kennedy Center Honor

by Rick Lowe Buddy Guy was one of the honoree's at the recent 35th Annual Kennedy Center Honors, and what a tribute it was! Of course in the blues/rock tradition of America there are few current day American musicians more deserving than Mr. Guy in my not so humble opinion.... Read more →

Photo of the week. Seagull feast in the Exuma Cays

Rick Lowe Images by Rick Lowe is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at www.weblogbahamas.com. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://www.weblogbahamas.com/. Find more photos at Through The Lens Read more →

Bishop Hall is right. Give gays a break

Photo: The Nassau Guardian by Rick Lowe “All heterosexuals, as do all homosexuals, stand in need of God’s grace. The Bahamian public in general as well as pastors in particular, must be careful of what we demonize and protest.” Simeon Hall While most of the article in Saturday's Nassau Guardian... Read more →

Led Zeppelin honoured and it's about time too!

by Rick Lowe We happened to stumble on the 35th Kennedy Center Honours on Thursday night and boy am I glad we did. There is no doubt that the tributes to Led Zeppelin stole the show. Hope you enjoy the video from the Kennedy Center Honors below. With renditions of... Read more →

Should the gambling referendum be put aside for now?

by Edward Hutcheson Maybe it is co-incidental, but almost 40 years ago, a group of predominantly Baptist Ministers made a choice to side with then Prime Minister Lynden Oscar Pindling, when he and the majority of elected Members of Parliament chose to go against what they had promised in the... Read more →

On the night table - The Roosevelt Myth by John T. Flynn

by Rick Lowe I'm really looking forward to reading this one. First published in 1948 and draws on official records, reports, congressional testimony, reports from journalists and books by people that were around in those days. Of course Roosevelt is a saint of the "progressives". John T. Flynn the author... Read more →

Pro Free Enterprise not Pro Business

by Rick Lowe There's a difference between being pro free enterprise and being pro business as the brief video below explains. Thanks to Carpe Diem for posting another great answer from Professor Milton Friedman. Read more →

Government as Santa

by Joseph G. Lehman, President, Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a research and educational institute headquartered in Midland, Michigan. Reprinted as allowed. See the original article here… Support the Mackinac Center here… Government as Santa Why is it that most people eventually abandon the idea of Santa Claus … and... Read more →