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The Miracle of The Christmas Spirit

The Reverend Mr. Opitz (1914-2006) was a long-time member of the staff of the Foundation for Economic Education. This article is based on one of his sermons. This article was originally published on FEE.org. Read the original article. Charles Dickens wrote his most famous story to demonstrate what happens to... Read more →

In Deep

Dear Editor, Am I the only one who is waiting for a response from the Christian community or its leaders on the remarks made by the Honourable Alfred Virginias Gray; when he expressed our “need” of the Chinese investors in language that surprised many of us. This “outburst” could be... Read more →

The Story of Armando Valladares: Former Cuban Political Prisoner of Conscience

Hope you will take the time to watch the following video from The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. Back in October 1982, Castro released “the dissident poet Armando Valladares” after 22 years for refusing to put a communist slogan on his desk. The following video is Armando’s story. I guess... Read more →

India's Bihar state bans alcohol & Bootleggers and Baptists

BBC News has reported that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has banned alcohol in the State of Bihar. The world knows how well prohibition went the United States from 1920 - 1933. Of course Bootlegging proliferated and the ban on alcohol was bad for the economy and government revenue declined. Not... Read more →

The Freeman: Logic at its finest

I look forward to receiving my quarterly issue of The Freeman. There is always an article or two in there that challenges my thinking on issues. One of my favourite articles this month is by Professor Sandy Ikeda entitled "Don’t worship the Free Market". Read it here… But more about... Read more →

Christmas in Nassau

Editor, Passing through Nassau’s town center of Rawson Square, one would be forgiven for thinking that December was just another month. Obviously something extremely important is about to happen, but it just ain’t Christmas. There is no sign of Christmas in the City center, but many hundreds of bleacher seats... Read more →

People make a country not a government

In all fairness, Hurricane Joaquin was an unexpected, explosive force and no amount of preparation could have prevented the damage. That is not to say emergency preparation like the identification of shelters/safe houses or advance notice for residents should not have been undertaken, but it all begs a couple questions... Read more →

Web shop taxes

A few months ago, I wrote to the press expressing my objection to web shops and attempted to show the negative side, the damage to the social fibre of the country. At that time, I further stated that if we must have web shop gambling, then let’s get the maximum... Read more →

Libertarianism. A Political Philosophy for Today & Tomorrow

I often receive comments that my responses to the "progressive" ideal that, government can fix everything, is my responses are "boilerplate", as if Libertarians have not thought about their proposals enough. Of course, few of the folks that respond that way seem to have ever taken the time to delve... Read more →

The Pat Rahming Show to aid the Boys' Brigade Building Fund

Pat Rahming is a legitimate Bahamian hero. A darn good architect by trade, a singer/songwriter, poet, political commentator and now philanthropist, organised a fantastic show last night (April 25, 2015) at John Watling's Distillery in aid of the building fund for The Boys' Brigade. The event was under the patronage... Read more →