Monthly Archives: February 2007

The PLP has played politics with the honours system

Posted on February 24, 2007 by weblogbahamas

by Adrian Gibson First published in The Tribune on Friday, January 12, 2007 under the byline, Young Man’s View. THE recent Queen’s honors list has highlighted the PLP’s zeal to canonize party stalwarts in a most brazen way. Over the … Continue reading →

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Free Kareem!

Posted on February 24, 2007 by weblogbahamas

If you think blogging is an important freedom, visit FreeKareem.org. You can also visit Tom G. Palmer’s weblog for more background articles. Click here for a Cato Institute podcast with Tom Palmer.

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Clinton loses Hollywood to Obama?

Posted on February 24, 2007 by weblogbahamas

by Rick Lowe Click on image to enlarge it. Read the Cox & Forkum editorial by clicking here.

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A world without America

Posted on February 23, 2007 by weblogbahamas

by Rick Lowe This blog of July 16, 2006 was a brief review of Michael Mandelbaum’s book The Case for Goliath in which he justifies the case that the world would be worse off without America. The debate is ongoing, … Continue reading →

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Abdelkareem’s Case: Four Years Prison for Writing a Blog

Posted on February 22, 2007 by weblogbahamas

by Rick Lowe Tom Palmer has been writing about the the case of Egyptian blogger Abdelkareem’s since he was first arrested. Click here for his brief blog after learning of Abdelkareem’s sentence earlier today. It’s a tragedy to say the … Continue reading →

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Symposium: The Impact of National Health Insurance (NHI) on Private Insurance

Posted on February 22, 2007 by weblogbahamas

by Rick Lowe Yesterday afternoon/evening Lampkin and Company, a local insurance broker, hosted a symposium that was really a presentation by the NHI team on NHI that left one with more questions than answers. In spite of a gallant effort … Continue reading →

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On The Wealth of Nations by P.J. O’Rourke

Posted on February 21, 2007 by weblogbahamas

by Rick Lowe Most people with a fleeting interest in economics has a copy of Adam Smith’s, Wealth of Nations. How many of us have slogged through the entire thing, is an other question. Don’t despair though, P.J. O’Rourke, political … Continue reading →

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The Road to Serfdom

Posted on February 20, 2007 by weblogbahamas

by Rick Lowe Recent personal events and the continued desire of government to move The Bahamas closer to a welfare state, I went back to read snippets of F.A. Hayek’s 1944 classic The Road to Serfdom. This book is a … Continue reading →

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Shane Gibson’s “Friendship with Anna Nicole forces” his resignation

Posted on February 20, 2007 by weblogbahamas

by Rick Lowe No need to say much more about this subject than this piece at The iPinions Journal. It intrigues me though how some in the political class that appear to support the PLP can say that Mr. Gibson … Continue reading →

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T. Baswell Donaldson. Racism or making a mountain out of a mole hill?

Posted on February 19, 2007 by weblogbahamas

by Rick Lowe Racism is not nice. Having experienced it myself, it is horrible to read of it happening to anyone – black or white – at this stage of the development of The Bahamas. In this story in The … Continue reading →

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