Monthly Archives: May 2012

Reality cannot compete with dreams

Posted on May 23, 2012 by weblogbahamas

"Reality cannot compete with dreams, at least not “fairly.” How easy to romanticize, perhaps about free enterprise, perhaps about possibilities of improving the world by some governmental policy which will restrict the freedom of others: Mr. Dooley made a good … Continue reading →

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John Stossel on Uncommon Knowledge

Posted on May 23, 2012 by weblogbahamas

Enjoy a great 45 minute interview on Stossel’s new book, No, They Can’t: Why Government Fails-But Individuals Succeed. Buy your copy of the book here… Visit the Uncommon Knowledge web site here… and check out their You Tube Channel here…

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Al Jarrett: Rest in Peace

Posted on May 23, 2012 by weblogbahamas

by Rick Lowe Al is reported to have died of a massive heart attack at 69 years of age. I met Al when visiting the Rotary Club of West Nassau and always enjoyed chatting with him. In fact we shared … Continue reading →

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A fitting tribute for Mr. Hubert Ingraham from Mrs. Anita Bernard

Posted on May 22, 2012 by weblogbahamas

by Rick Lowe Mrs. Bernard is another wonderful Bahamian and she offers her personal insights in the following letter to the editor entitled, Ingraham Was An Inspirational Leader. I suspect both Mr. Ingraham and Mrs. Bernard will be missed. Click … Continue reading →

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Promises to be kept

Posted on May 22, 2012 by weblogbahamas

by Edward Hutcheson It is possible to use the pain that people are going through to further a political objective, but  political victories have a double-sidedness to them that the winners fail to anticipate in terms of actual reckoning. Some … Continue reading →

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So Cuba might not have oil?

Posted on May 21, 2012 by weblogbahamas

Rick Lowe A friend sent this link over reporting that Repsol, the Spanish oil company was unsuccessful drilling an exploratory well off Cuba. The report indicates that it's not unusual to come up dry with four out of five attempts … Continue reading →

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Lessons in Freedom: Revisiting the Responsibility of Business Managers

Posted on May 21, 2012 by weblogbahamas

by Tibor R. Machan People buy stocks, shares in a firm, mainly so as to delegate to the officers the job of securing for them economic prosperity. What else did all the folks who purchased the IPOs of Facebook want? … Continue reading →

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Albert Catiglia – Song of the week – May 21, 2012 – Catfish

Posted on May 21, 2012 by weblogbahamas

by Rick Lowe Catfish is another great Bob Dylan song that other people have performed including a nice version by Joe Cocker on his 1976 album, Stingray, but I'm taken by Albert Castiglia's (pronounced "ka-steel-ya") version. We've seen Casteglia live … Continue reading →

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“Ideas Having Sex” A Conversation with John Tierney and Matt Ridley

Posted on May 20, 2012 by weblogbahamas

On Reason TV "Where ideas have sex, is in technologies," says author and biologist Matt Ridley, "we give far too much credit to individuals for innovation…all of them are standing on the shoulders of lots of other people." "Ridley discussed … Continue reading →

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Helping people at gunpoint

Posted on May 20, 2012 by weblogbahamas

by Rick Lowe Political or economic conversations often lead to the best way of helping the poor and my position is very much like Penn Jillette's (of Penn & Teller) in the following photo found at The Bastiat Institute's Facebook … Continue reading →

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