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        <title>Satire: The Bahamas' Five Year Plan for Education</title>
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    <content type="html">by Rick Lowe (http://www.weblogbahamas.com) You don't want to miss this excellent commentary by Joan Thompson over at the Nassau Institute. It certainly makes one stop and think about the possibilities for education. Is it naive and theoretical to think that...&lt;br/&gt;
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        <title>Cuba: July Anniversaries of Two Massacres</title>
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        <published>2009-07-15T09:05:00-04:00</published>
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    <content type="html">by Cuba Archive (http://www.weblogbahamas.com) Reprinted with the kind permission of Cuba Archive an initiative of Free Society Project, Inc. Cuba: July Anniversaries of Two Massacres Unpunished, but not forgotten July 6, 2007, Summit, New Jersey. Among the most flagrant atrocities...&lt;br/&gt;
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        <title>Lessons in Freedom: Looking Back to Gain Perspective!</title>
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        <published>2009-07-15T09:00:00-04:00</published>
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    <content type="html">by Tibor R. Machan (http://www.weblogbahamas.com) As one who tasted both a bit of Nazism and Communism, today's economic fiasco strikes me as relatively mild as human disasters go. For starters many in America remember the Great Depression and the Second...&lt;br/&gt;
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        <title>Economic Logic continued...</title>
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        <published>2009-07-14T09:05:00-04:00</published>
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    <content type="html">by Rick Lowe (http://www.weblogbahamas.com) You might recall I asked this question on Thursday past: Why do governments wish to challenge companies they believe are "too big" through anti-trust legislation and want to bail out others because "they're too big to...&lt;br/&gt;
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        <title>James Bartholomew: The Welfare State We're In</title>
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        <published>2009-07-13T11:00:00-04:00</published>
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        <title>Lessons in Freedom: Egalitarian Fallacies </title>
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        <published>2009-07-13T09:05:00-04:00</published>
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    <content type="html">by Tibor R. Machan (http://www.weblogbahamas.com) "As the late Murray N. Rothbard pointed out, in his book, Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature and Other Essays (1977), that equality is simply everywhere and cannot be erased if for no other reason...&lt;br/&gt;
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        <title>Rockpile - Song of the week - July 13, 2009 - When I Write the Book</title>
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    <content type="html">by Rick Lowe (http://www.weblogbahamas.com) Dave Edmunds, Nick Lowe, Terry Williams and Billy Bremner had to have fun with this band. Seconds of Pleasure is just a great record that gets your feet tapping. If it doesn't make you move, go...&lt;br/&gt;
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        <title>Bahamas Public Education's 10 year plan</title>
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        <published>2009-07-12T09:05:00-04:00</published>
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    <content type="html">by Joan Thompson (http://www.weblogbahamas.com) In his recent speech to the government school teachers and education bureaucracy Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham said: “I believe it is noteworthy that, like health, education has been one of the largest recipients of government funding...&lt;br/&gt;
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        <title>Independence, Citizenship &amp; Responsibility for The Bahamas</title>
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        <published>2009-07-11T09:05:00-04:00</published>
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    <content type="html">by Bahamas B2B First published in the Bahamas B2B weekly newsletter on Thursday, July 9, 2009 and republished here with their kind permission. Visit the Bahamas B2B web site at www.bahamasb2b.com. "This was adapted and rewritten from a number of...&lt;br/&gt;
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        <title>Happy Independence Bahamas</title>
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        <published>2009-07-10T09:05:00-04:00</published>
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    <content type="html">by Rick Lowe (http://www.weblogbahamas.com) The following blog is an excerpt from a weekly column from 1998 that I used to write for The Bahama Journal. It is remarkable how true the saying is that, "the more things change the more...&lt;br/&gt;
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