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April 17, 2018

The double standards industry

Concerns over impacts from energy projects disappear where “green” energy is involved Paul Driessen It’s a good thing environmentalists have double standards – or they wouldn’t have any standards at…..
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April 7, 2018

5 Apps that mark your place! or do they?

In our tiny beachside cottage on a sheltered Vancouver Island bay, a stones throw from the water, I felt like the painting by Millais, The Boyhood of Raleigh, peering out…..
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March 12, 2018

Beach Architecture of the Pacific Northwest
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March 3, 2018

6 Quotes: William F. Buckley, Jr. on collectivism, freedom, and power.

Today is the tenth anniversary of the death of William F. Buckley, Jr., founder of National Review and the father of postwar American conservatism. In his honor, here are six quotes…..
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February 27, 2018

PURE GENIUS Fresh-to-Market Le Corbusier at Bonhams Impressionist & Modern

A fresh-to-the-market painting by Le Corbusier, Baigneuse, Barque et Coquillage, (painted between 1934-47), will be offered at Bonhams Impressionist & Modern Art sale on 1 March 2018 in London. Purchased directly from…..
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February 25, 2018

The Unobtainables- Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato “2 VEV”

The Essex Racing Stable team 1961 Aston Martin DB4GT Zagato ‘2 VEV’ is the most celebrated of all of the Newport Pagnell marque’s early 1960s Grand Touring cars, and arguably…..
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February 23, 2018

How Often Do Citizens Use Guns to Stop Violence?

By James D. Agresti   In a New York Times column entitled “How to Reduce Shootings,” Nicholas Kristof writes, “It is true that guns are occasionally used to stop violence……