Month: September 2013

Saturday Painting Palooza Vol.421

Hello again painting fans. This week I will be with the painting of the Holbrook service station. The photo that I will be using is seen directly below. I will be using my usual acrylics on an 8×8 gallery-wrapped canvas....

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Personal Day

As odd as it sounds after eight years, today I need to take a “personal day,” Sometimes, a higher order calls. While I am away, I would be very grateful if some of you would make a contribution toward the upkeep of...

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Why Progressives are Balking

The administration’s argument for limited punitive strikes against Syria to uphold an international norm against the use of chemical weapons is destined to fail with progressives. But this fact is largely unrelated to the...

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Who’s Lying? Brennan, Obama or Both?

Sorry for the inflammatory title, but it is the title of David Swanson’s article in Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, warisacrime.org: Who’s Lying? Brennan, Obama, or Both?. And the Veteran Intelligence...

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How We Won the Cold War

There are a number of reasons why communism collapsed but I’ve felt for a long time that one of the underappreciated reasons was the the West knew how to have fun. A lot of people look back at the Carter administration as...

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