Chéticamp is a charming fishing community on the Cabot Trail on the west coast of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. St. Peter’s Church (a.k.a. l’Église Saint-Pierre) was built in 1883. …more here, Cycroft Photoblog: Photo of St Peters Church at Chéticamp, NS.
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Tuesday's Supreme Court decision upholding Michigan's ban on affirmative action affects more than college admissions, and more than just Michigan. Seven other states have similarly broad bans in their constitutions or statute books, and opponents of affirmative action have ...
The meme is what Matthew Yglesias, writing in 2006, referred to as "the Green Lantern Theory of Geopolitics," and has been refined by Greg Sargent and Brendan Nyhan into the Green Lantern Theory of the presidency. In a nutshell, ...
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I admit it, over the past week or two I've fallen unabashedly in love with Amos Oz's ability to communicate, to take a maddeningly complex conflict that is fraught with emotion--one that at times seems hopelessly, even annoyingly intractable--and explain ...
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Curt Clawson, a businessman who was little known months ago in Southwest Florida, won a contentious GOP primary Tuesday to fill the U.S. House seat left open by the scandalous downfall of Trey Radel. Clawson pitched himself as an ...
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A Kansas man charged with first-degree murder is afraid the tattooed mirror-image letters spelling out the word "murder" across his neck might prejudice a jury, so he is asking for a professional tattoo artist to remove or cover it ...
Much is be­ing writ­ten about the United King­dom's Prime Min­is­ter David Cameron's re­cent as­ser­tion that Britain is "a Chris­t­ian coun­try." While some re­li­gious groups like the Hindu Coun­cil UK and the Mus­lim Coun­cil of Britain seem com­fort­able with the ...
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