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• He Had

  By Ecantados on January 5, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  chosen a bloodwood box, ornately carved bright red velvet, carefully lined, to hold the finest tear drops of aquamarine, blue delicate necklace, of filigree of gold, lays waiting, silent in the enclosed velvet case to be moved again, shelf to… Read More ›

• Where

  By Ecantados on January 5, 2015 • ( 4 )

  

  you, once, stood in the shadows, hidden by the building’s corner away from the warming sunlight that broke from, darkling  clouds drifting away, after a fierce, nay, ferocious storm, that tore anew the tree’s last leaves, harbinger of winter’s deepening,… Read More ›

• US Senator Rand Paul- Repatriation of Corporate Offshore Funds or More Corporate Welfare

  By Ecantados on January 5, 2015 • ( 4 )

  

  Senator Rand Paul is seemingly obsessed with giving corporations another ‘tax holiday’ even though the last one proved a dud. Paul has introduced S. 911, which would reduce the repatriation rate to 5 percent. Paul argues lowering that tax on… Read More ›

• Photographers and Their Photographs in Black and White

  By Ecantados on January 4, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

    Beth Moon – Trees   Ansel Adams – Landscapes   Dorothea Lange – People   Yousuf Karsh – Portraits Richard Avedon – People in Motion  Henri Cartier-Bresson – People and Places Robert Capa – People and Places Alfred Stieglitz – People  Margaret… Read More ›

• WNF: World Predictions

  By Ecantados on January 2, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  This is a stab at seeing how good or maybe not,… 🙂 , we here at the WNF can predict anything about the world in the coming decades. In your comment, list your top five predictions of overall interest in… Read More ›

• The Bipartisan War Consensus

  By Ecantados on January 2, 2015 • ( 10 )

  

  By Scott Beauchamp Hawks such as Sen. John McCain and commentators such as former New York Times columnist Bill Keller and Wall Street Journal editor Bret Stephens fret about America’s growing isolationism and the potential for a de-Americanized world, in… Read More ›

• Florida’s health care system for needy and disabled children violates federal laws, judge rules

  By Ecantados on January 1, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  A federal judge Wednesday declared Florida’s health care system for needy and disabled children to be in violation of several federal laws, handing a stunning victory to doctors and children’s advocates who have fought for almost a decade to force… Read More ›

• The Moon

  By Ecantados on January 1, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  From Wikipedia: The Moon (Latin: Luna) is Earth‘s only natural satellite. Although not the largest natural satellite in the Solar System, it is, among the satellites of major planets, the largest relative to the size of the object it orbits… Read More ›

• Happy New Year! 2015 – From Us to You!

  By Ecantados on December 31, 2014 • ( 3 )

  

    Имате щастлива нова година! – Bulgaria Tenir un feliç any nou! – Catalon 擁有一個快樂的新年 ！ – China Máte šťastný nový rok! – Czech Har et godt nytår! – Denmark Hebben een Happy New Year! – Netherlands On onnellista uutta… Read More ›

• Secular vs Church Tenet

  By Ecantados on December 30, 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  U.S. Bishops Take Aim at Sterilization – ProPublica A toughening of Catholic medical directives could include enforcing a ban on tubal ligations. The Vatican has an absolute prohibition on sterilization for the purposes of birth control. The U.S. Catholic bishops… Read More ›