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The BFD Food Column: Summer Vinaigrettes and Dressing Up

The BFD Food Column: Summer Vinaigrettes and Dressing Up

Summer Vinaigrettes and Dressing Up Just as we doll ourselves up to get an edge, make ourselves more attractive and nuance our appearance, such is the subtle role of salad dressings and vinaigrettes vis-à-vis the summer salad. Obviously salad vegetables and greens have their own flavours and fragrances and combining

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

Today’s face of the day is Frieda Jungst. Frieda was murdered at Auschwitz 5 days after turning five years old. Frieda’s image was callously used by a Facebook account under the name of Sandra Ann in a post full of lies about the people of Israel. Sandra Ann

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Biden’s Disbanding of 1776 Commission Shows Left’s War on US History

Biden’s Disbanding of 1776 Commission Shows Left’s War on US History

Mike Gonzalez papundits.wordpress.com Mike Gonzalez is a senior fellow at  The Heritage Foundation . He is a widely experienced international correspondent, commentator and editor who has reported from Asia, Europe and Latin America. He served in the George W. Bush Administration first at the Securities and Exchange Commission and

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Ireland’s Mothers & Baby Homes Story Has a Personal Dimension.

Margaret Hickey mercatornet.com Margaret Hickey writes on faith and social issues and has been published in The Irish Examiner, Human Life Review(US), Position Papers, The Furrow, The Iona Blog and The Irish Times. The Final Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes has opened

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Ardern Government Sides with Genocidal Communists

Ardern Government Sides with Genocidal Communists

When push comes to shove, you soon find out who your real friends are. The trans-Tasman relationship has long been regarded as one of the strongest in the world: 13% of New Zealanders live in Australia and Australia’s day of remembrance, ANZAC Day, explicitly acknowledges our shared history. But

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

We have been told that it is unacceptable to say that Maori had a stone-age culture (despite that being a historical fact) and that anyone who dares to say that they did will get cancelled. Today’s face of the day should be called bullshit artist of the day for

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Phrase of the Week

Phrase of the Week

Gerry A Bridge Too Far This phrase is commonly used to indicate something that is out of reach or unattainable – perhaps over-ambitious or simply too dangerous physically or reputationally. It appears to date from the Second World War and is attributed to the British Lieutenant-General Frederick Browning who was one

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Never Forget

Never Forget

January 27th 2021 In a departure from my normal letter, I thought it appropriate to write a small piece to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the 27th of January. It was designated as such by a resolution of the United Nations in 2005; one of the few good things to

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NZ Musket Wars down the Memory Hole

NZ Musket Wars down the Memory Hole

The dismissal of John Banks from his radio show due to remarks made by a caller alleging that Maori were a Stone Age people got me thinking. It got me thinking because very little emphasis is given to Maori or indeed New Zealand history before the signing of the Treaty

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Xi’s Hypocrisy Contains a Warning for NZ

Xi’s Hypocrisy Contains a Warning for NZ

Germany wishes, as with all countries, including America, peace and friendship. Adolf Hitler Those were the words of Adolf Hitler, in January 1939, less than half a year before he unleashed the German war machine without provocation and after the other Western powers had repeatedly granted extraordinary concessions to his

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“Never Again” What?

“Never Again” What?

Dave Pellowe The Goodsauce News 27 January 2021 I am challenged on this day, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, to explain exactly what the world promised when it swore “Never again!” in the wake of the realisation of the horrors of the Holocaust, ended only by the defeat of Germany at

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History Will Come to Praise Trump, Not Bury Him

History Will Come to Praise Trump, Not Bury Him

I’m old enough to remember when Australian prime minister Malcolm Fraser was vilified as a “fascist dictator” and his name defaced with Nazi swastikas. I’m also old enough to remember when Ronald Reagan was going to immolate the world in a nuclear holocaust. Yet Fraser went to his

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

“Calls to can John Banks over ‘stone age culture’ comments about Maori on Magic Talk” The Spinoff At the signing of the treaty in 1840 had Maori: 1. Discovered metallurgy, smelting, smithing or any other type of metal working? 2. Discovered the wheel? 3. A written language created by Maori

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