DowneastBlog

Yesterday my ass froze off. Okay, almost. Still, it was so god-dam-COLD that either W must be held responsible, or else I have become a pus...

In Europe, there was quite some fuss the last two weeks concerning the planning of the EU Budget for the period 2007-2013 . Basically, the d...

Alas, again no white Christmas in BelgoSmurfLand TM this year. Prospects for it had been better though ever since I was a kid, for we had o...

King Kong review "Grown men around me were crying," says one Hollywood insider. " Ok, I haven't seen the movie yet, and i...

I guess most of you learned this week that Belgium finally sent fighters to Iraq. One of them was 38-year old Muriel Degauque , a Wallonian ...

Ok, let's make a pact: Everyone has to agree to not let any liberal in their presence get away with any "the economy is bad" ...

Barone lays out in plain English what a disaster labor unions have been for the US. And forget about all the "unions brought us the ...

1939. Commies ally themselves with Nazis… The photo shows a jovial Stalin addressing Nazi Germany’s Foreign Minister, Von Ribbentrop , on ...

One year ago, on November 20, 2005 , Operation Phantom Fury (or Dawn ) to clear the city of Fallujah from terrorists, was concluded. In May ...

The Belgian ISAF detachment responsible for security at Kabul International Airport (KAIA), composed of soldiers drawn from the 1st Regimen...

On November 11, 1918 , World War I ended. The most horrendous theatres of operations were in Belgium and France, where the trench warfare an...

I once commented that all Smurfs are Belgians, but that not all Belgians are Smurfs. While I consider myself the one and only author of this...

At the moment I'm typing this, French Muslim youths are partying like it's 742 . Just consider, over the past 24 hours: * an estima...

Look who's got an article up at NRO. Way to go Kerry!

For the fifth consecutive night, violent riots have taken place in Clichy-sous-Bois. There was also a rather underreported riot in Utrecht, ...

A.) SULAWESI, INDONESIA Three girls have been beheaded and another badly injured as they walked to a Christian school in Indonesia. They we...

A.) NEVER FORGET... Twenty-two years ago, on October 23, 1983, a large truck drove into the lobby of the USMC Barracks on the grounds of Bei...

The bombs was described as being of ‘low density’, however it was reported that 7 people were injured due to the explosion outside the popul...

Wow. I really hope this comes to fruition and Chertoff doesn't get his pee-pee slapped for saying it.