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Here's a quick one for the almost 50% of Americans that think we're in a recession. "Employers stepped up hiring in January, bo...

a.) For wealthy well-mannered intellectuals: Nail on the head , as usual. b.) For the common folk: Hope I don't piss off LVB. c.) For ev...

QUESTION: To what extent has Islamic extremism already limited freedom of expression in the Western World? In case that, despite the tremen...

Nah. It’s not him. It’s a fake. It’s an "artwork" by Czech "artist" David Cerny , representing Iraq’s National Leader in...

Believe it or not, but one of the more charming competitions among European nations lately was to choose their greatest national ever. The B...

A.) SCENE 1: A PRESTIGIOUS, WELL RESPECTED AND AUTHORATIVE UNIVERSITY IN EGYPT. At the prestigious, well respected and authorative al-Azhar ...

...the American Soldier . Sorry Navy. Sorry Air Force. To me the Most Outstanding Person Of 2005 is still The American Soldier , whether Arm...

An interesting article by Mark Steyn. Most people reading this have strong stomachs, so let me lay it out as baldly as I can: Much of what w...

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 ...