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Brothers in arms: a patrol consisting of a Dutch Fennek light armoured recce vehicle followed by an unrecognizable US troop carrier. The Fe...

Zwolle , The Netherlands. February 26, 2008 . 11.59 am . Public swimming pool "Hanzebad". Director Hans Meijer confirms that the b...

A Giant of the Right has passed away. William Frank Buckley , author, TV personality and conservative commentator, was found dead at his des...

Peter Robinson of National Review has been interviewing Thomas Sowell regarding his new Book, Economic Facts and Fallacies.  I'm current...

June 2004 , San Francisco. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) addresses a meeting of woman Senators for US Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), who is up for r...

Sigh. You know when you are getting old when Roy Scheider dies at 75 and you have to celebrate a lustrum for defending western civilization....

For five long years, the bulk of the Belgian ISAF contingent in Afghanistan - 300 troops drawn from various units - has been guarding KAIA, ...

Some muslim a-holes were rounded up who wanted to murder Kurt Westergaard for his Mohammed cartoon. Danish newspapers responded by reprinti...

Barack Obama is co-sponsoring the Patriotic Corporation Act, which is such a blatant example of wrong headed and damaging legislation that i...

Never let Outlaw say that I don't contribute enough to this blog.

As I am writing this, it's 1.28am. Outside, the wind is howling. In here, it's cozy and warm. It was a busy working day, which laste...

From the East London Advertiser, January 30, 2008: HOLOCAUST DAY MARRED BY 'RACIST' STONE-THROWING. THE Holocaust Memorial Day marki...

Fortis is Belgium's biggest bank and ranks among Europe's 20 top financial institutions. Its site claims it has a market capitalis...

(Sorry for stealing your line CDR . ) We have all missed the news, what with the RoP, VB and the frikkin primaries, but on January 4, 2008 ,...

Mind you, my choice. Until further notice DowneastBlog is still Tom, Scott, Kerry and me; I can't claim the good general is also their ...

Charles Johnson just can't get enough of it. A recent post sheds light on JihadWatch's Robert Spencer's decision to distance h...

About one month back I posted a story about the murder on Dr. Fuat Deniz , an Assyrian Christian professor living and working in Orebro , Sw...

Please bear with me. I am sorry. There's lots of good, interesting stuff out there. Fascinating stuff. Truly fas-ci-nating! The Large Ha...

I meant to post this right after my return from Poland on January 3, but frankly, I was so sick of it all that at the moment I could not bri...