DowneastBlog

The war in Iraq is over. The US won. The Intrepid Reporter has an amazing firsthand account: "Jesus wept. You go to sleep on an airplan...

Winston Churchill once famously said: "The best argument against democracy is a five minutes conversation with the average voter."...

For a vast country and emerging superpower as India, it sure gets little attention. I was reminded of that upon reading the entry "The ...

Here's one movie you don't want to miss . Even if you're not a World War Two nutjob like me. Numerous attempts took place to as...

Some exerpts from an November WaPo article by South Africa's mentally/dentally challenged Archbishop Desmond Tutu on the occasion of Oba...

Every week on Sunday our own personal Gunnery Sergeant Hartmann has a "Sunday Funnies" up. I hope he's not offended by me ca...

To counter the rising unemployment numbers, the Prez-Elect has announced a dramatic increase in the size of the gubbermint. The number of pe...

I am 43 years old and have been a keen follower of US and world politics since I was 16. I have never, never , witnessed the avalanche of di...

John. E. Noonan, Private 107th Regiment, 27th Infantry Division. Fell in Flanders on August 13, 1918. Remember him. Our Father, Who art in h...

Yawn. Saint Charles Johnson again. For the umpteenth time LGF's Charles Johnson has found the definitive evidence that the Vlaams Belang...

In post-election Philadelphia, a man was arrested for wearing a McCain-Palin tee. Hat tip Gates of Vienna . Watch it to the end and listen t...

Oh the irony! At the moment the USA seems to make a sharp leftward bend, Belgium more or less emerges from the stagnation of eight years of ...

Quick! While I can still post this! From the website of The One: The Obama Administration will call on Americans to serve in order to meet t...

It's over. As a European, despite what reservations I ever may have had about Senator McCain, I want to salute his courage, tenacity and...

... should be obvious. I am a Fleming. I am a Belgian. I am a European. Everybody is biased to some point. I am no exception. I was born and...

Belgium's leading newspaper is the Flemish daily De Standaard . Always eager to inform Belgium's dumb population with the latest new...