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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 ...

December 7 1941 , Pearl Harbor , Oahu, Hawaii Islands. Early in the morning... ...."Here, too, most people were still in bed. Two excep...

December 6 is Santa Claus Day . I do not know how exactly Santa Claus is celebrated in Anglosaxon countries, or even other European countri...

From the NYT , Dec. 4, 2008 : WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama’s aides say he is considering making a major foreign policy speech f...

It's not that I'm a sensation junkie, but just watch this: Clutching a toy basketball, his face contorted by tears, this is Moshe Ho...

This evening, over at The Brussels Journal , I read yet another magnificent column from that most talented editor Takuan Seiyo (a pseudonym)...

Some important works I'm currently reading. Today UPS delivered my copy of Fjordman's book "Defeating Eurabia" (BJ Books,...

Adriana Lima . American Muslim, this one's for you. Last time I checked, she was still a virgin . Well, what are you waiting for? MFBB.

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...