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There was a truly excellent op-ed in Dutch daily "De Volkskrant" by Geert Wilders and Martin Bosma of the Dutch PVV, the Partij ...

In the night of 31 December to January 1st , 1,147 cars were torched throughout France. Some would say it's "just" demonstrati...

The Dutch are completely nuts about Luca Prins , an instant starlet who participated in the traditional "New Years Dive" on Januar...

Reader LydiaVH sent me a little sumpin to laugh your *ss off: (Lydia) Remember the book “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus”? Well, her...

DowneastBlog wishes all its readers of good will a Happy, Healthy and Successful 2009!!! MFBB.

In 2005, the Israeli Army left the Gaza Strip after 38 years of military rule in an unprecendented move masterminded by then Israeli PM Ari...

I actually wanted to do a post about why Israel has every right - what do I say, the goddam duty - to blast these Hamas m*therfuckers to hel...

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

The Nativity by Federico Barocci (1597). Currently on display in the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain. DowneastBlog wishes all its readers ...

Regular reader and commenter Mark , who is no longer from Colorado and now prefers to go by the moniker of Spiral , tirelessly provides us w...

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)...