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Over at The Brussels Journal , Takuan Seiyo is up to his seventh installment in the "From Meccania to Atlantis" series. As always...

Also megatotallycompletely fed up with the religion of piss and a socialist for president? Here are some hits by Belgian pop band Novastar ...

Here are the names of the Dutch judges who ruled that Geert Wilders must stand trial for "inciting hatred" - while among those w...

As we all know by now, a Dutch court in Amsterdam has ordered prosecutors to put Geert Wilders , the chairman of the rightwing Partij voor V...

Apparently Ted was not the only one with a seizure. Every cloud has a silver lining though. On its first day, the new US Administration got ...

Some recent news lines off the top of my head: a.) Obama will seek "renewed dialogue" with Hugo Chavez . b.) a Democratic New Yor...

History's judgment will be very harsh indeed... for the many who let you down when the country was at peril. I never thought I would bor...

An interesting article in the Wall Street Journal of January 13, 2009 by Gunnar Heinsohn , Head of the Raphael Lemkin Institute at the Uni...

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...