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Losing a whole year , a 1997 subhit from Third Eye Blind , from their titleless debut album. After listening to their CD, I thought these gu...

I reported earlier about the commotion around the headscarf ban imposed by an Antwerp High School, the Koninklijk Atheneum. Since Tuesday, S...

In late August, 1939, under the suspect pretense of an amiable courtesy visit, the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein dropped anchor in th...

"... Picking his way through the Soviet archives that Boris Yeltsin had just thrown open, in 1991 Tim Sebastian, a reporter for the Lon...

A.) BELGIUM - BRUSSELS/SINT-JANS-MOLENBEEK. From De Standaard , August 28, 2009 : Thursday night riots took place in Sint-Jans-Molenbeek be...

At the height of their career, Coldplay produced two excellent albums, A rush of blood to the head (2002) and X&Y (2005). As far as I...

Benno Barnard is a leftist Dutch essayist, playwright and poet who has been living in Belgium for thirty-three years now and who has over t...

It's almost September 1st and then the measure announced by the Koninklijk Atheneum , a high school in Antwerp now almost exclusively f...

And if non-muslims think that's over the top and not very conciliatory, you might want to consider the ummah's gazillion of friendly...

Japan , British eighties rock band spearheaded by David Sylvian , a Kent native. Btw, if you ever can, visit Kent. It's the Garden of En...

Everything I wrote until now on this blog about the perils of islamization is small beer. From the website of Filip Dewinter, and if you hav...

Dr. Ulfkotte's map about hotspots in Germany in case of widespread civil unrest, if not civil war. The map, originally too small, was ma...

From the "This Makes My Blood Boil Department". The Dutch site SpitsNieuws had the following tidbit on August 17, 2009 : "IS...

As per usual, I was looking for a studio version but could only find this 1971 Live performance of 'Old Man' by Neil Young. Still, I...

Denmark is basically Jutland , a tongue of land the size of New Jersey "jutting out" from northern Germany, the two big islands Fy...

For once, we changed direction for our yearly holiday, from northwest to due north - so instead of Scotland it was Norway this year. Always ...

From USAToday , August 10 . Nancy Pelosi, House Speaker, D-CA: "However, it is now evident that an ugly campaign is underway not merely...

Heart with Magic Man , IIRC from the 1976 album Dreamboat Annie . Someone should glue the first half of the studio recording to the second ...

There are those who call me a bigot because of the relation I perceive between criminality committed by immigrants and their religion, in ca...

A.) THE NETHERLANDS. Dutch daily De Telegraaf , July 19, 2009: "Sexual harassment in swimming pool. RIDDERKERK - Last week police has a...