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To live and die in LA , eighties hit by the now obscure seeming band Wang Chung . It's from the soundtrack of the movie with the same st...

DowneastBlog wishes all its readers of good will, wherever they may be, a Happy and Prosperous 2010!!! MFBB.

No, I haven't seen the movie. There is no need to for me, not after reading this Fjordman review in The Brussels Journal : The hero is t...

First a 2006 number from Northern Irish/Scottish band Snow Patrol , a group formed in 1994 by Gary Lightbody , Michael Morrison and Mark McC...

Adoration of the Shepherds (1622), by Gerrit Van Honthorst , a Dutch Golden Age painter from the city of Utrecht. From Luke 2, 1-20 : "...

The six F-16 Belgian fighter-bombers operating from Kandahar Airfield currently operate low key. It seems that two flights a day suffice giv...

Roger Vernon Scruton (born 1944) is a British philosopher, author and composer. Rather a traditionalist Burkean conservative, his emphasis ...

Mark Steyn is his usual self, hacking the Man Made Global Warming Scam to pieces in an aptly titled MacLeans column , 17 December. Although,...

We keep staying in the nineties (this was the time when Mr. Ghost still wet his diapers). First a vid from UK band Ash , actually northern I...

The first Airbus A400M military airlifter took to the air on 11 December for a 3 hour 47 minute test flight. Takeoff was from the Seville a...

Very good Walter Williams column over at Townhall , 16 December: COLLUSION AGAINST OUR YOUTH. "I've grown somewhat weary writing ab...

Simple. Click: Reliable information can be obtained from the Dutch website Het Vrije Volk (The Free People): The Netherlands have deter...

Nothing new under the sun. As per usual, leftozoid assholes resort to silencing dissent, as Phelim McAleer , the guy of the Not Evil Just Wr...

The video sucks and Siouxsie doesn't look like any broad I'd like to encounter while horny and in the dark, but 18 years after its ...

"Sir" John Reith (1889-1971), a Scot from Stonehaven , Kincardineshire , was the founder and first Director General of the BBC, th...

Our friend CDR Salamander of the US Navy (unfortunately recently retired) suggested I compose a list of five books fit to read or give as a ...

What's with the skiing? Nothing, it's just that's when I was looking for a decent video of DAG 's Lovely Jane , I stumbled u...

More than five years ago, on November 6, 2004, I had a short post about an event which took place right after the murder of Theo Van Gogh by...

Belgian Air Force F-16 being refueled over Afghanistan by a US KC135 tanker. As old as the F-16 may be, the KC 135 beats it hands down. The ...

From YNet News , 29 November : "Swiss voters back ban on minarets in referendum. In what is being called 'huge surprise,' about...