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This morning, as we were packing our stuff to get back to Belgium - our family spent the Easter period with my mother-in-law's family in...

One story among a plethora of them. In November 2007, a Moroccan immigrant, Omar Sellami , strangled his muslim wife Karima , born and raise...

Just to add some features to DowneastBlog, I wanted to equip it with some Java applets. In practice these should look like applications in t...

Christus geeft de sleutels aan de Heilige Petrus, by Peter Paul Rubens (Christ hands the keys to Saint Peter - painting is in the Staatliche...

Reasonably good Joe Jackson hit, " Nineteen forever ". What do I say? It's a brilliant song! At some point in the mid-nineties...

We've been talking about Benno Barnard here before. He is a leftist playwright who saw the light in 2009 . Now a speech he intended to g...

Sigh. With regards to the RNC strip club scandal Hugh Hewitt calls a spade a spade . "What is needed now urgently is a top-to-bottom ac...

Very interesting post over at The Redhunter, a longtime colleague and "blogger in arms" of DowneastBlog. Tom investigates to what ...

A Belgian judge in Belgium's crime-ridden Detroit-on-the-Sambre aka Charleroi has ruled that a banker who used a 6,172 EUR state premiu...

Two more relatively good songs from "vaderlandse bodem" (dunno what would be an appropriate translation, fatherlandish soil perhap...

This is just outrageous. OTTAWA - It’s just the thing conservative author, commentator and self-described polemicist Ann Coulter is known f...

Marine Corporal Jonathan D. Porto , 26, of the 1st Battalion/6th Marine Regiment (2nd Marine Division), died on March 14 while supporting co...

Sigh. We all know what this will be about. But where to begin? I think a good way to start would be an interesting overview of 18 Health Car...

With regards to the Belgian ISAF mission in Afghanistan, the Belgian government took an important decision last week in that the duration of...

If one would ask me what song I'd rate quint-essen-tially American, Kansas ' Carry On Wayward Son (1976) would certainly be among t...

I have a post on Spain in the scaffolds and was trying to get one up about the French regional elections, but in the end found out I was too...

Fleetwood Mac. You make loving fun. From the famous 1977 album Rumours . Cycling up a frozen hill between Brakel and Ronse in the middle of ...

One week ago, Hicham El Gaabouri , fleeing from a robbery scene in the Brussels commune of Ukkel with his companion Hassan , tried to carja...

One of these days a husband will carry his wife to her grave, and three children their mother. From the Belgian daily Het Laatste Nieuws : L...

Rags to Rags from Eels ' debut album Beautiful Freak (1996) was apparently never deemed good enough to qualify for hit, but to me it sou...