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There's been a steady drumbeat of appalling news last week, all of it signalling that Europe is steamrollering towards disaster. I'm...

Martha & The Muffins . Echo Beach . 1980. This was their only international single, although they seem to have had a degree of success i...

I spotted this about one week ago on Call of the Patriot. I think it is well worth a read. I am talking about Obama's recess appointment...

As per usual, news of the Belgian operations in AF is scarce, and this situation has in fact not very much improved since the introduction, ...

KILL. IT. MFBB.

Via CathNews India , July 6, 2010: "Suspected Islamic militants have chopped off a Catholic professor’s hand in Kerala for allegedly in...

Iggy Pop and Kate Pierson (ex B-52's) in 1990 with Candy . Class. The Rolling Stones with Out of Time (1966, album Aftermath ). A classi...

Alexandra Colen is a Belgian MP for the Vlaams Belang. She is married to the renowned conservative author Paul Belien , who is Chief Editor...

I guess you can't say I have the scoop - it's been in and on every self-respecting news outlets - but still I feel I have to pay som...

Muse with New Born . Single drawn from the 2001 album Origin of Symmetry . Singer's Matthew Bellamy . Vangelis with the theme from Bla...

Being very much an aviation fan and one of those tens of millions of boys who never saw their youth dreams come true, I was surprised pleasa...

Last Saturday, in Anderlecht, one of Brussels' 19 communes, the mayor Of Molenbeek, Philippe Moureaux , married his moroccan sweetheart ...

Roxy Music with Same old scene , from the album Flesh + Blood , 1980. Thirty years old and still kicking. The Shirts with Laugh and Walk A...

Via Galliawatch , June 21, 2010. If you thought muslim "youths" - or make it muslims by extension since the "elders" don...

To the point column by His Master's Voice Thomas Sowell over at National Review : "Sometimes you can read a book that will change...

Melanie Phillips has written a new book, The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth, and Power. An interview you shou...

Imho the best Bread single ever, Guitar Man . Released 1972. These guys were quite hot in the weird transitory decade that the seventies wa...

There's a lot to be said with regards to the elections in the Low Countries, but my head is just not into it. Also, it's depressing ...

In 1987, Aussie band INXS caused quite a sensation when they released "Kick", their sixth studio album. From it, here's ...