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Back in the days before Cat Stevens saw the darkness and turned into a raving lunatic, he produced several jewels. All that came to an end w...

In 2006, German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schauble was the initiator of the so-called Deutsche Islam Konferenz (DIK), simply "German I...

As a young boy I recall looking eagerly forward every week to my dad's monthly Reader's Digest issue, which in the Low Countries is ...

"> Fox News , April 18, 2011: "Treaty supporters want the establishment of legal systems to maintain balance between human righ...

Regular reader and commenter Joanne linked to this story about the 'London Taliban' imposing their will on the populace of the Tower...

We have all read the sad news that on April 7, a Brazilian madman entered a school in Rio de Janeiro, and started emptying his guns in the s...

For a second there it looked as if there wouldn't be a Saturday Night Music tonight, and possibly for some time. Whatever YouTube or Vev...

Curious phenomenon in the Spanish Catalan town of Salt , where authochtons have taken to the streets to protest the first dead at the hands ...

From Gazet Van Antwerpen , April 7, 2011: "The City of Antwerp eyes a storage complex on the Noorderlaan as a fitting location for a su...

From Tomaso Albinoni, famous Venetian Baroque composer much admired by Johann Sebastian Bach. There is some ambiguity with regards to the au...

Most of us have read about or heard of Senator Lindsey Graham's remarks about limiting freedom of speech, "because in WWII that was...

From a time when being a black artist still meant something. Bill Withers with Lovely Day (1977). Now there's only Kanye West & clon...

On March 25, the salafist movement Sharia4UK held a demo in Oxford Street, London. Learn how to use firearms. Join a shooting club. Hat tip ...

Stevie Nicks with Stop draggin' my heart around . Uh, if you are younger than 65 million years, Stevie is the blonde woman. The guy is T...

Since Monday, March 21 the Belgian Air Force participates in enforcing the no-fly zone above Libya and its coastal waters. To help enforce t...

Talk Talk with Dum Dum Girl . Must be about the cheapest music video ever shot. Thomas Dolby with Close But No Cigar . Nite all. Sorry, was ...

The first video makes clear where the loyalties of Amir Abdel Malik of the Muslim Students Association lie. The second video shows how bad t...

They all run after the carving knife . From a short-lived (1977-1982) British new wave band, New Musik. This number is on the band's sec...

In light of the terrible situation in Japan, I find it almost heartbreaking that I feel just as well compelled to write a post on another to...

No music this night because I deem it inappropriate at a time when Japan has to cope with the consequences of one of the biggest ever natura...