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First, REM with Crush with Eyeliner . 1995. From the album Monster . Todd Rundgren with Hello, it's me . From his 1972 solo al...

A Turkish Town Selectman in the eastern Belgian town of Heusden-Zolder, Selahattin Ozer , fired five years ago because of unacceptable behav...

Via the indispensable site François Desouche , a horrifying video of the murder of a young Tunisian who was decapitated because of his conve...

Belgian band Hooverphonic with Sometimes. They formed in 1995 in Sint-Niklaas , a northern Flemish town. The lead man is Alex Callier. ...

Well, it's not that I can afford to spend a working day hiking in Belgium's south. The following pics were shot on a Sunday two week...

My best wishes to all true Americans on this Memorial Day. Americans have a lot to be proud of. Not the least of that is that their countr...

10CC with I'm Mandy Fly Me . English art rock band from Manchester. A relative powerhouse in the first half of the seventies. You m...

Maybe the world is more interested in Justin Bieber, Kim Kardashian or the Edwards Trial, but over here we know what was REALLY important t...

Spacehog with In the meantime . English rock band of four guys from Leeds who formed in NYC in 94. In the meantime is a single from the...

Madness with Michael Caine , from the 1984 album Keep Moving . The video is based on the 1965 movie The IPCRESS File, starring a.o. Mic...

Steyn's take on the Elizabeth Warren case is so hilarious and at the same time so spot-on that you just GOT to read it, if you haven...

Be sure to watch Part 6 of The Muslim Brotherhood in America . And yes, for some time now Grover Norquist has been on my radar. Or is ...

Back in 2004, I predicted a rightwing shift in Europe. By and large, I was proven right, a few exceptions like Zapatero's victory in Spa...

I owe my readers - those ones of good will, anyway - an apology. My earlier assertion that a gay 32-year old Belgian of Moroccan descent h...

If you're not a dinosaur I guess I'll have to explain to you that this was a monsterhit by a famous vocal group of the late sixties,...

The first confirmed murder as such, anyway. There have very likely been killings before but with death attributed to a particular planet con...

One year ago, on May 2, 2011, my father died.

Good observation by American Thinker's Rick Moran : Forward to the past . On an, ahem, very appropriate day: "What's next? Ma...

Watch Glenn Beck's new documentary dealing with the infiltration of the muslim brotherhood in the US, up into government circles. A...

The Kinks with Waterloo Sunset. May 1967. Twas one of their biggest hits. Nazareth with Love hurts . Nazareth's a Scottish...