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Need it even be said? I don't care about Romneycare, Bain, his Mormon beliefs or the fact that he pulled a girl's pigtails when...

Sorry for the light blogging. First, Georg Friedrich Händel with the wonderful Sarabande . I've written on these pages before th...

First the Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia by Aram Khachaturian . It is true that the Soviet composer of Armenian descent Khachaturian ...

Yes, your hatemonger has another item for you and it ain't even the Gitmo nutter who killed seven Israeli tourists in Bulgaria. Britis...

The Port of Zeebrugge has just received a halal certificate, and the local bien pensants are BEAMING : "Belgium's second ma...

It's immaterial with Driving away from home . Yes the name of the band is 'It's immaterial'. These guys were a UK indie...

The British MoD will deploy 13,500 troops, Typhoon Jets, light tanks, Rapier anti-aircraft missiles and, oh, an aircraft carrier to maintain...

Anba Damian , General Bishop of the Coptic Church in Germany, has warned that country's Christians that they too may face prosecution by...

Imagine my surprise when I read early this week that The Guardian ran a series on the popular music scene of your truly's Fatherland ti...

Watch this speech by Bill Warner , Director of the Center for the Study of Political Islam. MFBB.

"...We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain un...

Barely had South Sudan seceded, through referendum, from the islamic north, or the latter's 'president' Omar al-Bashir declared ...

Gordon Lightfoot with Sundown. Immortal ballad, eh? Lana del Rey with Born to Die . Born a New Yorker, she was raised in Lake P...

Just another day in al-Fwance... Fifty 'devout' muslims riot and affront police officers, wounding one,  at the 'Grande Mosqu...

"... They bring tens of millions of 7th-century Muslim immigrants to 21st-century Europe and then clamp down on Europe for resisting t...

Lou Reed's Perfect Day . Reed wrote it in 1972 and it appeared on his Transformer album, released in November of the same yea...

Over at Fox News, The Five's host Greg Gutfeld nails it in this video where he slams the latest Tinseltown craze of a Robin Hood Tax . ...

Over at National Review Online, Kathryn Jean Lopez interviews John R. Lott Jr , co-author (with, admitted, Grover Norquist) of the book De...

Currently the 2012 UEFA European Football Championship, the 14th edition already of the European Championship for national football teams or...

The B-52's with Roam . From the 1990 album Cosmic Thing , which, if memory serves, came after a long pause following the famous yel...