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Ultravox with Vienna . Ultravox was the fifth or, if memory serves, the sixth project frontman Midge Ure was involved in, and Vienna, ...

Alas, nothing new under the sun and stories like this will keep and keep and keep emerging.... until sufficient people have sufficient balls...

A video I highly recommend: So XCOR , a young and dynamic aerospace company, currently developing the Lynx, a small suborbital mini-shu...

Jean-Michel Jarre with the album Oxygène . Early eighties electronic music. You may or may not recognize the tune beginning at 18:54. ...

Germany's islamization my seem less spectacular than France's or Sweden's, but is just as relentless: Number of Christian h...

This is how De Standaard reported on the heavy rioting that held Amiens, France in its grip on Monday and Tuesday: "On Monday even...

Hello there. John Hiatt comes first, with Perfectly Good Guitar . From the 1993 album with the same name. Guy's from Indianapolis a...

A highly biased article against our buddies at Gates of Vienna has appeared on Wikipedia. Yours truly added some content. Here it is: ...

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 ...