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Johan Sebastian Bach wrote a number of harpsichord concertos prosaically labeled BWV 1052 to 1065 [BWV means Bach Werke Verzeichnis , or Bac...

In response to the statements by the so-called President of the Unites States, Hillary Clinton, Ban Ki-Moon, General Dempsey and the entire ...

Should relatives of John and Sylvia ever visit this page - well, I do not know if they are or were religious. I would like to ask them ...

Marvellous piece - as per usual - by Mark Steyn on the DNC and one of its guest speakers, Sandra Flake. From the Orange County Register: ...

Ellen Foley. What's a matter baby. From her debut album Nightout (1979). New Fast Automatic Daffodils with Stockholm . F...

Yes, they have sunk so low. This is a screenshot from the blog Politically Incorrect: From the blog idea.de: "[The region of...

Nuff said. If not sufficient Americans are found in November to cast this creature of smoke and mirrors back into the abyss from whic...

Salafism in Germany is steeply on the rise. In early January, when we returned from Poland, I learned in the newspapers there that salafist ...

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...