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Boz Scaggs with Lido Shuffle . From the 1976 album Silk Degrees . Talk Talk with Have you heard the news? One of their very b...

In a relatively extensive library - if I may say so (for my age) - until recently only one book on the American Civil War could be found, a ...

Steve Miller. Rock'n me . Heavily underrated band. Formed in Frisco in 1967. STILL AROUND and performing. Foster the people wit...

Paris. 2012. Meanwhile the new French socialist government under François Hollande is busy with far more pressing matters than that F...

The Box Tops with The Letter . A sixties Memphis rock band who had a major international hit with this song. The singer, Alex Chilton, ...

Its ambassador to Libya and three of his staff brutally murdered, its flags burned everywhere in the islamic world, the nation humiliated......

Bill Whittle on the single most despising pictures of the week: And on Sean Hannity, Mark Steyn nails it when he says that if the US am...

No, this is not a flying pig moment. It's not a broken clock moment either. Then what is it? Maybe, just maybe, a minuscule amount o...

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. ...