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First Richard Wagner's ouverture of Tannhauser , his opera in three acts centered around the historical personage of Tannhauser , a medi...

The disastrous news of the Romney/Ryan defeat was only one reason, though probably the main reason, of my light blogging over the past week...

Brandon Flowers with Only the Young . Oasis with Champagne Supernova . Goedenacht. MFBB.

Over at American Thinker , Stella Paul is apparently convinced that the Obama Nightmare is almost over: "If you're reading this,...

Donna Summer with Lady of the night . The The with The Beat(en) Generation . From the album Mind Bomb . Singer's Matt Johnson....

Via our buddies at Gates of Vienna , Part 8 in Takuan Seiyo's magnificent series The Bee and the Lamb. Bombshell prose. “When Obama i...

Peter Gabriel first, with Games without frontiers . From his third solo album, Peter Gabriel (1980). Gabriel was always some kind of a...

A while back we had us this sometimes annoying, sometimes funny lefty commenter here, who posted under the genial moniker anon. anon dismi...

In the previous post I mentioned that the new confederalist party, the N-VA (new Flemish Alliance), something like a Vlaams Belang Lite, and...

Our good friend CDR Salamander mailed me the day before yesterday with the following question: 'Did you vote twice or something?' ...

First Cheap Trick with Surrender . Rockband from Rockford, Illinois. Have been around nonstop since 73. Surrender, their first hit in t...

Mark Steyn in the Orange County Register on the appalling whitewashing by the Obama campaign of the US government's handling of the Lib...

In Belgium, that is. OK, first the news THAT WE GET . De Stavda, erm, De Standaard, premium - cough - Belgian newspaper, thinks we ought...

From the 'I have seen that movie about a million times' Department. Wannabe Town Select(wo)man Meyrem Almaci , of Turkish origin, HA...

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......