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Henry Mancini with Nadia's Theme . The Righteous Brothers with Unchained Melody . Good night. MFBB.

Mark Steyn rips Garry Trudeau, creator of Doonesbury, a new one , and rightly so: ".... The Polk Award is named after a journalist s...

I suppose the following photos will make up for the less than prosaic title of this post. My wife and I being anglophiles, and her mom now h...

First the first movement of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake Suite , Opus 20. A ballet more exactly, in its broader meaning of ...

If you are totally, completely, criminally INSANE , that is! Hat tip The Political Commentator. MFBB.

On Good Friday, Bosnian soccer fans who were in Vienna, Austria's captial, for a match between Austria and Bosnia-Herzegovina, chanted “...

On Easter, Christians celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. In Belgium, there was the traditional High Mass in Saint Michael Cat...

The Sound with Unwritten Law . From the album Jeopardy (1980). I got to know the band via my good friend John D., and I actually bought the...

Via our pals at Gates of Vienna , check out Geert Wilders' speech in Vienna at the end of March. The introduction is by Heinz-Christian ...

No surprise there, Mark Steyn's take on the Memories Pizza affair is the best: "I woke up this Maundy Thursday to breaking news...

Great news from Small Britain, courtesy the Left and their Wonderful Multicultural Society. The Daily Mail reports: "A young mother...

Pixies with Where is my mind . From the 1988 album Surfer Rosa . Living Colour with Glamour Boys . From their 1988 debut album...

The shiite mosque of Al-Hashoush in the Al-Jaraf district of Sana'a, Yemen's capital, was blown up over the weekend, just as the fai...

If all goes well, it's gonna be the British Isles again for this year's summer holiday, more precisely one week Yorkshire Dales, and...

Sting with Fortress Around Your Heart . From the 1985 album The Dream of the Blue Turtles . Echo and the Bunnymen with The Killing ...

A fascinating case of Cultural Enrichment in Ghent Saturday afternoon. Het Nieuwsblad Online succinctly reports: "25 PEOPLE FIGHT...

The Stone Roses with I wanna be adored . From their 1989 album The Stone Roses . Madchester frontrunners around Ian Brown. Anya Mar...

An excellent Walter Williams contribution over at Townhall: "... GlobalChange.gov gives the definition of climate change: "Cha...

Via Theo Spark, Ben Shapiro's take on Serial Liar Hillary Clinton: Echoes of Jerry Zeifman, lifelong Democrat: What a gruesome w...

Nail on the head article by John Stossel over at Townhall: "Donald Trump's kids and Paris Hilton's siblings were born rich....