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You may have heard about the six PEN ( Poets, Essayists and Novelists ) members declining to attend a gala where the yearly PEN Award for Fr...

Via HLN Online , On Thursday April 30, the Chairman of the Belgian Parliament's Lower House [the "Kamer"; MFBB] asked MP...

On May 2nd, 2011, my father died. His passing left a yawning gap in our family that cannot be filled anymore. God bless. MFBB.

As per usual with Bill Whittle , a rebuttal of "progressivism" that's as eloquent as it is true: MFBB.

Townhall's Derek Hunter on the death of Freddie Gray : "... A who’s who of Maryland Democratic Party politics turned out for the...

An account that is so sobering you don't even smirk or laugh anymore, even though it's from Mark Steyn's desk: "... In r...

Chilling article, actually, by Guy Benson over at Townhall: "The coercive Left's End of Discussion mob is emboldened and on the...

The Belgian Air Force released several videos documenting the strikes: Via the Belgian Armed Forces site : "To date, the Belgia...

Coldplay with Square One . From the 2005 album X&Y . Ten years ago already. Frikkin' unbelievable. Heart with Barracuda. ...

A chilling video, courtesy our friends at Gates of Vienna: Of course, that was "only" the main event. Decades before 1915, ...

From the I want to emigrate to the Ross Ice Shelf Department: A screenshot from Het Laatste Nieuws Online, Monday, April 20,2015. Chir...

Actually, that day was Sunday, April 12, but posting our England pics came first. Well, Spring has definitely arrived, and as per usual I an...

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...