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Soft Cell with Tears Run Rings . Early eighties synthpop band around Marc Almond and Dave Ball. IIRC Soft Cell comes from a furry cocoon-lik...

As much as I loathe so many bigwig GOP figureheads who pledge adherence to real conservatism just before elections, then snub their constitu...

From the Stop The World, I want to get off it Department. VDare reports: News from the world’s most advanced multicultural dictatorship. ...

Foo Fighters with Big Me . From their 1996 debut album Foo Fighters . It had to happen one day. Iggy Pop with Lust for Life . Dates...

At first I thought this was a Flying Pig moment: The Guardian admitting sea ice around Antarctica being at a record high: "Sea ic...

As Christianity is now the most persecuted religion on the planet and Christian churches are disappearing at an alarming rate all over the m...

Too goddam tired to make this a decent post, but just enough so that you know that over the weekend, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan ...

Where would the Right be without Mark Steyn? Even being sick he manages to propel a hell of a column onto the web which puts to shame not on...

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...