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Throwing Muses with Bright Yellow Gun . AFAIK only hit on their 1993 album University . Alternative rockband from Newport, Rhode Islan...

From The New York Slimes ' prime economics editor, Paul Krugman , Nov. 9, 2016: "It really does now look like President Don...

DowneastBlog wishes its readers in the US and Canada a Happy Thanksgiving!!! Also, think of the service members out there. It might be tha...

The video starts with some thoughts by a Thierry Ardisson , who I assume is a virtual unknown outside France but who in his own country seem...

To paraphrase our buddy CDR Salamander, General Flynn goes Outlaw Mike - even though I read somewhere he's a registered Democrat. I...

Roxy Music with More than this . Album Avalon (1982). Perhaps the most influential European band of the seventies. Prefab Sprout w...

A sobering video, courtesy Gates of Vienna: President-elect Trump should forge ahead with plans to block immigration from muslim count...

For what it's worth, this humble blog's small tribute to Leonard Cohen . First Suzanne . From the 1967 album Songs of Leonard Cohen...

Today, Remembrance Day, I have chosen to pay tribute to three US soldiers who were ambushed in Iraq more than ten years ago . One was killed...

This is sooooooo yesterday: a screenshot from Het Laatste Nieuws Online , November 8: "FROM A MATHEMATICAL POV, A TRUMP WIN IS NIGH ...

Trump was not my 1st choice to be the GOP nominee. Nor was he my 17th. He was my fourth choice. And I spoke out in support of him on J...

A very interesting - and frightening - issue in Germany, via PI News: "Islam U-Boat and Integration Officer Aydan Özoguz (SPD, sm...

Creedence Clearwater Revival with Proud Mary . Album Bayou Country (1969). The good old times, huh? Short-lived (1967-1972) Southern ...

Via Breitbart , Saturday, NOV 5: The union representing the US's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, issues a stark w...

Photobucket has been down all day which is why there's no pics showing on this here humble blog. Since I am convinced a story tells it...

Over at The Gatestone Institute , Giulio Meotti continues to chronicle the demise of Christianity in Europe, and especially in France: ...

I consider Putin an ice-cold murderer. So when I have to agree with Putin, things must be pretty bad. And they are. First, let me brin...

Via the BAF website , this interesting video about the operations of our F-16's from a Jordanian AFB. It dates from 30 september: ...

Via CNBC no less: "Peter Thiel: 'WHAT TRUMP REPRESENTS ISN'T CRAZY AND IT'S NOT GOING AWAY' Speaking at the Natio...

Via Breitbart , October 31, 2016: “The Clintons, that’s a crime family, basically,” Kallstrom said. “It’s like organized crime. I mean...