"When the base for the Washington Monument was laid, Masons held a grand ceremony during which they sealed items pertaining to Masonry, which are still there. Traditional obelisks are made from single pieces of stone and can be found at many old cemeteries across the United States. Graves marked with obelisks are typically Freemasons."

Will was repudiated by his own newspaper’s newsroom, whose reporters, Juliet Eilperin and Mary Beth Sheridan, noted satellite data showing that the average multiyear wintertime sea ice cover in the Arctic in 2005 had declined, which “contradicts data cited in widely circulated reports by Washington Post columnist George F. Will that sea ice in the Arctic has not significantly declined since 1979.” So too did Andrew Freeman, at the Post’s weather blog ...

Conservative columnist George Will went after former Vice President Dick Cheney on Sunday, saying the Bush administration could have used some "dithering" before they invaded Iraq."A bit of dithering might have been in order before we went into Iraq in pursuit of non-existent weapons of mass destruction," Will said on ABC's "This Week. "For a representative of the Bush administration to accuse someone of taking too much time is missing the point. We have much more to fear in this town from hasty than from slow government action." WOW!!! a neocon with a heart? Could it be he's not the tin man?

Blair has caused the world quite a lot of damage with his piety and self-righteousness and moral cowardice. President of the EU? He hasn’t earned it, and he doesn’t deserve it. And Europe can do better.

You wouldn't really go out of your way to "discourage" something that wasn't real, would you?

9-11 should not be a political statement for anyone. It should be a sad day of remembrence that many people died because of hatred and incompetence. However, since the very day it occured it has constantly been used as a hammer to pound the agenda of a miguided bunch people with an unenlightened vision of the world down everyone else's throat.

"It really doesn't matter in the end. George Will was for these wars before he was against them before he was for them, and now he's against them again. His eloquent voice could have been a big help eight years ago if it had been used to stop the calamitous course of these wars instead of championing them and the president who created them. On paper, the ranks of anti-war activists have swelled by one, but with friends like this, who needs friends."

It seems almost trivial to accuse someone who launched an illegal war that has killed over a million people of torture. But if we are going to prosecute the lowest ranked torturers, it makes sense to look up the chain of command. There is no doubt that George W. Bush conspired to commit torture, cruel and inhuman treatment, and murder. How do I know? He said so.

Mitch McConnell Video: "We Need to be concerned that the very wealthy and the very poor. The most and least educated and a majority of minority voters have stopped paying attention to us." Senator George V. Voinovich hit the nail on the head when he said this: “We got too many Jim DeMints (R-S.C.) and Tom Coburns (R-Ok.). It’s the southerners. They get on TV and go 'errrr, errrrr.' People hear them and say, ‘These people, they’re southerners. The party’s being taken over by southerners. What they hell they got to do with Ohio?”

Today Americans learned what the total price of giving total control of our government to Republicans may be. While there is much self-righteousness and gnashing of teeth among Republicans now, the real unavoidable fact is it was Republican policies, enacted by Republicans during the six years of a Republican Congress with just enough Corporate Democrats and a Republican President that could and did do real, lasting damage.

Senator Mitch McConnell sir, when you say we have the finest Health Care system in the world I have to wonder who the we are. Are you pregnant or do you have a mouse in your pocket? Or could the we be you and Elaine. After all sir you and Elaine do have very good Health Care plans, paid for by folks like me. Senator Mitch McConnell sir, are the health Care expenditures for you, Elaine, your senator friends, their spouses and children Revenue Neutral, or Deficit Neutral, or is Revenue Neutral, or Deficit Neutral something that applies only to folks like us that are funding your socially subsidized health care plan? Senator Mitch McConnell sir, I realize this is a touchy subject, but do you have Alzheimer's or have you forgot all of the Non Revenue Neutral, or Non Deficit Neutral spending you supported while your pal George Bush Was President?

The role of government is create wealth for government officials and their corporate sponsors. The government achieves this by acting as a broker who transfers public funds into private hands through the rigging of contracts and through creating opportunities of investment such as wars. In addition, all risk and responsibility is shifted from corporate donors and friends to the public. It is really a beautiful system, is it not?

"I have been thinking this week about how we, as people who love justice and love peace, respond to injustice, violence, and tragedy. On Monday, I walked to the clinic where I volunteer, carrying a thank you gift to the people who work there, and I pictured the faces of those I see weekly, with whom I laugh and gossip, and I thought: violence could strike anyone of them. For the first time since I heard of Dr. Tiller’s murder, my anger turned to fear, and I began to cry as I walked..." Zola Jones is offering you some wonderful excerpts and links here...

Those trying to make torture into a partisan issue should look to the founding father of our country: George Washington. Washington was president before political parties even existed. As Scott Horton wrote in 2007: “Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any [prisoner]. . . I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring him to such severe and exemplary punishment as the enormity of the crime may require. Should it extend to death itself, it will not be disproportional to its guilt at such a time and in such a cause… for by such conduct they bring shame, disgrace and ruin to themselves and their country.” - George Washington, charge to the Northern Expeditionary Force, Sept. 14, 1775...

When, like me, you live in Wichita, Kansas, you're "privileged" to see more than your fair share of antiabortion hatred. That's not a slam on Wichita. The people who hated George Tiller didn't hate him for his personal characteristics. They hated him for what he did for a living — for his willingness to provide women with a medical procedure guaranteed to them under the United States Constitution. And they — the haters — were determined to stop that at any cost.

Here’s the wager: the murderer will turn out to be a right-wing Christian terrorist. I’ll also offer a side bet: his media consumption includes the like of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Michael Savage, Bill O’Reilly and/or Glenn Beck.

As an introduction to his interview with Elizabeth de la Vega, in Intrepid Liberal Journal, Robert Ellman explains why she opposes a appointing a special prosecutor to make the case against George W. Bush, "Former federal prosecutor Elizabeth de la Vega has recently made news urging that we don't rush into appointing a special prosecutor to investigate crimes of torture during George W. Bush's presidency. ... Overall, Ms. de la Vega contends that appointing a special prosecutor now would undermine the cause of truth and accountability. It is her contention that transparent and public hearings would facilitate more popular support for prosecuting wrong doers than currently exists." An audio of the interview is included with the post.

Conservative commentator George Will said this morning: "I think there's a radical sense of dislocation. They like we have adopted an economic model of Lemon Socialism, transferring wealth from the successful to the unsuccessful." In essence, he's saying that anyone making under $250k is "unsuccessful".

Cardinal George of Chicago has a soft spot for pedophile priests – and is not embarrassed by letting them stay in his mansion or on the job, but he is, in brazen hypocrisy, embarrassed that the President of the United States will be the Notre Dame commencement speaker. Now that’s the kind of thing that not only gives religious self-righteousness a bad name, it is a frightening disregard for the impact of priests who sexually abuse children. Is BuzzFlash exaggerating? Hardly not.

During these recessionary times when the rich are keeping their lavish life-styles under wraps, a divorce battle playing out in Connecticut has America agog. Even President Barack Obama's first overseas trip to meet world leaders has been overshadowed by the frenzied headlines over Douglas-David V David -- dubbed by the tabloids as the 'divorce of the century'. Marie Douglas-David, a leggy blonde countess from Sweden, and former investment banker, says she cannot possibly live on the roughly $38 million dollars her estranged husband has offered her as part of a divorce settlement. The countess says she is due at least $100m, plus $130,000 a month in alimony, from her former spouse, George David, the former CEO of United Technologies. The 66-year-old executive is worth an estimated $329m.