History

Smithsonian: Washington British Loyalist

Smithsonian Propaganda Piece Implies George Washington, Paul Revere Pro-British During Revolutionary War. A recent Smithsonian magazine article features a whitewash of Scottish Rite history that would be laughable if it wasn’t so misleading and obscene. The article fails to note that freemasons can splinter into opposing and warring factions and sometimes do, and that the Revolutionary War was one such example. In the Revolutionary War, French masons who were already at war with England made alliances with Washington. […]

Gratuitous Impiety

True or False?

A syndicated journalist’s first encounter in an AOL chat room leads to an unexpected and sobering trip to Humilityville

by Evil Wombat, demon marsupial and guardian of children’s library (in hell). […]

Books

Mark Twain on Politics and Immigration, 1872

"They are a kindly disposed, well-meaning race, and are respected and well treated by the upper classes, all over the Pacific coast. No Californian gentleman or lady ever abuses or oppresses a Chinaman, under any circumstances, an explanation that seems to be much needed in the East. Only the scum of the population do it–they and their children; they, and, naturally and consistently, the policemen and politicians, likewise, for these are the dust-licking pimps and slaves of the scum, there as well as elsewhere in America." […]

Entertainment

Prison Break’s Funniest Moment

This should have been tragic but wasn't. In fact, it was funny, and it got funnier inasmuch as the scene called for pathos. The character was so one-dimensional, her actions so predictably stupid and incongruous with a gifted defense lawyer, it was more like watching Wile E. Coyote getting shot in the face with his own cannon after laying a trap for the Road Runner. […]

Entertainment

Bat Fight with Will Ferrell

Bat fight. With a baseball bat. It’s a game of honor and diplomacy…. This and a few other “Funny or Die” video gems from the inimitable Will Ferrell, including “Green Team”, “Will Ferrell Answers Internet Questions”, and the unedited version of “Boats and Hoes” from the film “Stepbrothers”. When using the embedded player, use bottom orange play button to view.
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JAG

Joe Maguire’s Vivisection of Ann Coulter

Ann told host Bill Maher that women “should be armed but should not vote. No, they all have to give up their vote…the problem with women voting- and your communists will back me up on this- is that, you know, women have no capacity to understand how money is earned. They have a lot of ideas on how to spend it. And when they take these polls, it’s always more money on education, more money on child care, more money on day care.” […]

Censorship

The Scottish Rite’s KKK Project

In his newspaper, The Memphis Daily Appeal for April 16, 1868, publisher Albert Pike (33rd Degree Scottish Rite Sovereign Grand Commander) wrote: “…. We would unite every white man in the South, who is opposed to negro suffrage, into one great Order of Southern Brotherhood, with an organization complete, active, vigorous, in which a few should execute the concentrated will of all, and whose very existence should be concealed from all but its members.” […]

Censorship

Anti-Masonic Party- September 11, 1830

“The lion’s grip of the order was upon our courts, and loyalty to that, displaced fealty to the state. If freemasonry ought to be abolished, it should certainly be so abolished as to prevent its restoration. No means of doing this can be conceived so competent as those furnished by the ballot boxes. These means are commended to our adoption, by the most urgent considerations, by their mildness, their safety, their sufficiency, and the tested insufficiency of all others.” […]