CIA discovers the blogosphere: Big Brother is reading your diary

The CIA has discovered blogs, it seems. Watch what you write in your online diary. The Company's newly created Open Source Center has ...

Changing your beliefs about God and humanity

Here's a Fox News video about the crazy people from Westboro Baptist Church, about whom we've written a few times, including here a...

George Harrison: Conscious of God, fearless of death, and at peace

George Harrison wrote some of The Beatles ' most memorable songs, including If I Needed Someone , Taxman , While My Guitar Gently Weeps...

Sex sex sex sex sex sex sex

Somebody stop the planet, I want to get off! The Bush administration's Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez has proposed a mandatory rating...

Dan Brown's epic about Freemasonry, "The Solomon Key," delayed into 2007

Dan Brown's follow-up to the blockbuster novel The Da Vinci Code has been delayed into 2007, publishing house Doubleday said today. In ...

Other Masonic Blogs: Masonic Traveler, Free-Mason-Alert, John Ratcliff's blog

I have been caught up in other matters this week, and haven't posted in a few days. But my brother bloggers have been busy. Click on ove...

A new Masonic interpretation of Euclid's 47th Problem

A New Masonic Interpretation of Euclid's 47th Problem, by Bro. Jeff Peace The 47th Problem of Euclid has always been of great importance...

Free-Mason-Alert shines! There's new Starlight over Alabama

Worshipful Brother David Cooksey, the man behind the blog Free-Mason-Alert , today publicly announced his demit and disassociation from Sha...

War! What is it good for?

Yesterday, April 12, was the 145th anniversary of the Shot Heard Round the World, the opening volley at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, in the ...

Earthskills Rendezvous this weekend in northwest Georgia

For two decades, people from throughout North America (and other continents) have been drawn to the Southern Appalachian mountains twice ann...

First Knights Templar found in Israel

From the Daily Telegraph : London — The first bodies of the Knights Templar, the mysterious religious order at the heart of The Da Vinci Cod...

Old school Grand Masters warn against "clandestine" Grand Lodges

As our Alabama Brother at Free-Mason-Alert said yesterday, the 2006 Conference of Grand Masters which met in Febrary isn't real happy a...

GrouchoGandhi shines: Dan Brown as the Fisher King

GrouchoGandhi shines today in his most recent blogging , a wonderful rant against the insane Da Vinci Code lawsuit that Holy Bloody Grailer...

An Open Letter to Georgia's Grand Master, F. Ray Jackson

An Open Letter to F. Ray Jackson, Grand Master of Georgia, by Brother Jeff Peace Please tell the Masonic world how many more young Masons yo...

When is a Man a Mason?

Our Brother over at the Free-Mason-Alert blog has published several interesting articles lately, questioning the Grand Lodge of Alabama in p...

We could learn some things from children

Poking around the news websites today, I found two stories seemingingly unconnected that got my attention. The first was about how the publ...

Masonic morality: They lied on their knees

"They Lied on Their Knees" was originally a short talk given by the then-Grand Master of Masons in Pennsylvania, R.W. William A. C...

Be Seeing You: Ron Bonds (1952-2001)

I said my last "Be Seeing You" to one of my closest friends five years ago today. He passed away on April 8, 2001, at age 48, dyi...

The polls have closed

Thanks to everyone who participated in the Burning Taper's first poll . Of course, the vote was not scientific, and reflects only the op...

Baptists destroy "evil Masonic" memorial garden

This is old news, but like they say about television reruns, "it's new to you if you haven't seen it before." Four years a...

The old boy network meets the fearless generation

"The 'old-boy-network' won the battle and openness, transparency, and principled dissent lost." No, this isn't about h...