In a brilliant speech earlier this month before the National Conference on Media Reform, broadcaster and former newspaper editor Bill Moyers warned that American media conglomerates may find common cause "with an imperial state."

"There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. There is also an artificial aristocracy, founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents." - Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States, 1801
Perle said, "He (Bush) doesn't know very much." Indeed.
Preeminent Harvard psychologist, Lawrence Kohlberg sums up human moral development in five categories. The least of these is not surprisingly Stage Zero. Kohlberg writes, "Stage Zero: Egocentric judgment. The child makes judgments of good on the basis of what he likes and wants or what helps him, and bad on the basis of what he does not like or what hurts him. He has no concept of rules or of obligations to obey or conform to independent of his wish."

Jeb Bush sealed his popularity with the Cuban exile community by acting as campaign manager for another prominent Cuban-American, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, when she ran successfully for Congress.
George Bush Sr famously appeared with her during her campaign in Miami declaring: "I am certain in my heart I will be the first American president to step foot on the soil of a free and independent Cuba."

Huey Long was reported as saying that fascism could come in the United States, but it ''will have to be called anti-Fascism' and the current militarism has be disguised as a drive to protect freedom

The historical corollary to JFK's front-to-back motion is the collapse of WTC Building 7, which was not struck by an aircraft at all, and yet it collapsed faster than gravity would permit---and perfectly within its own footprint.

I don’t know what’s worse about Neocon hypocrisy – that it’s off-the-charts or that it’s so transparent and obvious.
These aren’t just the actions of the worst of raging hypocrites, but of haters, cowards, and traitors.

The message now is that rock stars who spend their time with sleazy and obsequious groupies are healthy, while the celebrities whose lives revolve around innocent children are sick.

But, more to the point, virtually everything that has gone wrong in Iraq—especially those matters that Congress is either investigating or is poised to investigate—is linked directly to his office. "All roads lead to Feith," noted one knowledgeable administration official this week.

In Friedman’s column he points out that Colin Powell, who was supposed to receive a prestigious award in London, did not come to the ceremony because of security fears even though Prince Charles attended the same affair with only one bodyguard.

“Anxiety is a fear of something that doesn’t exist in the Now. Since Now is all there is…everything else is simply an illusion”