Cliff May asks common-sensical and thought-provoking questions. They’ll be ignored, of course. “Dear Mayor Bloomberg: A few questions you might want to ask before approving a mosque for Ground Zero,” by Cliff May, July 29: Your Honor: In regard to the proposal to build an Islamic center at the site…

While Judge Susan Bolton punctures Arizona’s immigration law, Gov. Brewer professes the people will prevail.

Paul Waldman over at the left-wing American Prospect noted a handy-dandy new chart from Pew Research and realized he was more of an extremist than he’d thought,

As a progressive, I tend to think the Republican Party is much more ideologically extreme than the Democratic Party. There are many reasons, some of which may be more [...]

Science fiction of today, or family planning of tomorrow?
Some of our greatest leaders have observed that we “cannot diminish the value of one category of human life ‘without’ diminishing the value of all human life,” a truth that is driven home in Danielle Friedman’s chilling new Daily Beast column, which explores the phenomenon of women [...]

If you think America is headed in the wrong direction, get involved.

Among the many thousands of horribly written and entirely unjust “diaries” that I have read on Daily Kos over the years, this one just has to be highlighted.  Someone who goes by the moniker “eztempo” published a piece attacking David Horowitz for the new Freedom Center ad that aired on Countdown with Keith Olbermann, yesterday.
In [...]

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich put the proposed giant mosque-community center complex, which is planned to be built right near Ground Zero, in the proper perspective. It is an illustration of sheer hypocrisy on the part of the leaders of this project and other Islamists who profess religious tolerance but expect it to run in [...]

Last night my friend Calvin Freiburger took issue with the rhetoric in my friend Jeanette Pryor’s provocatively titled post “It’s Time to Put the Coffee Down and Eradicate Islam in the West.”
Calvin cites the constitutional provisions of freedom of religion, cautions that we need to support Muslim reformers, and strategizes that it’s important that we [...]

Here are some of the things Daisy Khan, the wife of Ground Zero mega-mosque leader Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, says on this Washington Post video (thanks to Pamela Geller). She first mentions the fact that the Burlington Coat Factory building was hit by part of one of the hijacked…

The Supreme Court nominee’s damning record of support for Islamic law in the U.S.