Aug 24, 2010 The Ground Zero imam sends mixed messages. By JAMES TARANTO So what are we to make of Faisal Abdul Rauf, the imam whose plans to build a fancy mosque near Ground Zero have caused such a frenzy? Even backers of his plan disagree sharply. Left-wing sociologist Todd Gitlin, writing on The New [...]

David Harsanyi Gridlock: Our Greatest Hope Aug 25, 2010 Get ready for the most productive and decent political condition known to man: sweet gridlock. You get nothing. And after what you’ve been through these past few years, you deserve it. Hey, things are tough. A new Rasmussen poll says 48 percent of voters regard President [...]

By Jonah Goldberg (Archive) · Wednesday, August 25, 2010 Here’s a thought: The 70 percent of Americans who oppose what amounts to an Islamic Niketown two blocks from ground zero are the real victims of a climate of hate, and the much-ballyhooed anti-Muslim backlash is mostly a myth. Let’s start with some data. According to [...]

By Michael Gerson (Archive) · Wednesday, August 25, 2010 WASHINGTON — So the “summer of recovery” swelters on, with Democrats sun-blistered, pestered by bottle flies, sand in their swimsuits, water in their ears. Jobless claims increase, Republicans lead the generic congressional ballot and George W. Bush is six points more popular than President Obama in [...]

Aug 25, 2010 By Ed Lasky The tangled web woven by George Soros served as a safety net for Barack Obama when he needed rescue from the exposure of Jeremiah Wright as an America-hating radical. Pastor Jim Wallis lied about receiving money from George Soros’s Open Society Institute. His organization, Sojourners, is a leftist “social justice” [...]

Posted 08/24/2010 06:36 PM ET Media Bias: The campaign to label anyone who opposes the Ground Zero mosque as racist and Islamophobic is in full flight. Of course, this allows the media to avert their gaze from what’s really important. Last week, MSNBC’s Norah O’Donnell said opponents of a mosque going up just north of [...]

Posted 08/24/2010 06:27 PM ET Bioethics: A federal judge rules that the administration violated congressional intent when it lifted restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. No, this will not usher in a new dark age. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth was striking enough. Lamberth said that when President Obama [...]

Aug 24, 2010 AFGHANISTAN STORIES:   DVIDS   S. Carolina Guardsmen Participate in Joint Air Assault Mission Photos by Capt. Chris Neeley     MEHTAR LAM – S. Carolina Guardsmen serving in Laghman prov. gather for a team photo, before participating in a joint night-time air assault mission with Soldiers from the ANA and France, Aug. [...]

Health care law’s deficit-fighting powers prove imaginary By THE WASHINGTON TIMES 5:46 p.m., Tuesday, August 24, 2010 Once upon a time, the president of the United States promised his new government-run health care entitlement would bring wonderful new benefits to the people without costing a penny. In fact, it would save money, claimed President Obama [...]

Tehran’s drone chief gets his 72 virgins By THE WASHINGTON TIMES 5:46 p.m., Tuesday, August 24, 2010 Two milestones last weekend marked Iran‘s emergence as a regional hegemon. On Saturday, Russian technicians began loading fuel rods into the nuclear reactor at Bushehr, and on Sunday, Iran unveiled an unmanned long-range drone aircraft dubbed the “Ambassador [...]