While interning for us last year, Eric Nusbaum wrote an incredibly moving essay for his sports blog Pitchers and Poets that has now been selected for inclusion in the anthology The Best American Sports Writing 2010. Great work, Eric!
TPM Reader EA notes how the kind of boffo over-the-top ‘branding’ games that are the norm in 30 second attack ads can be rather more pernicious when applied to religious hate speech …
It seems like enough damage has been done with the misnomer “Ground Zero Mosque,” but Palin’s tweet that the mosque is just two blocks away from “9/11” is similar to the crawl headline I saw in the Trentonian over the weekend visiting my Grandmother in the Philly burbs. It said, “Obama supports 9/11 mosque.” (I wonder where this construction originated and how widespread it has become relative to others)
Where do major national Christian denominations stand on the Cordoba House project? Our Brian Beutler reports.
