State Department issues global travel warning based on Koran-burning church ruckus.

MSNBC is reporting that the FBI is paying a visit to the church of the Florida Koran-burning pastor.

Earlier CNN reported that its crew on the scene had seen what looked like government agents, in suits, go into and then leave the church. But CNN at that time was not able to confirm the identity of the visitors or their affiliation.

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Who could have predicted that an orchestrated campaign anti-Muslim hate speech on the part of many of the country’s most prominent politicians and the country’s biggest news network could have led to this unfortunate situation in Florida?

Interpol has issued a global terror alert warning of an increased risk of terror attacks if the Koran burning in Florida goes ahead as planned.

This whole situation is obviously devolving, pretty rapidly, in a really bad direction. I can see many people of good will thinking, “Wait, if we don’t upend and own constitution and prevent this idiot from burning Korans, we’re going to be attacked by terrorists?” And it’s not an unreasonable sentiment. But then you fall back and think, how’d we get here exactly? Read More

Another reason to look forward to the 2012 presidential primaries. John Bolton is telling people he’s gonna run.

Sources tell our Brian Beutler that the White House’s budget/deficit commission is now gunning for Medicare too.

Jon Stewart, on Koran burners: “Who’s funding these radical Christian clerics?” Watch.

It’s not a problem I can think of from any past campaign I’ve covered or observed. But it’s starting to be clear that Connecticut GOP Senate candidate Linda McMahon has a real dead wrestler problem. Not only are there on-going concerns and accusations that many pro wrestlers have died prematurely because of a mix of hard living, management-indulged steroid abuse and frequent injuries. But a growing number have actually died prematurely just during this campaign (three in the last twelve months). And it’s starting to become a real problem dogging her campaign, generating a litany of bad headlines and tragic storylines in the press. Read our story here.

Presuambly it’s a real problem for the bereaved families, the widows and the orphans too. But that goes without saying.

Christina Bellantoni points out that whomever Delaware elects as its next senator in November will be seated immediately, not in January 2011, because current Sen. Ted Kaufman was appointed by the governor to fill the seat Joe Biden held. A little wrinkle to keep in mind during the final, lame deck session of this Congress.

That’s the number of times President Obama mentioned House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) by name yesterday in his speech in Cleveland. Watch.