Muslim Americans begin to organize to push back against the current wave of Islamophobia.

A new lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act alleges that the health care reform law violates, among many others, the Third Amendment — which bans the quartering of soldiers.

Tony Blair offers Obama political advice on how to deal with professional left.

The New Yorker has some new details on the C Street house, “The Fellowship,” the secretive Christian group that owns and rents it to congressmen, and the second of the two interventions they did with Sen. John Ensign (R-NV) to try to get him to end his affair.

McCain-supporting, government-fearing Arizona Sheriff Paul Babeu is at it again, this time claiming that Mexican drug cartels are in control of portions of U.S. territory down near the border. But other law enforcement officials we talked to dismissed this idea.

One of them is Santa Cruz County Sheriff Tony Estrada, whose county is on the border (unlike Babeu’s). “They do not have control of any territory,” Estrada says. “I’ve seen just about everything. But what I’ve not seen is a beheading, and I’ve not seen the cartels controlling American territory.”

Estrada also told TPM that “there are a lot of things that are happening this election year” and that “a lot of the fear is going to die after November.”

In a quote attributed to Peter J. McGuire, the 19th century labor leader sometimes credited with founding Labor Day, he describes it — in a very 19th century way — as a day to honor those “who from rude nature have delved and carved all the grandeur we behold.”

In a Labor Day speech today in Milwaukee, President Obama will announce a proposal for a new $50 billion infrastructure program to try to juice the jobs market.

Arizona governor concedes she “misspoke” when falsely claiming that headless bodies were turning up in the Arizona desert due to illegal immigration.

Various highly convincing arguments for why the push to attack Iran’s nuclear installations is beyond insane.

Actually, the authors don’t really even dwell on what is perhaps the best argument against a military strike — that it would simply delay whatever the Iranians are trying to build for a few years. If we or the Israelis did it in 2011, we’d be back at the same spot by mid-decade if not sooner. With only a major regional war and a global economic crisis to show for it.

Robert Reich on the Great Jobs Depression and why it’s getting worse.