RNC Chief Michael Steele tells Spanish language channel Univision that Arizona’s anti-immigration law doesn’t represent the GOP.

How does it play exactly if you’re running for senator and part of your platform is that people shouldn’t be able to vote for their senators. Colorado’s Ken Buck is trying to find out.

Bush insider Karen Hughes says she has no recollection of sending Imam Rauf on missions abroad to spread the good news about moderate Islam in the USA.

Rick Santorum says Imam Rauf, the man at the center of the mosque controversy, is a “jihadist”, just not a “violent jihadist”.

Colbert: I take Sen. McConnell “at his word” when he says he’s not a human-turtle hybrid. Watch.

For your reading pleasure, we’ve posted the official complaint on our favorite 20-something international arms dealer. Like he says, “Once a gun runner, always a gun runner.”

The Daily Show debates: Is Fox News evil or stupid? Watch.

The initial round of reactions to yesterday’s stem cell ruling is in, and it does appear that the decision represents a potentially seismic shift in the legal and political terrain for federal funding of embryonic stem cell research — and just in time for the election. In fact, the ruling may very well make things more restrictive than they were under President George W. Bush. Christina Bellantoni reports.

We rundown the list of pluralistic, tolerant, Constitution-respecting national Democrats who have forcefully defended the fundamental right to build a Muslim community center in Lower Manhattan.

He’s back! Efraim E. Diveroli, the Miami dude/arms dealer we covered extensively at Muckraker when he was busted for supplying outdated Eastern European munitions to the U.S. government, has been arrested again on new federal firearms charges, the New York Times reports. He’s not even been sentenced yet for his first conviction, but told an undercover agent a couple of weeks ago, “Once a gun runner, always a gun runner.”