The New York Times (among others) is reporting that a federal grand jury will soon hand down an indictment of baseball great Roger Clemens for lying to Congress during his 2008 testimony to the House Oversight Committee regarding steroids in baseball. The announcement could come later this afternoon.
Wow, pro-‘N-Word’ advocacy not helping with black voters. Always hard to figure how these things will play.
Franken says anti-mosque furor is “one of the most disgraceful things that I’ve heard.”
Top Muslim donor says she may bolt GOP over anti-mosque hysteria.
Those who oppose the drive to block the Cordoba House project in lower Manhattan have mainly focused on the 1st Amendment and American pluralism in their public statements. And that is, in many ways, as it should be because those arguments go to the core of who we are as Americans. What’s gotten far less comment is an at least as potent pragmatic or perhaps better to say strategic argument. Quite simply, the furor of opposition to the Cordoba House project and the spasm of Islamophobia is the best recruiting tool that bin Laden and his imitators could possibly hope for. As Ali Soufan, a near legendary FBI counter-terrorism interrogator has just written in Forbes, in the wake of the anti-Mosque furor, bin Laden’s “next video script has just written itself.” Read More
Jon Stewart does his Glenn Beck impression to explain the very tricky financial connection between Fox News and the Republican Party: “It’s a straight line. Just a straight line. Comes from Fox News goes straight to Republicans.” Watch.
Just in time for football season, an Alabama candidate photoshops herself into a picture of Tide football coach Nick Saban and his wife — substituting herself for Saban’s wife and claiming the coach’s endorsement. He had not endorsed her. Or married her either for that matter.
As we’ve seen from a number of polls, clear majorities of Americans appear to believe that the Cordoba Initiative organizers have the right to build their community center in Lower Manhattan. But substantial majorities don’t support their plan to do so. With this in mind I’d been wondering (and even half considered commissioning a poll, though our budgets really wouldn’t bear it) what answers to some other questions would be. Like, how many people think Muslims should be able to become American citizens? Or serve in Armed Forces? How many think they should be able to run for office?
These are uncomfortable questions both for what the questions and the answers might suggest. And how Time has asked at least some of them.
A couple revealing data points. Number of Americans who believe Muslims should be barred from sitting on the Supreme Court? 28%. Number of Americans who believe Muslims should be barred from serving as president? 32%. Read More