We all heard that number last week showing an overwhelming number of Americans opposed the Cordoba House project. What got much less attention was that fact that a large majority also believed the promoters right to build it. Another poll out today of New York State voters shows the same thing.

Late Update: As TPM Reader CR notes: “I suppose the American people are now walking back their opposition to the Coat Factory Mosque.”

Spencer Ackerman interviews Gen. David Petraeus on his withdrawal plan for Afghanistan.

Muslim Republicans take stock in the wake of full-court GOP press against a Muslim community center in Lower Manhattan.

Jon Stewart to Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX): “This is America, Louie. They got terror babies? Well guess what we got, m*****f*****? Hero babies!” Watch.

You know you’ve hit a special moment when Pat Buchanan has to tell Newt Gingrich he’s gone too far pushing racism and xenophobia.

The Blago verdict story looks different today than it did last night. It turns out 11 of the jurors were ready to convict on the key charges.

The pols from Alaska, Nevada, Georgia and virtually everywhere else who won’t stand for a Muslim community center being built in Lower Manhattan.

A bit more hedging than I’d like. But credit to Kathleen Parker for standing up with a moral or more than that a constitutional stance on the mosque controversy that honors American civic values.

Former President Bush offers ‘no comment’ on Cordoba House/mosque controversy.

Rand Paul has a new position on the Cordoba House Project: as a libertarian and believer in private property rights he believes it should be left to local authorities to decide. But he doesn’t believe it should be built. Says the campaign: “In Dr. Paul’s opinion, the Muslim community would better serve the healing process by making a donation to the memorial fund for the victims of September 11th.”