Pam Geller, the chief instigator behind the ginned-up “Ground Zero Mosque” controversy, tells TPM that in fact it’s mosque supporters “ginning up their fringe element” that led to the knife attack last week on that Muslim NYC cab driver.

A proud moment in journalism when Fox News host Chris Wallace interviewed Fox News host Glenn Beck …

Host Chris Wallace also told Beck that “in the 40 years that I’ve been in this business, I have to say I’ve never seen anyone quite like you. You’re not a newsman. You’re not a preacher. You’re not a politician.”

“I’m a dad, I’m a concerned citizen,” Beck replied.

You’ve heard a lot about the budget and deficits commission which is currently devising a plan to get the federal budget in order and may propose various cuts to Social Security and other programs. So who’s on the commission? Our Brian Beutler gives you the details of just who the commissioners are, what their backgrounds are and what you can expect from them.

Dick Cheney’s right hand man and the mastermind behind most of his key War on Terror legal theories takes senior position at the Heritage Foundation.

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf told Abu Dhabi’s The National newspaper today that the conflict over the mosque/cultural center project controversy was “not between Muslims and non-Muslims, but between moderates of all the faith traditions and the radicals of all the faith traditions.”

Alaska Libertarians tell Lisa Murkoswki to forget about running on their ticket this fall to hold on to her Senate seat.

State Department contractor indicted for leaking info to Fox News.

ATF “leaning toward arson” as the cause of the fire at the mosque construction site Saturday in Murfreesboro.

A short while ago I asked for your advice on the best book about the 9/11 attacks. Not just any book on the topic, but the best narrative history of the attacks and what led up to them — and one as free as is possible on such a highly contentious issue of political agenda or axe to grind. The overwhelming choice of our readers was Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower. I’ve read it now and I can say it definitely lived up to the billing. It’s quite, quite good, though written in a spare, restrained style. It had only occasional moments of sentimentality, which must be a constant temptation on such a topic. Read More

If you’re feeling glum about our current paroxysm of Islamaphobia, you can take some comfort in knowing that at least our central bankers aren’t writing anti-immigrant and anti-Semitic books like Bundesbank’s Thilo Sarrazin is.