As we noted earlier, Michael Enright, the guy accused of the bias stabbing of a Muslim cabbie last worked/volunteered at a place called Intersections International, a group that describes itself as an interfaith group “dedicated to promoting peace and understanding.” Our Rachel Slajda just interviewed them for their reactions to Enright’s arrest.

It’s still sort of a mystery just what was going on in 21 year old Michael Enright’s head when he tried to slash the throat of Ahmed Sharif, a 43 year old cabbie from Queens. But a spokesperson for the Muslim Public Affairs Council says it’s a sign that the “hateful rhetoric” surrounding the mosque controversy has consequences.

Robert Reich checks in on the “Ground Zero Mosque” hysteria and what it means.

Eric Kleefeld has a good piece on the disarray Florida Republicans are in right now. Obviously, this has been building for some time, what with the former party chairman under indictment for basically looting party coffers, allegedly, and the Republican governor having abandoned the party before it abandoned him in the U.S. Senate race.

But what really stands out in the piece is the level of animosity between Rick Scott, who just won the party nomination for governor, and Bill McCollum, the state’s Republican attorney general whom he defeated. As you’ll remember, McCollum declined to concede the race on the night of the election Tuesday. Yesterday, he went ahead and conceded, but now he’s declining to endorse Scott. That in and of itself isn’t terribly unusual. Oftentimes, the losing candidate needs a little time to lick the wounds. Read More

A new poll out this morning of the Pennsylvania Senate race shows Rep. Joe Sestak (D) down 40-31 to former Rep. Pat Toomey (R). There’s been a fair bit of volatility in the poll numbers over the past couple of months, but if you look at the TPM Poll Average, you see a steady spread for Toomey, with Sestak not really making any headway over the summer: Read More

Daily Show correspondent Aasif Mandvi asks is 18,000 blocks away from Ground Zero too close for new mosque project in Tennessee?

Ahmed Sharif, the Muslim cabbie at the center of the apparent bias-attack slashing attack, speaks to local media in NYC. Watch the video.

Meet the tea partier who could throw a safe GOP Senate seat to the Dems.

Muslim cabbie slasher Michael Enright kept a diary of anti-Muslim writings. As we speculated yesterday, it seems his time in Afghanistan may have changed him.

One entry described Muslims as “killers, ungrateful for the help they were being offered, filthy murderers without a conscience.”

The Navy lost control of a drone helicopter over DC due to a ‘software issue’.