A very interesting article in the Post about the paucity of Muslim chaplains serving Virginia’s growing Muslim prison population.
Tom Tancredo has been a tea partier since way before tea partying was even cool. So why are the tea party legions in Colorado so put out with Tancredo now? It might have something to do with the fact that Tancredo urged tea party leaders to work within the Republican Party then turned around and entered the governor’s race as a third party candidate, dashing the general election hopes of the GOP nominee, the tea party friendly Dan Maes.
Florida holds its primaries tomorrow. Evan McMorris-Santoro has the latest state of play in the Democratic race for U.S. Senate and the Republican race for governor. Interestingly, the big-spending gazillionaires in each race looked ready to run away with the party nominations a month ago, but the polling has shifted pretty dramatically and it’s not clear that those personal fortunes are necessarily going to be enough to get it done.
Karen Hughes, top Bush administration official and chief of outreach to the world’s Muslims, says she opposes the Cordoba House project, but doesn’t mention she thought enough of the Imam at the center of the controversy, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, to send him abroad as a spokesman for moderate Islam in America.
It’s hard to look at these numbers for the congressional generic ballot and think anything but that the GOP is moving into a break out phase heading into November …
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Late Update: TPM Reader VF notes that some of this ‘break out’ may simply be that we’re now in the window of time before the election in which many pollsters are moving from ‘registered voters’ to ‘likely voters’, a screen that is much more likely to pick up the enthusiasm gap. So it’s probably true that at least some of the change is simply an artifact of the changeover in polling methodology, rather than a true trend. Having said that, that doesn’t make the picture any prettier for Democrats. It would just suggest that we’re only now getting a true picture of the spot they’re in.
Following up on the weekend’s discussion of books on the 9/11 attacks and why there seem to be so relatively few detailed and non-agenda-driven narrative histories of them, we heard from the author of one of the books that did get recommended: Terry McDermott, author of Perfect Soldiers. Here’s his take …
Regarding 9/11 books: I think the lack of books specifically about the event can be explained by one overwhelming fact: the reporting was damned near impossible. That is why the vast majority of the 1,000’s of books related to 9/11 are polemics of one kind or another.
It turns out the federally funded US Commission for International Religious Freedom is packed with people leading the fight against the Cordoba House project near Ground Zero.
Pics of Rod Blagojevich with Batman and punk-core porn models at a comics convention in Chicago over the weekend.
Rand Paul and Ron Paul come out on different sides of the Cordoba House/Mosque controversy. Quick hint: the one who calls the controversy “all about hate and Islamaphobia” isn’t the one running for Senate from Kentucky.