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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.”

Last we heard of Rick Lazio he was the stand-in for Rudy Giuliani who got shellacked by Hillary Clinton in the 2000 New York senate race. Now he’s running what appears to be a close to hopeless race for governor against Andrew Cuomo. So now he’s cracking out an anti-Mosque ad, complete with 9/11 attack imagery, dirge-like music and at least one suggestion that “certain organizations that were a part of the tragedy here on 9/11” are the ones funding the Cordoba House project.

Two Republican House candidates in Louisiana debate the myriad ways they would take a red pen to the Constitution.