“Let’s stop pretending that this country is anything but tolerant of everybody. The problem is that this imam has intentionally chosen a location for his mosque, funded by God knows whom, that he knew and knows creates controversy and is a provocation.”

Mark then explained what Obama just did:

Go West 2010!

The latest pundit to lambaste Douthat [aka Ross doo-TOT] is hard-right radio talk show host Mark Levin, who not only slams the Times’ columnist’s recent article on The Right and Climate Change, but also makes some incendiary attacks on his character, talent and position. All this in a 166-word Facebook note entitled What is a Ross Douthat? His answer:

This is your typical pretender. He’s not a thinker. He’s not a scholar. He’s not accomplished. What, exactly, does he know about climate in specific or science generally? What has he studied on these subjects? He doesn’t tell us.

But Levin is only warming up … READ THE REST

The field of liberty must also be cleared of rocks before this years harvest can be reaped on November 2.

Among those individuals and organizations named as un-indicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation case were: Jamal Badawi (“Founding incorporator of the Muslim American Society“); Islamic Society of North America, aka ISNA; North American Islamic Trust, aka NAIT; Islamic Association for Palestine in North America, aka IAP; and Council on American Islamic Relations, aka CAIR.

The ISNA and IIIT funded and privately distributed Imam Rauf’s book, with his permission, to Islamic centers around the country:

Click here to view and download the two-page pdf

Read the rest at 9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America

Here’s the conversation Mark had with Debra Burlingame.

EDITED by MLF:

Was that FB post from this caller “Samantha” last Friday?

If we are going to say that when McCain is right, he can have a terrific impact, does even-handedness not demand an explanation of how, when McCain is wrong, he can have a terrifying impact? And I’m not just talking about immigration (on which he has done a risible, election-season turnabout — and would a post-election 180 surprise anyone?). No one other than President Obama is more responsible than McCain for the calamity that is our interrogation policy. The “maverick” senator demagogued the interrogations issue and pushed through his 2005 McCain Amendment, extending Fifth Amendment protections to detainees held outside the United States. This has given the Obama Justice Department legal cover for its policy of Mirandizing war prisoners. Similarly, McCain’s irresponsible torture rhetoric has given the Obama administration the political cover it needed to disclose classified information about interrogation tactics and to reopen criminal investigations of CIA interrogators. If you want to know why the intelligence community is now getting virtually no intelligence from interrogations, McCain is a big part of your answer.

No one should confuse being liberal with being libertarian.

So, NRO finally feels compelled to jump into a primary race and which do they choose? Arizona! This editorial is all wrong.

First, thanks to McCain’s attack on Bush when Bush was trying to institute permanent tax cuts, we will all be facing huge tax increases next year. To say McCain has opposed broad-based tax increases over the years is simply misleading. Moreover, he led the fight for amnesty, cap-and-trade, “patients’ bill of rights,” closing GITMO, the Gang of 14, and on and on. Now, just in time for his primary, he opposes increasing taxes, insists on securing the boarder before all else, opposes cap-and-trade, opposed Obamacare, is all but silent on GITMO, and the Gang of 14 left more appellate seats open for Obama to fill.

But when McCain is right he is really right, they say. What?

Meanwhile, McCain and his operatives have spent millions digging up dirt on Hayworth — not corruption, not unethical activity, but dirt that will show him to be a hypocrite. Now, this is funny. McCain is flipping and flopping all over the place, but we are to be moved by Hayworth’s appearance in that infomercial where he is pushing free federal grants. Until yesterday, McCain’s official website was informing visitors how to secure all kinds of government grants and contracts and loans. I posted it on this site. Now they’ve apparently hidden it somewhere on his website’s back pages. There have also been other commercials pointing out Hayworth supported all kinds of pork.

I have never had to spend summer after summer trying to rally listeners to defeat any of Hayworth’s bills or ideas. Three years ago McCain nearly succeeded in destroying our culture with this comprehensive immigration reform disaster. He nearly succeeded in destroying what’s left of our free enterprise system with cap-and-trade (his quote about the debate on global warming being over is in my book). McCain has spent more time defending the phony rights of al-Qaeda terrorists than John Kerry. And anyone who actually earns a living will find his taxes going up thanks, in part, to a deal Bush was forced to strike thanks to McCain’s opposition to a permanent tax rate reduction. And I’m supposed to get all worked up about Hayworth’s infomercial?

Meanwhile, where was NRO’s endorsement for Sharron Angle in Nevada’s GOP primary? How about Mike Lee in Utah? Chuck DeVore in California? Except in obvious cases, such as Florida and Pennsylvania, where is the Buckley activism for which he was known and which helped launch the conservative movement? Is this what it has become? Endorsing McCain of all people? Perhaps NRO endorsed others. Maybe I missed them. And I am certainly willing to be corrected.

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Oh yes, and then there’s McCain-Feingold, the greatest assault on free political speech since King George’s Red Coats controlled the place. But we should be concerned, above all else, that Hayworth was part of a stupid infomercial peddling free grant information. That should be our biggest concern. How absurd!

Rasmussen reports today:

Sharron Angle, following her come-from-behind Republican Primary win Tuesday, has bounced to an 11-point lead over Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in Nevada’s closely-watched U.S. Senate race. A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in Nevada, taken Wednesday night, shows Angle earning 50% support while Reid picks up 39% of the vote. Five percent (5%) like some other candidate, and six percent (6%) are undecided.

A month ago, Angle led Reid 48% to 40% but ran poorest against the incumbent of the three GOP primary hopefuls as she has for months. Reid will try to portray Angle, a Christian conservative who drew heavily on Tea Party support for her win, as unacceptable to the state. Still, the race for now continues to be about the incumbent, who earned 61% of the vote when he was reelected in 2004 but whose support in this election cycle against any Republican candidate has never risen above the low 40s.

Despite their hotly-contested primary, Republicans already appear to be solidifying behind Angle who now earns 88% support among voters in her party. Reid draws 68% support from Democrats. Voters not affiliated with either party prefer Angle by 10 points.

Ginni Thomas is the founder of LibertyCentral.org, America’s Public Square.