Hal Donahue wrote: "why do you think that the NYC mosque is now an issue? You made it one to inflame your base" Surely you jest. Do you *really* think that conservatives need to go hunting for another issue to be inflamed about? Do you *really* think we need some new grievance in order to “shore up our base?” Here are just eight reasons – in no particular order of priority – why most conservatives are already incandescent… 1. A country in which it is deemed an invasion of privacy to force people to prove that they are citizens when there is reasonable suspicion to the contrary, but by some strange contortion of logic it is not an invasion of privacy to force people to prove that they carry health insurance. 2. A Harvard...

Nice refutation, Hal. Your reputation here befits you.

George wrote on Aug 20th: "Excuse me; Even a majority of Americans, who are famously misinformed, can be wrong when it comes to civil rights. Forty years ago a majority of Americans were opposed to civil rights. We do not put the Bill of Rights on a vote." No, we have the courts to now make every decision, including civil rights. We put 9 people in black robes and annoint them as infallible arbiters of truth who regularly find new "rights" and "prohibitions" for us. The right to privacy, the right to abortion on demand, the right to remove religion from the public sphere entirely lest we offend atheist sensitivities, the right to seize private property for any and all reasons, and the list goes on almost ad infinitum. We have...

No, we put 9 people in black robes and annoint them as infallible arbiters of truth who regularly find new "rights" and "prohibitions" for us. The right to privacy, the right to abortion on demand, the right to remove religion from the public sphere entirely lest we offend atheist sensitivities, the right to seize private property for any and all reasons, and the list goes on almost ad infinitum. We have relatively little to fear these days from the "famously misinformed" "majority of Americans" who can't really determine the outcome of anything anyway. We have the courts to now make every decision, including civil rights. Interesting that the original civil rights activists did things like PASS AMENDMENTS (gee, sounds like some...

What a relief to know that we have the superior intellects of Ted_, Lon, Hal, George, et. al., to enlighten us regarding the First Amendment. Our Founders and the statesmen after them could have benefited enormously by consulting with such progressive thinkers to save the embarrassment of their obvious hypocrisy, what with their antiquated 18th century ideas. I mean, how ludicrous for these men to ratify the Constitution with a First Amendment that *prevents* the federal government from establishing a religion, and then turning around and *funding* (at taxpayer expense, I might add) the expression of religion. Surely they were confused and living in cognitive dissonance of some kind. Indeed, they probably had to push the...

Well, Ted_, I'm certainly glad we have your superior intellect to guide us in such matters as First Amendment rights. Our Founders and the statesmen after them could have benefited enormously by consulting with you to save them the embarrassment of their obvious hypocrisy. I mean, how ludicrous to pay lip service in the First Amendment to preventing the federal government from "establishing" a religion, and then turning around and funding - at taxpayer expense - the following (to name just a few): - Moses with the tablets containing the 10 commandments on the front of the SCOTUS building - The 10 commandments inside the SCOTUS building - mints that coined our currency with the words "IN GOD WE TRUST" - The US House of...

I am so glad you find this so borring ????? maybe you should not live in America.

I'd like at least 25 examples, svirk...with transcripts of their remarks and video. If this is as widespread as you suggest, it should be easy to produce irrefutable proof that is both loud and foreceful. I suggest it has been less than compelling. If the American Muslim community is as level-headed as you suggest, they'd build their mosque elsewhere and we wouldn't be having this discussion. The very name "Cordoba House" is an "up yours" reference to eventual Muslim domination and getting even with the "infidels" that oppose them. Can you not concede that 200 million people in this country find this highly, highly offensive...the same people that have never complained about the more than 100 other mosques in NYC, but feel that...

The price-of-lettuce argument is the refuge of the economically illiterate. Illegal labor keeps wages illegitimately low...not just prices. Yes, that lettuce may be 3 cents cheaper, thanks to artificially low labor prices. But the price we pay for those 3 cents in "savings" is to basically sabotage the earning potential of the legitimate workforce, and it far eclipses the savings. Net result: we’re worse off. The next time you see a LEGAL resident of this country trying to make ends meet by cleaning hotel rooms or bus tables...at rock-bottom wages...or unable to find such menial labor at all...thank an illegal alien for making it that much harder. Not only do they depress wages, they rob the labor pool of jobs that legitimate...