Outside the Beltway

Some Republicans are start to wonder if it’s such a good idea for their party to be so closely associated with the heated rhetoric surrounding the future of this former Burlington Coat Factory.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, appearing on San Francisco’s KCBS radio, called for an investigation in the efforts to stop the building of a Muslim cultural center at the hallowed Burlington Coat Factory location blocks from Ground Zero.

Given public opinion on the proposed Islamic community center that is currently cominating the news, we would expect that opposition to the project would be strongest in Manhattan itself.

If the President looks worried, he has a pretty good reason.

How did the future of this former Burlington Coat Factory turn into a national political issue ? Well, it’s a rather interesting story.

Renowned author Ray Bradbury hates big government but wants it to fund the colonization of Mars. That a man of his intelligence and insight can hold such diametrically opposed thoughts is an amusing reminder of the limits of human rationality.

A major part of the problem with the seeming growing wave of anti-Muslim sentiment in some quarters of US politics is that it seems to equate Islam as “the enemy.” If that’s the case, then US foreign policy has some ‘splainin’ to do.

The GOP is playing a dangerous game with the anti-Islamic rhetoric that it seems to be courting these days.

President Obama’s decision to speak out on the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque” has turned what was a hot-button cable news item into a political issue that even his fellow Democrats don’t want to deal with.

If it was called the “Burlington Coat Factory community center” would anyone care about Cordoba House?

President Obama waded into the “Ground Zero” mosque controversy at a Ramadan dinner last night.

The American Family Association has ramped up the nation’s anti-Muslim sentiment yet again.

Greg Gutfeld claims to be working to build a gay bar next door to the controversial Cordoba House Muslim cultural center a few blocks from Ground Zero.

Protests against mosques aren’t just limited to Manhattan. And that’s a problem.

A number of disturbing incidents point towards increased anti-Islam hostility in the United States.

The Anti-Defamation League has taken an unfortunate stand on a issue involving religious tolerance and bigotry.

The Lt. Governor of Tennessee suggested recently that religious freedom possibly shouldn’t apply to Muslims, but he’s only part of the problem.

Newt Gingrich says that because there are no churches in Riyadh, we shouldn’t allow a mosque in New York.

Conservatives have long complained about liberal media bias. But conservative media seems to be much worse.

Sarah Palin tweeted, and took the wrong side in a story that doesn’t even deserve to be a controversy.

Should outrageous people like Pamela Gellar be invited to spread their message on national television?

Press can assert all he wants that his call to suppress Beck’s rights “has nothing to do with freedom of speech,” but that’s transparent hokum.