Normally I save Thomas Sowell for the end, but this column is a must read. The more light shined on the proposed mosque, the more we are learning about the backers. Regarding Mayor Bloomberg's beliefs that we should not investigate donations to a religious organizations....well what about the claim from the potential builders that it is more than a mosque? And one more question to the Mayor: how did a waiter have enough cash to become a very junior "Donald Trump"? (If he made his "seed money" as a waiter, I'm quitting my day job!)

The Heritage Foundation on the wars.

Did I miss this in American newspapers?

Social Security: still the third rail of politics?

Jonah Goldberg on Obama's impending shipwreck.

If the numbers hold through November 2, will the tide really change this time?