ADL: If mosque-builders really wanted to promote reconcilation, they'd move  —  Via Steve Benen, I see that Fareed Zakaria has decided to return an award betowed on him by the Anti-Defamation League in order to protest the organization's deeply misguided opposition to the Islamic center near Ground Zero.

Let gays begin marrying, Schwarzenegger urges  —  In an extraordinary court filing, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger asked Friday that gay marriages be allowed to resume immediately in California after a federal ruling that the state's voter-approved ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional.

Is Kagan Obama's Last Justice?  —  The margins for confirming Supreme Court Justices are getting tighter: … Kagan's meager tally is five fewer than Sonia Sotomayor last year, 15 fewer than John Roberts got in 2005 and pales in comparison to the 96-3 coronation of Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 1993.

Franken most foul  —  When there is a local angle to a national story, the local press usually has a field day with it.  That hasn't proved to be the case with the story regarding Minnesota Senator Al Franken's outrageous behavior in the Senate during Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's speech opposing …

RNC adopts new 2012 presidential primary schedule  —  KANSAS CITY, MO. — The Republican National Committee adopted a new schedule for the 2012 presidential primaries Friday, agreeing to a plan worked out in concert with Democrats and designed to delay the start of the campaign season.

American VIP humiliated at airport  —  Prof. Donna Shalala, Clinton's secretary of health, arrives in Israel in order to fight academic boycott against Israel, claims she was held at Ben-Gurion Airport just because she has Arab last name  —  Itamar Eichner  —  This is not how she imagined her visit to

Media Matters Gives Glenn Beck's Co-Hosts The Shirley Sherrod Edited Audio Treatment (Update)  —  Let's end the week with some Shirley Sherrod-ing - editing a clip to make it sound like a person is saying something that is actually the complete opposite of what they're saying.

Battle Looms Over Huge Costs of Public Pensions  —  There's a class war coming to the world of government pensions.  —  The haves are retirees who were once state or municipal workers.  Their seemingly guaranteed and ever-escalating monthly pension benefits are breaking budgets nationwide.

Spanish police close public beach for Michelle Obama's £250,000 Spanish holiday  —  Michelle Obama today faced a fresh wave of attacks over her lavish break in Spain with 40 friends, which could easily cost U.S. taxpayers a staggering £50,000 a day.

Taliban Kill 10 on Medical Aid Mission in Afghanistan  —  KABUL, Afghanistan — At least 10 medical personnel, including six Americans, were murdered in northern Afghanistan on Thursday, officials confirmed Saturday.  A Taliban spokesman, reached by cellphone, claimed responsibility for the killings.

Five myths about the ‘tea party’  —  The grass-roots conservative activists who march under the “Don't tread on me” Gadsen flag and the “tea party” label have put a new twist on Gandhi's maxim: First they were ignored; then they were ridiculed; then they began to fight.

Sharron Angle: I would refuse money from company that supports gay rights  —  Sharron Angle has taken some extreme positions, but this one is remarkable even by her standards: She said on a candidate questionnaire that she would refuse political contributions from a private company …