Tensions Over Mosque Rise After Comments  —  WASHINGTON—A leader of a planned Muslim community center near Manhattan's Ground Zero compared opposition to the project to the persecution of Jews, in comments that could add to the controversy over the center's proposed site.

Max Blumenthal Lies Again About Geller  —  Max Blumenthal, notorious Jew hater, is lying, slandering and making up racist propaganda against me again.  I have no idea what this rally is.  I have no idea who these people are.  I have no idea who organized this rally.

VIDEO: Democrat Jane Harman Admits, ‘Ahmadinejad Was . . . My Boyfriend!’  —  Profiting from the sale of dual-use technology to Iran?  Rep. Jane Harman (D-Transylvania) might have gotten away with this monstrous scheme, had it not been for Young Mattie Fein:

Howard Dean: Obama aides need to spend ‘some time outside Washington’  —  Howard Dean, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said Sunday that President Obama's political advisers are out of touch with average Americans and need to “spend some time outside Washington.”

Close Republican race in Florida  —  The Republican race for Governor in Florida is looking like a tight one as it heads into its final day.  Our final poll of the race finds Rick Scott leading Bill McCollum 47-40.  That advantage is within the poll's margin of error.

Iran inaugurates nation's first unmanned bomber  —  TEHRAN, Iran - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday inaugurated the country's first domestically built unmanned bomber aircraft, calling it an “ambassador of death” to Iran's enemies.  —  The 4-meter-long drone aircraft can carry …

Gaza Mall Seeks to Make Statement of Resolve  —  GAZA CITY — Colognes by Hugo Boss, Dunhill and Givenchy line the shelves of the cosmetics shop.  One of the two women's clothing stores features a window mannequin in a hot pink T-shirt and low-slung jeans.  In the supermarket freezer …

US soldier killed in Iraq attack  —  Attack comes amid growing concern that security will deteriorate further after spate of bombings and shootings  —  An American soldier was killed by a rocket strike near Basra today, in the first US fatality since the last combat troops left Iraq.

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Why We Miss Bush - UPDATED  —  Ed Morrissey notes that many who spent 8+ years detesting Bush as the worst moron-nazi-terrorist ever born of woman are now looking for him to break his post-presidential silence in the cause of aiding President Obama and the unpopular dont-call …