From the estimable Debra Saunders who SHOULD replace Dowdy Dowd at the worn out Times in a last ditch effort at salvation of the Gray Lady:

"There is no sense of proportion. The left portrays the religious right as extremists, if they oppose, say, abortion or same-sex marriage, while it ignores Islamic cultures' unequal and at times violent treatment of women and gays.?

This is one of the best grafs I've read in a month, nay year, about the sorry state of of the Democratic Party.

More from Saunders:

"...a media-elite double standard that requires the Christian religious right to be sensitive, but not Muslims.

When the controversy involves the ground zero mosque, the elites cite the First Amendment; when the controversy draws on the free-speech rights of the devout, editorial page editors switch to the issue of tolerance."

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/09/09/spare_the_quran_and...

And from an exceptional article in Forbes about the U.S. President who is seems quite confused about his job description:

The President's actions are so bizarre that they mystify his critics and supporters alike. Consider this headline from the Aug. 18, 2009 issue of the Wall Street Journal: "Obama Underwrites Offshore Drilling." Did you read that correctly? You did. The Administration supports offshore drilling--but drilling off the shores of Brazil. With Obama's backing, the U.S. Export-Import Bank offered $2 billion in loans and guarantees to Brazil's state-owned oil company Petrobras to finance exploration in the Santos Basin near Rio de Janeiro--not so the oil ends up in the U.S. He is funding Brazilian exploration so that the oil can stay in Brazil.

More on our daft potus:

"Recently the London Times reported that the Obama Administration supported the conditional release of Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, the Lockerbie bomber convicted in connection with the deaths of 270 people, mostly Americans."
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0927/politics-socialism-capitalism-pri...

Today I saw a bumper sticker that asked: how long until Jan. 20th 2013?
Short answer: Too F-ing long!

I thank all the things one might think to thank that our Doofus In Chief did not show his face at Ground Zero today.