The AP reported that Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison chose to use Thomas Jefferson’s Koran “because it showed that a visionary like Jefferson believed that wisdom could be gleaned from many sources.”

Of course, had Ellison lived when Jefferson did, Jefferson would have owned him.

Meanwhile, all that stuff about Muslims being the new black man doesn't make any sense to me. If Muslims are the new black man, why are so many black men, like Ellison, converting to Islam? Because they don’t feel black enough? Because they want to get in on the Muslims’ lucrative African slave trade?

Regardless, it’s nice to see Ellison respecting the founding father. After all, Jefferson may very well be his great-great grandfather.

An entertainment industry newsletter that I receive reports that Muslim Girl Magazine debuts this month. "The bi-monthly lifestyle magazine is targeted to American Muslim girls 14-18 yrs old and aims to challenge the stereotypes of Muslim girls in the US and will feature teen girls that are proud of both being an American and a Muslim...

"According to a study of US Muslim teen girls commissioned by the magazine, this group is not too different from the average US teen girl in terms of what they like (e.g. TV, internet, shopping, videogames, the phone etc). With that said, there are some differences -- for example, Muslim girls report they get their news from Al Jazeera, socialize at IslamiCity and among the things they do outside of school is study the Qur'an."

Good. It's important to challenge the stereotypes that people have of Muslim girls. Because here I was thinking that they watch Al Jazeera, hang out at IslamiCity and study the Koran in their spare time. 

“I will leave the country if Hillary Clinton becomes president.” –Dick Morris on "Hannity & Colmes"

This means that if Hillary Clinton becomes president, Dick Morris will most likely not leave the country.

Senators John Kerry and Christopher Dodd met with Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad on Wednesday and “challenged Syria’s government to play a more constructive role in the region.”

You think maybe we could start with a less destructive role first? I mean, asking Syria to play a more constructive role in the region is like asking Michael Jackson to help reform a troubled daycare center.

Upon Augusto Pinochet’s death earlier this month, Front Page Mag’s Jacob Laksin wrote:

Whatever else may be said of Pinochet, he was not in the same league [as the much less reviled “Uncle Joe” Stalin and Mao Zedung]...[Pinochet] not only prevented the country from plunging into anarchy and civil war but saved it from what was, by all the early warning signs, a far more menacing force in the form of Allende’s Marxist regime...Allende pledged to “destroy the bourgeois state” and impose “total, scientific Marxist socialism” on the country...Foreign companies and domestic farms alike were seized by the government while gangs of leftist marauders, armed by the authorities, stalked the countryside...It was this germinating tyranny that the 1973 coup uprooted.

So can we finally set the historical record straight and put an end to the rumors? Augustine Pinochet did not “torture and kill” people. He tortured and killed Communists.

Jimmy Carter has turned down an invitation by Brandeis University to debate professor Alan Dershowitz about Carter’s new book Palestine: Peace not Apartheid. Carter told the Boston Globe, “I don’t want to have a conversation even indirectly with Dershowitz.”

That’s Carterese for: “What? I’m not going to some Jewish university to talk about Israel with some Jew lawyer!”

Bill Clinton has endorsed the idea of “reaching out” and “dialoguing” with Iran and Syria to “get a regional solution” to the Iraq problem.

This is not how you get people, or countries, to behave. Do we really need to employ the schoolyard bully example yet again, and remind folks that only after you kick his ass does a guy become your best friend?

Just look at the Japanese: we nuked their butts and now all they want to do is make money and snap pictures at Disneyland. And hey, they still get to oppress their women. This is a great example to the Muslim world: you can Westernize and still keep the bitches down.

Dolly Parton's breasts may be two of the wonders of the entertainment world, but the country music icon says they are a pain in her back. Parton, 62, said on Monday she would postpone her upcoming North American tour after doctors told her to take it easy for six to eight weeks to rest her sore back.