Nancy Pelosi has [1] kind-of clarified her comment on investigating the funding of people opposing the building of a mosque two blocks from where terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center complex in the name of Islam.

We have been trying for some time to get funding for just thinking to no avail. With any luck, she’ll let us know how it works. We have not seen anything that would require funding to be investigated. If you go out and ask someone if they thinks it’s a good idea to build a 15 story building to celebrate the religion invoked on 9/11 so close to ground zero that the [2] original structure was hit by an aircraft landing gear, they say “no” and no funding is needed for the decision.

The Imam has indicated that the mosque is for[3] building bridges. If [4] 68% of Americans believe it is at least in poor taste and shouldn’t be built, we don’t understand how pissing off two thirds of a nation helps. It doesn’t help when the Imam has been [5] taped blaming the United States for 9/11.

Jonah Goldberg [6] wrote an interesting piece about anti-Islamic hate crimes. We looked into his numbers and a little more. In [7] 2001, anti-Islamic hate crimes peaked at well under half the number of incidents aimed at Jews, then settling at about [8] 10%. Of more interest though, the number of incidents reported as anti-Jewish has changed very little every year over the last [9] 15 years. Perhaps we should be investigating how Jew haters have maintained funding for so long.

David