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The real battle for religious freedom lurks beneath the Ground Zero mosque controversy. It is sadly ironic that our public debate presents the mosque proponents as the partisans of liberty: That includes everyone from imam Feisal Rauf, the project’s sharia-touting sponsor, to President Obama, Mayor Bloomberg, and the rest of the Islamist-smitten Left, to the GOP’s own anti-anti-terrorist wing. Yet, wittingly or not, when they champion this mosque and its sponsors, it is the agenda of an alien and authoritarian Islam that they champion — an Islam against which many American Muslims chafe. When it comes to liberty, no one...

Lots cookin' today... let's start with this: The upcoming lame duck Congress — that stretch between the Nov. 2 election and when the newly elected Congress is seated -- is a dangerous time for our country.According to Elizabeth Letchworth of Gradegov.com (who spent 26 years as the elected Secretary to the US Senate), we are looking at a potential disaster in November and December when the lame ducks try to push through all the legislation they can. Think Amnesty, Cap and Trade, the Kill Switch bill drafted by Sen. Joe Lieberman to give the president power to shut off the...

A little less than a year after announcing it, in front of Vice President Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and many other American foreign policy elites at Frank Gaffney’s “Keeper of the Flame” Award Dinner in October 2009, we are finally launching Big Peace. It took nine months because this site has to be done right, and with Hoover Institution Research Fellow and bestselling author Peter Schweizer, we found the perfect editor. Because I am not a foreign policy or military expert, I needed to create a core editorial unit that represented the highest-end understanding of policy while at the same...