Let’s get a couple of things straight right off about the controversy of building of a mosque at Ground Zero. First, it is not a mosque, but an Islamic community center that includes not only a place for Muslims to pray, but an ecumenical site that is open to serving all residents of the Lower Manhattan area.
Conservatives like to tell us government should be run like our family household. Government, they say, should live within its means, presumably like your family and mine. In their Norman Rockwell vision of the world, Mom manages the household budget and spends no more than Dad makes.
In the hinterlands of the Lehigh Valley, where the milk is pure and the prices are controlled, each August a ritual is performed known as Eagles training camp. In the past, the Eagles also held it in places such as Hershey and West Chester. The locale is always bucolic and what is more important, far from the Babylonian temptations of the big city.
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