Patrick Buchanan and Justin Raimondo on the "Ground Zero 'Mosque'"

The former rather scarily argues that "if the president believes the Constitution decides this issue with finality, he is profoundly mistaken" — Culture Jihad — while the latter wisely finds it "hard to believe that a national campaign led by lunatics has taken off with such momentum" — Cordoba House: The Acid Test. Of this "manufactured controversy" Mr. Raimondo asks, "manufactured by whom, and for what purpose?" He writes:

Is it me, or does anyone else find it passing strange that – at a time when conservatives are on the ascendant, with this administration’s increasingly unpopular economic program under attack from all sides – that the American right-wing is taking up yet another nasty-minded "cultural" issue? Forget the bank bailouts, don’t worry about the nationalization of large swathes of the American economy (banking, healthcare, housing), and try to forget that China owns us – what’s really really wrong with America is that the New York City government is allowing a mosque to be built with a four-block radius of where the World Trade Center once stood.

He also reminds us that "it isn’t a mosque," that "there are already mosques in the vicinity," and that "the group behind the project is not Wahabi – the Saudis’ strict sect – but Sufi, the most peaceful and anti-jihadist of the various strains of Islam."

The Catholic Fascist The American Catholic weighs in — Rank and File Conservatives & The Conservative Intelligentsia United In Outrage Over Mosque Near Ground Zero, Not So With Same-Sex Marriage.

(Mr. Raimondo supported Mr. Buchanan's three presidential runs and gave the nomination speech for the third — Buchananism or Barbarism; Mr. Buchanan wrote the forward to the second edition of Mr. Raimondo's tome — The Old Right and the Future of Conservatism.)