Update to Yesterday's Blog Article

You've no doubt learned that cult leader Terry Jones, who said yesterday he would not burn the Qur'ans and had worked out a deal with Imam Rauf in New York about building the mosque near Ground Zero, was talking through is delusion. That's a nice way of saying he was talking out his ass.

The Imam said he never heard from the man and had not agreed with anyone to move the mosque.

Evidently, civic responsibility has lost again. It's a shame. And shame on men whose pride or, perhaps, delusions are stronger than their sense of a broader need, a broader community. 

--- What was the original American Aurora? The Aurora was a newspaper published by Benjamin Franklin Bache , a grandson of Benjamin Franklin. The Aurora was published in Philadelphia, our nation's capitol at the time.

The Aurora was highly critical of what Bache felt was the tyrannous Federalist governments of presidents Washington and Adams.

The result? Adams imprisoned Bache for sedition, where he languished, awaiting trial, until his death from yellow fever at age 29.