Good grief

Says Reuters this morning:

(Reuters) - The Muslim center planned near the site of the World Trade Center attack could qualify for tax-free financing, a spokesman for City Comptroller John Liu said on Friday, and Liu is willing to consider approving the public subsidy.

If this seems reasonable to you, try this thought experiment: It is December 1950, and a city official in Honolulu suggests that the taxpayers subsidize a Shinto shrine overlooking Pearl Harbor. Blue skies! -- Dan Ford