• Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) calls in at 9:30am ET / 6:30am PT for another edition of “Face The Grayson”
• Stephanie Shriock, President of EMILY’s List, calls in at 10:30am ET / 7:30am PT to talk about what she’s doing to counter Sarah Palin’s “Mama Grizzly” campaign
• Comedy legend Fred Willard calls in at 11:30am ET / 8:30am PT to talk about his new book, “Fred Willard’s Magnificent Movie Trivia”
• The last U.S. brigade combat team in Iraq has left the country, a move that helps U.S. President Barack Obama reach his goal of 50,000 troops in the country by September 1. A spokesman for the 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, said the last of the 4,000 members of the unit crossed the border into Kuwait early Thursday.
• With the controversy still swirling over plans for a Muslim community center near the former World Trade Center, President Obama said Wednesday that he had “no regrets” about his involvement in the debate.
• Former Democratic presidential candidate and Vermont governor Howard Dean, a hero to many liberals, has called efforts to build an Islamic community center two blocks from the site of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks “a real affront to people who lost their lives.”
• House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is raising questions about who is funding criticism of the so-called “Ground Zero mosque.” She joins “those who have called for looking into how is this opposition to the mosque being funded.” She added: “How is this being ginned up?”
