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2:25 PM ET, June 13, 2009

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Robert F. Worth / New York Times:
Ahmadinejad Re-Elected; Protests Flare  —  TEHRAN — The Iranian government declared an outright election victory for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday morning, and riot police officers fought with supporters of the opposition candidate, Mir Hussein Moussavi, who insisted that the election had been stolen.
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Abbas Barzegar / Guardian:
Wishful thinking from Tehran  —  Since the revolution, academics and pundits have predicted the collapse of the Iranian regime.  This week, they did no better  —  I have been in Iran for exactly one week covering the 2009 Iranian election carnival.  Since I arrived, few here doubted …
Daniel Pipes Blog:
Rooting for Ahmadinejad  —  The heart and the head sometimes go in different directions, and they do for me today as Iranians go to the polls to vote in their country's semi-legitimate presidential elections.  —  Many problems afflict those elections - including restrictions on who may run for president …
Washington Post:
Ahmadinejad Declared Winner of Iran Election  —  Clashes Break Out Among Voters as Challenger Mousavi Disputes Results  —  Iran's Interior Ministry declared Saturday that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won a decisive victory in Friday's presidential election, but the incumbent's leading challenger protested …
Laura Rozen / The Cable:
Iran elections (Updated Saturday)  —  Leading Iranian opposition presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi issued a statement warning of “tyranny” Saturday after a tense night in Iran in which state organs proclaimed that incumbent hardline Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had won a …
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Red Alert: Iran's Election Results (Open Access)  —  The Iranian election is currently in turmoil.  Both Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi are claiming to be ahead in the vote.  Preliminary results from the presidential vote show Ahmadinejad leading …
Kim Janssen / Chicago Tribune:
Blogger's baby was a hoax  —  Woman captivates thousands in anti-abortion movement with false story of difficult pregnancy  —  Beccah Beushausen photographed near her home, Wednesday, June 10, 2009.  (David Pierini / Chicago Tribune / June 10, 2009)  —  The unmarried mother's story …
Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Obama plan to pay for health reform  —  President Barack Obama says he's now found savings that will pay almost all the costs of a massive overhaul of America's health care system.  —  Obama on Saturday is announcing an additional $313 billion in new proposed savings that he says would bring …
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Laura Litvan / Bloomberg:
House Health-Care Bill to Include $600 Billion in Tax Increases
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
WHEN DESPERATION GETS UGLY.... The conservative drive to connect violent right-wing extremist James von Brunn, who murdered a guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum this week, to the American left continues to confound.  Dave Weigel had a terrific report on this yesterday, including this gem:
Discussion: American Power and The Daily Dish
MsUnderestimated:
Well, There Is One ‘Terrorist’ Obama Won't Bend Over For (VIDEO)  —  ...that is, according to Ohio Congressman, Steven LaTourette's documentation as he gives his Open Report today on the Hill, which was broadcast on C-SPAN.  His Open Report was on the Chrysler bankruptcy, dealership liquidation …
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BBC:
US ‘kept Guantanamo deal from UK’  —  The US made a secret deal with Bermuda - a British overseas territory - to accept the Uighur detainees  —  A senior US official has told the BBC Washington decided not to tell London ahead of time about a deal to resettle four Guantanamo detainees in Bermuda.
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John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Bermuda MP: “Outrage” and “National Crisis” Sparked by Release of Gitmo Detainees
Discussion: Hot Air and RedState
Fox News:
Bermudan, U.S. Governments Take Hits for Moving Uighurs Out of Guantanamo
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Orange County Register:
Mark Steyn: The smothering embrace of nanny government  —  A society of adults-turned-children cannot survive.  —  Recommend  —  Willie Whitelaw, a genial old buffer who served as Margaret Thatcher's deputy for many years, once accused the Labour Party of going around Britain stirring up apathy.
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
A Nation Of Law  —  Lars Thorwald has a strong post on why Obama's DOJ brief in defense of DOMA is in fact a keeping of a promise: to restore the rule of law after eight years of abuse.  I take every point he makes.  Read the whole thing.  —  After this back-and-forth today …
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Results As They Came In  —  Yes, this obviously was a “divine assessment”.  They didn't even attempt to disguise the fraud.  Which, to me, tells me they panicked.  This graph is a red flag to Iran and the world.
John Schwartz / New York Times:
Bush Lawyer Ordered to Testify  —  A federal judge has ruled that John Yoo, a former Bush administration lawyer who wrote crucial memorandums justifying harsh interrogation techniques, will have to answer in court to accusations that his work led to a prisoner's being tortured and deprived of his constitutional rights.
Discussion: Raw Story
Ezra Klein:
Will the House Progressive Caucus Vote Against Health Reform?  An Interview With Rep. Lynn Woolsey.  —  The theory in health-care reform has been, thus far, that Democrats need to worry about votes on their right flank.  But California Rep. Lynn Woolsey, chair of the 80-member House Progressive Caucus …
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Declan McCullagh / CBS News:
Gay Rights Groups Irate After Obama Administration Lauds Defense Of Marriage Act  —  As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama claimed “we need to fully repeal the Defense of Marriage Act,” which says states are not required to recognize other states' same-sex marriages.  —  That was then.
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Jeff Gottlieb / Los Angeles Times:
Founder of anti-drug program is held in drug sting
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Reid Wilson / The Hill:
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A.P. in Deal to Deliver Nonprofits' Journalism
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Jennifer Rubin / Commentary:
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Martin Chulov / Guardian:
Senior Sunni politician assassinated in Iraq
Discussion: MyDD
Christine M. Flowers / Philly.com:
Abortion distortion  —  I DIDN'T kill George Tiller.
Discussion: Hot Air and Sister Toldjah
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Underground Drama  —  For some reason, the mainstream media …
Discussion: DownWithTyranny! and Campaign Silo
Kori Schake / Shadow Government:
Remember Iraq? You will soon enough