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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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Juan Cole / Informed Comment:
Stealing the Iranian Election — Top Pieces of Evidence that the Iranian Presidential Election Was Stolen — 1. It is claimed that Ahmadinejad won the city of Tabriz with 57%. His main opponent, Mir Hossein Mousavi, is an Azeri from Azerbaijan province, of which Tabriz is the capital.
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 …
Fox News:
Iran's Controversial Election Results Raises Questions Over Its Relations to U.S. — Some analysts believe the outcome of Iran's election could complicate President Obama's efforts to engage the country. — FOXNews.com — With the results of Iran's election raising serious doubts …
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.
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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 …
BBC:
Ahmadinejad poll win sparks Iran clashes — Opposition supporters protest in Tehran — Thousands of angry protesters have clashed with police after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner of Iran's presidential poll. — Secret police have been attacked …
Bill Keller / New York Times:Reverberations as Door Slams on Hopes of Change
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Robert Mackey / The Lede:Landslide or Fraud? The Debate Online Over Iran's Election Results
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Washington Post:Ahmadinejad Declared Winner of Iran Election
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Video: Obama auto team called shareholder lawyer a “terrorist” — When we last left the negotiations between Chrysler's senior bondholders and Barack Obama's auto task force, Thomas Lauria and his clients alleged that the government used intimidation tactics and threatened to sic …
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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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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:
Tomoko A. Hosaka / Associated Press:
AP Interview: Detainee move to Palau is tentative — KOROR, Palau (AP) — The president of Palau is flattered by all the publicity he's had since agreeing to take in more than a dozen Guantanamo detainees, but he said Saturday their transfer is not a done deal.
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BBC:US ‘kept Guantanamo deal from UK’
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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 …
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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.
minutemenamericandefense.org:
Statement From M.A.D Officers — Rule Of Law Without Excuse — Minuteman American Defense (M.A.D.) and its officers wish to submit this following statement: — First we wish to offer our deepest regrets to the Flores family of Arivaca, Arizona for the loss of their loved ones by this terrible event.
Joan Walsh / Salon:
Why I went on “The O'Reilly Factor” — (UPDATED after The O'Reilly Factor aired) — I was surprised when so many people I respect told me not to appear on “The O'Reilly Factor.” I'd attacked Bill O'Reilly for his jihad against Dr. George Tiller, and he asked me on to discuss my “accusations.”
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