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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 …
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Laura Rozen / The Cable:
Iran elections (UPDATED) — Leading Iranian opposition presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi was due to give a press conference at 2pm Saturday Tehran time (8 1/2 hours ahead of EST), sources said. The anticipated address comes after a tense night in Iran in which state organs proclaimed …
Reuters:
Both sides claim victory in Iran election
Both sides claim victory in Iran election
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Hot Air, Guardian, Los Angeles Times, tehranbureau, On Deadline, Donklephant, FP Passport, Danger Room, Weekly Standard and News: News blog
BBC:
Ahmadinejad ‘wins Iran presidency’
Ahmadinejad ‘wins Iran presidency’
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Stinque, Runnin' Scared, Time, NY Daily News, The Monkey Cage, Firedoglake, Times of London, MyDD and New York Times
Robert Mackey / The Lede:
Updates on the Presidential Election in Iran
Updates on the Presidential Election in Iran
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Guardian, The Daily Dish, Gawker, Wonkette, Blue Virginia, Commentary and Lawyers, Guns and Money
John Aravosis / AMERICAblog News:
Obama DOJ lies to Politico in defending hate brief against gays — Ben Smith at Politico just reported the following statement from the Department of Justice over their brief, filed last night, comparing gay marriage to incest: … Yeah, you see, that's an outright lie.
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Instapundit, The Daily Dish, Minnesota Independent, Riehl World View and Ben Smith's Blog
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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.
Dale Carpenter / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Fierce advocacy: Continuity continues. The Obama Justice Department yesterday filed a brief urging a California district court to dismiss a little-known constitutional challenge to DOMA filed in late 2008 by a married gay couple. (No, it's not the Olson/Boies challenge to Prop 8.)
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 …
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Pam's House Blend
John Aravosis / AMERICAblog News:
Obama defends DOMA in federal court. …
Obama defends DOMA in federal court. …
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Political Punch, The Daily Dish, Ben Smith's Blog, Hot Air, QandO, American Power, Polimom, Too, skippy the bush kangaroo, Daily Kos, The Bilerico Project, Pam's House Blend, Bob Cesca's Awesome Blog!, Pharyngula, Instapundit, WyBlog, The Atlantic Politics Channel, The Impolitic, MyDD, Runnin' Scared and Stinque
Linda Deutsch / Associated Press:
DOJ moves to dismiss first fed gay marriage case
DOJ moves to dismiss first fed gay marriage case
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MSNBC
BBC:
US Guantanamo deal ‘kept 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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Fox News:
Bermudan, U.S. Governments Take Hits for Moving Uighurs Out of Guantanamo — The Obama administration is defending its decision to send four of 17 Chinese Muslims being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Bermuda and deliver the rest to the Pacific islands nation of Palau. — FOXNews.com
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Washington Monthly
John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Bermuda MP: “Outrage” and “National Crisis” Sparked by Release of Gitmo Detainees
Bermuda MP: “Outrage” and “National Crisis” Sparked by Release of Gitmo Detainees
Fox News:
New York Lawmaker Calls on CBS to Fire Letterman for Palin Comments — New York State Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb, a Republican, is calling on the CEO of CBS to fire David Letterman for crude comments he made about Sarah Palin and her daughter. — In the letter to CBS chief Les Moonves …
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Laura Litvan / Bloomberg:
House Health-Care Bill to Include $600 Billion in Tax Increases — Health-care overhaul legislation being drafted by House Democrats will include $600 billion in tax increases and $400 billion in cuts to Medicare and Medicaid, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel said.
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Caucus, Washington Post, The Politico, Gateway Pundit, Zero Hedge, AmSpecBlog, RedState and THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
Kori Schake / Shadow Government:
Remember Iraq? You will soon enough — Iraq is receding from our national consciousness (Stephen Colbert's efforts to remind us about the war notwithstanding). The combined effects of the success of the surge, President Bush signing a restrictive Status of Forces Agreement …
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
BLAMING THE MESSENGER.... Fox News' Shep Smith offered viewers some thoughts this week they probably weren't accustomed to hearing. He noted on the air, for example, that the DHS report on violent radicals are was prescient, and he criticized enraged Fox news viewers who email the network with over-the-top vitriol.
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
Underground Drama — For some reason, the mainstream media don't seem to realize this is even happening: … It goes on to discuss the recalcitrance among anti-war members in the House along with those Democrats who are properly skeptical of the IMF in general and who recognize that these bailouts have become politically toxic.
CNN:
Former President GHW Bush stands up for Sotomayor — (CNN)-Former President George H.W. Bush stood up for his former judicial nominee Sonia Sotomayor Friday, telling CNN Anchor Robin Meade that GOP critics who called President Obama's Supreme Court pick a racist were off-base, and unfair.
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.
Donald Douglas / American Power:
Thoughts on Our Civil War — As regular readers well know, it's my personal belief that radical left-wing ideology is the greatest threat to the country today. Leftist radicalism and demonology is manifested not just in the corrosive political discourse of the online fever swamps …
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New York Times:
Privacy May Be a Victim in Cyberdefense Plan — WASHINGTON — A plan to create a new Pentagon cybercommand is raising significant privacy and diplomatic concerns, as the Obama administration moves ahead on efforts to protect the nation from cyberattack and to prepare for possible offensive operations …
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Raw Story
The Huffington Post:
White House Browbeats Dem Freshmen On War Money: “You'll Never Hear From Us Again” — The White House is playing hardball with Democrats who intend to vote against the supplemental war spending bill, threatening freshmen who oppose it that they won't get help with reelection and will be cut off …