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Michael J. Totten:
Insurrection: Day 2 — The great Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski witnessed and wrote about dozens of revolutions in the course of his life. He has, perhaps, seen more revolutions than anyone in the history of the world. He knew, while he lived, revolutions better than anyone.
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Gateway Pundit:
OUTRAGE!... CBS: “Meet Iran's George W. Bush” (Ahmadinejad!) ... Update: Bush's Message to the Iranian People — CBS compares Iran's Holocaust denier, womens right's abuser, America-hating radical to George W. Bush. — CBS republishes vile New Republic article— Meet Iran's George W. Bush
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Rovian Islamist — Ahmadinejad's bag of tricks is eerily like that of Karl Rove - the constant use of fear, the exploitation of religion, the demonization of liberals, the deployment of Potemkin symbolism like Sarah Palin: … Think of this regime as Cheney and Rove in a police state setting, and you see what's been going on.
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: Iranian thugs beat protester to death in broad daylight — There's no official confirmation that he died but that's the word on the street. Best-case scenario is that they “merely” beat him into unconsciousness. Rather than give you just the video of the beating, though …
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Associated Press, Breitbart.tv, The Sundries Shack, Not Tucker Carlson and Times of London
Kristina Wong / Political Punch:
Iran: The View from the White House — The White House has not issued a statement expressing support for the protestors declaring the election illegitimate. But neither has anyone in the Obama administration said a public word accepting the legitimacy of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's reelection.
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
Karl Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Rove? — Do the publishers of The Atlantic Monthly have no shame at all? … Really, Sully? I mean, really? WTF goes through someone's mind when they dream up an idiotic comparison between (a) Karl Rove, a Republican political strategist, and (b) Mahmoud Ahmadinejed, a Jew-hating genocidal maniac?
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
CNN producer: Iranian students say they're doomed if Obama accepts the Iranian election — Much depends on the meaning of “accepts,” though, doesn't it? I'm sure we'll get some patented Hopenchange drivel tomorrow about “grave concerns,” etc, but if Iran's kids are expecting The One to walk away …
Niac / niacINsight:
Live-blogging election unrest, day two
Live-blogging election unrest, day two
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Maggie's Notebook, Los Angeles Times, Bitch. Ph.D., Firedoglake, In The Agora, Verum Serum, The Reaction, Patterico's Pontifications, Hot Air, The Daily Dish, RealClearWorld, Weekly Standard, Flopping Aces, Donklephant, BBC, McClatchy Washington Bureau, tehranbureau, DownWithTyranny!, Wake up America and American Footprints
Roger Cohen / New York Times:
Iran's Day of Anguish — TEHRAN — She was in tears like many women …
Iran's Day of Anguish — TEHRAN — She was in tears like many women …
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Pajamas Media, Political Punch, TheMediaLine.org., The Daily Dish, Open Left and The Strata-Sphere
Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
Biden Questions Vote but Sticks to Policy on Iran
Biden Questions Vote but Sticks to Policy on Iran
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The Cable, Washington Monthly, Reuters, Democracy in America, The New Republic and The Confluence
Max Boot / Commentary:
The Bright Side of Ahamdinejad's “Win” — On the principle of “the worse the better” for our enemies-and, make no mistake, Iran is our enemy-it is possible to take some small degree of satisfaction from the outcome of Iran's elections. — If the mullahs were really canny, they would have let Mousavi win.
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Jennifer Rubin / Commentary:
That Was Then — I thought it would be interesting …
That Was Then — I thought it would be interesting …
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Weekly Standard
Erik Eckholm / New York Times:
Freed From Guantánamo, Uighur Muslims Bask in Bermuda — AN OCEAN IDYLL Salahidin Abdulahat, left, and Khaleel Mamut swam in the Atlantic Ocean on Sunday in Bermuda. The Uighur Muslims, recently freed from captivity at Guantánamo Bay, have been resettled in Bermuda.
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The American Scene
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Michelle Shephard / Toronto Star:
From hell to paradise for ex-Gitmo detainees
From hell to paradise for ex-Gitmo detainees
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Washington Monthly
Haaretz:
Full text of Netanyahu's foreign policy speech at Bar Ilan — Honored guests, citizens of Israel. — Peace was always the desire of our people. Our prophets had a vision of peace, we greet each other with peace, our prayers end with the word peace. This evening we are in the center named …
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EU2009.cz:
EU Presidency Statement concerning the Iranian Presidential elections — The Presidency of the Council of the EU closely followed the course of the Presidential elections held on 12 June 2009 and notices Mr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was re-elected for the second term as the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Sleeping With The Enemy — In case you are wondering why conservative rhetoric remains dominant and Democrats operate from exactly the same assumptions as Republicans, perhaps this is a clue: … There you have it. The GOP messaging expert is advising both parties.
Real Clear Politics:
Senators Grassley and Dodd on “Fox News Sunday” — WALLACE:And hello again from Fox News in Washington. The debate over health care really got going this week. It involves almost 20 percent of the economy, and it will affect every one of us. — We've brought in two men at the center of the debate …
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Pajamas Media
Will Hutton / Guardian:
Paul Krugman's fear for lost decade — As analysts and media hailed the tentative emergence of green shoots last week, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman caused international shock with a prediction that the world economy would stagnate just as badly, and for just as long, as Japan's did in the 1990s.
Fox News:
CIA Chief Says Cheney Almost ‘Wishing’ U.S. Be Attacked Again — CIA Director Leon Panetta says former Vice President Dick Cheney's criticism of the Obama administration's approach to terrorism almost suggests “he's wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point.”