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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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Power Line, Gateway Pundit, Balloon Juice, niacINsight, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Israpundit, Pajamas Media, Global Voices Online, The Daily Dish, Political Byline, Riehl World View, A Blog For All, Wake up America, RealClearWorld, Personal Democracy Forum blogs, Commentary and The Field on the Narcosphere
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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.
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The Other McCain, American Power, Macsmind, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and The TrogloPundit
Martina Stewart / CNN:
Pence: Obama should speak out in favor of Iranian reformers
Pence: Obama should speak out in favor of Iranian reformers
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The Huffington Post
Gateway Pundit:
Regime Unleashed— Gunshots & Beatings In Tehran (Video)
Regime Unleashed— Gunshots & Beatings In Tehran (Video)
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Not Tucker Carlson, TigerHawk, Israel Matzav, RIGHTWINGSPARKLE, Wizbang Backup, protein wisdom and Classical Values
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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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 …
Dan Williams / Reuters:
Most Israelis could live with a nuclear Iran: poll
Most Israelis could live with a nuclear Iran: poll
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Israel Matzav
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Winds of Change? — Twenty years ago, I wrote a book about the Middle East, and recently I was thinking of updating it with a new introduction. It was going to be very simple — just one page, indeed just one line: “Nothing has changed.” — It took me two days covering the elections in Beirut to realize that I was dead wrong.
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Daniel Terdiman / Webware.com:
‘#CNNFail’: Twitterverse slams network's Iran absence
‘#CNNFail’: Twitterverse slams network's Iran absence
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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
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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.
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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Politics and Critical Thinking, Sadly, No!, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Daily Dish and pandagon.net
tehranbureau:
Ayatollahs Protest Election Fraud — [TEHRAN BUREAU] Mir Hossein Mousavi's, the main reformist rival to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, letter to the important ayatollahs in the holy city of Qom, asking them to protest the fraud and declare it against Islam, has sparked protests by the ayatollahs and clerics as well.
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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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
Jennifer Rubin / Commentary:
That Was Then — I thought it would be interesting to go back to then-candidate Barack Obama's speech to an AIPAC [in 2008] forum in 2007 to see what he said then and what agenda he was presenting to the voters. He had this to say about Iran: … In 2008 just after clinching the nomination he had this to say:
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Weekly Standard
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
WHEN IN DOUBT, BLAME OBAMA.... Former Gov. Mitt Romney (R) …
WHEN IN DOUBT, BLAME OBAMA.... Former Gov. Mitt Romney (R) …
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ABCNEWS, George's Bottom Line, Greg's Opinion, Political Byline, Times of London and QandO
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.
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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Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
Can Leon Panetta move the C.I.A. forward without confronting its past? — The Central Intelligence Agency typically fights distant enemies, but on May 21st its leaders were preoccupied with a local opponent. A few miles from the agency's headquarters, which are in Langley, Virginia …
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Gawker, Talking Points Memo, DownWithTyranny!, Raw Story, Think Progress, ATTACKERMAN, The Hill's Blog Briefing Room and Truthdig
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.
Krooney / The Page:
Stimulus Concession — Biden tells “Meet the Press” that “everyone guessed wrong” on the impact of the stimulus, economy was worse off than anyone thought. — Backs away from the estimate that the funds could create or save 3.5 million jobs, instead promises 600,000 by the end of the summer.