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Boston Globe:
Iran's Disputed Election — Following up from last Friday's entry about Iran's Presidential Election, Tehran and other cities have seen the largest street protests and rioting since the 1979 Iranian Revolution. Supporters of reform candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, upset at their announced loss …
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Colin Freeman / Telegraph:
Iran protest cancelled as leaked election results show Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came third — Iran's reformist presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi has called off a major rally to protest last Friday's election results, amid claims police had been cleared to open fire on protesters.
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Washington Post:
Polling in Iran Shows Real Support for Ahmadinejad — The election results in Iran may reflect the will of the Iranian people. Many experts are claiming that the margin of victory of incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was the result of fraud or manipulation, but our nationwide public opinion survey …
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BBC:
Shots fired at huge Iran protest — Huge crowds cheered Mir Hossein Mousavi when he appeared at the rally — Shots have been fired at a rally in Iran where hundreds of thousands of people were demonstrating against last week's presidential election results.
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The Politico:
Ahmadinejad won. Get over it — Without any evidence, many U.S. politicians and “Iran experts” have dismissed Iranian President Ahmadinejad's reelection Friday, with 62.6 percent of the vote, as fraud. — They ignore the fact that Ahmadinejad's 62.6 percent of the vote in this year's election …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Good news: State Dep't refuses to condemn Iranian crackdown; Update: 2 to 3 million at rally — So says Fox News, via the Standard. Lefties keep assuring me on Twitter that western meddling will only make it easier for the regime to demonize the protesters, but (a) the demonization's …
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New York Times:
Top Cleric Calls for Inquiry as Protesters Defy Ban in Iran — TEHRAN — Hundreds of thousands of people marched in silence through central Tehran on Monday to protest Iran's disputed presidential election in an extraordinary show of defiance that appeared to be the largest anti-government demonstration …
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Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
No, Really. Ahmadinejad Won? — Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett have a new opinion piece up at Politico. “Ahmadinejad won. Get over it.” — The piece largely recycles arguments from Flynt Leverett's post-election interview with Spiegel online and their troubling …
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The Iranian election: Barack Obama's cowardly silence
The Iranian election: Barack Obama's cowardly silence
Guardian:
Shots fired as 100,000 march through Tehran
Shots fired as 100,000 march through Tehran
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Barak Ravid / Haaretz:
Why is Dennis Ross being ousted as Obama envoy to Iran? — Dennis Ross, who most recently served as a special State Department envoy to Iran, will abruptly be relieved of his duties, sources in Washington told Haaretz. An official announcement is expected in the coming days.
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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
“Conservatives” Are Single-Largest Ideological Group — Percentage of “liberals” higher this decade than in early '90s — PRINCETON, NJ — Thus far in 2009, 40% of Americans interviewed in national Gallup Poll surveys describe their political views as conservative, 35% as moderate, and 21% as liberal.
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Fox News:
Cheney: I Hope Panetta Was ‘Misquoted’ in Claiming My Wish for Attack — After the CIA director apparently told The New Yorker that he thinks the former vice president is crossing his fingers for another attack on America, Dick Cheney says he hopes his “old friend” didn't really say those words.
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Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Cheney Responds to Panetta
Cheney Responds to Panetta
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Jonathan Cohn / The Treatment:
AMA to Obama: Feh. — From my vantage point about ten feet away from the television set, here's a thumbnail sketch of President Obama's speech to the American Medical Association today. — Reform will deliver beter quality medicine. (Tepid applause.) — Reform will reduce the cost burden on employers and the government.
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Scott E. Harrington / Wall Street Journal:
The ‘Public Plan’ Would Be the Only Plan — It's impossible …
The ‘Public Plan’ Would Be the Only Plan — It's impossible …
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Kristol: Memo to Conservatives — There have been very good grounds to criticize President Obama's foreign policy so far. There will be much more to criticize over the next three and a half years. — But he is our president. We could be at an historical inflection point in Iran.
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Getting Out Of The Way — I know why some believe that the president should speak out forcefully in defense of the resistance in Iran. I don't have to explain why a great part of me wants that as well. But I think the impulse should be resisted for the moment.
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Exclusive: House Dems Planning Major Changes To Secret CIA Briefings Of Congress — In a move that could spark another fight with the GOP over CIA intelligence and secrecy, House Dems are quietly preparing to make major changes to the ways the CIA briefs Congress on covert actions …
Glenn Beck / Washington Post:
Pundit Glenn Beck on ‘Common Sense,’ More — Radio and television personality Glenn Beck was online Monday, June 15 at 1 p.m. ET to discuss his new book, “Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine.” — Chicago: Glenn, On June 6 you said" …
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Washington Post:
The Case for Financial Regulatory Reform — Over the past two years, we have faced the most severe financial crisis since the Great Depression. The financial system failed to perform its function as a reducer and distributor of risk. Instead, it magnified risks, precipitating …
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Damian Paletta / Wall Street Journal:
Details Set for Remake of Financial Regulations
Details Set for Remake of Financial Regulations
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Nina Totenberg / NPR:
Is Sonia Sotomayor Mean? — · The White House is fond of pointing out that U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has more years on the bench, as a trial court and appellate judge, than any previous Supreme Court nominee. — With that record comes not just hundreds of written opinions, but thousands of oral arguments.
Joe Solmonese / HRC Back Story:
A Letter to the President from Joe Solmonese — Ed. Note: This morning HRC President Joe Solmonese sent a letter to President Barack Obama responding to the administration's brief that argues for the Defense of Marriage Act to be upheld in court. The letter follows and is available in PDF:
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Helen Kennedy / NY Daily News:
Pol: Gorilla is ‘related’ to First Lady … A prominent South Carolina Republican killed his Facebook page Sunday after being caught likening the First Lady to an escaped gorilla. — Commenting on a report posted to Facebook about a gorilla escape at a zoo in Columbia, S.C., Friday …