Relatives of Former Iranian President Are Arrested  —  Faezeh Hashemi, daughter of former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, attended a rally for Mir Hussein Moussavi.  Iranian state television reported on Sunday that Ms. Hashemi and four other members of the family had been arrested.

Repression stepped up yet again as Iran becomes world's biggest prison for journalists  —  The Islamic Republic of Iran now ranks alongside China as the world's biggest prison for journalists.  The crackdown has been intensified yet again following Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's endorsement …

Neda identified?  Update: New details  —  Word on the street via one Iranian tweeter is that her name was Neda Agha Soltan.  That's also the name circulating on a few websites and now being attributed to her in a hastily arranged Wikipedia bio.  The rumor — and it's all rumor until …

IT'S NOT EXACTLY LEFT VS RIGHT.... On ABC's “This Week” earlier, George Will, hardly a liberal ally of the president, noted that he's heard the criticism of the Obama administration's tactics regarding Iran, and he finds it unpersuasive. … Ben Armbruster noted that Peggy Noonan …

Slavery and the Health Care Crisis  —  The gravity of America's health care crisis is the moral equivalent of the 19th Century's bloody conflict over slavery.  This is not hyperbole, though the truth of it is often lost in abstract talk of insurance company profits, treatment costs, and other cold, inhuman analyses.