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 …

Iranian Government Media Declares Mousavi a ‘Criminal’  —  Iranian government media Sunday launched a campaign against Mir Hussein Mousavi and his supporters, calling the leader of the protests over Iran's disputed election a “criminal” and comparing demonstrators to members of a hated terrorist group.

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.