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Guardian Council: Over 100% voted in 50 cities — Iran's Guardian Council has admitted that the number of votes collected in 50 cities surpass the number of those eligible to cast ballot in those areas. — The council's Spokesman Abbas-Ali Kadkhodaei, who was speaking on the Islamic Republic …
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Robin Wright / Time:
In Iran, One Woman's Death May Have Many Consequences — A video posted on YouTube shows men trying to help a woman after she was allegedly shot in the chest in Tehran on June 20 — Iran's revolution has now run through a full cycle. A gruesomely captivating video of a young woman …
New York Times:
Iran Admits Possible Discrepancy in 3 Million Votes — TEHRAN — Locked in a continuing bitter contest Monday with Iranians who say the presidential elections were rigged, the authorities here acknowledged that the number of votes cast in 50 cities exceeded the actual number of voters …
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Newsweek:
NEWSWEEK Reporter Arrested — Journalist and filmmaker Maziar Bahari detained in Tehran. NEWSWEEK calls for his immediate release. — Newsweek Web Exclusive — Among the dozens of people arrested overnight in Tehran was NEWSWEEK reporter Maziar Bahari, who has covered Iran for the magazine for over a decade.
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
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 …
New York Times:Unrest in Iran Sharply Deepens Rift Among Clerics
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Juan Cole / Informed Comment:Daughter of Rafsanjani Arrested; Death Toll for Saturday at Least 10 …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Health Care Showdown — America's political scene has changed immensely since the last time a Democratic president tried to reform health care. So has the health care picture: with costs soaring and insurance dwindling, nobody can now say with a straight face that the U.S. health care system …
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Molly Ball / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
SEX SCANDAL: ENSIGN'S APPROVAL RATING DROPS — But he's still Nevada's most popular senior elected official — Since admitting an extramarital affair with a former staffer, Sen. John Ensign's approval rating in his home state has plunged. — In a new Las Vegas Review-Journal poll of Nevada voters …
Wall Street Journal:
Iran's Web Spying Aided By Western Technology — By CHRISTOPHER RHOADS in New York and LORETTA CHAO in Beijing — The Iranian regime has developed, with the assistance of European telecommunications companies, one of the world's most sophisticated mechanisms for controlling and censoring the Internet …
Michael Barone / Washington Examiner:
Dodge facts, skip details, govern Chicago-style — We pundits like to analyze our presidents and so, as Barack Obama deals with difficult problems ranging from health care legislation to upheaval in Iran, let me offer my Three Rules of Obama. — First, Obama likes to execute long-range strategies …
Gateway Pundit:
Best Iran Protest Video Ever— Protesters Beat Snot Out of Basij Thugs — Best-Iran-Protest-Video-Ever— Get yourself a cool drink... Sit back... Press play and enjoy... It's a beautiful thing! Iranian protesters beat the living crap out of basij thugs in Tehran: — Via FOX News
Steve Schippert / RapidRecon:
Regime Change Iran: Movement Seeks to Eliminate ‘Supreme Leader’ Position — [Update at Bottom.] — Folks, this is huge. Huge. A report from Saudi Arabia's al-Arabiya, Iranian clerics seek supreme leader alternative, indicates that Rafsanjani is seeking to eliminate the Supreme Leader.
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Moment They Ran — I linked to this earlier, but Nico has tracked down an embeddable version. So if you haven't seen it yet, watch till the very end. — Battle w/ Police - Tehran, Iran - June 20th 2009 — by mightier-than
Maggie Fox / Reuters:
Americans struggle to pay for healthcare-study — *25 percent of households have trouble paying — *40 percent expect to delay care this summer — Americans are struggling to pay for healthcare in the ongoing economic recession, with a quarter saying they have had trouble in the past 12 months …
Scott / Power Line:
Support Trader Joe's — Beneath the attention of major media coverage, the boycott of Israeli products has arrived in America. Its first reported target was the couscous at Trader Joe's over this past weekend. — The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg responds: “My recommendation …
Sara Murray / Wall Street Journal:
Numbers On Welfare See Sharp Increase — Welfare rolls, which were slow to rise and actually fell in many states early in the recession, now are climbing across the country for the first time since President Bill Clinton signed legislation pledging “to end welfare as we know it” more than a decade ago.
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Brad Graham / Time:
Donald Rumsfeld in Repose — For a few months after his departure as Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld occupied a suite of government-provided transition offices in a high-rise building in Rosslyn, Virginia, up the Potomac River a short way from the Pentagon.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Arianna Talks About New CEO, New Local Sites and Paying for Content — Huffington Post Co-founder and blogging diva Arianna Huffington was in Berkeley this past weekend, keynoting at the Craigslist Foundation Boot Camp 09. — So, BoomTown took the opportunity to motor over the Bay Bridge …
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Attaturk / Firedoglake:
Our Blue Cross to Bear — It's funny though the citizenry thinks it's an awesome idea that Blue Cross/Blue Shield have some competition so they can just be fabulously successful instead of outrageously fabulously successful. But apparently, the most important aspect of Democracy …
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