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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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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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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 …
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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.
New York Times:Unrest in Iran Sharply Deepens Rift Among Clerics
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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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Manu Raju / The Politico:
GOP: no benefit to court fight — Nearly a month after President Barack Obama picked her for the Supreme Court, Republican senators say Sonia Sotomayor isn't serving as the political lightning rod some in their party had hoped she would be. — “She doesn't have the punch out there in terms …
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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 …
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 …
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.
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Perry Bacon Jr / Washington Post:
GOP Outnumbered in Senate, but McConnell Tries to Ensure It Is Not Outflanked — Senate GOP Chief Assumes Higher Profile — When he was fighting campaign finance reform a decade ago, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) was dubbed Darth Vader by his critics. He embraced the nickname, even announcing …
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 …
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
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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Say Anything
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 …
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.
Michael A. Fletcher / Washington Post:
Lingering Unemployment Likely to Challenge Obama and the Nation — Despite signs that the recession gripping the nation's economy may be easing, the unemployment rate is projected to continue rising for another year before topping out in double digits, a prospect that threatens to slow growth …
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