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Latest On Iran: Open Thread
Yesterday President Obama released this statement on the events in Iran: The Iranian government must understand that the world is watching. We mourn each and every innocent life that is lost. We call on the Iranian government to stop all violent and unjust actions against its own people. The universal rights to assembly and free […]
Open thread: Iran
I’m trying with some of my “friends” on facebook to get some commentary going on our website. I have some friends that are either there in Iran or know people that are. Hopefully I can get some people over there to comment over here. Please discuss any thing. What is going on? What we aren’t […]
Foreign Policy Idiots
A number of our inane right wing commenters last night decided to make the protests in Iran a partisan issue, and they began to attack President Obama for what they see is inaction regarding the events in Iran. I will have the President respond before I do: Well, I think first of all, it’s important […]
Real Iran Election Results Leaked?
According to ABCNews (via Twitter) this may be the real election results from the Iran elections. If you’re on Twitter, I recommend you follow @LaraABCNews for updates about the Iran elections. We’ve been very hesitant to publicize any of the so-called “true” election results that have surfaced, since it’s the easiest thing in the world […]
Deep thought
President Bush’s Job was to Protect America after it got attacked while he was president. Additionial question: Wouldn’t having a public option for health care be more beneficial for small business?
Rioting In Iran
Yesteday’s stunning surprise announcement of Ahmadinejad as the winner of the Iranian election has led to protests and riots in Iran, news agencies are reporting. Some of these riots are getting violent. Some pictures are here. Here is a report by a NBC producer in Iran: What started off as a small rally outside a […]
Sure Looks Like Democracy To Me
TEHRAN, Iran — Iranians packed polling stations from boutique-lined streets in north Tehran to conservative bastions in the countryside Friday with a choice that’s left the nation divided and on edge: keeping hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in power or electing a reformist who favors greater freedoms and improved ties with the United States. Iranian women […]
Oh look, the recession…it’s over
While we were all blowing Obama for his forthright speech in Egypt this week…. The Unemployment numbers were released and they are the highest since 1983. 9.4 percent and most likely going to rise. Man, I’m lucky to have a job. I’m so glad the banks are turning a profit right now. Any day now, […]
Happy Birthday Tetris!
Yesterday, the game Tetris turned 25 years old. I haven’t played Tetris in a long time. For a while I was addicted to Tetris. When I was a young grad student, we had a computer with Tetris on it in the shared grad student organic chemistry T.A. office. We all used to play it and […]
Obama’s Egypt Speech
The man knows how to give speeches. Full text of the speech here. Steve Benen at the Washington Monthly highlights this portion, about the relationship between the U.S. and the Muslim world: “[J]ust as America can never tolerate violence by extremists, we must never alter our principles. 9/11 was an enormous trauma to our country. […]
Will We Soon Return To $4/Gallon Gas?
Matt Yglesias has a question: What I can see is the present, where markets react to any sign of good economic news with a big jump in oil prices. And the news in question is of the “things aren’t getting bad quite as quickly as we feared” genre of good news. What if six months […]
Damn, torture works. I admit it I was wrong
I wonder what our devout Christians reading this will say now. Never mind, facts don’t get in the way of opinion. A 14-year military interrogator has undercut one of the key arguments posited by Vice President Dick Cheney in favor of the Bush Administration’s torture techniques and alleged that the use of torture has cost […]
Quote of the Day
Vietnam teaches several lessons, the first of which is that the United States can have normal relations with countries whose political systems and ideologies it rejects. That is as true of Cuba and Iran today as it was of Vietnam or China. — Roger Cohen
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