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4:40 AM ET, June 15, 2009

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Michael J. Totten:
Insurrection: Day 2  —  The great Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski witnessed and wrote about dozens of revolutions in the course of his life.  He has, perhaps, seen more revolutions than anyone in the history of the world.  He knew, while he lived, revolutions better than anyone.
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Gateway Pundit:
OUTRAGE!... CBS: “Meet Iran's George W. Bush” (Ahmadinejad!) ...  Update: Bush's Message to the Iranian People  —  CBS compares Iran's Holocaust denier, womens right's abuser, America-hating radical to George W. Bush.  —  CBS republishes vile New Republic article—  Meet Iran's George W. Bush
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Rovian Islamist  —  Ahmadinejad's bag of tricks is eerily like that of Karl Rove - the constant use of fear, the exploitation of religion, the demonization of liberals, the deployment of Potemkin symbolism like Sarah Palin: … Think of this regime as Cheney and Rove in a police state setting, and you see what's been going on.
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: Iranian thugs beat protester to death in broad daylight  —  There's no official confirmation that he died but that's the word on the street.  Best-case scenario is that they “merely” beat him into unconsciousness.  Rather than give you just the video of the beating, though …
Kristina Wong / Political Punch:
Iran: The View from the White House  —  The White House has not issued a statement expressing support for the protestors declaring the election illegitimate.  But neither has anyone in the Obama administration said a public word accepting the legitimacy of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's reelection.
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
Karl Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Rove?  —  Do the publishers of The Atlantic Monthly have no shame at all? … Really, Sully?  I mean, really?  WTF goes through someone's mind when they dream up an idiotic comparison between (a) Karl Rove, a Republican political strategist, and (b) Mahmoud Ahmadinejed, a Jew-hating genocidal maniac?
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
CNN producer: Iranian students say they're doomed if Obama accepts the Iranian election  —  Much depends on the meaning of “accepts,” though, doesn't it?  I'm sure we'll get some patented Hopenchange drivel tomorrow about “grave concerns,” etc, but if Iran's kids are expecting The One to walk away …
Washington Post:
Polling in Iran Shows Real Support for Ahmadinejad
Jason Rezaian / Slate:
A Tale of Two Rallies
Discussion: Washington Post
Yaakov Katz / Jerusalem Post:
‘Anti-Ahmadinejad protests will die out’
Discussion: The Rhetorican
Niac / niacINsight:
Live-blogging election unrest, day two
Dave Price / Dean's World:
The High Cost Of Accommodation
Discussion: Israel Matzav
Martina Stewart / CNN:
Pence: Obama should speak out in favor of Iranian reformers
The Independent:
Robert Fisk: Iran erupts as voters back ‘the Democrator’
Max Boot / Commentary:
The Bright Side of Ahamdinejad's “Win”  —  On the principle of “the worse the better” for our enemies-and, make no mistake, Iran is our enemy-it is possible to take some small degree of satisfaction from the outcome of Iran's elections.  —  If the mullahs were really canny, they would have let Mousavi win.
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Erik Eckholm / New York Times:
Freed From Guantánamo, Uighur Muslims Bask in Bermuda  —  AN OCEAN IDYLL Salahidin Abdulahat, left, and Khaleel Mamut swam in the Atlantic Ocean on Sunday in Bermuda.  The Uighur Muslims, recently freed from captivity at Guantánamo Bay, have been resettled in Bermuda.
Discussion: The American Scene
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Michelle Shephard / Toronto Star:
From hell to paradise for ex-Gitmo detainees
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Haaretz:
Full text of Netanyahu's foreign policy speech at Bar Ilan  —  Honored guests, citizens of Israel.  —  Peace was always the desire of our people.  Our prophets had a vision of peace, we greet each other with peace, our prayers end with the word peace.  This evening we are in the center named …
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EU2009.cz:
EU Presidency Statement concerning the Iranian Presidential elections  —  The Presidency of the Council of the EU closely followed the course of the Presidential elections held on 12 June 2009 and notices Mr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was re-elected for the second term as the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Discussion: ATTACKERMAN and Weasel Zippers
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Sleeping With The Enemy  —  In case you are wondering why conservative rhetoric remains dominant and Democrats operate from exactly the same assumptions as Republicans, perhaps this is a clue: … There you have it.  The GOP messaging expert is advising both parties.
Discussion: Open Left and The Sideshow
Real Clear Politics:
Senators Grassley and Dodd on “Fox News Sunday”  —  WALLACE:And hello again from Fox News in Washington.  The debate over health care really got going this week.  It involves almost 20 percent of the economy, and it will affect every one of us.  —  We've brought in two men at the center of the debate …
Discussion: Pajamas Media
Will Hutton / Guardian:
Paul Krugman's fear for lost decade  —  As analysts and media hailed the tentative emergence of green shoots last week, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman caused international shock with a prediction that the world economy would stagnate just as badly, and for just as long, as Japan's did in the 1990s.
Fox News:
CIA Chief Says Cheney Almost ‘Wishing’ U.S. Be Attacked Again  —  CIA Director Leon Panetta says former Vice President Dick Cheney's criticism of the Obama administration's approach to terrorism almost suggests “he's wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point.”
Discussion: Daily Pundit and Weasel Zippers
 
 
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Message From Mousavi  —  Via my contacts at the Farsi-speaking BBC, a telephone plea:
Discussion: American Footprints and Jay Currie
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Let's read Andrew Sullivan's new Sarah Palin post.
Discussion: USS Neverdock
New York Times:
Obama Open to Reining in Medical Suits
Discussion: TalkLeft and New York Times
Washington Post:
Eye-Opening Earmarks  —  A brewing ethics controversy in the House
Discussion: Blue Virginia
Nicholas Kristof / Nicholas D. Kristof:
Iran's Crossroads  —  Right now I desperately wish I were in Iran.
Discussion: TPMCafe
Megan Garvey / L.A. Now:
Mayors criticize Justice Department support for Defense of Marriage Act [Updated]
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The Real Results?  —  This is hearsay - but under conditions …
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