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Re: Honey, I Found the Voter Registration Fraud
05/22/12 6:02 am
Question: Does the GOP at any level do anything like a basic background check? It'd make elections a lot less embarassing.Re: Morning Awful: Libertarians
05/18/12 12:42 pm
Quoth Cerberus at Sadly, No!: You know, I want a magic button that deprives people who say they are self-made and didn’t rely on no gover...Re: Morning Awful: Libertarians
05/18/12 5:11 am
:: facepalm :: Libertarians remind me of starry-eyed 19 year-old college students who have lots of lofty ideas that would never work in ...05/17/12 6:40 am
Conrad Black did it to get a fancy title and thought he wouldn't get caught.Re: Wingnut Wind Power Wankery is Not About Free Markets
05/14/12 4:48 pm
You can add this to the list of idiocies. –alopeciaRe: Morning Awful: Closet Romney
05/13/12 9:58 am
As Bill Maher said in his monologue on Friday (one of the more prescient comments), in most salons, the guy wielding the scissors is the ga...Re: The Democratic Party Marijuana Evolution
05/11/12 3:48 pm
Buy stocks in marijuana too. It goes to a good cause and you make some money on the side. If marijuana is so bad, why is it that there are ...05/09/12 2:47 pm
I swear, I wrote this last night, and I had no idea what was coming today.Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 10:37 am
My thoughts on this are going up in a comic later tonight. Good news is, it appears the President listened to them before they even got ...Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 6:03 am
I was so disappointed when I heard the news about North Carolina this morning. There's still a lot of work to do.Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 2:26 am
Thank you. I could not have said this better. The more they bemoan and bully the President for a response, the more divided the Democrats l...05/08/12 12:39 pm
This makes perfect sense. My problem is that I have come to dislike organized religion so much, feel so cynical about it, I don't know...Re: #StopRush, ALEC, and the Howard Stern Category
05/08/12 11:59 am
Like “class warfare,” it is only wrong when we fight back. Sounds an awful lot like every bully, everywhere, doesn't it? –alopeciaRe: Morning Awful: Mitt Romney is Weak
05/08/12 6:46 am
Rachel Maddow is rooting for Ron Paul...and thinks the current president has too much power - like there ARE two other branches of governme...
Category Archives: Iran
Security Council Whip Count
There is no greater test of a consensus-builder than the United Nations. Literally nothing happens in that building without everyone who matters plus a majority of the rest. So when we read that a diplomatic effort in Europe has led … Continue reading
Iran: Jet Prep
There’s a lot going on this morning. Radio Netherlands is reporting the Supreme Jurist of Iran has ordered his plane prepared in case he must flee the country. Just so we understand, Khamenei never leaves the country — it’s part … Continue reading
CNN’s Virtual Coverage
Usually, there are just two shots in a developing news story. CNN viewers watched the guy in the bomb-proof suit walk up an Airbus jetway about five thousand times the other day while speculation interviews took up airtime. But there … Continue reading
Paranoid Dictators Say The Funniest Things
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: Ahmadinejad reportedly claims he has documented evidence that the U.S. is blocking the return of Mahdi, the Imam believed by Muslims to be the savior. “We have documented proof that they believe that a descendant of … Continue reading
Question Time for Khamenei
In case you have not heard, a 20-year old Iranian math whiz spent 20 minutes questioning the Supreme Leader of Iran on October 28th. The news is only now reaching a wide audience in the US: “I don’t know why … Continue reading
Iran Admits to Torture of Protesters
From the British Guardian: Iran’s police chief admitted yesterday that protesters who were arrested after June’s disputed presidential election had been tortured while in custody in a prison in south-west Tehran. But he denied that any of the detainees had … Continue reading
Morning Awful
Her name was Mona. Her crime was teaching. Her sentence was death. In Jerusalem Post today, a member of the Basij religious police makes a shocking confession: He said he had been a highly regarded member of the force, and … Continue reading
Iran: Slogan Jamming
Three things about the following video, which comes via Nico Pitney’s Iran blog at Huffington Post, need explanation: first, it’s obviously been made with a microcamera hidden on someone’s body. That speaks volumes about the way technology eats away at … Continue reading
Is Khamenei On The Way Out?
Ambassador Marc Ginsberg notes the tantalizing prospect that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei may be on his way out. Clerical infighting may have come to a head already: Ali Khamenei theoretically answers to a higher authority and that authority is the … Continue reading
Cole Studies Khomeini
Dr. Mueller’s Comparative Politics class required each student to pick one country and make a close study of its government. As a result I spent two months immersed in the Byzantine constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran. By the … Continue reading
