themoderatevoice.com - 6/22/2009
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Up until now I’ve remained largely silent on the recent goings on in Iran, partly because I, sitting in my living room watching the news on CNN and Fox, am hardly any sort of expert on that nation. (Unlike so man other self-styled pundits across the sphere, sitting in their living rooms ...
fivethirtyeight.com - 6/22/2009
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fivethirtyeight.com —
I've generally tended to take the position that
while the people running Iran are a bunch of...
reactionary thugs, they're at least a fairly intelligent bunch of reactionary thugs. After this revelation on Iranian Press TV, however, I'm not so certain: ...
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Worst. Damage Control. Ever.
rasmussenreports.com - 6/19/2009
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rasmussenreports.com —
National Survey of 1,000 Likely Voters Conducted June
17-18, 2009 By Rasmussen Reports 1* How closely have...
you followed recent news reports about the election in Iran ? 43% Very closely 36% Somewhat closely 16% Not very closely 4% Not at all 0% Not ...
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Toplines - Iran Election - June 17-18, 2009
downwithtyranny.blogspot.com - 6/21/2009
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downwithtyranny.blogspot.com —
In 1970, when Gil Scott-Heron first wrote his
poem, "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," later released...
as the lead track on Pieces of a Man , there was neither Twitter nor Facebook. The revolution will not be televised. The revolution will not ...
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Dionne: Incoherence works
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... touching off a series of responses in the blogosphere and on Twitter. Will the same people call Dionne out for making the same point? And more to my point, Dionne admits that the level of opposition to the Iranian regime has caught most of what he calls the “realists” on the Left by surprise, apparently including the White House. Why are they surprised? The Iranian regime has been unpopular for years at home, especially with a younger population who have no personal experience of a pre-Khomeini Iran. Instead of cutting deals with the aging oppressors, we should be ...
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