US Rejects Victory Claim by Ahmadinejad, Questions Voting Irregularities

June 13, 2009

NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario – The U.S. on Saturday refused to accept hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s claim of a landslide re-election victory in Iran and said it was looking into allegations of election fraud. Any hopes by the Obama administration of gaining a result similar to Lebanon’s recent election, won by a Western-backed moderate coalition, appeared […]

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Defeated Ahmadinejad Rival Mousavi Arrested in Iran

June 13, 2009

Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi was reportedly arrested Saturday following the reformist’s defeat at the polls by hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Supporters of Mousavi, the main challenger to Ahmadinejad, have responded to the election with the most serious unrest in Tehran in a decade and claim that the result was the work of a dictatorship.

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Smith and Siegel: Is Iran Election Sign of Limits of Obama Effect?

June 13, 2009

The notion of an “Obama effect” sweeping the Middle East appeared to collide with the realities of the Islamic Republic of Iran Saturday, as the country’s confrontational, anti-American president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, celebrated a landslide victory in Friday’s election amid wide doubts about the honesty of the official vote count. Iran’s election authority declared Ahmadinejad the […]

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Klein Interviews Woolsey: Will Progressive Caucus Vote Against Obama Health Care Plan?

June 13, 2009

The theory in health-care reform has been, thus far, that Democrats need to worry about votes on their right flank. But California Rep. Lynn Woolsey, chair of the 80-member House Progressive Caucus, has been arguing the opposite: that Democrats need to worry about their left flank. The majority of her caucus, she says, will vote […]

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Rubin: Why Does it Make Sense for White House to Strong-Arm Netanyahu?

June 13, 2009

Peter Beinart pens a column in which he, I think inadvertently, suggests just how ill-conceived Obama’s overt hostility toward Israel is. Beinart suggests the president is doing it to show he’s a tough guy, and because he can get away with it.

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Luskin: Green Shoots Continue to Shoot, but Where Do We Go From Here?

June 13, 2009

Green shoots continue to shoot. I’m now very confident that we’ve seen the worst in this recession and this bear market. For stocks, I’m confident that the March bottom will hold. The nontrivial question is where do we go from here? It’s nice to rule out zero as our destination (we couldn’t have done that […]

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Chambers: Inflation is Nothing Compared to the Cure

June 13, 2009

It would be nice to talk about specific stocks again, but which way for the overall market now that it has rallied so hard from the base of the crash in March. The big question is not which stock will outperform others, but whether it is up from here or back down into the abyss. […]

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Interesting Haaretz Experiment: Authors, Poets Write News for Day

June 13, 2009

It was on an average Wednesday that a very serious Israeli newspaper conducted a very wild experiment. For one day, Haaretz editor-in-chief Dov Alfon sent most of his staff reporters home and sent 31 of Israel’s finest authors and poets to cover the day’s news. The idea behind the paper’s June 10 special edition was […]

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Cell Phones, Facebook, YouTube Blocked in Iran Post-Election

June 13, 2009

The main mobile telephone network in Iran was cut in the capital Tehran Saturday evening while popular Internet websites Facebook and YouTube also appeared to be blocked, correspondents said. The communication cuts came after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won a landslide re-election victory, sparking rioting in the streets by opposition supporters who claimed the result had […]

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Obama Justice Department Defends its Defense of Defense of Marriage Act

June 13, 2009

President Obama’s Justice Department filed legal papers late Thursday to dismiss the first same sex marriage case filed in federal court. The Justice Department defended the Defense Of Marriage Act, or DOMA, which as a candidate then-Sen. Obama opposed, saying that the plaintiffs Arthur Smelt and Christopher Hammer are seeking a ruling on “whether by […]

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