...but there's still outrage among the Iranian population. It's just we are seeing the signs of the theocratic junta's willingn...

From what I'm seeing from the Sullivan livetweets , and also from Nico Pitney's updates (he's a must-read on this as well), the...

Reports of a massacre . If wishes were horses... A wish to get in Khamenei's face for five minutes, and explain to him how he's alre...

Having blogged constantly about Iran lately, I'd like to take a moment to look about at the rest of the political sphere of activity and...

Yeah, I'm allowing ads to show up on this blog. I don't know how to control which ads I get, otherwise I'd be blocking these da...

The Obama Icon site now has a feature for Iran Vote, so I went and made one . Lemme see if I can get it up on mah blog here: I think it wo...

When you look back on Iran's history, you see a pattern. Iran as we know it emerged in the 1500s as a shi'a nation under the Safav...

As always I've linked to Sullivan , who is updating the Iranian crisis on what is now a minute-to-minute basis. He's pretty much it...

From Sullivan : @elilake: "Shorter Khamenei: Ajad won, u are all going to take it, if u don't my goons will murder u...

As always, keeping up with Sullivan on this. Sullivan linked to a 16-point brief as a means of sifting through the mass of rumors and u...

One thing we can do for the protesters standing up for their freedoms in Iran is show solidarity . Go Green . (image from digby's Hullab...

Right now, all any of us outside that country can is pray. All we can do is sit here and read the Twitter reports coming in . People are d...

Well, among other things, that is. Iran's 2009 Presidential election promised to be interesting for one thing: to see how much cheating...

Just as the arguing over the violence inherent among conservatives in the pro-life movement was fading from the big media, we get this: Yest...

The European Parliament elections just came and went, and yeah it's a really big deal because the EU is primed for WORLD GLOBAL DOMINATI...

Dear Right Wingnuts : who are you gonna shoot when you run out of doctors ? who are you gonna shoot when you run out of Unitarians ? who ...

It's been a mad week, in more ways than one, with Obama announcing his first Supreme Court Justice nominee with Sonia Sotomayor , a Puer...

Twenty years this month, Chinese students and workers began a pro-democracy protest in Tiananmen Square during a similar democracy movement...

Somehow, my LibraryThing list got co-opted by a default. It looks as though the LibraryThing site has a new method of plugging widgets in.....

Noting that I can get sidetracked with political squabbles of the day, I've considered re-printing the core amendment ideas I've bee...