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NRO: By Mark Steyn The polite explanation for Barack Obama’s diffidence on Iran is that he doesn’t want to give the mullahs the excuse to say the Great Satan is meddling in Tehran’s affairs. So the president’s official position is that he’s modestly encouraged by the regime’s supposed interest in investigating some of the allegations [...]

The WashingtonTimes: By Bill Wilson In firing AmeriCorps Inspector General Gerald Walpin last week, President Obama probably thought he and his wife, Michelle, were the ones “sending the message.” After all, dispensing petty political retribution on behalf of one’s crooked friends is the “Chicago way,” is it not? And the firing of Mr. Walpin would [...]

LawCentral: Weird cases: And this week’s award for most unjudicial petulance goes to . . . Gary Slapper In Tennessee, a judge is legally required to be “patient, dignified and courteous” with people in court. He is also required, not unreasonably, “to respect and comply with the law”. But not all judges do. The Supreme [...]

NSA Headquarters TheIntelligenceDaily: By Tom Eley (WSWS) — Several current and former agents within the National Security Agency (NSA), speaking on condition of anonymity, have told the New York Times that the spy agency likely monitors millions of e-mail communications and telephone calls made by Americans. The new revelations follow the disclosure in April that [...]

ABCNews: By JASON RYAN and MADDY SAUER The flamboyant financier, ‘Sir’ Allen Stanford has been charged with fraud, conspiracy and obstruction in a 21 count indictment handed down by the Department of Justice. He faces a maximum sentence of 250 years. Stanford surrendered to the FBI in Virginia last night and is expected to appear [...]

IslamInAction: By Lisa Bryant Recently President Obama had the Department of Justice issue a statement which was basically a license for Muslims to advance their religion across America. In the meantime France which is being overrun by Islam is changing course and starting to push back against the Islamic threat. The French government says it [...]

Breitbart: By DAVID ESPO WASHINGTON (AP) – Medicare beneficiaries would receive better drug coverage and a portion of President Barack Obama’s health care legislation would be paid for under an emerging agreement involving the pharmaceutical industry, the White House and key lawmakers. Several officials said Friday night that agreement on the $80 billion deal was [...]

Breitbart By ALI AKBAR DAREINI and NASSER KARIMI TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – Witnesses said police beat protesters and fired tear gas and water cannons at thousands who rallied in Tehran Saturday in open defiance of Iran’s clerical government, sharply escalating the most serious internal conflict since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. The eyewitnesses described fierce clashes [...]

POLITICO: President Obama’s campaign for health care reform by this fall, once considered highly likely to succeed, suddenly appears in real jeopardy. Top White House advisers, especially chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, are still privately predicting massive changes to the health care system in 2009. But for the first time, Democrats on Capitol Hill and [...]

The New Republic: The latest results from three respected surveys–NBC/Wall Street Journal, New York Times/CBS, and the Pew Research Center–suggest that the Obama administration is moving into a new phase. While the president remains personally popular, doubts about key aspects of his agenda are rising. If events at home and abroad prove uncooperative, Democrats could [...]

Both Articles From RealClearPolitics: Obama Shows Naivete on Iran By Rich Lowry If only the Obama administration considered motorcycle-riding thugs beating demonstrators in Iran an offense on par with Israel’s West Bank settlements. Then it could speak with moral passion. It could unmistakably denounce the killings, and relieve its State Department spokesman of the trouble [...]