Tag Archives: Iran
What Can Presidents Do About Gas Prices?
Not a damn thing (and Republicans agree!). Even if Obama authorized companies, today, to drill anywhere they wanted to, market forces wouldn’t reflect the price drop (if any ever came) for months. Here’s a problem with democracy: voters expect leaders to change parts of the world over which they have no actual control, or somehow achieve directly contradictory […]
Pat Buchanan Basically Just Writing Fanfiction Now
From his latest column in Human Events: “Diplomacy has failed,” Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., told AIPAC, “Iran is on the verge of becoming nuclear and we cannot afford that.” [. . . .] But to Graham’s point, if we are going to start this war, prudence dictates that we destroy Iran’s ability to fight back. […]
Patterns of Revolutionary Change: In Iran, a Reflection of All of Us
It is often said, in historical as well as political circles, that those who do not study the past, are doomed to repeat it. (Un?)like most aphorisms, there’s some truth to this one, in that the great events in human history tend to blend together at the periphery. This is not to say that one […]
Iran Falling Apart
It’s not going well, but we all knew it would probably end this way. The question is who comes out on top, in the eyes of the world, and what we do about it. Now is the time for American action, and for us to stand with all free peoples against tyranny. If you’re in […]
An Auspicious Day for Iranian Freedom Fighters
As Iranians fight for a meaningful voice in their nation’s future, Britons and Americans, as the heirs of the British legacy, celebrate the 794th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta. To be sure, the Magna Carta did not create anything approximating a modern democracy: it did, however, set the British people on a […]
Iran’s Election: Not 100% Free, But Not 100% Sham Either
Today, Friday, Iranians went to the polls to elect their president. While early returns are not expected to be available until late Friday night (EDT), many Western observers are predicting a tough re-election bid for Ahmadinejad, some going so far as to say reform candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi can win a first ballot majority, negating […]
Iranian Nobel Peace Prize Winner Terrorized by Government
On December 21, 2008, Iranian police stormed Shirin Ebadi‘s home-office, shutting down her Center for the Defense of Human Rights. On December 29 police confiscated client files and computer hard-drives with the lame justification that the center owes taxes (though Ebadi has never earned income from the Center in 15 years). On January 1, 2009, […]
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