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New source — the New York Times has started tracking via The Lede.

Devastating critique by Manda Zand Ervin: I saw the movie The Stoning of Soraya M., at a private showing in Washington, D.C. and, although I have seen many pictures of the stoning of the women and young girls by the Iranian Islamic regime, I could not believe that the human race is capable of such [...]

I agree with Jonah Goldberg: And, while I merely think he was a pedophile, I know he was not someone responsible parents should applaud, healthy children emulate nor society celebrate. And while we’re at it, his relatively early death wasn’t “tragic.” He was one of the richest people in the world. He spent his money [...]

Hear Hear: As I read the sad, infuriating, and disappointing news of yet another Republican leader who can’t seem to keep his pants on, I remember with regret the odd way in which some Republican commentators and activists dismissed Governor Romney with vaguely denigrating words like “squeaky clean,” “Boy Scout,” or “nerdy.” That’s a rather [...]

The First Lady of South Carolina. My heart breaks for the boys. More on Governor Sanford’s fall.

People joke about Governor Sanford, but Bill Clinton was elected President. What Mark Sanford seemed to be trying to say is that he screwed up, in the biggest possible way, because he lost his bearings. He lost his self-control. He was indulgent. He forgot that there were other humans in the world. Yet in the [...]

Michael Rubin on what is the big story now. I do think we need to recognize that the protestors are no longer protesting for Mousavi, and are instead protesting against the Islamic Revolution. That’s what the chants of Death To The Dictator have been about. That said, I’m afraid that the Revolutionary Guard is going [...]

One of my favorites.

Beautiful.

Review by Chuck DeVore: Stoning’s premise, repeated with numbing regularity around the world today, is made all the more pressing by the masses of Iranians protesting in the streets today while the brutal Basij militia tries to beat them into submission. But it’s one thing for a stoning of an accused “adulteress” to occur in [...]