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Roger Cohen on Iran and the Iranian people:
Iranians, aware of that history, are a proud people. They do not take kindly to being played around with, nor to seeing their country turned into a laughing stock. They do not like the memory of an election campaign that now seems like pure theater, the expression of the sadistic whim of some puppeteer. [...]
Iran is not some banana republic. The events since the night of June 12 have been a shameful interlude. Iranians have not digested this grotesquery.
William McGurn whines about the lack of bipartisanship and it's (kicking his feet and pounding his fists) all Obama's fault!!
Bret Stephens goes out on a limb:
It’s a safe bet that 100 years from now ...
Yeah, you can't get much safer than that. And from there, Stephens decides that talking about astronauts and their character should include insulting other people, dead and alive.
Richard Cohen isn't thrilled with Sonia Sotomayor as a liberal, but hot damn, that Scalia is a "fresh" and "bracing" conservative.
Derrick Z. Jackson says to hang up the damn phone and pay attention:
Short of a federal ban, it seems no common sense is in sight for yakking on cellphones or text-messaging while driving. Just what is it that we are waiting for, with many drivers mauling pedestrians and distracted mass transit drivers crashing a train or a bus?
Another group of Republican lawmakers are given the platform of the Washington Post op-ed page, today to talk about "real ID" and how Democrats want the terrorists to win.
David Brooks recycles a "we're all going to die" column:
It’s not that interesting to watch the Democrats lose touch with America. That’s because the plotline is exactly the same. The party is led by insular liberals from big cities and the coasts, who neither understand nor sympathize with moderates. They have their own cherry-picking pollsters, their own media and activist cocoon, their own plans to lavishly spend borrowed money to buy votes.