Live-blogging the big last debate.

7:06 Central Time: Get ready! 7:32: In the comments, Sorun said, "I predict a big Obama win tonight, since the only people watching wil...

What to make of this leak from "a senior administration official" to the NYT about a U.S.-Iran agreement to negotiate over nuclear power?

Quite aside from whether there really is such an agreement, why would the administration want to leak the news ? There is also an official d...

A Drudgetaposition.

This line-up at Drudge (right now) is no accident. Obviously — don't bore me with disagreement — Obama making the teeny tiny gesture ne...

"So, is Bloomberg’s story titled 'The Secret Sins of General Electric'?"

"Or, in the online version, 'General Electric Flouts Law With Secret Iran Sales?' Of course not. G.E. is generally identified w...

Fighting the revolution in Iran with squirt guns.

Innocent fun or serious political threat? After heeding a call on Facebook, a group of nearly 800 young men and women were among those who ...

"A physician was to drop acid... into the eyes of Majid Movahed... to punish him for throwing acid in the face of Ameneh Bahrami seven years ago."

Bahrami, who was blinded, had insisted on the eye-for-an-eye punishment, under Islamic law: "However in the last minute, Ameneh changed...

"Iranians... flocking online to defy another Islamic Republic edict: buying and selling dogs."

"... Last year, Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi issued a fatwa, or religious edict, denouncing dog ownership. In April, Iran's par...

"The potential fall of Ahmadinejad is a story worthy of any Persian tale..."

"... a pageant of court favouritism, abrupt firings of otherwise loyal ministers, apparent challenges to the Islamic heritage of Iran, ...

Is Obama waging cyberwar against Iran?

"[T]he worm appears to be a case of outright industrial sabotage or cyber warfare, created and unleashed not by rogue hackers but by a ...

Percentage of Americans who think the U.S. should apologize to Japan for using nuclear bombs in WWII: 20.

Percentage of Americans who think the U.S. did the decision to drop the bombs was good : 59. *** Meanwhile, in the Middle East.... What is ....

"The answer is quite simple, it's because I'm a woman, it's because they think they can do anything to women in this country."

The woman is Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani. The country, Iran. "It's because for them adultery is worse than murder – but not all kind...

"Without fanfare, the United Nations this week elected Iran to its Commission on the Status of Women..."

"... handing a four-year seat on the influential human rights body to a theocratic state in which stoning is enshrined in law and lashi...

The leaked Gates memo: We have no plan for dealing with nuclear Iran.

If diplomacy fails... Why was this leaked now? The memo was written in January but only today are “government officials” finally whispering ...

Debate tonight. I'll be liveblogging.

Watch this space. It will be elongated — starting at 8 Eastern Time — with quirky observations and peevish intuitions. I'm very interes...

"Anyone can go to Baghdad. Real men go to Tehran."

Says Dick Cheney on page 2 of the screenplay to the Oliver Stone movie about George Bush. Via The Hollywood Reporter .

"Is the administration just washing its hands of the intractable Iranian nuclear issue by saying, 'If we can’t fix it, it ain’t broke'?"

I'm terribly busy now on the last day of the semester, but I still feel remiss at not linking to this NYT op-ed by my old colleague Gar...

"Rarely has a document from the supposedly hidden world of intelligence had such an impact as the National Intelligence Estimate released this week."

"Rarely has an administration been so unprepared for such an event. And rarely have vehement critics of the 'intelligence community...

"President Bush got the world's attention this fall when he warned that a nuclear-armed Iran might lead to World War III."

"But his stark warning came at least a month or two after he had first been told about fresh indications that Iran had actually halted ...

Meanwhile...

... here 's what it looks like chez Stephen Green. Deep snow. Where on earth is he? Wherever he is, he promises to drunkblog the Republ...

"Give me an address so we are also aware of what happens in Iran."

Says Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , repeating his assertion that as far as he knows, there are no homosexuals in Iran. He is saying things in a form ...