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...This is something you'd expect to see in North Korea or in Saddam Hussein's Iraq.' STEVE RUSSELL, a Republican state senator from Oklahoma, calling President Obama's televised back-to-school speech to children on Sept. 8 an attempt to create a "cult of personality...
...office, critics from John McCain to Joe the Plumber were painting him red. Amid the push for health-care reform, the attacks have intensified. Florida GOP chairman Jim Greer charged that Obama planned to "indoctrinate America's children to his socialist agenda" in a Sept. 8 back-to-school speech...
...Monday, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski proposed new regulations that would prevent Internet service providers from discriminating against web traffic based on its content. We welcome this effort to preserve the open nature of the Internet, which has made the web such a boon to entrepreneurship and free speech...
...speak their minds, were either shut down or scaled back. Former President Mohammed Khatami was scheduled to speak alongside Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's grandson at Khomeini's shrine two weeks ago, but the occasion was canceled. Former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who has delivered a Qods Day speech for decades, was replaced by a more hard-line Ayatullah who gave remarks in addition to an introduction by Ahmadinejad. And regime representatives including Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei had warned the Green Movement opposition against using Qods Day as an opportunity to protest the contested June election result...
...sizes well equaled the large protests that took place in past months. Just as in previous demonstrations, old and young individuals from various social backgrounds attended the rallies, clashing with security forces and plainclothes Basiji militias and loudly voicing slogans during marches near the site of the President's speech at the University of Tehran's Friday prayers...