Important Stories of the Day

Tom Friendman nails it.

The playwright Tom Stoppard once observed that democracy is not the voting, “it’s the counting.” Iran’s mullahs were always ready to allow voting, as long as the counting didn’t matter, because a regime man was always going to win. But what happened this time was that in the little crack of space that the regime had to allow for even a faux election, some kind of counter-revolution was born.

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In other news, the leader of the free world still hasn't taken a side (you know, the whole liberty vs. tyranny thing is so hard) and instead took a break from ‘watching with the world’ to take the girls out for custard. Then again, based on the job he's done for us so far, perhaps he’s doing the reformers a favor.