An eye for an eye, in Iran. [A] spurned suitor poured a bucket of sulfuric acid over [Ameneh Bahrami's] head, leaving her blind and disfigured.... Courts usually order families of the accused to pay "blood money" fo…
The L.A. Times reports: Berlusconi, who has a history of controversial remarks, said the relative youth of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, 43, and Obama, 47, should make it easier for Moscow and Washington to work together. Th…
Obama Girl is our new glimpse into the way independent YouTube videos are going to transform campaign advertising: According to Jake Tapper, the video "poke[s] racy fun at the way some voters have responded viscerally to bo…
The British hostages sold their stories and, doing so, brought on some painful mockery. Seaman [Arthur] Batchelor's claim that he cried himself to sleep after his Iranian captors likened him to the comedy character Mr Bean m…
Naturally, Robin Givhan must do an essay on what Nancy Pelosi wore in Syria and what the Iranians made the British sailors wear, and just as naturally, I must blog about it: [Each scarf she wore] was incorporated into the day…
Why have so many journalists been saying that Faye (Topsy) Turney "admitted" the British sailors trespassed into Iranian waters? That implies that it's true, but she's obviously under duress. She said it. That…
Watch me with Newsday's Jim Pinkerton , talking on the split-screen. Topics (and times): Jim McGreevey and the Church of Oprah (06:10) Bill Clinton and the vast right-wing conspiracy (13:02) Bill is to Hillary as Chavez is to…
Virginia Heffernan writes about Barbara Walters' TV show about Heaven. The program says nearly 90 percent of Americans believe heaven exists; most of them, presumably, think they have a shot at it. It's a nice idea. As M…
No more Western music on radio and TV in Iran. Inappropriately, the CNN report begins in a way that seems to invite us to joke that Ahmadinejad has a pretty good idea: Songs such as George Michael's "Careless Whisper,&q…