“Obama stands with tyrants,” writes the Washington Times. “When thousands of Iranians flooded the streets of Tehran protesting a rigged election and were beaten and shot down by pro-regime thugs, the president bided his time before making a series of noncommittal statements. He seemed to hope it would all just go away. However, when a socialist demagogue was ejected unceremoniously from Honduras on Sunday by his own government for trying to establish a presidency for life, Mr. Obama instantly sprang to…

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Thus tells an Iranian woman to a journalist passing through her town, in the new film, The Stoning of Soraya M., which opens today. She wants to tell the world about the atrocity of legally sanctioned death by stoning — specifically, the stoning death of her niece, whose husband decided to get rid of by falsely accusing her of adultery.

As the protests in Iran continue, the film shows, on a localized scale, some of the human toll which that country’s…

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The Stoning of Soraya M. is a difficult film to watch, but worth taking the time to do so. The film, which several CEI colleagues and I saw at a preview screening last night, depicts the stoning death of a young Iranian woman falsely accused of adultery. It highlights the outrage that the barbaric practice of stoning continues to occur anywhere, but at times does more than that.

The film illustrates the way in which a closed, illiberal society can close…

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Your host Richard Morrison welcomes back guest co-host Jeremy Lott and special guest Greg Conko for Episode 47. We start with the new Obama-Geithner plan for expanding regulation of financial markets, the protests over the disputed presidential election in Iran and the Federal Trade Commission’s investigation of telemarketing robocalls. We then move on to the “beer bikes” of Amsterdam and some potentially scandalous investment choices made by Sen. Dick Durban. Finally, we talk health care with CEI Senior Fellow Greg…

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