A chip off the old block.  Just like old times in the Three Kingdoms.

Take a stronger stance, Obama & Co. Condemn the brutal suppression and insist all Iranian voices be heard.

Via Salon:

The new pro-capitalist, anti-nationalist center-left finds allies in investment banks and college campuses but has little to offer ordinary people who view the nation-state as their agent and protector in a dangerous world. Nobody should be surprised when, in a period of economic crisis, significant parts of the population should turn to unabashed nationalists of the right, as opposed to progressives who fret that helping out their fellow citizens might be a form of discrimination against more deserving foreigners.

Michael Lind examines the success of far-right nationalist and populist candidates in the June 7 elections to the European Parliament and what it portends for Democrats here in the US.  His most interesting argument is the European center-left has replaced their socialism for capitalism while retaining their ideological internationalism.

From The Daily Dish:

Obama seems to think that the dysfunction in Washington isn’t only about the heightened enmity between the parties; it’s also about the longstanding mistrust between the two branches of government that stare each other down from twin peaks on either end of Pennsylvania Avenue.

Obama’s pragmitism at work.  Note the comparison between Obama’s strategy and Clinton’s.

From Slate:

In effect, Obama’s speech to the “Muslim world” serves to erase the national borders of our Arab allies, and however questionable those allies are, their borders serve American interests, and erasing them serves Iranian ends.

Maybe the concept of a “Muslim world” can change from being one of “resistence to the West” to something more inclusive and diverse.

From The Daily Dish:

The [Uniting American Families Act (UAFA)] sponsored by Leahy in the Senate and Congressman Jerold Nadler (D-NY) in the House, would modify immigration policy to end discrimination against lesbian and gay Americans who want to sponsor their permanent partners for residency in the United States. Such couples are often separated, or torn apart, because current U.S. law does not allow for the same sponsorship rights for lesbian and gay citizens as for heterosexuals.

Did not know Andrew Sullivan and Glen Greenwald were gay.  Hope the bill passes, for their sake and others.