David Frum's Blog, page 69

A Busy Iranian Regime: Torturing and Executing Prisoners, and Persecuting Women, Gays and Religious Minorities

The human rights situation in Iran is dismal at best. While Iran is no North Korea, there is overwhelming evidence the situation is closer to the one portrayed inArgo,rather than the modern and civil society Iran's theocratic leaders claim to allow.

And the Robots Keep Getting Better

More robot danger above. (Via Gizmodo).

Apologists for Iran Have Trouble With Facts

The Journal doesn't mince words with their treatment of the Leverett's newest book.

How to Handle a Creep

Nice repartee from the New Republic's skewering of male fantasies about female reporters:

Radical Islam Aids and Abets Polio

Bill Gates' efforts to eradicate the final vestiges of polio are bumping up against an unexpected impediment: the murderous rage of radical Islam, reports Michael Kelley at Business Insider:

Turkey Leaps Back in Time

A senior US official flying on Secretary of State John Kerry's plane finds anti-Zionist comments by Turkish PM Erdogan "particularly offensive," Reuters reports:

Problems on the Home Front for UK Conservatives

The British Conservative Party's grassroots are withering, writes Paul Goodman at ConservativeHome UK after the party's humiliating third-place finish in the Eastleigh by-election yesterday.

Of Course You Know What's Coming Next?

Wikipedia enters infinite regress.

What Can We Learn from UK Conservatives?

Enjoy.

Mexico Teachers' Union Head Arrested

Good news from Mexico. Elba Esther Gordillo, the allegedly spectacularly corrupt head of the Mexican teachers' union, was arrested Tuesday. From the Financial Times: