Strengthening Constitutional Self-Government

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The grandson of the Ayatollah

This is a nice short break between Xenophon, Lincoln (my seminar tonight) and the hurly-burly of the California election. (Other work aside, my phone is ringing off the hook, people are making bets with me, even reporters from Connecticut to California; somebody is going to eat well for the next few months!). Christopher Hitchens writes in Slate about the grandson of the Ayatollah Khomeini. Yup, Hossein Khomeini is the grandson of the Ireanian bad guy, the tyrant. Hossein now lives in Iraq and is a junior cleric. It’s a good read altogether, but note the precious passages wherein he calls the U.S. presence in Iraq a "liberation" and he can’t wait for the U.S. to liberate Iran!

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