Michael Tomasky: Intellectual consistency can be overrated. Because there's nothing intellectual about it.

Pruning Shears: Isn't it a little strange that no one mentions things like our two wars when looking at election results? Washington has for several years now been fully committed to disastrous policies.

Instaputz: It Burns

Manifesto Joe's Texas Blues: Architects of revisionism

Informed Comment: Iran threatens to pull out of nuclear deal over new UN sanctions

The Big Picture: Socialism

I'll see your sanctions and raise you some weaponized plutonium...

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea responded to new United Nations sanctions on Saturday by defiantly vowing to press forward with production of nuclear weapons and take “resolute military actions” against efforts to isolate it.

In a statement on the North’s official Korean Central News Agency, an unnamed spokesman for the North Korean Foreign Ministry was quoted as saying that his nation will continue its nuclear program to defend itself against what he called a hostile United States policy. He was quoted as saying his nation will “weaponize” its existing plutonium stockpiles and begin a new program to enrich uranium, another material that can be used to make atomic warheads.

The statement was released hours after the Security Council voted to punish the North for its May 25 nuclear test and ballistic missile tests with tough sanctions including an arms embargo and high-seas searches of North Korean vessels.

“We’ll take firm military action if the United States and its allies try to isolate us,” the spokesman said, according to KCNA.

UK's Galloway blisters US policy on Iraq on MSNBC

Norman Coleman -- not quite a genius, from the Guardian.

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Hopefully I'll have more video on this later.

via Attaturk: the Senate report found that US oil purchases accounted for 52% of the kickbacks paid to the regime in return for sales of cheap oil - more than the rest of the world put together.

"The United States was not only aware of Iraqi oil sales which violated UN sanctions and provided the bulk of the illicit money Saddam Hussein obtained from circumventing UN sanctions," the report said. "On occasion, the United States actually facilitated the illicit oil sales."

via ThinkProgress

According to the transcript of today's White House Briefing, a "reporter" named John had this Gannon-like intro to his question:

Q You talked about sanctions against Iran if they don't comply with dismantling their nuclear energy program. Sanctions, in the past, have proven to be a joke – that they didn't work against Iraq…

Of course, according to the administration's handpicked weapons inspector, David Kay, that's untrue:

"Iraq's large-scale capability to develop, produce, and fill new chemical weapon munitions was reduced - if not entirely destroyed - during Operations Desert Storm and Desert Fox, 13 years of UN sanctions and UN inspections."

We all understand paritsanship politics, but give me a break.