Iran

Two North Texans Could Get 205 Years in Federal Prison for Exporting Computers to Iran

There is, apparently, an entity known as the North Texas Counterproliferation Task Force. It's sufficiently new/under the radar to yield exactly zero matches on Google, but it's a thing, and it's made up of agents from the FBI, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security, and the Departme ... More >>

Kiarostami in Exile

The great Iranian director lost a home but gained a planet.

Mark Davis Says "Today is the First Day of Talk Radio." Ain't That the Truth.

Not long after the networks started calling Ohio for Obama last night, but before Karl Rove tried to convince himself that Cleveland and Cincinnati were going to miraculously turn the state red, Mark Davis, the local conservative talk-radio host and Morning News contributor, dispatched the Tweet you ... More >>

With Argo, Ben Affleck Asks Us To Love Hollywood Again

Rambo Romney Should Call for Restarting the Draft

Make us believe you mean it, Mitt. Bring back the draft. For the better part of a week, I have been reading all these thinly veiled suggestions by Mitt Romney that President Obama isn't enough of an ass-kicker in the Middle East. His aides have been telling reporters that a President Romney right n ... More >>

Marjane Satrapi: There Is No 'Clash of Cultures'

Marjane Satrapi on east, west, and how all stories are autobiography

Southwest Airlines' Herb Kelleher: Energy Independence, As You Understand It, Is A Myth

Southwest Airlines co-founder Herb Kelleher and a gaggle of other titans, from former U.S. Spec Ops commanders to Sam Gilliland, chief executive officer of Dallas-based Sabre Holdings, reject outright the idea that we can drill our way to energy independence. In an Energy Security Leadership Council ... More >>

Why Does Karl Rove Hate America So Much?

Oh, boy. Another chance to say something good about Detroit. Nothing gets a bigger rise out of a certain element among you loyal Lawners than when I utter anything even faintly complimentary about my hometown. For reasons I may never fully understand, I would incite less mouth-foaming if I sang the ... More >>

Best Films of 2011: Why You've Never Heard of Margaret

And nine more choice flicks.

Verbal Sparring Between Romney and Perry Highlight GOP Debate, But Three Bachmann Quotes Prove She Needs to Go Home

If you missed last night's CNN Western Republican debate in Nevada, the clip above is the best example of why the GOP is seriously screwed no matter who they choose. The two supposed front-runners -- Mitt Romney and Rick Perry -- acted like a couple of high schoolers, barking and interrupting each ... More >>

Gig Alert: Hypernova and The Yellow Dogs Tonight at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios in Denton

It's not often that a band from Iran makes its way to our area, much less a pair of them, so tonight's Hypernova/The Yellow Dogs performance at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios should provide a good reason to head to Denton. Now based out of New York, Hypernova has gone through quite a journey jus ... More >>

In No One Knows About Persian Cats, You Get To Know Tehran's Underground Music Scene

Manufacturing Dissent: Bush Institute's Cyber Dissidents Panel Gathers Friends of the Freedom Agenda

Patrick MichelsPresident Bush opens his institute's Conference on Cyber Dissidents: "The Bush Institute is going to be involved in the freedom movement."​The George W. Bush Presidential Center at Southern Methodist University won't be breaking ground till November, but its policy arm, the Bush Ins ... More >>

"Cyber Dissidents" at Dubya Institute, Wrong-Way Tickets and a $100,000 Dare

Terry Dorsey ... for now​A few news and notes with which to end your red-flag Tuesday:The Bush Institute on the SMU campus today announced its very first "human freedom" event, scheduled for April 19 at the James M. Collins Executive Education Center: The Conference on Cyber Dissidents: Global Suc ... More >>

"Pole Tax" Dances Into Texas Supreme Court

Last spring, The Lodge made a big show of presenting the state with a big check that's been sitting in escrow ever since.​As you no doubt recall, the state of Texas has been trying for years to find a way to make its so-called "pole tax" stick. The first time around, a judge slapped down the $5-pe ... More >>

Top 10 Most Important Influences On Food In Our Lifetimes

​Consequences are near impossible to predict and rather difficult to judge, even in hindsight. For example, the Baby Boom generation, so interested in besting their elders in freedom of thought, turned into the kind of wimp-ass parents who dumb down education so every kid could pass. And you coul ... More >>

Things Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison Apparently Hates: Rick Perry, Iran, Iraq, Obama's Health Care Plan and TxDOT

Sam MertenSenator Kay Bailey Hutchison criticized Governor Rick Perry in a speech to the local Republican Jewish Coalition this afternoon, claiming Texas has the country's highest property taxes, an education system with the worst dropout rate in the nation and a government growing faster than the ... More >>

In Dealey Plaza Saturday, Dallas Participates in the Global Day of Action for Iran

Photos by Megan Feldman​On Saturday afternoon, around 100 people gathered at Dealey Plaza to protest the Iranian government and show support for pro-democracy demonstrators in that country, where the regime has been retaliating against widespread protests since the June 12 election. Saturday's ... More >>

At Dallas City Hall Today, Hundreds Show Support for Friends and Family in Iran

Megan FeldmanThis afternoon outside Dallas City Hall, several hundred people braved the summer's first 100-degree day to protest the violent crackdown on demonstrators in Iran. They waved Iranian flags, held signs demanding freedom and democracy and showed photographs of the violence that has rocked ... More >>

Honeymoon in Fort Worth

Executive Notes: Top Ten Musical Moments In Presidential History

(Un)sound Bites: Southpaw's Organic Cafe, A Left-Handed Compliment

Rethinking Pink

Not Bab'

The Modern hosts a foreign flick

Trolling Right-Wing Political Blogs Proves That November Can't Come Too Soon

A Trip to Persepolis

Graphic Stuff

Illustrating a traumatic childhood

Funny With Bubbly

Trinity Still Divides Council

Shalom, Y'All!

The Hippies are Back

Tour achieves what Democrat-controlled Congress can't

No Goal for Girls

Offside examines soccer and women in Iran

Global Prime Time

Tour the world inside the Majestic

Meetcha at the Blue Ramp

Reading Nafisi in Dallas

Yard of Dreams

Wave On

Music's lunatic fringe lives, breathes and flourishes on the shortwave radio dial

Big Finish

Arts and Letters Live hosts some free speech

War Torn

The teen-agers of the topical, complex Baran find love and life don't often mix easily

Rites of Passage

Smell of Camphor marks the return of one of Iran's outstanding directors

Torn Apart

A family is caught between cultures in Maryam

Fundamental Rights

The Circle is a powerhouse of a film about women in Iran

Feeding Frenzy

Some high-demand fish are in danger of extinction--and restaurants are caught in the middle

Beasts of Burden

Drunken Horses, and the children who must lead them over rocks and mines

Best business start-up likely to kick butt

NextJet

His good name

Former FBI honcho Oliver "Buck" Revell fights against conspiracy buffs who accuse him of mass murder

From Russia, with bugs

Scientists from the former Soviet Union's top-secret biological weapons lab join with Dallas researchers to fight a common enemy: the deadly Ebola virus

Sheer Paradise

A beautiful film from Iran explores beauty both physical and spiritual

All that Heaven allows

Majid Majidi's new film extends Iranian cinema's fascination with children

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