Interesting phraseology in the Washington Post today: President Obama was aware that the Muslim Brotherhood and others were in the audience when he spoke of “a new beginning” in a 2009 speech in Cairo that was directed at the Islamic world, the [White House] official said. He cited a passage in the speech in which [...]

Conservative media has been running hard with various alarmist themes about the uprising in Egypt–the influence of Islamists, the potential threat to oil supplies, and the fact that former International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei is the emerging face of the opposition in Cairo. (Jon Chait has a fun roundup of ElBaradei hysteria.) While [...]