AEI runs the best site that is posting election results and reports of violence in Iran. Check it out. It is regularly posting data on the Iranian election outcome that is unavailable elsewhere in English. It now includes a color map showing the results of the election graphically, along with tabular breakdown by province. Look for more information throughout the day, including coverage of the unrest and regime reaction.

Memo to David Gregory (and the rest of the media): Stop perpetuating the myth that Sonia Sotomayor is the first Hispanic to be nominated to the high court (Latina yes, Hispanic no).  Your job is to report the facts.

The fact is that President Herbert Hoover nominated the first Hispanic, Benjamin N. Cardozo, in 1932.  Cardozo’s grandparent were Sephardi Jews descendant from the Iberian Peninsula.

On Meet the Press this morning Gregory asked if Republicans would hurt themselves by failing to vote for the first Hispanic for the high court.  In fact, a Republican president nominated the first Hispanic to the Supreme Court.

One of my favorite writers.  Peggy Noonan strikes again.  Here’s an excerpt:

“More than most nations, America has been, from its start, a hero-loving place. Maybe part of the reason is that at our founding we were a Protestant nation and not a Catholic one, and so we made “saints” of civil and political figures. George Washington was our first national hero, known everywhere, famous to children. When he died, we had our first true national mourning, with cities and states re-enacting his funeral. There was the genius cluster that surrounded him, and invented us—Jefferson, Adams, Madison, Hamilton. Through much of the 20th century our famous heroes were in sports (Jack Dempsey, Joe Louis, the Babe, Joltin’ Joe) the arts (Clark Gable, Robert Frost) business and philanthropy (from Andrew Carnegie to Bill Gates) and religion (Billy Graham). Nobody does fame like America, and they were famous.

“The category of military hero—warrior—fell off a bit, in part because of the bad reputation of war. Some emerged of heroic size—Gens. Pershing and Patton, Eisenhower and Marshall. But somewhere in the 1960s I think we decided, or the makers of our culture decided, that to celebrate great warriors was to encourage war. And we always have too much of that. So they made a lot of movies depicting soldiers as victims and officers as brutish. This was especially true in the Vietnam era and the years that followed. Maybe a correction was in order: It’s good to remember war is hell. But when we removed the warrior, we removed something intensely human, something ancestral and stirring, something celebrated naturally throughout the long history of man. Also it was ungrateful: They put themselves in harm’s way for us.”