Lunchtime Links

What will the Iranian presidential election mean for the United States? Four possible scenarios.

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) makes a rational, measured argument about the Obama administration. Just kidding!

A GOP consultant says his party is headed for an ice age.

FACE Act lawsuits almost disappeared under the Bush administration.

CIA Director Leon Panetta says capturing Osama bin Laden is now more likely.

House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Joe Barton (R-Texas) reads the newspaper through a global warming hearing — again.

The Root celebrates interracial marriage on the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Loving v. Virginia decision.

A new book examines the decline and fall of Donald Rumsfeld.

Smoking lettuce is probably not advisable.