The Fox News Channel deserves congratulations. That is not a typo. The conservative news network upheld its journalistic integrity - whatever little it had to begin with - by not reporting on a Web rumor that Democratic presidential front-runner Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts had had an affair.

In the Middle East, countries with elections are hard to come by, and absolute dictators abound. Thus, the fact that Iran continued to hold elections for its representative body, the Majlis, and assorted lesser offices was amazing. Although these elections are not truly free like those in a democracy, they still gave the average Iranian a way to express himself to the political elites in the Islamic Republic.