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The Washington Post, once so despised by Richard Nixon, has morphed into a (somewhat) right-wing newspaper. It's also becoming damn sloppy with facts. Yesterday, trying to argue that President Obama was undeserving of the Nobel Peace Prize, they offered an alternative. It should have gone, they insisted, to the late Neda Agha-Soltan, who died a publicized, defiant death during the Iranian uprising. You could certainly make the case for her to have gotten the award instead…except for the fact that, as James Fallows notes, the Nobel Prize rules prohibit posthumous honors. Why is an editorial about the Nobel Prize being written by someone who didn't do the five minutes of research necessary to find that out?