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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
WSJ: White House tried to prevent Honduran president's ouster — Via Gateway Pundit. I understood The One's logic for not wanting to meddle in Iran. I don't understand his logic for wanting to meddle in Honduras. … Read Fausta's amazing round-up of what happened here.
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Elisabeth Malkin / New York Times:
Honduran President Is Ousted in Coup — MEXICO CITY — The Honduran president, Manuel Zelaya, was ousted by the army on Sunday after pressing ahead with plans for a referendum that opponents said could lay the groundwork for his eventual re-election, in the first military coup in Central America since the end of the cold war.
Wall Street Journal:
Honduras Tense After Army Coup — By PAUL KIERNAN in Tegucigalpa and JOSE DE CORDOBA in Mexico City — TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Soldiers stormed the house of leftist President Manuel Zelaya in a predawn raid Sunday, arresting him and removing him from power amid a growing crisis over Mr. Zelaya's plans to try to get re-elected.
Gateway Pundit:
Tinpot Dictator Taken Down In Honduras— Chavez Slams Coup... Obama Meddles
Tinpot Dictator Taken Down In Honduras— Chavez Slams Coup... Obama Meddles
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Los Angeles Times:
Honduran president ousted in coup; replacement is named
Honduran president ousted in coup; replacement is named
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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Kristol: Barack Obama, Our Personal Trainer — Here's how President Obama concluded an interview in the Oval Office today: … All hail our new personal trainer! Until he entered the White House, everyone was a mere couch potato. — Funny. I'd thought that, a couple of years ago …
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New York Times:
Interview With President Obama on Climate Bill — The following is a transcript, provided by the White House, of an interview with President Obama, Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Carol M. Browner, the White House coordinator of energy and climate policy, conducted by a group of reporters on Sunday:
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Nico Pitney / The Huffington Post:
Debating The Iran Question On CNN's Reliable Sources — This morning, Dana Milbank, Amanda Carpenter, and I appeared on CNN's Reliable Sources, hosted by Howard Kurtz. — It was a spirited affair and folks can draw their own conclusions. Here's the video:
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Natalie Apsell / CNN:
Reliable Sources: Journos spar over Obama presser question
Reliable Sources: Journos spar over Obama presser question
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Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:
The Washington Post's Dana Milbank calls Nico Pitney a 'dick …
The Washington Post's Dana Milbank calls Nico Pitney a 'dick …
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NY Daily News:
Aide's tale of John Edwards sex tape — Former presidential candidate John Edwards is out of luck if he hoped that the extramarital affairs of Gov. Mark Sanford and Sen. John Ensign would take people's minds off his own cheating scandal. — Former Edwards aide Andrew Young says the ex-senator …
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Wall Street Journal:
Wary Banks Hobble Toxic-Asset Plan — The government's plan to enable banks to dump troubled assets is facing troubles of its own. — Markets initially rallied when Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner announced in March a two-pronged plan to offer favorable government financing …
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Guardian:
Recovery threatened by toxic assets — • Governments too slow to act, warn central bankers — • CBI sounds warning over ‘worrying’ bad debt levels — Taxpayers around the world still face potentially large losses because governments have failed to act quickly enough …
Fox News:
‘Infomercial King’ Billy Mays Found Dead in Home — DEVELOPING: Television pitchman Billy Mays — who built his fame by appearing on commercials and infomercials promoting household products and gadgets — died Sunday. — Mays, 50, was found unresponsive by his wife inside his Tampa …
Jack Cashill / American Thinker:
Breakthrough on the Authorship of Obama's ‘Dreams’ — Within days of my going public last September with the speculation that terrorist emeritus Bill Ayers helped Barack Obama write his acclaimed memoir, Dreams From My Father, I learned that I was not alone in that intuition.
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Obama Needs to Intervene on Health Care Bill — Every general studies the mistakes of the last war, and President Obama's style has been much influenced by the difficulties of Bill Clinton's presidency. — In particular, Obama has shied away from handing Congress his own plans on …
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Jennifer Parker / George's Bottom Line:
Axelrod: Obama Won't Rule Out Middle-Class Tax Hike
Axelrod: Obama Won't Rule Out Middle-Class Tax Hike
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Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Keeping News of Kidnapping Off Wikipedia — For seven months, The New York Times managed to keep out of the news the fact that one of its reporters, David Rohde, had been kidnapped by the Taliban. — But that was pretty straightforward compared with keeping it off Wikipedia.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Betraying the Planet — So the House passed the Waxman-Markey climate-change bill. In political terms, it was a remarkable achievement. — But 212 representatives voted no. A handful of these no votes came from representatives who considered the bill too weak, but most rejected the bill …
Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
E-mails indicate EPA suppressed report skeptical of global warming — The Environmental Protection Agency may have suppressed an internal report that was skeptical of claims about global warming, including whether carbon dioxide must be strictly regulated by the federal government …
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