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Fausta / Fausta's Blog:
Coup in Honduras - Correction: This is NOT a coup — UPDATED throughout the day — Please read the 1:50PM update. The Honduran Supreme Court of Justice has confirmed that Honduran president Manuel Zelaya was detained this morning by the military in compliance with an order of the courts of law.
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BBC:
Honduran leader forced into exile — Troops in Honduras have ousted the president and flown him out of the country after a power struggle over plans to change the constitution. — After arriving in Costa Rica, deposed President Manuel Zelaya said he had been kidnapped by soldiers.
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.
Adam Green / Open Left:
Ceci Connolly — Ridiculous Reporter — It's always fun talking to a reporter who has no idea what they are talking about. — I recently had that opportunity when talking with the Washington Post's Ceci Connolly, who published a story on health care politics this morning.
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Ceci Connolly / Washington Post:
Health-Care Activists Are Targeting Democrats Who Are Usually Allies — Sniping Among Liberals May Jeopardize Votes Needed to Pass Bill — In the high-stakes battle over health care, a growing cadre of liberal activists is aiming its sharpest firepower against Democratic senators …
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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Ian Halperin / Daily Mail:
'I'm better off dead. I'm done': Michael Jackson's fateful prediction just a week before his death — Whatever the final autopsy results reveal, it was greed that killed Michael Jackson. Had he not been driven - by a cabal of bankers, agents, doctors and advisers …
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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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.
Jennifer Parker / George's Bottom Line:
Axelrod: Obama Won't Rule Out Middle-Class Tax Hike — White House senior adviser David Axelrod said the president won't rule out a health care reform bill that includes a middle-class tax hike. — “The president had said in the past that he doesn't believe taxing health care benefits …
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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Political Shifts on Gay Rights Lag Behind Culture — WASHINGTON — For 15 minutes in the Oval Office the other day, one of President Obama's top campaign lieutenants, Steve Hildebrand, told the president about the “hurt, anxiety and anger” that he and other gay supporters felt over the slow pace …
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Crooks and Liars, American Power, Matthew Yglesias, Balkinization, Washington Monthly and Sweetness & Light
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John M. Broder / New York Times:
Obama Warns Against Trade Penalties in Energy Bill — WASHINGTON — A day after strongly praising energy legislation passed by the House, President Obama on Sunday spoke out against a provision in the bill that would impose trade penalties on countries that do not accept global-warming pollution limits.
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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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Sanford: Sex scandal with political twist — In the should-he-stay-or-should-he- go drama now playing out in South Carolina over Gov. Mark Sanford, there is one group of people that is fervently, if quietly, hoping that he will stay. — Their motivation is not loyalty to their adulterous governor.
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