memeorandum: Tinpot Dictator Taken Down In Honduras— Chavez Slams Coup... Obama Meddles (Gateway Pundit)

6:35 AM ET, June 29, 2009

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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.

Discussion: BBC, Facing South, A Tiny Revolution, Obsidian Wings, MyDD, Postcards from the Revolution, OAS, The Agonist, Raw Story, Harry's Place, The Moderate Voice and AMERICAblog News

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.

Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Associated Press

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.

Discussion: Reuters, Fox News, Associated Press, PoliBlog, neo-neocon, Moe Lane, At-Largely, Nice Deb, RealClearWorld, The Jawa Report, Gates of Vienna, Monsters and Critics, The Moderate Voice, Patterico's Pontifications, Corrente, RedState, BBC and Neptunus Lex

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.

Discussion: New York Times, YID With LID and Sweetness & Light

Gateway Pundit:
Tinpot Dictator Taken Down In Honduras— Chavez Slams Coup... Obama Meddles

Discussion: theblogprof, At-Largely, Macsmind, American Power, PoliBlog, RealClearWorld and Raw Story

Wall Street Journal: Honduras Defends Its Democracy

Los Angeles Times:
Honduran president ousted in coup; replacement is named

Discussion: The Field on the Narcosphere

CNN:
Honduras president arrested, local media report

Discussion: Reuters, Gawker, Don Surber and lgf 2.0

Dan Collins / Piece of Work In Progress:
The Honduran Coup [UPDATE x3]

Discussion: Associated Press, Don Surber and Raw Story

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 …

John M. Broder / New York Times:

Obama Opposes Trade Sanctions in Climate Bill — WASHINGTON — President Obama on Sunday praised the energy bill passed by the House late last week as an “extraordinary first step,” but he spoke out against a provision that would impose trade penalties on countries that do not accept limits on global warming pollution.

Discussion: Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, GayPatriot, Wall Street Journal, Marginal Revolution, The Swamp, Commentary, Ben Smith's Blog, The Next Right and The Hill's Blog Briefing Room

New York Times:
Interview With President Obama on Climate Bill

Discussion: The Volokh Conspiracy

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 …

Discussion: Track-A-'Crat, Power Line, Kausfiles, Raw Story, TigerHawk, Liberal Values, Pajamas Media and The Skepticrats

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:

Discussion: Media Matters for America, TBogg, Crooks and Liars, AMERICAblog News, Get Energy Smart!, SteveAudio, Bob Cesca's Awesome Blog!, Hullabaloo, Think Progress, Raw Story, Taylor Marsh, Firedoglake, ATTACKERMAN, Balloon Juice, The Impolitic, Grasping Reality …, NewsBusters.org and D-Day

Michael Calderone / Michael Calderone's Blog:
Milbank, Pitney spar over HuffPo-Obama exchange

Discussion: Gateway Pundit, Gawker, Blogs and Stories and The Hill's Blog Briefing Room

Natalie Apsell / CNN:
Reliable Sources: Journos spar over Obama presser question

Discussion: Townhall.com

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.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, JustOneMinute, The Corner, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Edge of the American West, 24Ahead, alicublog, The Radio Patriot and Piece of Work In Progress

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 …

Discussion: naked capitalism

Guardian:
Recovery threatened by toxic assets

Discussion: AMERICAblog News and Calculated Risk

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 …

Discussion: Big Hollywood, FITSNews, theblogprof, Perez Hilton and Scared Monkeys

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 …

Discussion: Whiskey Fire, The Sundries Shack, The Volokh Conspiracy, Macsmind, NewsBusters.org, Verum Serum, Sweetness & Light and Telegraph

Watts Up With That?:
RELEASED The censored EPA CO2 endangerment document - final report

Discussion: theblogprof, Right Wing News and Jay Currie

John / Power Line:
Obama's EPA Quashes Climate Change Science

Discussion: Townhall.com and NewsBusters.org

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 …

Discussion: Pajamas Media, News of the World, Gawker, Scared Monkeys, New York Post, Chicago Boyz, L.A. Now, The Moderate Voice and Gateway Pundit

Jonathan Martin / The Politico:

Sanford: sex scandal, 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.

Discussion: The Palmetto Scoop and The Note

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 …

Discussion: Politico Live's Blog, Instapundit, RedState, TigerHawk, QandO and Hot Air

William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:

Wonkette Goes After Trig Palin Again — It really is hard to understand why some adults feel the need to make fun of Trig Palin, a one-year old who has Down Syndrome. Politics alone cannot explain it. If you don't like Sarah Palin, fine, but why go after Trig?

Discussion: American Power, Conservatives4Palin.com, The Rhetorican and Pajamas Media

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 …