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Honduras Defends Its Democracy — Fidel Castro and Hillary Clinton object. — Printer — Friendly — Hugo Chávez's coalition-building efforts suffered a setback yesterday when the Honduran military sent its president packing for abusing the nation's constitution.
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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.
Allahpundit / Hot Air:WSJ: White House tried to prevent Honduran president's ouster
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Wall Street Journal:Honduras Tense After Army Coup
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Associated Press:
Justices Rule for White Firefighters in Bias Case — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ruled that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were unfairly denied promotions because of their race, reversing a decision that high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor endorsed as an appeals court judge.
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Amy Sullivan / Time:
The Obamas Find a Church Home — Away from Home — For the past five months, White House aides and friends of the Obamas have been quietly visiting local churches and vetting the sermons of prospective first ministers in a search for a new — and uncontroversial — church home.
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 …
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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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 …
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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.
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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?
Natalie Apsell / CNN:
Reliable Sources: Journos spar over Obama presser question — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Tensions flared between “new media” reporters and print and television journalists last Tuesday when President Obama called on Nico Pitney, HuffingtonPost.com national editor, to ask the second question during a news conference at the White House.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Chambliss blocks regulatory pick over animal lawsuits — Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) has blocked President Obama's candidate for regulation czar, Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein, because Sunstein has argued that animals should have the right to sue humans in court.
Krishna Guha / Financial Times:
Romer upbeat on US economy — The US economy will feel a substantial boost from the Obama administration's emergency spending package over the next few months, says Christina Romer, a senior White House official, who has warned against tightening monetary and fiscal policy before recovery is well established.
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Financial Times:
Microsoft puts Razorfish up for sale — By Tim Bradshaw in Cannes and Richard Waters in San Francisco — Microsoft has appointed Morgan Stanley to find a potential buyer for Razorfish, its digital agency. — Publicis, the French marketing company that says it is planning more acquisitions …
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Mitt Romney's team awaits 2012 — Mitt Romney says publicly he's not considering another presidential campaign, most recently on Sunday during an appearance on NBC's “Meet the Press.” But many of his loyalists expect one and remain at the ready for 2012. — When dozens of former Romney aides …
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Dianne Feinstein: Criticism From Left On Health Care “Doesn't Move Me One Whit” — Senator Dianne Feinstein has already taken a hammering from Dems and health care reform advocates for casting doubts on the prospects of President Obama's health care reform efforts.
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Value And Limits Of Torture Photographs — Without Banisters makes several good points: — [W]hen images do show torture or execution actually happening, not just victims' bodies afterwards, they encourage us to feel enraged at the people doing it — but those people are invariably low-level operatives, not policy-makers.
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Way We Love Now — It's been a good month for reckless romance in America. The nation's most famous reality-television father, Jon Gosselin of “Jon and Kate Plus Eight,” threw over his marriage for a fling with a 23-year-old schoolteacher. Not one but two prominent conservative politicians torpedoed …
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 …
CNSNews:
Congressmen Say They Didn't Have Chance to Read Full 1,200-Page Climate Change Bill Before Vote — On the Spot (CNSNews.com) - Almost all of the House members surveyed Friday by CNSNews.com had not read the entire 1,200-page climate-change bill before they were to cast their vote Friday evening.
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