memeorandum: Recovery threatened by toxic assets (Guardian)

8:00 AM ET, June 29, 2009

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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.

Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Associated Press

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

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

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

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

Discussion: theblogprof, At-Largely, American Power, Macsmind, 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: Reuters, Associated Press, Don Surber and Raw Story

AOL News: Honduran President Removed in ‘Coup’

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

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, GayPatriot, Marginal Revolution, The Swamp, The Next Right, Ben Smith's Blog, Commentary 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: Power Line, Sadly, No!, Track-A-'Crat, 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:

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

Discussion: Townhall.com

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

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 …

Discussion: AMERICAblog News and Calculated Risk

Wall Street Journal:
Wary Banks Hobble Toxic-Asset Plan

Discussion: naked capitalism

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

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 and Sweetness & Light

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

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.

Discussion: Michelle Malkin, TechCrunch, Mashable! and The American Mind

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

Frank Rich / New York Times:

40 Years Later, Still Second-Class Americans — LIKE all students caught up in the civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1960s, I was riveted by the violent confrontations between the police and protestors in Selma, 1965, and Chicago, 1968. But I never heard about the several days …

Discussion: Law Dork, 2.0, AMERICAblog News and Daily Kos