Obama backs an insane horse
Meanwhile, in Tegucigalpa, the deposed Honduran president and Chavez wannabe Manuel Zelaya has sneaked into the country and taken up residence at the Brazilian embassy. La Gringa reports that Zelaya’s return was accompanied by an outbreak of violence by supporters.
The democratic forces of Honduras oppose Zelaya’s restoration to power, but the government of the [...]
Obama’s Honduran mistake
At first it appeared that Barack Obama and his foreign policy team might be having a hard time distinguishing America’s friends from America’s enemies. With their treatment of Israel and Honduras, however, one can safely infer that they have a pretty good bead on the friend/enemy distinction. The problem is that in many [...]
Meanwhile, Back in the Murmuring Pines and the Hemlocks…
Occulted by the momentous national slugfest about TeddyCare, the explosion of Medicare spending (or draconian rationing), the imminent collapse of Social Security, the mind-numbing deficits, the looming tax attax, the energy-production cripple-and-tax bill, the slow American retreat in Afghanistan, and the rapid Obama-decreed rout in Iraq… tucked in away among all this political misdirection, the [...]
HeistWatch - Day 1
Day 1 after the Washington Times reported that the chief of staff to impeached Honduran president Manuel Zelaya, Enrique Flores Lanza, may have stolen millions of dollars in cash from the Central Bank of Honduras, three days before Zelaya himself was arrested for treason…
So far, I have found only one newspaper that has even so [...]
Hugo don’t lose that number, part 2
Without mentioning the Investor’s Business Daily editorial reporting Hugo Chavez’s late night phone call to Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Shannon, Mary Anastasia O’Grady advances the story a bit by placing her own call to Shannon. O’Grady comments that Chavez’s phone call “showed that his campaign [to reinsate deposed Honduran president Manuel Zelaya] was [...]
The Curious Case of Tegucigalpa’s Traveling Traitor
I highly recommend the excellent Los Angeles Times commentary-analysis by filibustered D.C. Circus nominee Miguel Estrada; he makes an excellent legal (and moral) case that:
The ouster of former Honduran President (and now accused traitor) Manuel Zelaya was perfectly legal (and a darned good idea), not only in accord with the Honduran constitution, but also at [...]
