Yesterday, I questioned whether the Obama/Clinton quick, one-sided condemnation of the “coup” in Honduras was a low risk way for the administration to earn instant “street cred” with its leftist base. Sure enough, a headline in the New York Times this morning likely caught the attention of liberal/progressive readers:| MORE ›

E.D. Kain at The League of Ordinary Gentlemen nails the problem with the Waxman-Markey approach to climate change legislation:

Once again it seems proponents of Waxman-Markey are talking right past the actual objections to the bill and speaking instead quite generally about the moral impetus of climate change legislation itself.| MORE ›

It might seem like Mr. Miyagi once tutored Barrack Obama and Hillary Clinton on foreign policy. Since January, the administration has been practicing diplomatic Jujitsu: hands off (North Korea), hands on (Israel), hands off (Iran). This week, it’s hands on Honduras. In fact, the administration was so quick to condemn the “coup” in Honduras that you could almost hear the Karate whiplash sound. The AP reported today:| MORE ›

By Jason Steck, RealClearWorld Compass blog

The expulsion of former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya by the Honduras military has sparked a lively debate over whether or not the takeover should be called a “coup”. The reason for the debate is simple enough — “coup” conjures images of a military junta seizing power by extralegal force and repressing all opposition akin to Argentina in the early 1980s.| MORE ›

Thus far in the still-early months of his term, President Obama has largely stuck with his promise for rhetorical moderation and a change in the often vicious tone that has come to characterize American politics in recent years.| MORE ›

Several weeks ago, influential Dutch conservative blog De Dagelijkse Standaard broke the news that another wannabe rightist blog (PlustPost.nl – I won’t link to it, see below) owned by Grimbert Rost van Tonningen – who happens to be a millionaire – was doing so badly, that the owner asked the Dutch government for a bailout (in the form of a loan). That’s not a joke.| MORE ›

The New York Times thinks so after Ahmad Khatami, a senior Iranian cleric, called for the execution of protesters and the Guardian Council stated that the elections in held in that country were “healthy”.| MORE ›

Earlier Saturday, Lebanon’s President Michel Suleiman named Saad Hariri his country’s new prime minister. Hariri’s liberal democratic party won the elections for Parliament earlier this month: it occupies 71 of the 128 seats. The remaining seats went to extremist, nay terrorist, organization Hizbullah.

Although it is certainly bad news that Hizbullah has become so big in Lebanon, it could have been worse. Many feared that Hizbullah would win. Luckily, this was not the case.| MORE ›