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July 2, 2009
North Korea Shows No Sign of Imminent Missile Launch, U.S. Says
Honduras Resists Pressure to Allow Zelaya's Return
Fuel Tax Could Be Replaced with By-the-Mile Road Tax
July 1, 2009
Without State Budget, California Readies "IOUs"
CIA Report on Detention, Interrogation to Be Released
Democrat Franken Wins Protracted Minn. Senate Race
More Americans See Democrat Party as "Too Liberal"
June 30, 2009
Health-Care Policy in Wonderland by Thomas Sowell
U.S. Completes Pullout of Combat Forces From Iraq Cities
Media Mostly Ignores German and Hungarian Tax Cuts
Obama Says "Coup" in Honduras is Illegal
White House Announces New Lighting Standards
June 29, 2009
Anti-Tax Group at Odds with FL Gov. Crist
Russia Holds Major War Games in Caucasus
Obama Drafts Executive Order to Detain Terrorists Indefinitely Without Trial
Uninsured Numbers Overhype the Lack of Health Coverage
Supreme Court Overturns Sotomayor Decision on White Firefighters
June 28, 2009
Dollar Falls Most in Month as China Urges New Reserve Currency
Mounting Jobless Claims Force States to Borrow Funds
SC Gov. Considered Resigning, But Won't
Honduran President Removed in "Coup"
Older StoriesQuote of the Day
George Washington
"There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard."
Latest Column
Why Obama is Wrong on Honduras
by Matthew Driggers
Earlier this week, the President of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, was arrested in his home and removed from the country after trying to introduce a referendum to write a new constitution and remove term limits on his office. The highest court in Honduras ruled that the referendum would be unlawful. Zelaya rejected the ruling and dismissed Romeo Vásquez Velásquez, chief of armed forces of Honduras, as he had refused to help with the referendum because he did not want to violate the law of the land. Both the Honduran Supreme Court and the Honduran Congress deemed the referendum and the dismissal of Velásquez to be unlawful acts. They began to discuss a means to impeach Zelaya, and he was removed from office on Sunday of this week. Much of the world condemned his removal, calling it a "coup"...
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