Unrest in Honduras
From Maria Anastasia O'Grady's column in the WSJ, "Honduras Defends Its Democracy":

That Mr. Zelaya acted as if he were above the law, there is no doubt. While Honduran law allows for a constitutional rewrite, the power to open that door does not lie with the president. A constituent assembly can only be called through a national referendum approved by its Congress.

But Mr. Zelaya declared the vote on his own and had Mr. Chávez ship him the necessary ballots from Venezuela. The Supreme Court ruled his referendum unconstitutional, and it instructed the military not to carry out the logistics of the vote as it normally would do.

The top military commander, Gen. Romeo Vásquez Velásquez, told the president that he would have to comply. Mr. Zelaya promptly fired him. The Supreme Court ordered him reinstated. Mr. Zelaya refused.

Of course, the BBC, Hillary Clinton, Chavistas, and all the global leftists are portraying this as an unjust military coup. Cue videos talking about how great Allende was for Chile before Nixon and the evil CIA supported Pinochet in 1973...

Coach O Rilin' up the Ladies in Knoxville
As if the ESPN clip wasn't bad enough, see this clip.

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NOTE: Regarding the recent elections in Lebanon, Kuwait, and Iran, one article ends with the following three paragraphs...

A late-campaign outpouring of support for Mr. Mousavi helped drive optimism across the Mideast that change in Iran could be afoot. Recent electoral battles elsewhere in the region also pointed to a possible shift toward the center among the region's voters, following years of political gains by anti-Western Islamist groups like Hezbollah and Gaza.

In May, Kuwaiti voters dealt a setback to the country's Islamist parties, and also voted in four women parliamentarians, the country's first elected female lawmakers. Earlier this month in Lebanon, a Western-backed coalition of politicians fought off a strong challenge by a bloc led by Hezbollah, the Shiite political and militia group funded by Iran and Syria.

Saudi officials were especially heartened by the Lebanese polls. Riyadh had long seen itself as a stabilizing force in the region, and a counterweight to Iran's regional super-power status. The election in Lebanon turned into a political proxy battle pitting Saudi and the West against Iran and Syria. And for the first time in a long while, Saudi and the West came out on top.

NOTE: Russians are frequently full of shit. They may have some serious internal problems.



NOTE: Democratic Senators Ben Nelson (NE) and Mary Landrieu (LA) appear to be against ObamaCare at the present time, but the battle lines remain murky.