The Obama State Department continues down the wrong path on Honduras with this two sentence press release. The Department of State is currently reviewing the diplomatic (A) visas of individuals who are members of the de facto regime in Honduras, as well as the derivative visas for family members of these individuals. We have already […]
President Obama and the leftist-loving State Department continue to side with the thugs of Latin America against the democracy of Honduras. Today’s Wall Street Journal featured two pieces on the subject of Honduras. The first, by Honduran President Roberto Micheletti, lays out the facts of the Honduran constitutional crisis that regular readers of this blog […]
President Barack Obama has got some members of his own party up on Capitol Hill in a tizzy over something he vowed during the campaign he wouldn’t do – using signing statements to ignore selected provisions of bills passed by Congress. Four senior House Democrats on Tuesday said they were "surprised" and "chagrined" by Obama's […]
Here's an excellent video of GOP Sen. Jim DeMint grilling an Obama administration nominee on the position the U.S. has taken vis a vis Honduras. The Obama administration appears to believe that the Honduran constitution requires some sort of trial to remove a president who has violated his oath of office. That's certainly true here […]
Former Union-Tribune columnist James Goldsborough now writes occasionally for the non-profit VoiceofSanDiego.org, but his rhetoric and fact-checking abilities (or lack thereof) haven't changed. As U.S. combat troops finished their withdrawal from Iraqi cities last month, the U.S. war in Iraq began its endgame, reminding us of the endgame in Vietnam, which ended the war for […]
I mean small "d" democrats when I say that. Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya continues to attempt to return to power despite widespread support for his ouster within that country. An old college friend of mine returned to the U.S. last weekend from doing missionary work in Honduras and his first Facebook comment was that […]
From the "If Bush had done it, the media and the left (but I repeat myself) would've gone ape" file: ABC News' Jake Tapper reports that the Obama administration will ignore that constitution-thing and implement a treaty without going to the senate for approval. Now, that's not really a fair characterization of what's going on. […]
Octavio Sanchez, a Honduran lawyer who has served as a presidential adviser and minister of culture for that Central American nation, gives Americans a primer on that nation's constitution -- one President Barack Obama would do well to read. These are the facts: On June 26, President Zelaya issued a decree ordering all government employees […]
After reading The Washington Post's article on today's quasi-coup in Honduras, one wonders what side the Obama administration is on. The coup was condemned throughout the Americas. President Obama joined other regional leaders in calling for a peaceful return of Zelaya to office. But the Honduran National Congress defiantly announced that Zelaya was out, and […]
Another bit that came out of today's press conference was President Obama's refusal to rescind invitations to Iran's diplomats across the globe to July 4 celebrations at U.S. embassies -- aptly described as "weenie diplomacy." All of this, of course, raises a major issue: Are the hot dogs real, American-style hot dogs which are typically […]