“Honduras” on The Daily Caller

Republican lawmakers are alleging that Operation Fast and Furious may have had a twin in Tampa: Operation Castaway. (more)

While millions of Americans continue to struggle to find work, tighten their belts during tough economic times and fight to defend their right to keep the best health care system in the world from being taken over by the government, President Obama continues his pursuit of a disastrous foreign policy agenda. (more)

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Paula Cruz wept quietly at the foreign ministry office in El Salvador’s capital after reporting that her son was missing — apparently kidnapped — in Mexico. (more)

Last month, Oliver Stone’s ”South of the Border” made its American debut. The documentary’s focus is Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, who Stone believes has been cruelly demonized in Western media. (more)

By Stephen Richer and R. Ben Sperry (more)

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Spain’s potent attack couldn’t score a goal. South Africa fell desperately close to elimination. Chile did something for the first time in 48 years. (more)

While you’re watching Team USA soundly whomp England (hopefully) on day 2 of the World Cup tomorrow, ponder this: could soccer, the obsession of every country in the world other than the slightly backwards and somewhat confused USA, possibly be a bad thing? (more)

Wednesday, President Barack Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon stood side by side on the White House lawn, smiled, and attacked an American state.  It was a display grotesque and bizarre, laden with the stink of lies and ripe with hypocrisy.  For a half hour or so, the two men hammed it up for the assembled international press, reveling in themselves as they mischaracterized a law that, most likely, neither of them managed to read.  Calderon later addressed Congress.  Again, he targeted the U.S., focusing on Arizona’s immigration law and its nonexistent human rights abuses.  As he did so, he received a standing ovation from those who populate the left side of the aisle. (more)

The British election saga is over, and the new prime minister finally has the keys to 10 Downing Street. Despite his newfound power, David Cameron is the first to say that the key to his success, present and future, is his “secret weapon:” wife Samantha Cameron. (more)

Sarah Palin’s speech at the 2010 Southern Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans proved one thing for sure: Palin is ready for the next step, whatever it may be. (more)

The lapdog congress, tailor to our imperial president, gave him a garment made of health care. Unfortunately, the expensive suit may come apart at the seams and he finds himself needful of new clothing material. So he decided foreign affairs are just the stuff. As a result, and because President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton are leaders and statesmen in name only, American foreign policy is now in shambles on every continent. Why do the incompetents persist? (more)

When the going gets tough, it’s time for straight talk. It’s time to say what needs to be said, without all of the lofty rhetoric.  That’s precisely what Sean Hannity does in Conservative Victory: Defeating Obama’s Radical Agenda. (more)

I have always resented the liberal presumption of intolerance among conservatives – the notion that we huddle around campfires in endangered forests and seethe in our abhorrence of gays, ethnic minorities, illegal immigrants and France. (more)

Abstract: In the real world, as opposed to what French President Nicolas Sarkozy calls President Barack Obama’s "virtual world," America faces the reality of Iran’s intransigence and aggressiveness; China’s headlong pursuit of its own national, regional, and global interests; Russia’s determination to regain its Near Abroad; the Arab states’ refusal to accept any kind of a reasonable settlement of the kind that Israel has already offered under several governments; Syria’s designs on Lebanon; and Hugo Chávez’s designs on the weaker countries in Latin America. President Obama’s foreign policy agenda of gradual American retreat will have inexorable consequences: When erstwhile allies see the American umbrella being withdrawn, they will have to accommodate themselves to those from whom we were protecting them. If Obama proves impervious to empirical evidence and experience, all these accommodations, the weakening of alliances, the strengthening of centers of adversarial power in Moscow, Beijing, Tehran, Caracas, and elsewhere will continue until we are awakened by some cataclysm. (more)

With Porfirio Lobo assuming the presidency of Honduras, its citizens formally turn the page on the political crisis triggered by Manuel Zelaya’s removal from office in June 2009. It is time for the international community to do the same. Honduras’ fragile economy and its citizens have paid a high price in recent months. They must be given a chance at a new beginning. (more)

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — A Honduran judge on Thursday charged the country’s top military commanders with abuse of power for exiling President Manuel Zelaya in June. (more)

Abstract: Cargo must be checked–but it is impossible to screen 11.6 million containers every year without bringing the global economy to its knees. How to avoid the paralyzing cargo clog of the Department of Homeland Security’s mandate for 100 percent cargo screening? Heritage Foundation homeland security policy analysts Jena Baker McNeill and Jessica Zuckerman lay out a smart plan for risk-based screening–which can keep the country safe and prosperous at the same time. (more)

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Honduras’ Supreme Court has agreed to hear an abuse of power case against top military commanders for sending President Manuel Zelaya out of the country in his June 28 ouster. (more)

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Interim President Roberto Micheletti responded harshly Wednesday to U.S. suggestions that he resign before a new president takes office Jan 27. (more)

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — U.S. State Department diplomat Craig Kelly returned to Honduras on Tuesday to make his fourth attempt in five months to reunite leaders in this bitterly divided nation. (more)