9-25-2009

On the Wrong Side of History: For a man who just stood up in the UN and claimed the right of people for self-determination (except in Iran, of course), he sure is working awful hard to ensure Honduras’s citizens don’t enjoy that right.

Bureaucratic Buffoons: The U.S. government failed to send promised college tuition checks to tens of thousands of veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars before they returned to school this fall, even after being warned that it was inadequately staffed for the job.

Jennifer Rubin: Add another failure to the list that the Obama national-security team is racking up: its Guantanamo policy. The Washington Post reports that the Obama team really didn’t know what they were doing…

MillionMedMarch on 10/1/2009: The MillionMedMarch will follow in October to remind our elected officials that we intend to keep coming back to Washington and keep marching until the doctors and the patients are the focus of the healthcare reform.

Don Surber: I’ve been a newspaperman for 30 years, doling out opinions for 22. It is unbelievable that a rodeo clown and two kids from High School Musical 3 (as Jon Stewart put it) are dismantling the most adored, historic and super-duper smart administration since Jefferson dined alone. I haven’t seen anything like this since the guy who ran the gift shop at CBS — Matt Drudge — made Monica Lewinsky a household name.

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