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* Zelaya invited to come and speak 'as soon as possible' * Assembly president urges U.N. body to denounce coup * U.S. envoy joins OAS in demanding Zelaya restoration (Recasts with Zelaya to address General Assembly on Tuesday) By Patrick Worsnip UNITED NATIONS, June 29 (Reuters) - Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya is expected to address the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday at the invitation of the Assembly president, officials said on Monday. Assembly spokesman Enrique Yeves said Zelaya was expected to speak before the 192-nation body at 11 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT). The Honduran military seized Zelaya and flew...

The only way Guaranty Bank will survive is with assistance from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and significant capital from private investors, the bank said in a regulatory filing Monday. Guaranty’s parent company, Guaranty Financial Group Inc., stated that it is in discussions with the FDIC and its primary regulator, the Office of Thrift Supervision, for a plan where the FDIC would absorb a portion of the bank’s losses while private investors provide a “significant equity capital infusion.” Guaranty’s largest shareholders are Dallas billionaire Robert Rowling and activist investor Carl Icahn, who control 20% and just more than 17% of...

China wants to achieve the ability, or at minimum the appearance of the ability, to prevent a U.S. carrier strike group (CSG) from intervening in the event of a future Taiwan Strait crisis. China may be closer than ever to achieving this capability with land-based anti-ship homing ballistic missiles. There have been many Western reports that China is developing an anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM). Increasingly, technical and operationally-focused discussions are found in a widening array of Chinese sources, some authoritative. These factors suggest that China may be close to fielding, testing, or employing an ASBM—a weapon that no other country...

Obama says Honduras coup illegal President Obama: ''Honduras coup was not legal'' US President Barack Obama has described the removal of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya as illegal. His remarks came after left-wing Latin American leaders declared their support for the deposed leader, who was expelled by the military on Sunday. In Honduras, pro-Zelaya protestors have been demonstrating in the country's capital, Tegucigalpa. Mr Zelaya's removal followed a power struggle over his plans for constitutional change. The BBC's Stephen Gibbs in Tegucigalpa says all day hundreds of pro-Zelaya protesters have been taunting the thousands of soldiers deployed around the presidential residence,...

TORONTO - Considering that many Canadians practically bleed Tim Hortons coffee on any given workday, it may come as a surprise to some that the much-beloved chain is once again returning its home base to Canada. Didn't know Tims has actually been registered in the United States for years? That's easy to forgive, considering just how deeply ingrained the brand has become in the Canadian consciousness. But it is true that the house built on the doughnut and double-double was for nearly 15 years - a result of its purchase by U.S. burger chain Wendy's - registered far away in...

Parley and Orson Pratt and Nineteenth-Century Mormon Thought Public Symposium at Brigham Young University Sponsored by the Mormon Scholars Foundation July 2, 2009 B092 of the Joseph F. Smith Building at BYU In the tradition of Richard Bushman’s summer seminars on Joseph Smith and early Mormonism, eight graduate students, under the direction of Terryl Givens and Matthew Grow, have studied the writings of Orson and Parley Pratt and will be presenting their research at this symposium. The seminar has been hosted by the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. 10:00 Terryl Givens, University of Richmond, Introduction 10:10 Ryan Tobler,...

1.Nomar Garciaparra 2.Manny Ramirez 3.Johnny Damon 4.Trot Nixon 5.David Ortiz 6.Shea Hillenbrand 7.Derek Lowe 8.Pedro Martinez 9.Brian Roberts 10.Jay Gibbons 11.Melvin Mora 12.Jerry Hairston 13.Jason Giambi 14.Alfonso Soriano 15.Raul Mondesi 16. Aaron Boone 17.Andy Pettitte 18.Jose Contreras 19.Roger Clemens 20.Carlos Delgado 21.Vernon Wells 22.Frank Catalanotto 23.Kenny Rogers 24.Magglio Ordonez 25.Sandy Alomar 26.Bartolo Colon 27.Brent Abernathy 28.Jose Lima 29.Milton Bradley 30.Casey Blake 31.Danys Baez 32.Craig Monroe 33.Dmitri Young 34.Alex Sanchez 35.Eric Chavez 36.Miguel Tejada 37.Eric Byrnes 38.Jose Guillen 39.Keith Foulke 40.Ricardo Rincon 41.Bret Boone 42.Mike Cameron 43.Randy Winn 44.Ryan Franklin 45.Freddy Garcia 46.Rafael Soriano 47.Scott Spiezio 48.Troy Glaus 49.Francisco Rodriguez 50.Ben...

From yesterday afternoon, a transparent attempt by the Evil Clown to bait The One into taking his side. And darn if it didn’t work. Just days after reestablishing diplomatic ties with Venezuela, President Hugo Chavez is accusing the U.S. of staging a coup in Honduras as President Obama expressed concern over President Manuel Zelaya’s arrest… Chavez, who succeeded on his second try to push a similar referendum that allows his indefinite re-election, lashed out at the U.S. and Obama in Caracas, alleging “the Yankee empire had a lot to do” with the “coup d’etat” against his fellow leftist leader.

Climate Change: A switch of four Republican votes would have defeated Waxman-Markey, the Democrats' global warming legislation. But like the Clinton Btu tax, the bill could die in the Senate and turn the House over to the GOP. What were these RINOs thinking? The GOP is supposed to be the party of low taxes and free markets. Rep. Mike Castle, one of the eight offered an explanation right off of President Obama's teleprompter...Illinois Republican Mark Kirk, who has senatorial ambitions to replace the choice of impeached former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, Sen. Roland Burris, demonstrates why GOP fortunes in the Land...

This is without a doubt one of the coolest PC-Illusion

... to the world at large. Today, at the noontime Angelus, which followed this morning's Pallium Mass, Pope Benedict XVI announced that he had signed his third encyclical, "Charity in Truth." Some apparent excerpts have already been leaked by an Italian newspaper. The encyclical is expected to be released on July 6th or 7th, shortly before President Obama is scheduled to meet with the Holy Father on the afternoon of July 10th. Already there is growing discussion of how the encyclical will play with "liberals" and "conservatives." Such discussion is understandable to some degree, but I'm willing to bet it...

In this file photo, an Iraqi Navy Swift Boat is followed by two Iraqi Air Force MI-17 helicopters during a Naval Pass and Review for the Iraqi Minister of Defense, June 23, 2009. Two MI-17s recently returned from Amman, Jordan after undergoing modifications and upgrades critical to Iraqi Air Force operations. Photo by Capt. Tommy Avilucea, Multi-National Security Transition Command – Iraq. BAGHDAD — Two Iraqi Air Force (IqAF) MI-17 helicopters recently returned from Amman, Jordan after undergoing modifications and upgrades critical to IqAF operations.   The IqAF accomplished the helicopter upgrades by establishing a team with members from Jordan, Germany,...

Few things drive the denizens of the Democratic Underground into a frenzy like the mere mention of Fox News. Therefore, as you can expect, a story in the Hollywood Reporter, Fox News set for best year yet, sent the members of what they call the "reality-based community" into some very unreal yet highly entertaining reactions to that unwelcome news. But before we allow the DUers to take the comedy stage, let us take a look at the Hollywood Reporter story by James Hibberd that sent them into a divorced-from-reality frenzy: Fox News is on track to have its most-watched year...

Tim Hortons 3-month TSX chart Tim Hortons Inc., the coffee chain with an image as Canadian as hockey and maple syrup, said Monday it plans to change its registration to become a Canadian company. The company said it has filed a plan with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to become a subsidiary of a firm incorporated in Canada. Tim Hortons is currently the subsidiary of a U.S. firm, after being spun off by former owner Wendy's International in 2006. The management and board of directors of Tim Hortons said the move would boost the company's position to take advantage...

"Where the man leads the lady must follow," wails one of the women in the cult classic "Strictly Ballroom." And indeed it might appear that the social dance milieu - where the gender roles of a male leader and a female follower are seemingly built into the structure of the dance - is at odds with modern life in which gender roles are less confined. But in the world of Argentine tango, a growing community of dancers is looking to break the strictures of traditional gender roles. Queer tango - which has become popular with festivals in Hamburg, Berlin, Stockholm...

CENTRAL FALLS — The city’s firearms buyback program this weekend was an apparent success. At least 170 rifles, shotguns and pistols were turned in on Saturday at the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility’s training center, on High Street. Mayor Charles D. Moreau paid $50 for each, for a total of at least $8,500 — all of it out of his own pocket, the city said. The guns were turned in during a three-hour period that began at 8 a.m. It could not be determined Sunday how many more guns, if any, were collected between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., when...

It’s time to kill the international community. The phrase, that is. Usually shorthand for the governments of “the West,” the phrase is over-used (a Google search produces 447 million hits) and under-thought. It is often misleading and sometimes plain wrong. “The United States and the international community have been appalled and outraged by the threats, beatings and imprisonments of the last few days.” Which international community? Certainly not one that includes the world’s most populous country, China, where there were no signs of outrage. Instead, the Foreign Ministry endorsed the disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the choice of...

A superficial observer might wonder why a course in moral theology should include a full-scale treatment of murder and mutilation, when even the most primitive peoples had laws against unjust aggression and punished offenders with severest penalties. The fact is that our present age has seen mass-killing practiced as never before in history, and, under the guise of eugenics, social welfare and pragmatism, has condoned actions that not only Christianity but all religious systems have condemned as crimes against humanity. Two world wars, with a total death casualty figure of almost thirty million men killed in battle, have done much...

Britain’s most prominent non-believer is backing its first atheist summer camp for children..... WHEN schoolchildren break up for their summer holidays at the end of next month, India Jago, aged 12, and her brother Peter, 11, will be taking a vacation with a twist. While their friends jet off to Spain or the Greek islands, the siblings will be hunting for imaginary unicorns in Somerset, while learning about moral philosophy. The Jagos, from Basingstoke, Hampshire, are among 24 children who will be taking part in Britain’s first summer camp for atheists. The five-day retreat is being subsidised by Richard Dawkins,...

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