North Korea launches a missile and it takes Barack Obama and the UN five days to respond. Iran holds fraudulent elections, kills protesters and it takes weeks before Barack Obama can stand up and say that he is "concerned" about the situation.

Then the people of Honduras try to uphold their constitution and laws of the land from being trampled by a Chavez-wanna be ... and it takes Barack Obama one day to proclaim that this was not a legal coup.

Why the sudden decisiveness? Where were these strong opinions on foreign matters when Iranian authorities were trampling protestors and cutting off media access to the outside world? Where was this decisiveness when Kim Jong Ill decided that he was going to launch missiles toward Hawaii on the Fourth of July? Why ... NOW ... is Obama suddenly speaking out loudly

How about a little background. Are you really sure you know what has been going on in Honduras? Do you think that this was simply a coup? Let me give you a rough outline here, and then you can sit back and wonder just why PrezBO is in the weeds with Chavez and Castro on this one.

Mel Zelaya is, or was, the President of Honduras. He and Hugo Chaves were tight. So tight, it seems, that Zelaya wanted to emulate Hugo by changing the Honduran constitution to allow him to run for office until he durned well gets tired of it.

To change the constitution in Honduras you have to convene a constituent assembly. The president cannot do that. The Honduran congress must approve a national referendum calling for the constituent assembly to consider changes to the constitution. Zelaya didn't like the part about the constitution requiring approval of the congress before a national referendum could be called. So ... he decided to call one on his own.

OK .. so here we have President Zelaya calling for a national referendum when he doesn't have the power to do so. The next problem is obtaining ballots! Since the Honduran congress had not called for the referendum, as required by the constitution, the government certainly wasn't going to print the ballots! After all, how smart would it be to print ballots for an illegal referendum? So ... Zelaya had to get the ballots printed elsewhere. Here's an idea! Get his pall Hugo Chavez to print them! Yes! That will work!

So Chaves prints Zelaya's ballots and they're shipped to Honduras. Enter the Honduran Supreme Court. The court considers Zelaya's election in light of the requirements of the Honduran constitution, and rules the referendum illegal and unconstitutional. The court then issues an order to the Honduran military telling them not to do the logistical work associated with Zelaya's phony referendum. Remember, now ... all of this has one primary goal. To get rid of the term limits limiting Zelaya's rule in Honduras.

After the supreme court's decision, General Romeo Velasquez tells President Zelaya that he is subject to a proper order from the Supreme Court and will not be able to carry out Zelaya's referendum. So ... Zelaya fires him. The Supreme Court orders Zelaya to reinstate Velasquez, and Zelaya refuses to do so.

At this point Zelaya's ego is getting the better of him. If the military won't run his illegal referendum, he'll just do it himself. He gins up a mob and leads them to the military compound where Hugo's ballots are stored and then has his supporters begin distributing the ballots to the masses.

Based on the Supreme Court's ruling the Honduran attorney general said that the proposed referendum was illegal and said that he would arrest anyone attempting to carry out the election. Zelaya was arrested by the military and was escorted out of the country.

Now ... does this sound like a military coup-de-etat to you? The attorney general and the military were operating in accordance with the Honduran rule of law. They acted under a valid court order. Coup? The Honduran congress has convened and designated a successor president, all in accordance with the Honduran Constitution. Military coup? The presidential elections set for November .. the election that Zelaya was trying to get around ... will go on as scheduled. A blow for democracy?

Fidel Castro, Daniel Noriega, Hugo Chavez ... all on the side of Zelaya. But Obama? Obama fighting against the rule of law and for a wannabe dictator? What gives?

... then you are against the world! Yep, this is the new line from liberals and Democrats. If you are against this climate change, cap-and-trade legislation that is making its way through Congress, then you are basically immoral.

Let's start with Henry Waxman, who is one of the chief architects of this cap-and-trade scheme. In response to the Republicans who voted against his plan, he says: "They [Republicans] want to play politics and see if they can keep any achievements from being accomplished that may be beneficial to the Democrats. They're rooting against the country and I think in this case, even rooting against the world because the world needs to get its act together to stop global warming."

Then, we get this from Paul Krugman in The New York Times. He writes, "A handful of these no votes came from representatives who considered the bill too weak, but most rejected the bill because they rejected the whole notion that we have to do something about greenhouse gases. And as I watched the deniers make their arguments, I couldn't help thinking that I was watching a form of treason -- treason against the planet. To fully appreciate the irresponsibility and immorality of climate-change denial, you need to know about the grim turn taken by the latest climate research."

Treason ... rooting against the world ... immorality ... wow, do these guys have a high opinion of their fraudulent cause or what?

Yesterday, the Supreme Court issued its final set of decisions for a while and one of these included the New Haven firefighter case originally decided by nominee Sonia Sotomayor. But the Supreme Court ended up reversing Sotomayor's lower court ruling.

So the White House had its explanation all ready to go. The new line is that the reversal of Sotomayor's ruling proves that she follows judicial precedent. Robert Gibbs says that this should put to rest any claims that Sotomayor is an activist judge. He says, "One thing is clear, that the ruling by Judge Sotomayor was based on the precedent of the Second Circuit. ... The Supreme Court clearly had a new interpretation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act."

The House and the Senate are working on their versions of the healthcare bill after they return from the Fourth of July holiday. But we are starting to get a better idea of what to expect from the House. Especially considering the advice doled out yesterday by Tom Daschle and John Podesta. They support the idea of taxing some employer-provided health benefits. This seems to be the direction we are heading in.

The healthcare bill currently being considered by the House would include the following, according to the Charlotte Business Journal:

-Employers would have to pay at least 72.5% of the cost of insurance premiums for full-time employees

-Employers would be required to pick up at least some of the tab for insuring part-time employees

-Businesses that don't provide that minimum level of coverage would be required to pay the federal government a fee based on 8% of their payroll

-Small businesses would be exempted from that "play or pay" requirement

If the White House wants to get a message out, how do you go about doing that? Apparently the answer to that question is now: have Ashton Kutcher twitter about it.

Seriously.

The White House wanted to get the word out about National HIV Testing Day. So what did they do? They contacted Ashton Kutcher. The guy has over 2.5 million followers on Twitter. So they asked him to tweet about National HIV Day.

You know things are bad when a socialist Eastern European country passes a bill to lower taxes in order to help its economy recover. Hungary's socialist government passed a tax bill that will cut current personal income taxes and "social contributions" paid by employers to the government. It will also raise the lower income tax bracket to that "average" incomes are taxed at a rate of 17%.

They didn't get it all right, though. The parliament did pass a "wealth tax" on real estate and luxury items.

Wealth envy is universal .. but at least the Hungarians know that lowering tax rates will be the shortest route to economic recovery.

Senator James Inhofe is calling for an investigation into the report that was suppressed by the EPA because it didn't fit with the administration's agenda for climate change.

Here's a prime example of what happens when the government gets into the business of providing subsidies for alternative fuels.

When are we supposed to start feeling the effects of Barack Obama's stimulus plan? The administration continues to push back the goal post.

Did you know that the biggest beneficiary of the government's bank rescue program isn't even a bank?

An Oklahoma legislature blames the current economic climate on .... Gays? Oh gawd, here we go.

Turns out that the CBO forgot to calculate the economic impact of imposing billions in new operating and production costs with this cap-and-trade legislation.

The Heritage Foundation explains show Barack Obama's missile defense plan is putting America at risk.

No one in the state of Virginia can get painkillers right now because someone hacked into the state's prescription drug database.

Nine out of ten people in Great Britain are worried that the government is going to cut healthcare services. Duhhhh

Speaking of government healthcare, the government in Great Britain is promising patients 'enforceable rights' to high standards of care.

Nancy Pelosi will not commit to giving the public five days (as the Obama administration promised) to read the healthcare bill before it is voted on. She knows that the more we know the harder it will be to pass this monstrosity.

Only 10% of Massachusetts voters say the quality of health care has gotten better as a result of their reform plan, according to Rasmussen.