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• Where There’s Smoke: White House and IRS Employees Union Collusion Against Conservative Groups

  BREAKING: "Top IRS official will invoke Fifth Amendment" - Lois Lerner

  Not so fast on that plausible deniability for Obama, especially when he met with the Treasury Department to discuss how to present the IRS story before the press and the nation.

  Jeffrey Lord @ The American Spectator has [...]

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• Blake Powers releases new book today

  A shameless plug for our good friend Blake Powers and the release of his new book, A Different View: Travels with Team Easy, Iraq 2007.

  Volume 2 of A Different View

  Authored by C. Blake Powers
  Prologue by MaryAnn Phillips
  Introduction by Michael Z. Williamson
  Edition: 1

  A view of day-to-day [...]

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• Lonely Fidel

  Omar Santana in El Nuevo Herald:

  "And here we are, Videla... You start feeling so lonely!"

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• May 20th in Cuba: An Unforgettable Day

  Normando Hernandez at the George W. Bush Institution's Freedom Collection:

  AN UNFORGETTABLE DAY

  In his book Cuba: Early Years of Independence (1911), Rafael Ortiz writes that on May 20th, 1902 in Cuba, “The joy was general and it was legitimate; Cubans were touching  their dreams … all parties held up [...]

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• Babalú talks about freedom in Cuba

  Tracey Eaton interviewed yours truly recently:

  Babalú blog nears 10th anniversary

  Babalú, touted as the world's most popular Cuban-American blog in English, marks its 10th anniversary in June.

  I spoke to the blog's managing editor, Alberto de la Cruz, the other day in Miami as part of a series of interviews that [...]

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• Liberal / Progressive compassion on display

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  Slip of the tongue...

  Jokes are a lot like wine: they often reveal the truth.  In vino veritas.  Yeah: In jocus veritas.

  Mentalities exist.  French historians came up with this insight about forty years ago.  A mentality is a certain way of approaching the world -- the framework or infrastructure that [...]

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• The Cubanization of Venezuela: Cuban State Security running Venezuela

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  More on the bombshell audio of Cuban State Security official Lt. Col. Aramis Palacios speaking with official Chavista propagandist Mario Silva, which serves to further implicate the Cuban government in the manipulation and control of the Venezuelan government.

  Via the AP in ABC News:

  Venezuela Opposition: Audio Suggests Cuba Meddling

  Venezuela's opposition [...]

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• Religious freedom in Cuba remains under attack

  From the U.S. State Department's International Religious Freedom Report for 2012:

  In Cuba, the Communist Party, through its Office of Religious Affairs, continued to monitor and control most aspects of religious life. Although many religious groups reported reduced interference from the government in conducting services, importing religious materials, receiving donations [...]

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• Cuba’s Ladies in White at Miami’s Freedom Tower

  Via The Miami Herald:

  Ladies in White say they want both material and moral support

  Leaders of Cuba’s dissident Ladies in White group rejected Havana’s claims they are mercenaries and said on Monday that there is nothing wrong with receiving help from abroad because the Cuban government “is trying to asphyxiate [...]

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• Mariela Castro protection in U.S. was top-notch

  Obviously no "stand-down" order came when our State Dept. was tasked with protecting this Terror-Sponsoring official Mariela Castro. The perceived threat to Mariela Castro’s security apparently issued from vicious terroristic right-wing Cuban-Americans. Most of these nuts are Republicans, after all -- many of whom are even Tea-Partiers! Last [...]

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