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• Raul the reformist

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  Raul is a reformist, don't ya' know?

  He has reformed the regime's laws to include imprisonment for trying to watch satellite TV.

  Via Capitol Hill Cubans:

  Imprisoned for DIRECTV

  The Castro regime has imprisoned four Cubans, including a U.S. resident, for the "illicit economic activity" of selling DIRECTV satellite cards.

  Please note -- [...]

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• Freedom swim

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  Americans are free to swim. Cubans, however, must swim to be free.

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• Playing Fidel’s game

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  In the end, Fidel is all about Fidel--as it has always been, and as it will always be.

  Andres Oppenheimer in the Herald.

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• ¡Los Coke!

  

  Tonight the 70s "open house" returned to Miami featuring the quintessential band of that era, Coke. The B.P.O.E. (Elks Club) on Sunset was the venue. Here's a couple of pictures. More to follow.

  
  

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• From “Coalition to Honor Ground Zero”

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  Powerful statement below: Stop the Ground Zero Mosque:

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

  9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America

  Statement of Debra Burlingame, Co-founder of 9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America, in Response to President Obama’s Remarks about the Ground Zero Mosque

  9/11 Families Stunned by Presidents Support of Mosque at [...]

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• More liberty-loving Tea Party racists!

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  Oops! They're all Black!

  If the documentary is half as good as the trailer I'm there.

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• Legislators push bill to remove archaic and counterproductive trade sanctions against Latin American nation!–and HELP our hard-pressed American farmers!

  

  Intransigent hotheads stuck in the past--hurting patriotic, God-fearing, Toby Keith-listening U.S. farmers

  Powerful, millionaire politicians hurting [...]

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• Open letter to the directors of all accredited media in La Habana

  Dear Sir or Madam:

  We write to you worried about the police and paramilitary harassment denounced from Banes, a small town in the Cuban province of Holguín, by Reina Luisa Tamayo. She is the mother of Orlando Zapata Tamayo the prisoner of conscience who died on 23 February after a prolonged [...]

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• 6 more Cuban prisoners of conscience to be forcibly exiled

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  The forced exile of Cuba's imprisoned opposition movement continues. With the help of the Spanish government and Jaime Ortega, Cuba's Foreign Minster/part-time Cardinal, the Castro dictatorship will take six more Cuban prisoners of conscience and forcibly exile them to Spain.

  Cuba to free 6 more political prisoners into exile

  (AP) HAVANA, [...]

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• They write letters

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  Frank Calzon writes to the Washington Post:

  In his Aug. 9 op-ed column, "Castro and the cardinal," Jackson Diehl pointed out that some people say Ra?l Castro wants to modernize and stabilize Cuba. Mr. Castro wants to do both without losing power, and he has convinced Cuban Cardinal Jaime [...]

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