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• The Saudis gives Israel clear skies

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  The Sunnis hate the Jews, but they hate the Shia more...

  Saudi Arabia has conducted tests to stand down its air defences to enable Israeli jets to make a bombing raid on Iran’s nuclear facilities, The Times can reveal.

  In the week that the UN Security Council imposed a new round [...]

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• The 74 — The Plot Thickens

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  I knew I smelled a rat...

  More evidence is turning up that the infamous letter from the 74 dissidents was a product of anti-embargo proponents here in the US and not the dissidents on the island.

  Via Penultimos Dias, via Emilio Ichikawa, via Ninoska Perez-Castellon's radio show yesterday, "Ninoska" [...]

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• The 74 — Initial Analysis

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  It is still too early to determine whether the letter released yesterday written to the US Congress, which was supposedly signed by 74 prominent Cuban dissidents, is a fraud or authentic. Capital Hill Cubans reported this morning that they were able to confirm some of the signors were not aware [...]

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• Hanson on Helen Thomas and the left’s anti-Semitism

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  This piece in today's National Review Online ("Helen Thomas, Turkey, and the Liberation of Israel") is why Victor Davis Hanson is one of my historical compasses. He is a national treasure.
  
  

  [...] Nor do human-rights violations mean much any more. Iran executes more of its own citizens each [...]

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• Desperation and Scandal

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  Capitol Hill Cubans has confirmed this morning what many of us have been thinking since the sudden appearance of this letter supposedly signed by 74 prominent Cuban dissidents.

  Desperation Is No Substitute For Shame

  In their desperate zeal to unconditionally eliminate provisions in U.S. law that condition trade and tourism with the [...]

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• Wrong they are

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  Our friend Marc over at UncommonSense gives us his opinion of the recent letter signed by 74 Cuban dissidents asking the US to lift the embargo.

  Cuban dissidents wrong on lifting U.S. travel, trade limits

  I respect the opinion, and the reasoning behind it, of 74 Cuban dissidents who signed a [...]

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• The 74

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  In March of 2003, the Castro dictatorship rounded up 75 dissidents throughout the island and sentenced them to long prison sentences. The arrest and imprisonment of those 75 heroes came to be known as the Primevera Negra, the Black Spring.

  Seven years and one season later, we have another group [...]

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• Boycott Israel?

  Very funny...

  (H/T Honey)

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• Un-American

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  The Los Angeles County Unified School district has decided that Arizona's new immigration law is un-American and has ruled that this point of view is what students in their schools should be taught. They join the majority of the left in this country who continue to use the term "un-American" [...]

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• Civic resistance lesson

  Fellow blogger Cubanita in Colorado has an excellent piece on the Ladies in White: "Civic resistance lesson for Americans."

  [...] These women have no weapons, no idea what the second amendment rights are, and very limited resources. But they have no fear.

  For the first time in the 50 years Cuba [...]

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