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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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• A superb letter to the editor

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  Heard this today on the Mark Levin podcast from Tuesday. Wow.

  The oil is blunt, harsh and without nuance, like the judgment of a tabloid.

  In this crisis in the Gulf of Mexico, the Great Obama is reduced to a helpless observer of men with whom he is uneasy, performing tasks [...]

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• Fancy that!

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  The Arizona law is working -- and it's not even implemented yet.

  Arizona's tough new immigration enforcement law is fueling an exodus of Hispanics from the state seven weeks before it goes into effect, according to officials and residents in the state.

  Though no one has precise figures, reports from school [...]

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• Fidel is watching — and taking notes

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  In an article on Diario De Cuba yesterday, we learn that--surprise, surprise--all the government owned computers in Internet Cafes and hotels in Cuba with internet access have spyware/malware installed to track the surfing habits and every keystroke of the users.

  Here is a quick translation of an excerpt from [...]

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