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• Dania Virgen Garcia

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  One more prisoner of conscience in Cuba.

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• Earth Day ignores America’s Top Conservationists, “Us hunters–we don’t get no Respect!”

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  "In 1970, a Senator from Wisconsin named Gaylord Nelson raised his voice and called on every American to take action on behalf of the environment," reads President Obama's Earth Day proclamation. "In the four decades since, millions of Americans have heeded that call and joined together" [...]

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• Welcome to our world

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  For years now, we have warned our Venezuelan brothers and sisters that the portly, simian thug that leads their country is going to deliver to them the same terror and ruin that has befallen the nation of Cuba. Cultural, historical, and political circumstances in Venezuela have caused the descent into [...]

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• Signs

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  A week ago today, at about the same exact hour that Im writing this, I was on an elevator heading down to the Dallas hotel lobby for some much needed coffee. I had arrived the afternoon before and had attended a causal dinner that night with some of the folks [...]

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• Was anyone aware of Juan Ignacio Hernández Nodar

  

  Could it possibly that I was the only one who missed it or maybe there are others who did not know or hear about Mr. Nodar. He was arrested in Cuba in and served 13 years, two months and 27 days:

  ......."I was the forgotten man," said Mr. [...]

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• Another independent journalist imprisoned in castro’s gulag

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  In this latest act of  repression by the castro regime, Cuban independent journalist Dania Virgen Garcia has been swiftly and arbritarily imprisoned for exercising her God given Human Rights. 

  Shown here with Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez (Dania is the blonde on the right) , and below with the Ladies in White (carrying the Cuban flag just [...]

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• Incumbent Dems in trouble

  Here's another example:

  Democratic congressional officials - well aware that a president's party typically loses seats in midterm elections - have long been preparing for a tough year. But that Obey here in Wisconsin, and other veteran lawmakers like Rep. Earl Pomeroy of North Dakota, suddenly find themselves in a [...]

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• Cuba, Repression ID Project

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  Do you recognize these faces?

  From The Real Cuba Blog:

  April 24 - Four Cuban American lawyers and a Miami-based television station have launched a campaign to identify and publicly name Cuban state security agents and pro-government militants who attack dissidents on the island.

  Called "Cuba, Repression ID," [...]

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• The South Park censorship kerffufle

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  I love the show South Park. It is brutally offensive to all sides and that fact alone makes it a bellwether for on-the-money political satire. (Jon Stewart, the progressive's favorite political analyst, not so much.) Here is the inimitable Mark Steyn talking about the latest cave in Hollywood on [...]

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• How Islam destroyed the literary inheritance of the Classical World

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  A great essay in Gates of Vienna: "How Islam Destroyed the Literary Inheritance of the Classical World":

  Since at least the time of the Renaissance scholars have wondered at the disappearance of Classical civilization — the advanced, urban and literate culture which began in Greece during the fifth century BC [...]

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