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• Lessons for the day

  Watch this:

  Read this gem from 1787 by James Madison in Federalist Paper #10:

  From this view of the subject it may be concluded that a pure democracy, by which I mean a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person, can admit [...]

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• A badly needed pep talk

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  Excellent.

  Last night was bad. The law passed by the Senate and House really is that horrible.

  But it's the morning after, and your mourning should be over.

  The mainstream media and the nutroots will try to demoralize you, and there will be plenty of gloat to go around.

  But remember how we [...]

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• It would be funny…

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  ...If it weren't so damned serious.

  You know what I love the most about last night's vote? The Idiot class of America -- liberals and progressives -- calling us "obstructionists" because we have opposed entitlement programs that today are estimated to have over 60 trillion dollars in unfunded liabilities.

  That we cannot [...]

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• Herencia Kids — Reminder

  

  The organization Cuban Cultural Heritage is sponsoring an art contest for kids in Pre-K through 8th grade titled "How I see Cuba - Como yo veo a Cuba."

  
  
  Cuban Cultural Heritage is pleased to announce the launch of Herencia Kids. This new project aims [...]

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• Ahem…cough cough…ahem…

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  When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, [...]

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• Reflections of the Cuba Expert

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  Since the knowledge of Cuba issues possessed by most of us here at Babalú is based on unreliable and fallible firsthand experience, it is important that we present to our readers the views of "the experts." For that reason I have decided to make "Reflections of the Cuba Expert" an [...]

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• Anger and sadness

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  I'm watching ABC news where the "straight news" reporter is claiming that it's "all over but the voting" in referring to the Healthcare "reform" bill. And now they are running a piece on how the "intolerant" Republicans are using racial and homophobic slurs against the Democrats that want to destroy' [...]

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• Feeding the flame

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  My daughter, Kikita, just returned from a trip to Cuba. She visited the places of my childhood and was finally able to connect the stories to the places that live only in fading memory for me.

  What she saw and experienced during that amazing week has impacted her deeply.

  I'll let her' [...]

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• BREAKING: Magnitude 5.6 quake near Guantanamo

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  Just saw this on Drudge:

  HAVANA (Reuters) - A 5.6-magnitude earthquake struck near the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo in eastern Cuba, on Saturday and was felt in the island's second city of Santiago de Cuba.

  A spokesman at the Guantanamo base said no damage was reported there.

  In Santiago de Cuba, [...]

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• A day late and a dollar short

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  Editorial from the local accessory after the fact, The Miami Herald, on the Black Spring anniversary:

  Cuba's brutality

  OUR OPINION: World leaders should back peaceful protesters

  In a democracy, people can disagree. They can march to protest their government, they can chastise their elected officials in public forums, they can walk down [...]

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