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Drill, Baby, Drill! (Says Rubio)
Number of comments: 7Another issue where Rubio parts from his predecessor.
Then juuuuuuuuuust maybe in the near future you, my Florida chums, will get a taste of Cajun-style fishing and diving.
"If bona-fide science has crowned Global Warmists with ten foot dunce caps, then half a century of scientific evidence has crowned anti-offshore" [...]
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Algore: tyranny good, climate change bad
Number of comments: 3In The American Thinker Rick Moran dissects Algore's op-ed on climate change in The New York Times apart.
As a side note, here is a phrase from Algore's piece that should scare the crap out of every lover of liberty:
From the standpoint of governance, what is at stake is [...]
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“Journalists” self-censor in Cuba?
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UPDATE: Good to see the Herald finally thought it important to cover this story.
Here's my take on it from July 15, 2008. And here's some more from February 23, 2007.
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Wanting to scream
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Life never returns to normal, it does not go back to that time before the tragedy that now – illusorily – we evoke as a period of calm. I open my datebook, try to resume my life, the blog, the Twitter messages… but nothing [...]
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Dangerousness
Great piece in the WaPo by Human Rights Watch researcher Nik Steinberg on "dangerousness" in Cuba:
Under Cuba's "dangerousness" law, authorities can imprison people who have not committed a crime on the suspicion that they might commit one in the future. "Dangerous" activities include handing out copies of the Universal Declaration [...]
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Freudian slip of the tongue by “President” Raul Castro?

Is Raul Castro finally admitting that the above heroes kicked major, major ass against his bumbling armed forces?"in this confrontation with the United States, we have lost thousands of Cubans, Between the dead and the disabled, they've numbered about 5,000, not counting thousands of wounded who'" [...]
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Where’s the international campaign to free Cuba?
Number of comments: 3You'd think that 51 years of barbaric tyranny would be enough to capture world opinion. I came across these powerful words written to free Mandela; change a few of them and they more than apply to Cuba, except of course that there is NO international campaign to free Cuba's political' [...]
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South Florida Print Media Editorials on Zapata
Although, as Val posted yesterday, the South Florida media has been largely silent on the death of Orlando Zapata Tamayo, its two big daily newspapers have not.
Here's the Miami Herald's editorial from yesterday. And the South Florida Sun-Sentinel's published today can be found here.
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A Martyr’s Wake
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Zapata, Unyielding
Number of comments: 1Good friend and colleague Ernesto Hernández Busto wrote the following editorial for "La cuarta página" of El Pais , arguably the goto place for opeds. Regina once again did the translation for me:
Zapata, Unyielding
February 26, 2010
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