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• Oh My … The Weiners Have A Bun In The Oven?

  
  
  

  Hope they can muster up the sauce to keep the marriage together after today's latest Weiner photo ("Don't look, Ethel!"). But Weiner is beginning to look burnt as democrats begin to pile-on and demand he resign. One less pork barrel hotdog in' [...]

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• Twelve Men in Brief

  
  
  

  By Yoani Sanchez:

  Twelve Men in Brief

  Image taken from Diario de Cuba gallery

  As a child whenever I heard the name of Perico*, a town in Matanzas Province, I ended up with a pain in my stomach from laughing so hard. Until I [...]

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• The Andean Locust has arrived

  
  
  

  The humor of Alfredo Pong:

  Translation:

  -- Soon we will "enjoy" soy ceviche, Andean Cerelac, and pisco made only for tourists

  -- And Machu Pichu will become the highest Anti-imperialist and Bolivarian court in ALBA

  -- We better head to Chile
  

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• An “insider’s guide” to Cuba

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  Shasta Darlington is an international correspondent in Havana

  CNN's Havana correspondent Shasta Darlington gives her reader's an "insider's guide" to things to do in Cuba. She tells us where are the best places to eat, [...]

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• Freedom on the Net 2011: Cuba one of the most repressive

  
  
  

  Freedom House has released their "Freedom on the Net 2011" report, and once again, Cuba ranks as one of the worst places on earth for internet freedom.

  Despite a slight loosening of [...]

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• Miami-Dade’s Mayoral Race — Holding my nose

  
  
  

  I am embarrassed to say that the recall of Miami Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez never got much of my attention. And when it came time to choose between 11 mayoral candidates to replace Alvarez, I was still feeling the same malaise. None of the candidates [...]

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• Beethoven a la cubana

  
  
  

  Even more classical music a la cubana!

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• The Castro regime’s ‘Cyber-Cops’

  
  
  

  Larry Press, an Information Systems professor and owner of the blog The Internet in Cuba, talks with a Cuban telecommunications engineer:

  A conversation with a Cuban telecommunication engineer

  I asked for input and test runs from people in Cuba in a [...]

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• Unbelievable… Updated – Delta Airlines Straightens-Up and Flies Right

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  I'm ... speechless here, folks.

  ATLANTA - Soldiers returning home from Afghanistan have tough questions for Delta Airlines. They want to know why they had to pay almost $3,000 in baggage fees on their way back to the states.

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  An un-named unit of nearly thirty Army' [...]

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• Quote of the day

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  Secretary Condoleeza Rice in a speech opening the The Wave of Freedom: Early Lessons from the Middle East conference at the George W. Bush Presidential Center this past May 26, 2011:

  "I do think that particularly in Cuba when Fidel Castro" [...]

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