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• Marco Rubio on Rush Limbaugh Today

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  Limbaugh says Rubio is "hell-bent for leather" and we need more like him.

  Full transcript of today's radio interview here.

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• “Anthony Bourdain Partners with Fidel Castro’s Secret Police”

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  "Tony, by the authority vested in me, I hereby award you the:"
  

  “WHAT?! Just look at this article’s title! Here’s typical Cuban-exile, Mc Carthyite, crackpot right-wing, Republican lunacy! Bourdain’s show is on The Travel Channel, for [...]

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• What a great revolution!

  
  
  

  Via our friends at Guamá:

  Translation:

  "Did you see that, dad? Now you can sell your great-grandfather's car!"

  "Are you effing kidding me? Man, this revolution is grand!"
  

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• Nordlinger on Bono and Biscet

  
  
  

  Our good friend Jay Nordlinger on Bono and Dr. Biscet:

  Pro-Bono

  In Impromptus today, I have a couple of notes about Bono, the Irish rock star (or pop star, or whatever the appropriate term is). I call him a “stud” and an [...]

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• Bourdain in Cuba: A full circle

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  Capitol Hill Cubans on Anthony Bourdain's show on Cuba:

  Bourdain's Full-Circle on Cuba

  Tonight, the Travel Channel aired Anthony Bourdain's season premiere of "No Reservations" in Cuba.

  The episode was fairly consistent with his pre-show interviews.

  As expected, he didn't march down La Quinta Avenida with' [...]

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• “Gosh, Now I Can’t WAIT To Visit Cuba!”

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  "Gosh, aren't I spunky!" (against Tea Partiers, SURE! Against the gentlemen below? Well...)

  
  "Conyoooo! No Las Comimos con la visa para este tipo Bourdain!"

  "After watching Anthony Bourdain’s “No Reservations” season opener last night on the Travel'" [...]

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• Versailles Restaurant celebrates its 40th year

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  The veritable epicenter of all things related to Cuba politics, Versailles restaurant on Calle Ocho, celebrated its 40th birthday yesterday.

  Enjoy this great tribute to the iconic restaurant and meeting place by Fabiola Santiago in the Miami Herald:

  Versailles: 40 years serving food [...]

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• The Ghost of VeneCuba returns

  
  
  

  Carlos Alberto Montaner in the Miami Herald:

  The ghost of ‘Venecuba’ returns

  The danger is real. The Venezuelan democrats fear that, in view of Hugo Chávez’s cancer coinciding with the inevitable disappearance of a Fidel Castro much battered by illness and the years, Havana and Caracas [...]

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• Quote of the day

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  Today's Quote of the Day comes from frequent Babalú commenter Asombra, who in only a few sentences succinctly articulated the media's indifference to the suffering of the Cuban people:

  "This degree of objectification, of reducing a whole society of oppressed, enslaved, and victimized human beings" [...]

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• More Signs “The Dear Leader” is Losing It

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  The "public" (American citizens/voters) are too stupid to understand what "professional politicians" understand ... If you're in debt that reaches to the moon and back you MUST push the moon further away ...

  The $850 billion "Stimulus" worked at helping to save or create millions of' [...]

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