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• Photo of the day

  
  
  

  Ché, Hitler. Hitler, Ché. Ché, Hitler. Hitler, Ché... same difference.

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• All Pent Up

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  And so the New York Times continues to carry all the water it can for the “social experiment” it helped create, has championed and defended for 53 years. In a recent “article” about [r]aul’s real estate “reforms,” The Gray Lady whitewashes over the crumbling walls of that [...]

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• The Good Intellectual

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  By Yoani Sanchez:

  The Good Intellectual

  
  Lost in the metaphor, the good intellectual avoids approaching the reality through which the universal will make his work more transcendent than the local. He hides, in some symbolic passage of his theatrical script, in the parable of a verse, or [...]

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• U.S. should speak up for democracy in the region

  
  
  

  Eric Farnsworth in the Miami Herald:

  U.S. should speak up for democracy in the region

  Democracy is not a fragile flower, as Ronald Reagan told the British Parliament 30 years ago, but it does require tending. What was true in Eastern Europe in the 1980’s and also the [...]

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• Mimi Alford, you poor little thing

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  "La pobrecita Mimi...mira que esta sufriendo"

  Mimi Alford certainly has cause to regret her handling by President Kennedy. But while fornicating with the U.S. President in the White House and while publicly fellating the U.S. President’s friends in the White House swimming pool, this [...]

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• Quote of the day

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  After Cuban dictator Fidel Castro complained about satellites spying down on people and listening in on communications throughout the world, Jorge Salcedo had this excellent response on Twitter (my translation):

  "#CUBA The inventor of the CDRs* is complaining about satellites and how they will "destroy the privacy of [...]

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• Congressman Rivera Welcomes Dr. Bicet’s Testimony

  
  
  

  PRESS RELEASE

  For Immediate Release

  February 17, 2012

  Congressman Rivera Welcomes Dr. Bicet’s Testimony, Applauds Efforts for Freedom and Democracy in Cuba

  Washington, DC- Congressman David Rivera (FL-25) released the following statement on the testimony of Dr. Óscar Elías Bicet before the House Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere [...]

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• How ‘People-to-People’ travel to Cuba is really ‘People-to-Dictatorship’ travel to Cuba

  
  
  

  Via Capitol Hill Cubans:

  Who Benefits From "People-to-People" Travel? In announcing his new "people-to-people" travel policy in January 2011 (despite an American hostage being held by the Castro regime), President Obama stated that the purpose of this policy was "to help promote [the Cuban people's] independence'" [...]

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• Ecuadorean dictator Rafael Correa uses his courts to intimidate, imprison, and stifle free press

  
  
  

  Latin America's "21st Century Socialism" may not be all about terrorism, summary executions, and guerrilla warfare like that of its predecessor, but the end results are the same: Intimidation, repression, and tyranny. Ecuador's dictator, Rafael Correa, is using the country's court system, over which he has taken [...]

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• Senator Marco Rubio Blogger Conference at CPAC

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  I had the honor to be invited to a special, closed door blogger conference with our esteemed Senator at CPAC and the inimitable and irreplaceable Sarah Rumpf - whom you should be reading - was there to record it all:

  Part 1 - Senator's remarks:

  Part 2 -' [...]

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