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• A review of Cabrera Infante’s ‘Three Trapped Tigers’

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  Pablo Medina reviews Guillermo Cabrera Infante's book Three Trapped Tigers at NPR:

  In Old Havana, A Story Of Sunlight And Mystery

  Pablo Medina is the author of Cubop City Blues.

  "Showtime! Senoras y senores. Ladies and Gentlemen. And a very good evening to you all, ladies and gentlemen. Muy" [...]

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• A Couple Things to Ponder on This Banner Day of The SCOTUS Rewriting Law

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  When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty. - Thomas Jefferson

  In the last 3 1/2 years I have accumulated "dots" with this administration and its wonks in the democrat party. Eventually dots connect for a full picture.

  Here [...]

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• Video: Senator Rubio discusses Obamacare on the Senate Floor

  
  
  

  RUBIO: “And so, apart from everything else, this is a terrible idea because it hurts our ability to grow our economy. This is the real life impact of this bill. This is the impact this is going to have, and you’re going to see it. You’re going [...]

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• Citizen Insomnia

  
  
  

  By Luis Felipe Rojas:

  Citizen Insomnia

  As I write this post, the “#FestivalCLIC” (or ‘Click Festival’) is underway in Havana- a citizen intention to try and channel information between Cubans in the island.  May Cuba connect to the world, and the world connect to Cuba, or as the [...]

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• Sarah Palin weighs in on ACA

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  Thank you, SCOTUS...

  Thank you, SCOTUS. This Obamacare ruling fires up the troops as America’s eyes are opened! Thank God.

  This proves to be such an unsettling time in America as we undergo the fundamental transformation that Barack Obama promised he would do to us if elected. Obamacare [...]

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• Birds Of A Feather Meet In Havana

  
  
  

  Elliot Abrams at the Council on Foreign Relations:

  Birds Of A Feather Meet In Havana

  Belarussian president Alexander Lukashenko shakes hands with Cuban vice minister of foreign affairs Dagoberto Rodriguez at Havana's Jose Marti airport on June 24, 2012 (Enrique de la Osa/Courtesy Reuters).

  It is not [...]

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• Lessons from the Embargo on Apartheid South Africa for Castroite Cuba

  
  
  

  Part 2 in the series by Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter:

  Lessons from the Embargo on Apartheid South Africa for Castroite Cuba pt. 2

  Unfortunately one of the new lessons from the campaign to impose an embargo on the South African Apartheid regime is that that [...]

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• Sen. Marco Rubio: ‘We have now created an IRS problem for millions of Americans’

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  Video of Senator Marco Rubio today on CNBC speaking about Pres. Obama's enormous middle class tax increase:

  Rubio: We Have Now Created An IRS Problem For Millions Of Americans

  Senator Marco Rubio: “Well, first of all, let’s be clear. I think it is pretty telling that, for the Obama [...]

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• A beautiful morning to disparage bloggers!

  
  
  

  The humor of Garrincha:

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• Rep. David Rivera: Time to Fully Repeal the Job-Killing, Tax-Hiking Health Care Law

  
  
  

  PRESS RELEASE

  For Immediate Release

  June 28, 2012

  Congressman Rivera: Time to Fully Repeal the Job-Killing, Tax-Hiking Health Care Law

  Washington, DC- Congressman David Rivera (FL-25) released the following statement regarding the ruling by the United States Supreme Court on the Affordable Care Act.

  “The Supreme Court’s decision today [...]

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