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• Useful Idiot Campaigns for Chavez in Venezuela

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  Just puzzling how old Sean Penn just doesn't move to Venezuela in order to be closer to his communist hero and bask in all that wonderful Marxism...

  CARACAS - U.S. actor Sean Penn joined President Hugo Chavez at an election rally in Venezuela on Sunday, bringing a dash of Hollywood' [...]

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• Intransigence on Glenn Beck Radio

  Our friend Glenn Beck got word of my forthcoming book, "The Longest Romance; The Mainstream Media and Fidel Castro," (still weeks from release)--but could NOT contain himself! So he forced me to come on his Radio show briefly today at 4 PM ET to reveal a few soundbites....

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• No bubblin’ crude for you, Raul

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  From Reuters:  (And for coverage from AP, go here).

  It looks as if the Castro clan will not be joinin' the Clampetts any time soon.   Gosh durnbangit.....  They was all so lookin' furward to it.

  Cuba Offshore Drilling: Another Well Declared A Failure

  HAVANA, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Another offshore well [...]

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• No bubblin’ crude for you, Raul

  From Reuters:  (And for coverage from AP, go here).

  It looks as if the Castro clan will not be joinin' the Clampetts any time soon.   Gosh durnbangit.....  They was all so lookin' furward to it.

  Cuba Offshore Drilling: Another Well Declared A Failure

  HAVANA, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Another offshore well [...]

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• Strange Bedfellows: “Cuba’s Proud Persecution of Gays Notwithstanding…”

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  Gay activism has been in the headlines in the last week. While the cause for gay rights in the United States is a valid issue for discussion and debate, the inconsistency (and tactics) of this country's loudest gay activists is doing very little to advance the dialog, says [...]

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• Responsibility to freedom in Cuba

  This essay, this plea for a response from fellow liberals (think of the label in its classic definition here) to the plight of Cubans, was written shortly after the murder of Cuban dissident Laura Pollán. It is all the more applicable today because of the continuing acts of violent oppression [...]

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• An awesome human achievement

  Stayed up until 2:30 this morning to watch the Mars Science Laboratory (a/k/a the Curiosity Rover). It was awesome to watch. We need more of these wonderful moments.

  More news here.

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