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• Eire on the air in Eire

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  More exile intransigence on the airways.

  This time our collective intransigence crossed the Atlantic Ocean yesterday, when an Irish radio program got in touch with yours truly in regards to the proposed Che monument in Galway.  The show began with a debate between Jim Fitzpatrick, the genius behind the monument project, [...]

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• The late art critic Robert Hughes

  The Australian emigre Robert Hughes, art critic and historian, passed away this week. Listen to this 1997 60 Minutes interview (especially at the 5 minute mark) and hear what he has to say about America and political correctness. Asked what credentials he needed to have to be an [...]

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• BREAKING: Video from Starbucks counter-demonstration

  (H/T The awesome Jim Treacher)

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• On dealing with the devil. Volume 431,795, 347; chapter 159,475,399; Lesson 156,958,943,271; part A.

  From Maclean's magazine, Canada: a warning many will ignore

  Foreign business in Cuba: Beware the dangerous embrace

  Havana is at the same time attracting and terrifying entrepreneurs

  by Nancy Macdonald and Gabriela Perdomo on Wednesday, August 8, 2012

  Until this spring, Stephen Purvis had it [...]

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• Sink or Swim

  I keep hearing Romney critics complaining, He's not telling us his plans for the economy ... He's not giving us any details.

  Perhaps he has not submitted a near 3000 page plan to dig our country and system of economy and government out of the swirling quicksand, but what I [...]

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• Protest in front of Havana’s Capitol building

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  Diario de Cuba:

  
  

  
  As noted by Capitol Hill Cubans, the participants all remain detained.

  They are: They are: Lázaro Mendoza García, Jorge González Echendia, Luis Enrique López Torres, José Antonio Pompa López, Ernesto Márquez Herrera and Wilfredo Piloto.

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• One of the lies Modig was forced to tell

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   Capitol Hill Cubans:

  Imagine Teddy Bears Over Havana

  Does Sweden only support dissidents in Cuba?

  Of course not.

  Sweden is a leader in the promotion of human rights and democratic movements in repressed societies throughout the world -- from Cuba to Burma.

  However, when Swedish youth leader Aron Modig was asked this question at [...]

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• Maybe we can get that idiot Will Ferrell to move there…

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  75% tax rate is proposed in France:

  The call to Vincent Grandil’s Paris law firm began like many others that have rolled in recently. On the line was the well-paid chief executive of one of France’s most profitable companies, and he was feeling nervous.

  Some rich citizens have already left. In [...]

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• 90 days and counting

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  As of today we have 90 days left until the Presidential election of 2012 on November 6. Enthusiasm gap? Not on our side of the aisle!

  Tea Party Republicans, conservatives, disenchanted H&Cers, and assorted other folks are fired up! I'm pretty sure I echo a lot of you when I' [...]

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• Clinically-crazed hard-liner and intransigent again on Canadian TV

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  Our friend Ezra Levant at Canada's (growing and rollicking!!!) SunNews again consults with Babalu for light upon Latin American matters.

  Unreal

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