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• Suppression! Disenfranchisement!

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  Great puff piece in the Miami Herald about the Miami-Dade Elections supervisor. She's so human I just want to hug her now despite the disaster she oversaw.

  Penelope Townsley, Miami-Dade Elections Supervisor

  But the best part is this paragraph about those darned Republicans and the law they passed to suppress [...]

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• Obamacare, the gift that keeps on giving

  A couple of weeks ago I posted about how health Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) have been capped at $2,500 by Obamacare. The purpose of the new cap is to recover more tax revenue to pay for other aspects of Obamacare. Now that we are into open enrollment season for [...]

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• Obama Administration’s apparent failure with Cuban human rights violator

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  Via Notes from the Cuban Exile Corner:

  Obama Administration's apparent failure with Cuban human rights violators

  "True peace is not merely the absence of tension, it is the presence of justice" -Martin Luther King Jr.

  On August 4, 2011 the Obama Administration announced a ban on visas for people [...]

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• Visagate: Obama administration continues granting visas to the Cuban dictatorship’s nefarious characters

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  Juan Tamayo in the Miami Herald:

  Cubans lament dirty pasts of hundreds living safe in exile

  Hundreds of Cubans with dubious pasts, including State Security officers and snitches, have moved to Miami, much to the disgust of those they tormented.

  Havana activist Elizardo Sánchez says he bears no ill will for [...]

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• The Push to Continue to Pay Americans Not to Work in The Magnificent Obama Economy

  But wait. I thought we were told Obama's policies have employed bazillions of people.

  It's all good. It's all good...

  Groups backing an extension of unemployment benefits have launched a new round of lobbying to convince Congress to extend federal benefits to the long-term jobless.

  A coalition of advocates including the National Employment [...]

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• New cholera cases reappear in Cuba

  Just when you thought it was safe to drink the water again, new cholera cases have reappeared in Cuba. Café Fuerte is reporting that at least 12 new cases have been reported recently in Sagua de Tamano, in the eastern province of Holguin.

  Read the full report (in Spanish) HERE.

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• Stranger Than Fiction Not-So-Funnies…

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  "The economy is so bad, MSNBC had to lay off 300 Obama spokesmen. " - Leno

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• Hanoi Jane’s regret

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  Jane Fonda, the world-famous limousine liberal communist regrets riding that North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun -- and not fucking bola de churre.

  As everyone knows, war is bad as long as the President of the United States is a Republican. That’s why Jane Fonda was an anti-war activist during the Vietnam War. [...]

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• ‘Cuba Experts’ decry hard line taken by Alan Gross’ family

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  When Alan Gross was arrested by the Cuban regime nearly three years ago for helping Cuban Jews connect to the internet, his family attempted to secure his release by playing nice with the Castro regime. They begged, they swore they meant no harm to the vile Castro dictatorship, and Gross [...]

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• Not so fast, my friends

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  Right after the election there was a lot of analysis done on how Cuban-Americans in South Florida voted. Some gave a slight edge to Romney and some to Obama. As Lee Corso would say on College Game Day, "not so fast, my friends!"

  Here's my analysis using actual precinct-level election results, [...]

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