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• Midnight in America

  We got it bad and that ain't good:

  Yes, it's midnight again in America.

  Obama, in fact, is the only president other than Herbert Hoover to preside over an economy that shrank in real terms during his first term. And Hoover, as I recall, was not re-elected. Roosevelt's margin of electoral' [...]

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• Reaping the whirlwind

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  Unexpectedly! Good job, there, PA and OH!

  [...] From the Department of Labor press release this morning:

  In the week ending November 10, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 439,000, an increase of 78,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 361,000. The 4-week moving average was 383,750, [...]

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• Thought of the day

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  Cuban independent journalist Ivan Garcia on the celebrations that took place in Havana when Barack Obama won reelection:

  "It was not only Barack Obama’s supporters in Chicago’s Democratic party circles who celebrated the close victory over his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, with champagne. Though without as much rejoicing, the club of" [...]

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• Sowell explains the ‘need to explain’

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  Thomas Sowell in The American Spectator explains why Reagan won two landslides. In a nutshell, he explained the timelessness of conservative principles to WE THE PEOPLE.

  "The Need to Explain."

  The most successful Republican presidential candidate of the past half century -- Ronald Reagan, who was elected and reelected with landslide [...]

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• Cuban-American votes? Poll by Latino Decisions on election eve said: “Same as it Ever Was”

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  Phone poll by Latino Decisions on election eve found Cuban Americans going 64 per cent for Romney 35 for Obama--almost identical to the last go-round in 2008

  "The evidence presented here suggests that claims about dramatic changes in the Cuban American electorate are premature." Interesting stuff from scholars [...]

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• The Truth About the Cuban-American Vote

  Mary O'Grady in the Wall Street Journal:

  The Truth About the Cuban-American Vote

  Ever since the final vote tally in Florida gave President Obama the state's 29 electoral votes, some Democrats have been crowing that their candidate beat Mitt Romney among ballots cast for president by Cuban-Americans in the state.' [...]

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• Ghost of Stalin…and the Purge begins.

  It's like 1941 all over again.

  ' [...]
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• Cuban political prisoner begins hunger strike

  Via Uncommon Sense:

  Cuban political prisoner Calixto Ramon Martinez starts hunger strike

  
  Cuban independent journalist Calixto Ramon Martinez, in jail since Sept. 16, has started a hunger strike to protest poor living conditions and other mistreatment he has suffered since being transferred this past Saturday at el [...]

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• Number 54033 (Part 1) / Cuban Legal Aid

  By Yaremis Flores:

  Number 54033 (Part 1) / Cuban Legal Aid

  The afternoon of November 7th I couldn’t imagine that I’d trade my name for a number. I went out at approximately two in the afternoon to take a serving of soup over to my father, who’d been admitted into a [...]

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• IDF: Boom! Boom! Out Go The Lights

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  Israel's IDF targeted and took out top Hamas commander Ahmed Jabri today, and the IDF is taking great pleasure in displaying the above photo and captions on their Twitter feed. The IDF has also kindly suggested no other Hamas operatives show their ugly mugs out of doors as [...]

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