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• Yeah, It’s All in There … Except Actual “Health Care” and Human Compassion

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  This is one of the major reasons businesses are laying-off or reducing employees from full-time work to under 30 hours a week. Today Rush Limbaugh visited "Realville" with Betsy McCaughey's warnings about the realities of ObamaCare. I don't think there are many, if any, who have read,' [...]

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• With Castro Dictatorship Arresting & Beating Pro-Democracy Activists, Ros-Lehtinen Calls For Their Immediate Release

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   November 13, 2012

  With Castro Dictatorship Arresting & Beating Pro-Democracy Activists, Ros-Lehtinen Calls For Their Immediate Release & Chastises Nations That Voted At The UN To Lift The U.S. Embargo Against Castro Tyranny

  Washington, DC – Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) issued the following statement regarding the latest vote at the United [...]

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• Ros-Lehtinen: Venezuela’s Membership on UN Human Rights Council is an Abomination

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  NEWS

  House Foreign Affairs Committee

  U.S. House of Representatives

  For IMMEDIATE Release – November 13, 2012

  Venezuela’s Membership on UN Human Rights Council is an Abomination, Ros-Lehtinen Says

  (WASHINGTON) – U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement regarding yesterday's election of members of the United Nations [...]

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• Diaz-Balart Condemns Brutal Arrest of Pro-Democracy Activists Antonio Rodiles and Ángel Santiesteban

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  November 13, 2012

   

  Diaz-Balart Condemns Brutal Arrest of Pro-Democracy Activists Antonio Rodiles and Ángel Santiesteban

  Washington, D.C. – Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) today condemned the brutal arrest and imprisonment of Antonio Rodiles, director of the Cuban free opinion program entitled, “Estado de SATS,” and fellow pro-democracy activist, Ángel Santiesteban.

  “It is [...]

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• Can I Wake Up?

  By Yoani Sanchez:

  Can I Wake Up?

  Sometimes when I’m restless I dream that I move, that I change houses over and over without being able to enjoy any of them. In this recurring nightmare, my life is dismantled and my childhood photos are lost in some moving van. But this [...]

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• The Cuban Government asks for help

  The humor of Garrincha via Guamá:

  Translation:

  The Cuban government asks for help.

  "Send more billy clubs!"

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• 2012 Presidential Election — Some Thoughts, a Week Out

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  A guest post from frequent Babalú commenter, Asombra:

  Some Thoughts, a Week Out
  
  It’s understandable to be surprised Obama was re-elected--Romney sure was. Being shocked, however, means we weren’t paying enough attention. The signs, brazen and vulgar as Sandra Fluke, were plain as day--at least as early as 2008, when [...]
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• He is Henry the VIII Methinks, Henry the VIII Methinks He Is

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  "(T)he ultimate irony of faith is that it necessarily admits doubt. It is the belief in things not seen. It is beyond our capacity as human beings to know with certainty what God has planned for us or what He asks of us." - Barack Hussein Obama, University of Notre [...]

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• The General’s Nephew

  Via Capitol Hill Cubans:

  The General's Nephew

  Cuban pro-democracy leader Antonio Rodiles remains imprisoned after being brutally beaten and arrested by the Castro regime last week. He is now being threatened with a one-year prison term. A young intellectual, Antonio is founder of the civil society project, Estado de Sats. According to [...]

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• Selective outrage: demon babes ruffle feathers.

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  Here we go again.  Another politically correct outrage, the only kind worthy of news coverage.

  It's a grain of sand on the beach of media bias, for sure, but some grains do sparkle more than others.  This one has that touch of glamour connected with lingerie supermodels: it has a [...]

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