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• Facts and Stinking Facts

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  The Sacramento Bee: "California gun sales jump; gun injuries, deaths fall"

  And, about those armed school teachers...

  Kasey Hansen, a special education teacher from Salt Lake City, Utah, says she would take a bullet for any of her students, but if faced with a gunman [...]

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• 2012: The year of repression in Cuba

  Journalist Joan Antoni Guerrero Vall details the violent wave of repression unleashed in 2012 by the brutal Castro dictatorship against thousands of peaceful opposition activists.

  Read the article (in Spanish) at Martí Noticias.

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• Some Crisises are Simply Left to Waste Away … “God Help Us”

  Writer Mark Stein outlines his initial reaction to the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting of a couple weeks ago. In the piece Stein outlines the profile of recent mass killers, and the questions such mass murders invoke. However, he is struck by the hypocritical selective outrage America has shown in [...]

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• Security for me, but not for thee

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  Well, well, well...

  Well known anti-gun state senator R.C. Soles (D-NC) pulled a gun on two men breaking into his home, shooting one of them.

  The senator, who has spent his political career fighting against the individual right to keep and bear arms, apparently believes the right to keep and bear [...]

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• At The Edge of The Cliff: The Dictator Gives His Court Jester and Their Minions A Raise

  Or ... "The Emperor Grants Raises to Those About to Tax and Regulate The Hell Out of The Rest of Us."

  Obama has no real physical use for the U.S. Congress, as he proved several times in his first term. The second term promises to be so much more [...]

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• Photo of the day — The Flying Cubana

  Taken some time around 1911, this picture shows a brave Cubana, Lenore Rivero, experiencing flight for the first time:

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• We told you so, redux

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  This is nothing new, of course -- back in October 2008 I linked to a superb essay on American Thinker detailing the history of this crisis -- but it bears repeating since the lies and stupidity and hypocrisy of the psychotic Democrat liberal/"progressive"/socialists continues to bear fruit. The [...]

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• 26 Cubans attempting escape intercepted by Coast Guard and sent back to Cuba

  Apparently, these 26 Cubans, who risked their lives to escape the island, had not read the Reuters story explaining how things are getting wonderfully better in Cuba.

  Via the Miami Herald:

  Coast Guard repatriates 26 Cubans

  The U.S. Coast Guard repatriated 26 Cuban migrants to Bahia de Cabañas, Cuba, Friday who [...]

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