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• What we are up against

  Yes.  This is it.  This is the crux of the worst problem we face overseas.   Forget domestic threats such as the so-called fiscal precipice for a minute.  Our enemies abroad are not only totally screwy, but play by very different rules.  And don't let anyone tell you they' [...]

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• Here’s Your Sign

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  Just saw this on my Facebook feed and dug around a little to make sure it was authentic and not a photoshop. Here, here, here, and here were good enough for me.

  Here's another from Twitchy (a couple more at the link)...

  Commenters at Twitchy try to' [...]

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• Tell the world: Cuban independent journalist Calixto Martinez remains behind bars

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  Via Uncommon Sense:

  Please tell the story of Cuban independent journalist and political prisoner Calixto Martinez before it's too late

  That most of my journalistic colleagues have never heard of Cuban independent journalist Calixto Ramon Martinez Arias is disappointing.

  After all, he is one of our own, doing work most [...]

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• An interview with Cuban opposition leader Sara Marta Fonseca

  Tracy Eaton from Along the Malecon has an interview with Cuban opposition leader Sara Marta Fonseca:

  Sara Marta Fonseca (part 1, in English) English-language translation of first part of interview with Sara Marta Fonseca, member of Las Damas de Blanco. See video.

  Well, really, since I was born it was [...]

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• BREAKING: The Devolution of The Islamic Revolution in Egypt

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  Run, rabbit, run...

  Police have fired tear gas in clashes with tens of thousands of protesters gathered near the presidential palace in the Egyptian capital Cairo.

  Some of the protesters cut through barbed wire around the palace.

  Crowds have been gathering to protest against what they say is the rushed drafting of [...]

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• Freedom for Sonia Garro Alfonso!

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• Hey, What The Hell Just Happened? … Hey! You Tell Me!

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  Luis's recent coming out of the post-election head trauma coma post doesn't leave a whole lotta head left on the nail because he hit it so damn hard and square.

  I have been shaking my head over the last few weeks myself. I go out amongst the electorate and mingle [...]

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• Cuba: The Time to Fill the Jails Came Again

  By Ivan Garcia:

  Cuba: The Time to Fill the Jails Came Again

  Trying to analyze the strategy of the Castro brothers is an exercise in pure abstraction.  Their way of moving tokens on the political board tends to go against logic.  The incarceration of 75 dissidents ordered by Fidel Castro in the [...]

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• Yeah, great, but how about used jock straps for Cuban men?

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  Hey, this is a case of sexual discrimination.  Why limit this great project to women?  Cuban men would be so grateful to receive used calzoncillos and jock straps too.

  This is also ultimate proof of the failure of the so-called Revolution and of  the condescending disdain that infects so many [...]

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• Commentary on third anniversary of the arrest of Alan Gross

  Yesterday, December 3rd, marked the third anniversary of the Cuban dictatorship's arrest of innocent American aid worker Alan Gross. Since then, Gross has been held for ransom in a Cuban gulag as the Castro regime attempts to trade his liberty for something of value.

  Here is some commentary on the anniversary.

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