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• Sen. Rubio urges Obama administration to forcefully condemn Russian adoption ban

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  Thursday, December 27, 2012

  SENATOR RUBIO URGES OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO FORCEFULLY CONDEMN RUSSIAN ADOPTION BAN
  

  Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement urging the Obama Administration to forcefully condemn the Russian adoption ban:

  “I’m deeply concerned by President [...]

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• Rep. Ros-Lehtinen invites Sen. Harry Reid to discover the real meaning of the term ‘dictatorhip’

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  In his usual pernicious and tasteless manner, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid took to the Senate floor today to odiously proclaim that House Speaker John Boehner is running congress like a "dictatorship":

  Reid said Boehner will not bring up the Senate’s bill because he knows it would pass on the [...]

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• Cuba’s National Award for Literature: It is not who awards it, it is who accepts it

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  Juan Abreu in his Emanaciones #1287 (my translation):

  1287

  Writer Leonardo Padura has received an award. I have read some nonsense about it and here is some of it. No one mentions that Padura has been given an award by a ferocious dictatorship that has spent the last 53 years [...]

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• DREAM Act kids not helping their cause

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  I sympathize completely with the difficult situation the DREAM Act kids are in: Through no fault of their own, they find themselves as illegal immigrants in this country in spite of the fact that for the most part, they have been law-abiding members of our society and played by the [...]

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• No health care for you! The wonders of Castrolandia, chapter 34,987,652,721.15

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  A chilling report, forwarded  to the world via clandestine email by Cuban dissident Martha Beatriz Roque.

  This is what can happen when the government runs everything, including the distribution of food and health care, and you've had the nerve to criticize the way things are run.  Behold the Cuban health' [...]

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• Photo of the day — Longing for the better days of Stalin

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  Via the AP in the Sacramento Bee, longing for the better days of Stalin, where millions were murdered and no one would say a word...

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• Power leakage intensifies in Venezuela

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  While Chavez edges closer to decomposing, Maduro quickly ripens. (For non-Spanish speakers: "maduro" means "ripe").

  And there are rumors that Chavez could be sworn in as president in Havana if he is still too frail to show up in Caracas on January 10.  Viva Cubazuela!

  From Financial Times:

  Chávez hands economy [...]

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• Sonia Garro Alfonso: A birthday in a Cuban prison cell

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  Today is the birthday of Cuban opposition leader and Lady in White, Sonia Garro Alfonso. Instead of being surrounded by family and friends, she is surrounded by the four walls and bars of the putrid Cuban prison cell she has been kept in since March of this year.

  Let us remember [...]

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• Smackdown!

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  ...and the trading floor cheered!

  "Are you guys just incompetent or what?"

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• Case dismissed of American who successfully sued Castro dictatorship for their refusal to respond

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  Par for the course for the lawless dictatorial government of the Castro crime family in Cuba.

  Via the Portland Press Herald:

  Cuba won't respond to Maine woman's lawsuit, so it's dismissed

  The woman is seeking to enforce a $21 million judgment for the 1963 wrongful death of her father.

  BANGOR – A federal' [...]

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