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  • Aguate Maduro…. @#* seguro!

    Number of comments: 5

    Maaaduuuro, maaaduurito

    Aaaaguacaate Maaaduro, Aaaaaguacaaate!

    That's what the avocado peddler in my Havana neighborhood used to sing out as he traversed our streets, selling his very special top-notch merchandise.  His avocados were the best.  Hands down.  They were always perfect.  And perfectly ripe.  That was the key to his success:  Riiiiiipe' [...]

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  • Solzhenitsyn on gun control

    Number of comments: 2

    And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?

    Or if, during periods of mass [...]

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  • Screams

    Number of comments: 6

    “Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual. … Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us.” - John Hancock

    What will happen when they come for our [...]

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  • Trade with Cuba is not free trade

    Number of comments: 1

    The Heritage Foundation has published its annual Index of Economic Freedom. Cuba is ranked 176 out of 177 countries in the index. Only North Korea is less free economically than Cuba. This gets to the crux of my argument against the Libertarian view that free trade frees people. [...]

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  • Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet: A Manifesto for Democracy in Cuba

    Via Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter:

    Óscar Elías Biscet Presents Manifesto for Democracy in Cuba

    Cuban opposition figure Oscar Elias Biscet on Wednesday presented a manifesto on which he intends to collect signatures to promote a move toward democracy on the Communist-ruled island. Accompanied by about a dozen dissidents, Biscet [...]

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  • Chavez dictatorship continues clampdown on free expression in Venezuela

    Number of comments: 1

    For those who continue to tell me the government of Hugo Chavez is not a dictatorship, tell that to the Venezuelans being targeted by the government's political police for speaking freely.

    Via the UK's Guardian:

    Raid on home of Twitter user suspected of spreading Chávez health rumours

    Venezuelan intelligence officers have raided [...]

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  • A new flag for Cuba?

    The humor of Garrincha:

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  • Cuban American named poet for Obama inauguration

    Number of comments: 13

    I had never heard of Cuban American poet Richard Blanco until the news feeds began reporting President Obama's decision to feature him as the official poet for his second inauguration later this month. From what I have read, he is a child of Cuban exiles who grew up in Miami' [...]

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  • In Addition to Our Rights, The “Assault” is on Our Intelligence

    Number of comments: 3

    The politicians, the MSM, and the liberals/leftists slobbering after our guns while pinning our Second Amendment under their collective heels are tossing around a lot of misplaced terms and ignoring facts, as usual. Yesterday I found this very informative video simply defining the difference between a deemed "assault" rifle [...]

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  • Cuban dictatorship responds to UN group exposing their farcical judiciary

    Number of comments: 1

    Naturally, Cuba's Castro dictatorship did not remain silent after a UN group exposed their judiciary for the farce that it is. And of course, since the Cuban regime is so adept at propaganda, they released a statement repudiating the group's findings based on lies and fabrications.

    Why not? Too many people [...]

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