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• The State Asks, “Why Do You Need (Fill in The Blank)?”

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  Not only does busy-body Dianne Feinstein's latest senate bill designed to begin the disarming of law-abiding Americans exempt government officials from having to abide by it, should it become law, but it does NOT have the votes in the senate for it to pass ... democrat votes, [...]

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• I Witnessed Fidel’s Triumphant entry into Havana

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  The following is one of the many eye witness accounts of Fidel Castro's rise to power and the death and destruction that ensued soon after. This account was written by Clotilde Saiz, an 85-year-old Cuban exile who wants to provide her children and others a firsthand account of how Cuba' [...]

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• New Democrat Party Finance Chief dined with Fidel Castro

  And people still wonder why Cuban Americans tend to be Republicans.

  Via the Weekly Standard:

  New Dem. Finance Chief Dined With Fidel Castro

  Politico reported this morning that "Henry R. Muñoz III of San Antonio -- an Obama bundler and a national chairman of the Futuro Fund, a group of Latino leaders" [...]

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• Oooops. Never mind. Sorry. Perdón, Sus Altezas.

  Spain's equivalent of the New York Times, left-leaning mirror of the "thinking" class, El Pais, has some egg on its face.

  It looks as if "fascist" ABC is not the only peninsular newspaper that has irritated the powers-that-be in Caracastan.

  .... and, for the sake of fairness, it's only fitting that [...]

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• Quote[s] of the day

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  Today we have a two-for-the-price-of-one Quote of the Day.

  First up, the Castro dictatorship in Cuba explaining that although the island now has fast internet access and plenty of bandwidth, that does not mean they are going to allow regular Cubans to access the internet any time soon:

  "When the testing" [...]

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• Is North Korea Raul Castro’s Model?

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  Pedro Roig from the University of Miami's Institute for Cuban and Cuban American Studies:

  Is North Korea Raul Castro’s Model?

  As Cuba faces a major socio-economic crisis, General Raul Castro tenaciously holds on to power; oblivious to the factual catastrophe of his Marxist revolution. In over six years of controlling the [...]

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• Breeding the Low Information Voter

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  I had a conversation with the parent of one of my rec league basketball team kids last week that was rather insightful, and (in my opinion) indicative of the larger problem facing this country today.

  We were having a team meeting after a particularly disheartening loss, and the kids were every [...]

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• On Flaky Logic and Offensive Images

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  Jeff Flake apparently knows nothing about the tourist tsunami that has been flooding Castrolandia for the past few years.  Girls-Gone-Wild co-eds and drunken frat boys have been there for quite a while, enjoying la vida loca, while nothing changes for the Cuban people.

  The offensive photo above, a nauseating example [...]

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• U.S. State Department meets with head Cuban spy in Washington D.C.

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  He is euphemistically referred to as the head of the Cuban Interests Section in Washington D.C., but everyone knows that Jose Cabañas is actually the head spy for the Cuban dictatorship here in the U.S. Nevertheless, the Assistant Secretary of State for the Western Hemisphere Roberta Jacobson welcomed the new [...]

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• Update on Kerry confirmation hearings in the Senate

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  Yesterday, President Obama's nominee for Secretary of State, Sen. John Kerry, appeared before his fellow senators as confirmation hearings for his appointment began. We have already posted Sen. Marco Rubio's questioning of Kerry, and here we have more news on the hearings.

  Sen. Jeff "Cuba flake" Flake was his [...]

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