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• Hillary on Causes for Benghazi Attack: “What Difference Does It Make?!?”

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  Yep, she said that...

  So, according to the woman who pushed an innocent video-maker out front as the blame for the Benghazi attack and murders, and then had to climb out over the landslide of mounting evidence to the contrary, the reason we were attacked is not important.

  Well, I wonder [...]

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• Vindicated…sort of.

  The Roberts ruling doomed Obamacare...that was my argument back in June of last year.

  Well, kind of.

  Every right-wing pundit from Glenn Beck to Rush Limbaugh cried treason and attacked Roberts for what some called his "peace in our time" decision, while I argued that Justice Roberts' opinion' [...]

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• Quote of the day

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  Our good friend Zoé Valdés in an interview at Punt de Vista, which is run by another good friend of ours, Joan Antoni Guerrero Vall:

  "I have no use for projects nor am I interested in being part of a project that continues to try and reconcile with the dictatorship" [...]

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• ‘Cuba Experts’ on the Wrong Side of History

  Jose R. Cardenas at InterAmerican Security Watch:

  “Cuba Experts” on the Wrong Side of History

  “The Castro generation is slowly handing power over to the next generation of party and military leaders who will determine the pace and scope of the reform process.”

  “Cuba Expert” Ted Piccone of the Brookings Institution, giving [...]

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• Why Obama’s ‘extended hand’ is counter-productive

  Mauricio Claver-Carone at The Hill:

  Why Obama's 'extended hand' is counter-productive

  In the 19th century, U.S. abolitionist leader William Lloyd Garrison astutely observed, “With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be [...]

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• Cuba: Number of political prisoners doubled in 2012

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  Not withstanding the elation and glee found in news reports describing the magnanimous reforms of the vile Castro dictatorship, the truth about the repression that chokes the people of Cuba remains quite real and palpable. While the pundits, journalists, "Cuba Experts" (or as they refer to them now, "Cuba Analysts)," [...]

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• Hagel’s troubling Cuba policy comes back to haunt him

  As if Chuck Hagel's other dubious positions were not enough to prove he is not qualified to hold any position of influence, the Obama nominee for Secretary of Defense also has to answer for his troubling policy towards the murderous, criminal, and tyrannical Cuban dictatorship just ninety miles from our [...]

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• Some say that prisons are filling up again in Cuba: is that really possible?

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  From The Funks Grove Junior College Tribune, Nebraska

  Loud-Mouth Troublemakers Claim That The Castro Regime Has Doubled the Number of Political Prisioners in the Past Ten Months

  by Durwood Schnitzelbauer, Jr.

  Shocking news, right?  Naah....  Don't believe a word of it.   Cuba is a country in transition, undergoing all sorts of' [...]

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• Just as She Prepares to Exit the Administration Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Heads to The Hill…

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  Tuesday Judicial Watch released a scathing report against the State Department’s and Barack Obama’s actions both before and after the Benghazi attack...

  “The September 11, 2012, attack in Benghazi resulted from a wide range of strategic and tactical failures by State Department officials,” according to the report. “Chief among them [...]

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