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• The New Year’s resolution that should be on every (real) conservative’s list

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  Well, I finally did it. I've flirted with this decision for six years and have threatened to do it and haven't. But today, I finally decided. The last time I did this was almost exactly twenty years ago. This time, however, it's a permanent change.

  I am no longer a registered Republican.

  I sent' [...]

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• Quote of the day

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  Penúltimos Días' Ernesto Hernandez Busto on Yoani Sanchez's latest post listing the reasons in 2013 to stay in Cuba (my translation):

  "When you read this post by Yoani Sanchez titled 'In 2013: Reasons to Stay,' you realize how sad the situation is in Cuba. The thing is that speaking'" [...]

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• Kathy Griffin’s Crotch Kiss on Anderson Cooper

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  Last year about this time Anderson Cooper was filming a tourism commercial for the Castro Regime.

  This year he was fending off a crotch kiss from his genteel co-host Kathy Griffin on CNN's New Year's Eve show.

  The gentleman is clearly on a roll!

  I'm guessing Cooper' [...]

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• Hugo Chavez: Made in Cuba

  The humor of Garrincha via Belascoaín y Neptuno:

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• How not to appease a dictatorship

  Jose R. Cardenas in Foreign Policy:

  How not to appease a dictatorship

  Do we really need another lesson on the folly of attempting to appease dictators?

  Apparently, Foreign Affairs thinks so -- albeit inadvertently. They recently posted a piece, "Our Man in Havana," about the heroic efforts of some Obama administration officials [...]

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• Litmus, schlitmus…. Cuba “experts” salivating over Kerry nomination

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  As Jiggle Billy might say:  Surprise, surprise, surprise! Hot diggitty dawg... Yee- haw!  Ain't this wonderful?

  One might as well quote one-dimensional cartoon characters when dealing with the latest news from the Oval Office, version Obama.2.  So much of it seems like a parodody of real history, full of' [...]

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• Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen: Russia’s egregious anti US adoption law penalizes children

  Our very Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen joins Sen. Marco Rubio and other lawmakers standing up for innocent Russian orphans being used as political pawns by Putin and denied loving and caring homes with adoptive American parents:

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• Tweet of the day

  Alexis Romay tweets a fair warning to all who want to discuss Cuba with him in 2013:

  Memo to the people I will meet in 2013: if you don't want to hear about a totalitarian regime ruled by a dynasty, do not ask me about #Cuba.

  — Alexis Romay (@Aromay) [...]

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• Capitol Hill Cubans: A New Year’s Wish for 2013

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  A 2013 New Years Wish from our friends at Capitol Hill Cubans:

  Our New Year's Wish

  Needless to say, our first and foremost wish for 2013 is for all Cubans to finally enjoy the same human, civil and political rights as the overwhelming number of citizens of this Western Hemisphere.

  And in [...]

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• Justice; Castro Cuban Communist Style

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  And still there are those who believe we should deal with the murderous, tyrannical, and criminal dictatorship of Cuba as if they were a legitimate government.

  Juan Tamayo in the Miami Herald:

  Defense Lawyer: Western standards not met in trial over death of Cuban dissident Payá

  New details on the case involving [...]

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