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• So, Sarah Palin was wrong, eh?

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  The execrable Paul Krugman, in an unguarded nanomoment of honesty, says what the liberals and "progressives really think:

  Eventually we do have a problem. That the population is getting older, health care costs are rising…there is this question of how we’re going to pay for the programs. The year 2025," [...]

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• Raúl governs — under Fidel’s shadow

  Carlos Alberto Montaner in the Miami Herald:

  Raúl governs — under Fidel’s shadow

  Raúl Castro gave Yoani Sánchez a passport. I personalize this anecdote because “the Cuban government” is only a reflection of Castro’s will, nothing more. For more than half a century, whatever the Castro brothers wish and decide is [...]

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• Cuba’s Electoral Euphemism

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  For those who are still confused about the "elections" that took place in Cuba this past Sunday, Rosa Maria Payá, a Cuban dissident whose dissident father Oswaldo was assassinated last year by the Castro regime, explains how the electoral process works on the island.

  Via Rosa Maria's blog (my translation):

  Cuba's' [...]

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• Despite supposed reforms, Castro dictatorship maintains travel restriction on Cubans

  As expected, the supposed migratory reforms of Cuban dictator Raul Castro are not as reforming as the "Cuba Experts," the international media, and the Castro sycophants here in the U.S. would lead you to believe. It turns out the Castro regime continues to maintain a list of Cubans who will [...]

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• A question for the ages

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  In The American Spectator, Robert Stacy McCain attempts to clarify the current state of the Bob Menendez scandal -- and asks a question for the ages...

  [...] Again, however, the Menendez denial is false. Matthew Boyle says he interviewed two of the women last year, and Boyle is adamant in his belief that [...]

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• What it means to be a university student and a dissident in Cuba

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  Via Pedazos de la Isla:

  What it means to be a university student and a dissident in Cuba (A Chronicle)

  Ever wondered what it must be like to be a young university student in Cuba who has decided to publicly oppose the dictatorship?  I recommend reading the following chronicle, published in [...]

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• Superstar Che Guevara ROCKS the Super Bowls!

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  Let's see: first off the Super Bowl was held at the Mercedes-Benz SuperDome, right?

  And as well known hereabouts, Mercedez Benz (very briefly) adopted Che as an advertising icon:

  Beyonce' was pretty much the Super Bowl's MVP, right?

  Here's her husband:

  Last year Tom Brady was (kinda) the' [...]

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