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• Senator Ted Cruz accused of “Mc Carthyism!!!” by MSM/Democratic Axis (but he forgot to bow and thank them?)

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  It looks like Republican Sen. Ted Cruz is taking a page out of former Sen. Joe McCarthy’s playbook.

  The Texas lawmaker and Tea Party favorite grilled Defense Secretary nominee Chuck Hagel this week, accusing him of being cozy with both Iran and North Korea.

  Hardball host Chris Matthews said the [...]

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• Liberal insanity? Absolutely!

  Courtesy of blogger Miguel over at via Gun Free Zone comes these amazing stats:

  Beginning next year, possession of a firearms magazine capable of holding more than 10 rounds will carry a greater criminal penalty in [New York State] than the following crimes. Mind you, this is for mere possession, not for [...]

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• Why Ecuador Matters

  Jamie Darenblum at the Weekly Standard:

  Why Ecuador Matters

  About two years ago, a senior Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) official said that a certain Latin American country was becoming a veritable “United Nations” of organized criminal activity, attracting gangsters from such diverse and faraway places as Albania, China, Italy, and Ukraine. He was [...]

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• Granddaughter of Cuban police chief executed by Guevara speaks out about Ché portrait at W Hotel

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  Covering the scandal of the Ché Guevara portrait hung at South Beach's W Hotel, Miami's Local 10 News interviews Barbara Rangel, a Cuban American human rights activist and granddaughter of Santa Clara, Cuba, police chief, Col. Cornelio Rojas. Rojas was executed without trial on the orders of Ché [...]

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• Chavez Death Watch: can six pix nix trix?

  Chavez and his daughters

  Hey, look what Photoshop can do!  Or, as they say in Caracastan: Foootooooshóóó !!!  Why didn't we think of this earlier?

  Several nearly identical photos of Hugolino were released this afternoon to the people of  Venenozuela.

  Hugo Chavez Photos Show Venezuelan President Smiling, Reading Granma

  By Daniel Wallis and Marianna' [...]

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• Who Made ‘Latin America’ Latin?

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  A guest post and a history lesson from Asombra:

  Who Made “Latin America” Latin?

  The idea (repeat, idea) goes back to the 1830s, particularly the writings of the Frenchman Michel Chevalier, a follower of Saint-Simon (a utopian socialist). Chevalier argued that this part of the Americas was populated by those of a [...]

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• One step at a time, comrade Alarcon

  The humor of Garrincha at Martí Noticias:

  Translation:

  "Let's take this one step at a time, comrade Alarcon.
  1) Calm down.
  2) Who is Eliecer Avila?
  3) Why do you want airplanes to collide in the sky?"

  [...]
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• Nancy Pelosi Has a Hell of a Lot of Money and No Shame

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  The US Congress has become the largest sector of the entitlement class in this nation.

  This uber-rich elitist hypocrite of the elected class is completely and willfully ignorant of the fact her office and those of the others in Congress were NOT designed to be full time jobs, let [...]

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• Forgotten Cuba? Is Washington Playing Word Games in Latest Espionage Estimate?

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  For those who think Cuba is not a threat to our national security, an Op-Ed from Lt. Col. Chris Simmons at Cuba Confidential:

  OPED: Forgotten Cuba? Is Washington Playing Word Games in Latest Espionage Estimate?

  By Chris Simmons

  Earlier this week, the Washington Post reported that “A new intelligence assessment has concluded [...]

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• CPJ: Cuba remains a repressive state, in the Top 10 of most censored nations in the world

  The Committee to Project Journalists reports on the continuing lack of freedom in Cuba despite the lauded economic "reforms" of the Castro dictatorship. Repression on the island at the hands of the Castro brothers' totalitarian state ranks Cuba as one of the Top 10 most censored nations in the' [...]

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