Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Oscar Corral: The Return of The Prodigal

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The prodigal has returned but not in triumph. Oscar Corral's byline is again featured in The Miami Herald . The Cuban-American community...
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Monday, November 12, 2007

Notable & Deranged: Venezuelans, It's Already Too Late for You

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"The king got very mad, like a bull. But I'm a great bullfighter - ole!" — Hugo Chávez, quoted by El Mundo , November 10, 20...
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Sunday, November 11, 2007

Notable & Expendable: The Veep and The Creep Opine

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"Mr. Juan Carlos can treat his subjects in that fashion if they permit him to do so. But we Venezuelans are a free and sovereign people...
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Notable & Unmanned: Hugo Chávez Reponds to Royal Rebuke

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"He [King Juan Carlos] is as much a head of state as I am, with the difference that I've been elected three times with 63% of the v...
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Chávez Is Given the Raspberry at Ibero-American Summit by Spain's King and President (While Castro Is Wildly Cheered)

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The Babalunians are rejoicing, albeit cynically, because King Juan Carlos of Spain and Socialist President José Luís Rodríguez Zapatero stoo...
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Saturday, November 10, 2007

Norman Mailer (1923-2007)

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Is everybody of Fidel Castro's generation destined to die before he does? Sometimes it seems that way. The latest celebrity to predeceas...
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Friday, November 9, 2007

Notable & Quotable: Cuba is Exporting the Best and Consuming the Worst (As Usual)

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"Yes, [my wife] did take pictures [of her recent trip to Cuba], but mostly inside her mom's house as the authorities called her to ...
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Thursday, November 8, 2007

Blog Review: El Güicho Crónico

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I am gifted with a "genius radar." It is the ability to process as little as one paragraph of prose through an unpatented internal...
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Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Fred Thompson Shoots Himself in the Foot (And Cuban "Suitcase Terrorists" Have Nothing to Do With It This Time)

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When William F. Buckley was running on a lark for mayor of New York City in 1965 on the Conservative Party ticket, he was asked what he woul...
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Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Another Satisfied (Foreign) Customer of Cuba's Health Care System

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Here's a follow-up on Diane Paul, the 520 lb. Canadian who went to Cuba in October for knee replacement surgery because local doctors re...
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What is the Answer?

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fantomas said... We are fucked, Manny... What is your recommendation then? Or are we doomed... another 50 years of a one-party controlled s...
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Monday, November 5, 2007

Notable & Demonic: A Disagreement at Babalú on Whether Cubans Should Commit Collective Suicide

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"It’s frustrating to sit on this side of the puddle and wonder why the Cubans living on the other side just don’t do something. Anythin...
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Sunday, November 4, 2007

The 1936 Berlin Olympics Redux: Or When In China Do As the Chinese Tell You to Do

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Those of us who still find it incredible that the Olympics were once held in Berlin with Hitler as host and the whole world in attendance no...
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Saturday, November 3, 2007

Jimmy Carter Filler: His Biggest Secret and Greatest Claim to Fame

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What shall our "Jimmy Carter Filler" be today? We have several items to choose from: * Jimmy Carter is a lifelong bottle collector...
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A Prayer to Blessed Fray José López Piteira

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Blessed Fray José López Piteira, imprisoned and martyred at the hands of the Communists for the Holy Faith, we who are your countrymen and b...
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Friday, November 2, 2007

Stuck on the Palmetto's Rick is Deleting Posts and Cannibalizing His Readers

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Those who are most obsessed with their own privacy are usually the least respectful of the privacy of others. Such is the case with Stuck on...
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