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Did Romney have his upper lip waxed?

24 May 2012 – 12:42 am PDT

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In an interview with Time magazine today Mitt Romney talks about what the focus of the presidential election is and what it should be. But more importantly, why does his upper lip look so raw, red and wet? Was it waxed? The people have the right to know.

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Jose Canseco doesn‘t know Romney’s name but knows Romney is a ‘joker’

24 May 2012 – 12:42 am PDT

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Jose Canseco doesn‘t know Romney’s name but knows Romney is a ‘joker’

Former Major League baseball player, amateur climatologist and now political pundit Jose Canseco was profiled by Grantland.com recently. Canseco isn’t known to be the finest thread on a mesh shirt but he tried his hand at political analysis in the interview anyway. “Who’s the guy running against Obama?” Canseco asks. Romney, Jose. “Romney. This joker [...]

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Obama pivots away from Bain attacks with new ads

24 May 2012 – 12:42 am PDT

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One highlighting our troops and supporting our veterans: And another wooing senior citizens: Will we hear about Bain again? Probably. But for right now, Obama is pivoting back to issues for which his fellow Democrats won’t openly criticize him.

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Barack Obama pulls an Elizabeth Warren

24 May 2012 – 12:42 am PDT

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Barack Obama pulls an Elizabeth Warren

Guess which other Democratic politician has claimed to have Native American roots without any actual proof? In his book, “Dreams From My Father,” the future President Obama wrote: If asked, Toot [Obama’s maternal grandmother, Madelyne Payne Dunham] would turn her head in profile to show off her beaked nose, which, along with a pair of [...]

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Emanaciones 1109: Thinking about Latin America

24 May 2012 – 12:35 am PDT

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Emanaciones 1109: Thinking about Latin America

Juan Abreu and his Emanaciones #1109 (my translation): 1109 In Havana I met various Latin American leftists. The government would house them in new apartments and they got to shop at the special stores. Unlike Cubans, none of them were dying of hunger. Internationalist Guerrillas they would call them. I knew one ideological murderer in [...]

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Exchanging an Argentine Fiat for a Cuban Roof

24 May 2012 – 12:34 am PDT

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Exchanging an Argentine Fiat for a Cuban Roof

By Yoani Sanchez: Exchanging an Argentine Fiat for a Cuban Roof Image from www.clasificadosdecuba.net He was awarded it as a perk based on merit, paying a subsidized price in 1975, the same year as the first Communist Party Congress. He won the chance to buy that brand new Fiat 125, made in Argentina, because he [...]

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The Star of Liberty on Cuban Independence Day

24 May 2012 – 12:34 am PDT

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The Star of Liberty on Cuban Independence Day

Baracutey Cubano has a report, photographs, and video of the event, which took place on May 20th in Miami commemorating Cuban Independence Day and the inauguration of the Star of Liberty: The report (in Spanish) is available HERE.

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Ros-Lehtinen: Plunder Of Cuba’s Natural Resources By Foreign Companies Continues Unabated

24 May 2012 – 12:34 am PDT

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Ros-Lehtinen: Plunder Of Cuba’s Natural Resources By Foreign Companies Continues Unabated

PRESS RELEASE May 23, 2012 With The Cuban Oil Exploration Program Now Focusing On An Oil Well Leased By Malaysia’s Petronas & Russia’s Gazprom, Ros-Lehtinen Says That The Plunder Of Cuba’s Natural Resources Continues Unabated By Companies That Do Not Care About the Suffering Of The Cuban People Miami, Florida – Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) [...]

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Cardenas: Cuba visa issue is a matter of principle

24 May 2012 – 12:33 am PDT

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Cardenas: Cuba visa issue is a matter of principle

Jose Cardenas in Foreign Policy’s Shadow Government: Cuba visa issue is a matter of principle The usually sober editorial board of the Washington Post misfired badly in a recent editorial, “The refuseniks of Cuba,” in which it lambasted the Obama administration for denying visas to a few Cuban academic apparatchiks who wanted to attend an upcoming conference of [...]

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Cuba 2012: Remnants

24 May 2012 – 12:32 am PDT

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Cuba 2012: Remnants

The humor of Santana: Translation: “If the water is never running here, why does the faucet have a hot and cold handle?” “Remnants of capitalism.” “But you’re self-employed now. Don’t you make enough money now to fix the plumbing?” “Remnants of socialism.”

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