Via Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter: Two misstatements by the Castro regime at the Committee Against Torture Rafael Pino Bécquer, Deputy Attorney General of Cuba, in his presentation of the report on Cuba before the Committee Against Torture made a number of statements that are inaccurate. However  for the sake of brevity will focus [...]

The Mitt Romney for President campaign has called on President Obama to disavow the endorsement he and his campaign received from Mariela Castro, the daughter of Cuba’s ruthless communist dictator, Raul Castro. “President Obama should disavow the endorsement of the daughter of Cuban dictator Raul Castro. It is galling that an envoy from a Communist [...]

I imagine the left will now have to start classifying these LGBT activists in South Florida as “intransigent hardliners” and relics of a “cold war era” mentality. Via the Herald’s Gay South Florida Blog: Cuban-American gay activists in Miami protest Mariela Castro’s visit to San Francisco, New York Gay Cuban Americans in Miami are furious [...]

Given the whole fiasco with Facebook’s (FB) IPO last week (Felix Salmon over at Reuters has a great recap of the many problems here), you’d think that might diminish the hopes of smaller, or at least less meteoric, companies looking to plunge into the IPO pool. But that doesn’t seem to have happened at Smith [...]

Presented as a public service, largely because the NASCAR HOF is here in Charlotte and most sportswriters have the analytical ability of a head of lettuce. The NASCAR Hall of Fame picked its fourth class of five inductees yesterday. Selected were Rusty Wallace, Herb Thomas, Buck Baker, Cotton Owen, and Leonard Wood. The way the [...]

Stalking Republicans office holders and candidates has become a favorite tactic of the left. Just ask Governor Walker. He can’t even appear at non-political events like book readings to schoolchildren, Christmas tree lightings, or the opening of the WI State Fair without being hounded by radical unionistas and leftists in Wisconsin. Occupiers dogged Republican candidates  [...]

After posting the most recent update of the Ultimate Sustainable Dividend Portfolio last week, I got an interesting question in the comments: “What do you think about selling covered calls on a dividend portfolio?” – awake It is a very interesting question, one that I could debate for a very long time. Before getting started, [...]

The vetting continues…. Via BuzzFeed:  In this little-seen advertisement that ran in the Hyde Park Herald in 1996, Obama was listed on a panel sponsored by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), University of Chicago Democrats, and University of Chicago DSA. He also supported gay marriage back then. Shocking, I know. As recently as 2004, [...]

He wrote an email asking how to contact an EPA official. Now he must pay. A North Carolina man named Larry Keller recently got a visit from Obama EPA officials at his home. His crime? He sent an email asking how to contact one of their employees. PohDiaries reported: About a month ago, EPA regional [...]