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Archive for May, 2008

Why no display on Castro’s prisons?

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Because I’ve long been a big fan of Irish rock group U2, I–in my naive youth–briefly joined Shamnesty International after U2 gave them a free plug during a concert. But then I got older and–as Winston Churchill noted–became more conservative and wiser. And I terminated my membership in the organization.
This news […]

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Ho hum, in other obvious news,

Monday, May 5th, 2008

night follows day, the sun rises in the east, water is wet and Cuba’s leader tells another whopper:
As a practical matter, it is impossible for this or any other newspaper to set the record straight every time the Cuban government tells a whopper. Orchestrating lies is the specialty of police states. Anyone who has ever […]

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New May ‘08 poll

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

Who do you think Fidel wants to win our presidential election?

Barack Obama

Ralph Nader

John McCain

Hillary Clinton

View Results

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