OCTOBER 17, 2011 U.S. Will Inspect Cuban Rig Deep-Water Drilling—60 Miles From Florida—Prompts Concern About Oil Spills By RUSSELL GOLD U.S. officials are trying to make sure the American coastline will be protected as Cuba begins drilling a deep water oil well later this year about 60 miles off the Florida Keys. Administration officials will […]
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APRIL 4, 2011 Why lend legitimacy to the Castro brothers? By MARY ANASTASIA O’GRADY They say that Cuba is a place where time stands still and it certainly seemed that way last week when Jimmy Carter arrived in Havana to fraternize with the Castros. The image of the 86-year-old American ex-president wearing a wide smile
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MARCH 21, 2011 Why Obama Went to Brazil There’s a chance to build a new foreign policy alliance that disdains dictators like Hugo Chávez. By MARY ANASTASIA O’GRADY President Obama’s trip to Brazil, Chile and El Salvador this week, while war rages in Libya, has been sharply criticized as proof of dangerous detachment from a
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FEBRUARY 7, 2011 The most striking difference between the two countries is Internet access. By MARY ANASTASIA O’GRADY Developments in Egypt over the last two weeks brought Cuba to my mind. Why does a similar rebellion against five decades of repression there still appear to be a far-off dream? Part of the answer is in
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JANUARY 10, 2011 The Communist Party affirms that ‘central planning and not the market will be supreme.’ By JOSé AZEL With his characteristic intellectual wit, Cuban writer Carlos Alberto Montaner defines communism as “the time countries waste between capitalism and capitalism.” By this account, the Cuban government is now in its 52nd year of wasted
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WALL STREET JOURNAL JANUARY 5, 2011 Covert Action Makes a Comeback Once in disrepute, secret warfare is now embraced even by the Obama administration to fight terrorism and weapons proliferation. By MAX BOOT We’re in an era of “covert action.” That phrase went into disrepute in the 1970s, when Congress’s Church Committee exposed hare-brained CIA
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) It Was Rubio’s Tuesday The most important freshman senator. Stephen F. Hayes November 15, 2010, Tampa EXCERPT FROM MARCO RUBIO’S SPEECH: ” I do not believe you have to demonize people in order to win elections. Quite frankly, I think that many of these people in Washington who are making
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What’s So Great About America Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) What’s So Great About America Andrew Ferguson November 15, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 09 Marco Rubio will have to write a new speech sooner or later, but he shouldn’t hurry up on our account. We still enjoy the one he’s been giving all year.
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