The money quote, "My vote is a lesson for anyone who pretends to perpetuate himself in power. My vote is so that my son can look at me and say 'Dad you defended democracy," said Antonio Rivera of Lobo's conservative National Party."
Read it here.

From Stand for Freedom in Iran:
So far this year there have been 322 executions, almost as many as the whole of last year, when 381 Iranians were executed.
There is no freedom in religion in Iran, as evidenced by the continuing persecution of the Baha’i faith. Recently, seven Baha’is were arrested on charges of spying for [...]

Val will be attending the Standing up for Freedom in Iran event in New York City today. He'll be reporting in to the Pitbull to update this post. As Jose Martí said, "Man is not free to watch impassively the enslavement and dishonor of men, nor their struggles for liberty and honor."  The tyrants who rule [...]

Are determined to take back our country. The government works for us, not the other way around. According to American Spectator and Michelle Malkin, capital police estimate the size of the crowed at 1.2 million, ABC says 2 million. Inspiring.

Update:  How many were there?  Enough to rattle some nerves.
Update #2:
Take a look at this:

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Presenting the teachers classroom activity guide for their students, PreK-6 for Obama's address to students across America. You can read the Department of Education guide here.

The classroom, and we're talking preschool through 6th grade, is no place for politics, period. Young American children do not need to be talked to by any elected representative, and that includes the [...]

If there is anyone who understands what is at stake in the current crisis in Honduras, it is former political prisoner and US ambassador with the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Armando Valladares.
Via email:
Obama's Kerenskyism, Honduras and the Chavist Abyss
Just like President Eduardo Frei Montalva passed to history as the Chilean Kerensky for paving [...]

Cuban prisoner of conscience, Pablo Pacheco Ávila, was arrested March 18, 2003, as part of the "black spring" roundup of 75 journalists, librarians, human rights activists and other dissidents.  He was convicted under the abhorrent and arbritary Law 88 and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
The Internet is a powerful instrument,  disseminating information of a quantity and [...]

In case you've forgotten, or are too young to remember, Armando Socarras had his 15 minutes of fame back in the 1970's 1969 when he hitched a ride to freedom in the wheel well of an Iberia DC 8 heading to Madrid from Havana.  It's an incredible story; recounted for us by Jose Reyes in this [...]

When frustration over the lack of freedom reaches its tipping point and insurrection ensues, this is how it begins; this is how you take back your country, God willing.
Excerpt from AP via Yahoo News:
Women in headscarves and young men dashed away, rubbing their eyes in pain as police fired tear gas, in footage aired on [...]

Astute words from Michelle Malkin via Capitol Hill Cubans:
The Enemy of Freedom
From Michelle Malkin in Hot Air:
The true enemy of freedom is fear.
It's fear that makes people abandon the last, faded pretense of democracy, at the insistence of thugs and secret police. The lonely souls that yearn for freedom in a dictatorship do so in [...]

Obama has said no talk just for the sake of talking, but that's exactly what any dialogue with Cuba will be until Cuba is free of the communist dictatorship that has ruled the island for 50 years.
A few years ago Babalu published a letter stating what we believe are the minimum requirements that [...]

As we prepare to commemorate the brave men and women who perished in defense of our freedom, please remember our Cuban brothers and sisters who also made the ultimate sacrifice for that great cause, and for those who remain imprisoned and defiant against their oppressor.
“I am of the opinion that as long as a Castro-communist [...]

Some weeks back, my parents, sister and I were interviewed by documentary filmmaker and good friend Joe Cardona for his latest project: My Suitcase Full of Hope: The Story of the Cuban Freedom Flights. It's not only an honor for me to be featured in one of Joe's films, but doubly so to have my [...]

Please scroll down and read  Humberto Fontova's comment on my misinformed post.  I'm guilty of being too trusting and not doing enough research. Due to the late hour, I have not yet had a chance to contact the author, a good friend,  but I have no doubt of his good intent.  Meanwhile,  I apologize to our readers for [...]

My head is spinning trying to keep up with all the "changes."  This is not new, but gone now is the sense that the government will protect our freedom.  It is frightening in its implications, as it strikes at the heart of what it means to be free; the right to rear our children without [...]

Reading all the lies disseminated by the MSM, politicians, and Castro apologists in regards to Cuba's reality day-in and day-out can be frustrating. That we, those intransigent "hardliners," have been able to hold on to the truth and our integrity after 50 years of propaganda is amazing. And when I come across an editorial like [...]

By Yoani Sanchez

Every day I run into someone who’s been disillusioned and has withdrawn their support for the Cuban process. There are those who turn in their Communist Party cards and emigrate to their married daughters in Italy, or those who concentrate on the peaceful work of caring for their grandchildren and waiting in [...]

An important reminder from Jack Dunphy writing for Patterico:

"As the debate continues over the political and economic courses America will follow, take a few minutes to be reminded of how our country has endured. Meet some of the men whose sacrifices have given us the freedom to have the debate at all."

Dear, brave Yoani. Here are excerpts from the two latest posts from her blog, Generation Y. Both brilliant and devastating; “Revolution.com,” about Cuba’s continuing suppression of internet usage:
...the Internet will not be a crumb that falls from above, a privilege that we earn by good conduct, nor a benefit realized after applauding a great deal. [...]