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In A Nutshell: “You Came to Suck The Fat of Our Land…”

Have you seen and heard the rantings of the "Jihadi Mom", Zubeidat Tsarnaev, of the terrorist Boston Marathon-bombing brothers? Well, somebody had to finally say it, and FOX's Judge Jeanine Pirro did a hell of a job over the weekend... However, FOX's resident liberal Alan Colmes insists we should show sympathy for Tsarnaevs’ anti-American, grieving [...]

Actress Stacey Dash Runs into the ‘Clueless’ Twitter Twits Again

You remember pretty actress Stacey Dash during the 2012 presidential campaign voicing her support for Romney/Ryan on Twitter, and then taking a flood of vile personal attacks and even death threats via tweets from the never failing to disappoint Obama/Biden supporters. Well, they're at it again. Today Miss Dash tweeted about Jay-Z's and Beyonce's Cuba [...]

The ‘Fully Licensed’ Propagandists for Castro

When asked yesterday in the daily White House briefing about the controversial Jay-Z and Beyonce anniversary vacation to Cuba Obama's Press Sec. Jay Carney deflected responsibility to the Treasury Department... The Treasury Department "fully licensed" Beyonce and Jay Z's trip to Cuba, according to Reuters. "American pop star Beyonce and rapper husband Jay Z visited [...]

Taxpayers are The Butt of The TSA Joke

Just before "sequestration" the federal government agencies were prompted to intentially make some ridiculous 'cuts' that would appear to the American taxpayer(s) how painful any such cut in government spending would be. We know of the dropping of the $18,000 a week White House tours for the public ... Yet if you have the right [...]

World On Fire…

First, the unfortunate faces of the foreign policy Obama has built in three years in the Muslim world... Next, I see Ziva posted: Breaking: University of Texas orders evacuation, citing ‘threats’ Drudge Report has since added these: North Dakota State University evacuated after bomb threat... 'Unspecified' threat at Valparaiso University... Also of interest during this [...]

Suspicion Surrounds Canadian Man’s Death At A Cuba Hotel

What happens in Cuba stays in Cuba... A Mississauga family is seeking answers after 22-year-old Horace “Odaine” Lumley was found dead this week at a Cuban hotel. Lumley’s half-sister, Monique Lewis, said her family first heard of the death from friends Wednesday. Lumley, who was born in Jamaica and moved to Mississauga as a preteen, [...]

Two tweets say a lot: Aron Modig before and after his trip to Cuba

Aron Modig is the Swede who survived the car crash that killed Oswaldo Payá and Harold Cepero. Here's what his Twitter account looked like just before he went to Cuba and just after his trip ended.

Today in Cuba news: the Carromero family hires a lawyer, a cubiche wins bronze, and opinions on Oswaldo Payá

CUBA. DESPUÉS DEL ASESINATO DE OSWALDO PAYÁ: ¿QUIÉN SERÁ EL PRÓXIMO OPOSITOR ASESINADO POR LOS HERMANOS CASTRO. VIDEO CON TESTAMENTO POLÍTICO DE JUAN FRANCISCO SIGLER AMAYA EN CASO DE SU EXTRAÑA MUERTE http://baracuteycubano.blogspot.com/2012/08/cuba-despues-del-asesinato-de-oswaldo.html Cuban opera singer challenges "jealous" bureaucrats over closed theater http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/08/01/cuba-theater-reform-idINL2E8IU8AZ20120801 Opinion: What Really Happened to Cuban Dissident Oswaldo Payá? http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2012/08/01/opinionthe-legacy-oswaldo-paya/ Spaniard held [...]

NYC Awaits Irene’s Arrival

NEW YORK - This photo from the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) shows something never seen - and certainly not on what should be a busy Saturday afternoon in August: an empty Grand Central Station. With all transit in the New York area closed, the terminal is a big empty barn. If you're watching [...]

Finding Dr. Sanjay Gupta in Cuba: “I found in him a refusal to subscribe to the Oliver Stone/Michael Moore school of willful blindness…”

Frances Martel at Mediaite has written a lengthy article interviewing CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta in Havanna, Cuba. Dr. Gupta is in Cuba to investigate for himself the facts about Cuba's healthcare system that everyone seems determined to hold up as a prime example of a successful government/state-run system. Democrats, Hollywood celebrities such as Michael Moore [...]

Unbelievable… Updated – Delta Airlines Straightens-Up and Flies Right

I'm ... speechless here, folks. ATLANTA - Soldiers returning home from Afghanistan have tough questions for Delta Airlines. They want to know why they had to pay almost $3,000 in baggage fees on their way back to the states. [...] An un-named unit of nearly thirty Army soldiers said they had to pay $200 each [...]

If it’s so great …

Why 1,372 waivers ... and counting? Meanwhile, Rep. Steny H. Hoyer has penned a nice little letter urging colleges and universities to indoctrina--- er, to teach, yeah teach, the benefits of ObamaCare to new students coming in. We are, after all, entering into the 2012 election cycle soon enough and we can't have those young [...]

Once Again The TSA Proves They are Full of Crap

It was just a month ago a video of a 6 year old little girl being body groped, and pawed inside her underpanties by a TSA agent, was outraging the majority of folks who get their news on the internet. Maybe you didn't hear (mostly because the other news venues don't really want to show [...]

Kafkaesque Bureaucracy: Show Us ALL Your Papers

Blog Boing Boing says the U.S. State Department has plans for some new procedures for U.S. citizens looking to apply for a U.S. Passport ... I have a feeling Obama might have a slight problem getting one: Olga sez, "The U.S. Dept of State is proposing a new Biographical Questionnaire for passport applicants: proposed new [...]

Oh My! We Seem To All of A Sudden Have A … Crisis

Michelle Obama joins the apparently growing population plagued by air traffic controller problems. If they aren't sleeping, or watching a movie, they have their eye off the prize where the First Lady's plane is concerned today at Andrew's Air Force Base. Thankfully she and all involved are okay. However, I have to ponder all the [...]