I'm watching ABC news where the "straight news" reporter is claiming that it's "all over but the voting" in referring to the Healthcare "reform" bill. And now they are running a piece on how the "intolerant" Republicans are using racial and homophobic slurs against the Democrats that want to destroy our economy and therefore [...]

Just saw this on Drudge:
HAVANA (Reuters) - A 5.6-magnitude earthquake struck near the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo in eastern Cuba, on Saturday and was felt in the island's second city of Santiago de Cuba.
A spokesman at the Guantanamo base said no damage was reported there.
In Santiago de Cuba, about 32 miles from the epicenter, [...]

Editorial from the local accessory after the fact, The Miami Herald, on the Black Spring anniversary:
Cuba's brutality
OUR OPINION: World leaders should back peaceful protesters
In a democracy, people can disagree. They can march to protest their government, they can chastise their elected officials in public forums, they can walk down the street carrying placards voicing their [...]

Thanks to my buddy E who snapped the photos, and afternoon Tea Party In Coral Gables:

Vote "NO" to the Socialist takeover of health care...

Getting support and solidarity from folks like this makes all the work worthwhile.

This is just BAD ASS!!!

Just. Totally. Awesome.

From the Senate hearings on the nomination of Mari Carmen Aponte for the Ambassadorship to El Salvador:
“Between 1982 and 1994, I was romantically involved with a Cuban American. It was a romantic relationship. In the course of that relationship, he had some contacts with the Cuban Interests Section that arose out of volunteer work that [...]

Here at Babalú, our readers were reminded that yesterday, March 18th, was the anniversary of one of the many dark moments in Cuba's history as an enslaved nation: The Black Spring of 2003. We posted stories and links that analyzed and retold the story of the plight of 75 Cuban dissidents who were arrested, beaten, [...]

From Victor Davis Hanson: "Reflections on the Revolution in America."
These are exciting though scary revolutionary times, akin to the constant acrimony in the fourth-century BC polis, mid-nineteenth century revolutionary Europe, or — perhaps in a geriatric replay — the 1960s. This is an era when the fundamental assumptions of the individual and [...]

A big, fat thank you to Babalú and to Cuban bloggers here in the U.S. for helping me reconnect with my Cuban cousin, blogger Regina Coyula, of La Mala Letra.

Read the rest of the story over at My big, fat, Cuban family.

Received a while ago...
MARCO RUBIO COMMENTS ON 7TH ANNIVERSARY OF CUBAN REGIME’S BLACK SPRING CRACKDOWN ON PRO-DEMOCRATIC LEADERS
Seven years ago today in Cuba, 75 pro-democracy leaders, journalists and human rights activists were arrested, summarily tried and imprisoned for sentences of up to 28 years.  According to the regime, their alleged violations included acting on their [...]

Lorenzo Enrique Copello Castillo, Jorge Luis Martínez Isaac, Bárbaro Leodán Sevilla García "Murdered by firing squad April 11, 2003 for trying to "hijack" a Castroite ferry to Key West.
"Highjack?"... Well, how the HELL ELSE is a Cuban supposed to get hold of a 'freakin boat in Castro's Cuba, where owning one is a crime? BTW, [...]

During the 2003 Black Spring crackdown in Cuba, among the dissidents rounded up and arbitrarily sentenced, were fifteen librarians.  They were members of an Independent Library movement that collected books , newspapers and periodicals banned by the regime,  and loaned them to interested readers. In Cuba this is a crime. 
 At the time of their arrest, thousands of books and [...]

My colleagues here at Babalu have written eloquently about the Black Spring of 2003 so I won't repeat what they've written. I will, however, mention what I think is the second-most important issue revolving around this crisis: the evil -- yes evil -- behavior on the part of the mainstream media. As Thomas Jefferson once [...]

In thinking of today's anniversary of the Cuban Black Spring crackdown, I arrive at a very non-political concept: the concept of human suffering. Christians believe that suffering is an essential part of our human existence, not as a exercise in masochism, but as a way to reflect on our imperfections and get closer to God. [...]

Update: Video uploaded. Will be on The Ed Morrisey Show today at 3:30 along with Joe Cardona, who along with Luis Guardia, produced the following video:

I’m not going to sugarcoat or editorialize or plead or try to tug at your heartstrings today. Enough has been said and written about the the Black Spring Crackdown of [...]

Of the four seasons we experience during a year, spring is the season of rejuvenation. It signifies the end of the cold and dreary winter and it is the precursor of summer with its vacations and family barbeques. Spring brings forth blooming flowers and green grass and the temperature is always just right; neither too [...]

Today marks the seventh anniversary of the Black Spring Crackdown on Cuban independent journalists, librarians and human rights activists.

I received this email from Paul Crespo, maybe you did also:
Friends,
Due to a groundswell of encouragement I have received from colleagues, friends, and family, I'm seriously considering running as a Republican for U.S. Congress in Florida District 25 , the seat recently vacated by my friend, Representative Mario Diaz-Balart. This won't be an easy decision, [...]