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Memo to President Obama: Cuba has extended an olive branch, shouldn’t the U.S.?
The Castro regime has eased travel restrictions for most of its citizens, but so far the Obama administration has taken no steps to life the long-standing embargo
By Albor Ruiz
From…
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Opening to Havana
Memorandum to the President / January 17, 2013
Big Bets and Black Swans: Foreign Policy Challenges for President Obama’s Second Term
Brookings Foreign Policy experts have…
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Kornbluh: DAI filing ‘a form of greymail’
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 411
Posted January 18, 2013
Edited by Peter Kornbluh
Washington, DC, January 18, 2013 - The U.S. government has…
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This is how we will be judged: saving our kids
By Bill Press
As a member of the White House Press Corps, I've attended a lot of events at the White House. But none more moving or powerful than this week's announcement by…
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Duke awaits to send students to Cuba
Progreso Weekly staff
The prestigious Duke University plans to open a study program in Cuba as soon Washington allows more flexibility in trips to that country, reports the…
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Marco Rubio: Obama ‘doesn’t have the guts’ to admit he opposes Second Amendment
By Rachel Weiner
From The Washington Post
Republican reaction to President Obama’s gun control agenda generally has been negative, but Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) was particularly…
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Republicans accusing Obama of using position as president to lead country
From the The Borowitz Report (The New Yorker)
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Responding to reports that President Obama is considering signing as many as nineteen executive…
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Smear a bagel, not Chuck Hagel
By Bill Press
OK, I want to admit right up front: I stole that headline. No, it's not original with me. I stole it from the pro-Israel, pro-peace organization J Street. I stole it…
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The GOP and Latinos
By Max J. Castro
Caught between a rock and a hard place is a lousy position to be in whether we are talking about life in general or any of the games people play: love, chess, war,…
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The politics of guns
By Max J. Castro
majcastro@gmail.com
Last month’s horrendous tragedy, where 20-year-old Adam Lanza burst into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Connecticut, and murdered 20…
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