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Tag Archives: Fellow Travelers
What Cuban American views on the embargo and global warming have in common
What do Cuban American views on the embargo and global warming have in common? They are shifting at about the same pace, 1.3° per century. Think about it, there has been a U.S. foreign policy position in place for over … Continue reading
Posted in Cuba
Tagged Cuba Dilettantes, Fellow Travelers, Groundhog Day, Punxsutawney, The Exorcist
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Who defends food rationing?
There is a delicious article in the Foreign Policy magazine by Michael Moynihan which highlights the lengths to which people will go to assuage their ideological positions. So who defends food rationing? Travel guidebooks who are trying to find an … Continue reading
Culture War standings – 1948
The Right wing got off to a beautiful start in the culture wars 64 years ago today, when a ballsy congressman from California, Richard Nixon, smelled a rat in Alger Hiss’s denial of Whittaker Chambers accusation of being a communist. … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Reading
Tagged Culture Wars, Fellow Travelers, Ronald Reagan, Whittaker Chambers
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Leftist Administration gets an election year fix
Lefties in the Obama Administration [redundant?] are no doubt constrained by reelection efforts, so at this stage they are reduced to using visas as a way expressing their solidarity with all things on the left. The Wall Street Journal’s Mary … Continue reading
Apologists for repressive regimes
In the thankless world of apologists for repressive regimes, the cradle to grave dedication of the New York Times to the Castro [Barabbas?] dictatorship is something to read [Behold the Apologists?]. Gray Lady meet Pontius Pilate, the most egregious example … Continue reading
Posted in Cuba
Tagged Damas de Blanco, Fellow Travelers, Marginal Revolution, New York Times, Orlando Zapata Tamayo
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Sarah Stephens — Puppeteer with a cause
Media Puppeteer: n. – One who advocates while pretending to inform. Information typically disseminated by those pretending not to have an opinion, i.e. journalists and/or marionettes. Sarah Stephens is an advocate for lifting the limited U.S. economic embargo against Cuba. … Continue reading
Posted in Cuba
Tagged Council on Foreign Relations, Cuba Dilettantes, Fellow Travelers, Julia Sweig, Sarah Stephens
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Orbitz: CFR’s Stealth Messenger
If the Council on Foreign Relations [CFR], a reliable policy group on the political left, came out against restrictions on U.S. travel to Cuba, no one would bat an eye, it’s a given. But what if they got someone else … Continue reading
Magglio Ordonez: Fellow Traveler
Fellow Traveler defined: Refers to a person who sympathizes with the beliefs of a particular organization, but does not belong to that organization. The phrase must be understood as referring to people who “walk part of the way” with an … Continue reading
Posted in Cuba
Tagged Fellow Travelers, Maglio Ordonez, Peter Gammons, Thomas Wolfe, World Baseball Classic
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Frances Robles and the Power of Omission
The written word can obviously influence, but what is left unsaid can influence as well. In a way, what is omitted can be more even effective, since the reader is unaware of how they were influenced. I will use a … Continue reading
Pero Che, say it ain’t So-derbergh
The film director of the Ocean’s movie series thinks profits are a bad thing. What’s next, ‘Spielberg denounces move away from realism!’ Jeez, no wonder Andy looked upset. For those interested in seeing the truth about the Cuban regime exposed, … Continue reading
Posted in Cuba
Tagged Carlos Eire, Fellow Travelers, Mary Anastasia O'Grady, Yoani Sanchez
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