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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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