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October 19, 2008

They Just Don't Get It

Aggregated from: ninety miles away.. in another country

After the debate last night, I was anticipating the political commentary. It should have been safe. After all, I was watching Fox. I've had to seek refuge there, because of the incredibly disgusting lack of objectivity of the other "mainstream media." At least there I know what I'm getting, theoreti...

October 16, 2008

What McCain Needs to Say: Part 2

Aggregated from: ninety miles away.. in another country

My friends (you know he's gonna say it), the American people are faced with a choice not between two candidates, but two philosophies. One- that of my opponent- holds that government should exist in loco parentis, so that it should take care of its citizens from the cradle to the grave. Like childre...

October 14, 2008

Cracking ACORN

International bloggers have begun to file their opinions on ACORN, a 38-year-old community organizing group which registers voters across the United States that has come under attack for allegedly creating fraudulent voter registrations cards.

October 10, 2008

Debate Drinking Game: Latino Version

Aggregated from: Adventures of the Coconut Caucus

So here are some of the rules of your average gringo debate drinking game, AND now, as is our tradition, a revised version of the same game with the Latino twist…(Please add your own suggestions) One drink: - If both candidates show up - Every time McCain says “my friends” (If he says ami...

Cuba, U.S.A.: Thoughts on the Embargo

Aggregated from: Global Voices Online » U.S.A.

Cuban diaspora blogger Child of the Revolution disagrees with the suggestion of an “independent scholar” that “lifting the embargo is no longer ‘just a noble but hopeless idea' but smart politics.” ...

September 22, 2008

France: Understanding the Minorities' Votes in Florida

It seems increasingly clear that Florida once again is going to be critical factor in the elections. Both Republican nominee Senator John McCain and Democratic nominee Senator Barack Obama know it. According to polls, the battle will again be very close. French blogger, Laure de Montalembert surveys the Floridian electoral landscape and tries to understand the factors that matter to Floridian voters.

Obama Picks Biden

Aggregated from: Review of Cuban-American Blogs

It would have made no sense for Barack Obama to pick an even bigger political lightweight as his vice presidential running mate (if such a creature could be found). Joe Biden has been in the senate since Barack Obama was 11 years old. His 36 years of experience there dwarfs Obama's 3. To say that th...

September 17, 2008

Ayers and North Korea

Aggregated from: The Strong Conservative

More information is arising concerning William Ayers and North Vietnam, and Ayers' wife Bernadine Dohrn's contacts with Fidel Castro.The American Thinker has the story:After returning from Cuba, Dohrn and others met with North Vietnamese and Viet Cong representatives in Budapest, Hungary, to discuss...

September 8, 2008

On the Provision of Humanitarian Aid to Cuba

Aggregated from: Review of Cuban-American Blogs

n view of the natural disasters that have lately befallen Cuba, compounded, as they are, by the regime's wilful abandonment of the island's infrastructure which has made the Cuban people infinitely more vulnerable to the effects of a Gustav or a Hannah than was ever the case before 1959, when there ...

September 5, 2008

Global: Palin Brings Down the House

Love her or hate her, international bloggers say Alaska Governor Sarah Palin brought the house down when she addressed the Republican National Convention, in Saint Paul, Minneapolis. Some even see her as a president one day. Following is a mixed bag of reactions from all four corners of the globe.