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Crowley Owes Romney Apology Over "Correction"

It is not often that you can demonstrate factually that a pro-Obama member of the national media has publicly shown bias while trying to help the President get re-elected. Tuesday night’s presidential...

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Remembering the Cuban Missile Crisis 50 Years Later

While Cuba’s ailing Communist Comandante Fidel Castro, 86, waits for death in Havana and his trip to hell, it is a good time to remember how he tried – and thankfully failed -- to push the world into a...

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Puerto Ricans' bid for statehood mired in politics

While Puerto Ricans living in Orlando, New York, Philadelphia, and elsewhere were voting for president of the United States on Tuesday, those living on the island were deciding that they want Puerto...

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Do Prisoners Have a Constitutional Right to Dental Floss?

Because we live in an advanced democracy where anyone can claim grievances in court, judges often get presented with unusual requests. For instance, does a jail inmate have a constitutional right to be...

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Clowns Used TV to Bring Laughter to Hispanic Children

For the baby boomers from Cuba, Puerto Rico, South and Central America, Mexico and Spain who live in South Florida, the last of an iconic TV trio from their childhood has just passed away.

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Obama’s victory still in dispute in a Tallahassee court

The state of Florida, now known as much for election controversies as oranges and sunshine, may still hold a surprise for everyone who thought the 2012 presidential election was over and done with.In a...

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Castro Policy Will Push More Cubans to South Florida

Cuba, which had a net population loss of 83,991 this year, is about to lose more residents starting next month.  Most of them will end up living in South Florida.Cuba now has 11,163,934 inhabitants; at...

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Chavez Faces His Toughest Foe: Terminal Cancer

Although Venezuela’s socialist president Hugo Chavez succeeded in concealing the true state of his deteriorating health until being re-elected in October, it has now become clear that the endgame has...

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Court Rules Feds Can Regulate Hemingway's Cats

In all its glorious majesty of ever-expanding governmental authority, the Obama Administration has now taken jurisdiction over the world famous six-toed cats that live at the Ernest Hemingway Museum in...

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It's Time to Amend the Second Amendment

Let’s face it.  If we want to transform American society for generations to come, tinkering with our existing patchwork quilt of federal, state, and municipal laws dealing with firearms is a pathetic...

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Accused Chilean Murderer Buys Home in Deltona

Besides commerce and tourism, one of the frequent exchanges between Latin America and Florida seems to involve murderers, torturers and financial fraudsters.Hardly a month goes by without news of...

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City Misses Boat in Legal Battle with Activist

The zealous enforcers from the city of Riviera Beach who seized and destroyed civic activist Fane Lozman’s gray plywood houseboat owe him an apology.And they, or, rather, the city’s taxpayers, will...

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Playwright was accidental star in anti-Castro drama

The death of the Cuban-born playwright and journalist Dolores Prida calls for a brief reminiscence about how she was the catalyst for a historic debate about freedom of speech in Miami almost three...

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U.S. Must Help Colombian Judge Probe Murders

So many thousands of politically motivated murders have occurred without punishment in Colombia during the last half century that it is worth noting when someone actually is sentenced to prison for...

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Drones May Soon Join the Moon Over Miami

While the debate continues over whether President Barack Obama has the legal right to kill American citizens abroad with drones, the drones may be closer to flying over Florida’s skies than anyone thinks.

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Don't Help Cuba Until the Castros Are Dead

While we may have “a right to be stupid” in this country, as Secretary of State John F. Kerry said the other day in Berlin, it is a “right” that we should not abuse.

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Without Chavez, Will Venezuela Remain Socialist?

Although he was re-elected five months ago, Venezuela’s socialist President Hugo Chavez died from cancer this week at age 58 before he could be sworn in to start his fourth consecutive term since 1998.

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Here it is: Sensible Solution to the Falkland Dispute

Since President Obama has refused to support our ally the United Kingdom in its protracted dispute with Argentina over ownership of the Falkland Islands, I have decided to offer my own proposal to...

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Twitter, Facebook Voices Under Seige in Venezuela

The spurious acting president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, has quickly shown that even a tweet or Facebook posting that he does not like will not be tolerated while he runs the country.

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Venezuela policing Facebook, Twitter posts

The spurious acting president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, has quickly shown that even a tweet or Facebook posting that he does not like will not be tolerated while he runs the country.

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