VOTE first and then complain all you want
By Alvaro F. Fernandez
I come down hard on politicians and their shenanigans in my writings. It is constant and with little mercy. Most are conservative republicans. Many democrats, I’ll admit, deserve much of the same.
I am also reminded that voters (and non-voters) who elect these scoundrels are as much to blame as the politicians themselves. So in the end, it’s mostly our own fault. We can blame the money in politics, the fraud...
Interfering with voting rights
An editorial from The Washington Post
Florida is one of a number of states to have recently imposed ill-considered restrictions on voting rights, as it interferes with efforts to register new voters and seeks to purge non-citizens from state voting rolls.
State officials, acting at the behest of Gov. Rick Scott (R), have scoured driver’s license and other records to identify non-citizens and have forwarded a list of 2,600 supposedly ineligible voters to local elections officials for further action.
Elections loom
By Saul Landau
New York City’s wealth stands in stark contrast to the countless people begging on its streets.
New York is different of course, but not for the 1% who live well across the country; the rest of the population less or far less well. That’s America in 2012, where people have begun to consider their choice of leader for the next four years.
You could die laughing
By David Brooks
NEW YORK – The right wing in this country is so unhinged that, if you ignore the devastating consequences, you could die of laughter.
For example, when the right-wing legislature in North Carolina learned that scientists predicted that the sea level will rise one meter by the end of this century, which might imply the destruction of all development along the coast (more than 5,000 square kilometers), the lawmakers did the obvious and took preventive measures at once: they wrote a bill prohibiting...
Reagan: bad republican
Calling the present partisan climate “disturbing” and “dysfunctional”, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush criticized republicans saying, “Reagan would have, based on his record of finding accommodation, finding some degree of common ground, as would my dad – they would have a hard time if you define the Republican Party . . . as having an orthodoxy that doesn’t allow for disagreement, doesn’t allow for finding some common ground.” In today’s world, he added, Ronald Reagan "would be criticized for doing the things that he did."
- From Buzzfeed. Jeb also blamed President Obama for much of the conflict.
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Dr. Polo in Cuba
By Aurelio Pedroso
HAVANA – In fewer than 15 days, the newspaper Granma, official organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, has twice pounced on TV programs from Miami, which are seen in Cuba one way or another. And I’m not referring to TV Martí, whose productions seldom reach the small screen, even though they’re sponsored by the government of the United States.
Take advantage of the talent
By José Alejandro Rodríguez
A young professor at the University of Havana’s School of Economics engaged in a bold exercise in intellectual honesty when she wondered “why Cuba’s rising and sustained investment in education is reflected in a less dynamic, though positive, contribution from the skilled workforce to the country’s economic growth.”
Yordanka Cribeiro Díaz took six and a half years to answer that question and obtain...
Click to continue reading...Walker over workers
By Max J. Castro
Phil Gramm, the former right-wing Republican member of Congress, once said, without a hint at irony, that money is the mother’s milk of American politics.
Now that the U.S. Supreme Court, the most conservative high court in generations, has opened up the floodgates for virtually unlimited contributions by the rich and colossal corporations, money has become something much more potent than mother’s milk and extremely more toxic. Money, really big money, has become the plutonium of American politics.
The Cuban-American community: Its future and relations with Cuba
By Jesús Arboleya Cervera
HAVANA – Much is said about the changes taking place in the Cuban-American community as a result of the arrival of the “new émigrés.” In this regard, emphasis is placed on their differences from the so-called “historic exiles,”who so far have been the political base for the dominant right-wing sectors.
That conclusion can be said to be accurate. Evidently, the new émigrés come from class and historical origins that are different from their predecessors’, so their growing demographic weight in the Cuban-American ensemble is already being expressed in their political leanings, particularly as they apply to relations with Cuba.
Rivera amendment would only help break Cuban family ties
MIAMI - Almost 50 percent of family members who travel to Cuba are U.S. residents who have yet to attain citizenship, according to figures released by executives of the travel to Cuba industry in Miami. As a result, the Cuban American Commission for Family Right (CACFR) has issued a warning that a new proposed amendment to the Cuban Adjustment Act, presented by U.S. Rep. David Rivera, would assure that these family ties are severely broken.
“In 2009, President Obama rightfully made family unity and the right of family members to travel a priority of his Cuba policy,” said Alvaro F....
Click to continue reading...Nuns on the run – and on the bus
By Bill Press
Don't look now, but the pope and his posse of bishops are on the warpath. The Vatican and American bishops are out to squash those they consider the greatest threat to the authority of the almighty Catholic Church.
And who is their target? Not Catholic Republicans in Congress who thumb their noses at the Gospels by systematically trying to destroy every government program to help the poor. Not Catholic politicians of both parties who gleefully carry out the death penalty by 
marching us off to war.
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