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The Real Country-Killer in 2013
American Thinker, by Jonathan Mosely
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Posted By:M2, 1/2/2013 8:52:32 AM
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| Never mind the "fiscal cliff." America went bankrupt, technically, at midnight on December 31, 2012. We hit the debt ceiling of $16.394 trillion. Yet the U.S. government needs to borrow more money than is legally allowed. (snip) "What would you cut?" candidates are asked. This is a trap. Attack journalists twist whatever a candidate answers into a scandal of heartless cruelty.
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Obama wrote off white voters and directed his entire campaign to low-information voters -- and he won. Perhaps it is time for the GOP to abandon efforts to appeal to people on the public dole and instead go for real conservative voters, the media be damned. We can win on REAL conservatism. We now know we cannot win by kowtowing to leeches out of fear of being called racists.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
WAN2, 1/2/2013 9:01:32 AM (No. 9094389)
In other words, collapse is our only hope.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
fljack, 1/2/2013 9:06:45 AM (No. 9094405)
We have not been a country of laws since Zippy took the oath. We´re over the national debt limit? So what? The Fed will just buy the debt and print money.
Wiemar, here we come.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna, 1/2/2013 9:35:57 AM (No. 9094487)
Every expenditure has a constituency who benefits. Cuts,therefore, must be fractional and across the board when taken for debt reduction purposes. The "Value" or "Importance" of any particular program must be under constant surveillance but picking winners and losers only serves as a stumbling block to actual cuts. These two important functions must not be conflated.
3-5% Cuts in every budget....every year.
Oh..wait....we don´t have a budget.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Immanuel Goldstein, 1/2/2013 10:03:28 AM (No. 9094536)
Don´t fear the trap. Confront it squarely. The trap is based on the fallacy that every government program is vital to society. Come back at them with a list of cuts so extensive comprehensive and detailed that the reporters would have to report them rather than spin them to their advantage. Here is a partial list that John Stossel made, along with potential savings that they would generate.
Privatize Air Traffic Control 12 B. saved.
Cut Corporation for Public Broadcasting
End the Small Business Bureau. 20 B saved
Repeal Davis Bacon 20 B saved
End Department of Education 94 B saved
Privatize Amtrak & Urban Transit 12 B saved
End Agricultural subsidies 30 B saved
End HUD 53 B saved
End Green energy and Nuc subsidies 20 B saved
End War on Drugs 47 B saved
Raise SS retirement age 93 B saved
Cut Health & Human Services 231 B saved
Cut Military budget 150 B saved
Cut the Commerce department
Cut Fannie and Freddie.
We could come up with more, but that would be a start.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
WAN2, 1/2/2013 10:13:38 AM (No. 9094551)
Sorry, #4. Americans love train wrecks. (And soap operas.) They will abandon ship only when the water nears eye-level.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
BaseballFan, 1/2/2013 10:42:02 AM (No. 9094606)
Three whole months into FY13 and the country is broke.
Budget? What´s a budget?
/contempt off/
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
bpl40, 1/2/2013 3:03:21 PM (No. 9095083)
If you add stricter regulations for welfare, disability, food stamps, medicaid we could double or triple #4´s list. The amount the Federal government spends outside its strictly enumerated powers (they are well known and documented) turns out to be $1.2 trillion - exactly the amount of the deficit. It does not mean you stop doing those things and cut people loose. The Constitution provides the States with residual powers as the right repository for these items.
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Obama in California:‘I could
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Washington Examiner, by Charlie Spiering
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Posted By: M2- 4/4/2013 9:00:21 AM
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During his fundraisers in California, President Obama explained that it was more important than ever to win a Democratic majority in the House of Representatives in the upcoming elections. Obama singled out House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi D-Calif. as the reason he flew out to California for a fundraiser.(snip)“I could not be prouder of her, and I expect that she is going to be once again the Speaker of the House — Nancy Pelosi. Love Nancy.”
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Boehner says he ´absolutely´ trusts Obama
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: M2- 3/17/2013 4:38:44 PM
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House Speaker John Boehner says he "absolutely" trusts President Barack Obama — not that they don´t have their differences. Boehner tells ABC´s "This Week" that the two have a good relationship and that they´re "open with each other ... honest with each other." But the Ohio lawmaker says they´re trying to bridge some big differences.
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Fiscal Cliff Deal Kills Insolvent
Obamacare Element
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Breitbart.com, by Ben Shapiro
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Posted By: M2- 1/2/2013 9:11:05 AM
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As part of the fiscal cliff deal reached by Congressional leaders and Vice President Joe Biden last night, the so-called CLASS Act – an integral component of Obamacare – will be repealed. CLASS Act – the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act -- is a new long-term entitlement program that even Democrats recognized was completely unsustainable It would pay $50 per day for long-term care services for anyone who had paid into the system for five years. In order for the program to work, people would probably have to pay $3,000 per month into the system.
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Sources: Enough Republicans Willing
to Unseat Speaker Boehner
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Breitbart.com, by Matthew Boyle
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Posted By: M2- 1/2/2013 9:07:32 AM
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American Majority Action spokesman Ron Meyer told Breitbart News late Tuesday that enough House Republicans have banded together in an effort to unseat House Speaker John Boehner from his position--they just need a leader to take up the mantle. “At least 20 House Republican members have gotten together, discussed this and want to unseat Speaker Boehner--(snip) Meyer said the conservatives have considered House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) to take the helm after Boehner is knocked out.
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The Real Country-Killer in 2013
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American Thinker, by Jonathan Mosely
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Posted By: M2- 1/2/2013 8:52:32 AM
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Never mind the "fiscal cliff." America went bankrupt, technically, at midnight on December 31, 2012. We hit the debt ceiling of $16.394 trillion. Yet the U.S. government needs to borrow more money than is legally allowed. (snip) "What would you cut?" candidates are asked. This is a trap. Attack journalists twist whatever a candidate answers into a scandal of heartless cruelty.
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A 2013 Conservative Call to Arms
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American Thinker, by Rob Cunningham
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Posted By: M2- 1/2/2013 8:45:55 AM
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In 2013, conservatives can offer no greater tribute of respect to our Founding Fathers and our fellow citizens than to resolve, from this day forward, to relentlessly expose, ridicule, deride, mock and publicly shame arrogant progressives in a manner that, for the first time in our adult lifetimes, communicates this one undeniable founding truth: America was never supposed to be this way. The progressive left´s ultimate weapon of choice in emasculating America´s strength has clearly and undeniably been outed as radical debt accumulation.
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The Devil You Don´t Know
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American Thinker, by Glenn Fairman
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Posted By: M2- 12/31/2012 8:49:16 AM
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"Dwell on the past, lose an eye...." Russian Proverb. When we consider the specter of Islam ascending, the Left is truly conflicted.(snip)The Left´s moral and cultural relativism, coupled with its ideological investment in "Contra-Americana," has irrevocably demolished its powers of judgment. That´s why feminist organizations are strangely subdued over acid tossed in little girl´s faces for going to school in Afghanistan or in the blatant misogyny inherent in Shar´ia law.
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Piers Morgan Takes Aim at the Bible
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American Thinker, by Selwyn Duke
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Posted By: M2- 12/31/2012 8:43:02 AM
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You´ve got to hand it to bloviating Brit Piers Morgan. While he got most of the facts wrong in his recent targeting of the Second Amendment, it hasn´t stopped him from moving on to even more formidable targets. Such as the Bible. He says the book is "inherently flawed" -- and needs to be amended.
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Obama: ‘I Cut Spending by
Over a Trillion Dollars in 2011’
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Cybercast News Service, by Terence P. Jeffrey
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Posted By: M2- 12/31/2012 8:37:53 AM
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Appearing on NBCs “Meet the Press” on Sunday, President Barack Obama said that he cut spending by more than $1 trillion in 2011. However, the White House Office of Management and Budget says that federal spending increased by $147 billion from fiscal 2010 to fiscal 2011.(snip) In fiscal 2011, according to the White House Office of Management and Budget, the federal deficit was $1,299,595,000,000. That was up from a deficit of $1,293,489,000,000 in fiscal 2010.
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Abbas gives victory speech in Ramallah:
We have a state now
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Jerusalem Post, by Khaled Abu Toameh
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Posted By: M2- 12/2/2012 10:56:34 AM
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PA president vows to pursue efforts to end the split between Gaza, West Bank, dedicates UN "victory" to late PA president Arafat, Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jail; Hamas calls for "urgent meetings" to resolve conflict. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas Sunday vowed to pursue efforts to end the split between the West Bank and Gaza and thanked Hamas and all Palestinian groups for supporting his statehood bid at the UN.
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Suicide bombers attack U.S. base in Afghanistan
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Reuters, by Rafiq Shirzad
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Posted By: M2- 12/2/2012 10:50:05 AM
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Suicide attackers detonated bombs and fired rockets outside a major U.S. base in Afghanistan on Sunday, killing five people in a brazen operation that highlighted the country´s security challenges ahead of the 2014 NATO combat troop pullout. Local police officials said bodies in Afghan police and military uniforms were scattered around the entrance of the airfield in the eastern city of Jalalabad after a two-hour battle. A Taliban spokesman said the militant group had launched the 6 a.m. assault.
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IDF fires warning shot into
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Jerusalem Post, by Yaakov Lappin
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Posted By: M2- 11/11/2012 11:01:42 AM
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Israel says further attacks from Syria will "elicit a vigorous response" from IDF, sends letter to UN warning Syrians to avoid spillover; Incident marks first time IDF has fired at Syria since 1973 Yom Kippur War. The IDF fired a warning shot at the Syrian military on Sunday, after a Syrian shell landed in the Golan Heights for the second time in recent days. Israel has not fired at Syria since the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/5/2013 4:53:10 PM
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RUSH: Folks, I don´t know how else to categorize this. We are living in a dying country. I don´t know how else to categorize what´s happening -- 88,000 new jobs. The unemployment rate, because of a terrible statistic, is down to 7.6%. The number of people in this country who are not working is shameful. Ninety million Americans are no longer in the workforce. Ninety million. People not in the labor force grew by 663,000, and now 90 million. That´s the labor force participation rate. This is 1979 levels.
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Why Obama´s ´Best-Looking Attorney
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President Obama´s biggest gaffe yesterday when speaking of California Attorney General Kamala Harris was not in flirtatiously complimenting her as "the best-looking attorney general," but in introducing an observation from the system of beauty into a forum that was about the system of power.What´s that, you say? Irin Carmon does a great job in Salon in laying out the bounds of propriety for when it´s appropriate to talk about a woman´s looks as a general matter. But I´ve long felt we lack a solid theoretical underpinning for easily discussing these issues, and why precisely it is that
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Daily Mail (UK), by Margot Peppers
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Michelle Obama has admitted that she is already tired of the bangs she first sported in January. The First Lady said in an interview with Entertainment Tonight: ´Bangs are a day-by-day proposition. They´re starting to grow out, get a little irritating.´ Still, she hasn´t let her hairdo woes get her down. ´It´s okay,´ she said after her initial complaint. ´We´ll be good.´ The first indication that her hairstyle was becoming a burden came about last weekend, when Malia, 14, was spotted adjusting her mother´s hair during the White House Easter Egg Roll.
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New Republic, by Tod Lindberg
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/6/2013 5:22:36 AM
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No one is more preoccupied these days with Hillary Clinton´s 2016 plans than the Beltway political class—not even the former presidential candidate herself. To hear some tell it, her decision will be dispositive for all other Democrats thinking of entering the race. And pundits and reporters aren´t the only ones positing the "The Hillary Factor": No less than the House Democratic whip, Steny Hoyer, told BuzzFeed, “I don´t know that anybody would run against Hillary…. If she runs, she clears the field.” It´s an understandable conclusion, given Clinton´s stature in the Democratic Party and her 70 percent
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Obama critic apologizes for
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The Hill [Washington DC], by Alexandra Jaffe
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Neurosurgeon Ben Carson, considered by some to be a potential Republican contender for president, apologized to Johns Hopkins University for the "poorly chosen words" he used in expressing his opposition to gay marriage last month.“I am sorry for any embarrassment this has caused,” Carson said in the letter, reported in New York Magazine.(Snip) "Although I do believe marriage is between a man and a woman, there are much less offensive ways to make that point. I hope all will look at a lifetime of service over some poorly chosen words.” Carson will remain as commencement speaker at Johns Hopkins,
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Hillary Clinton: The clock is turning
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Washington Examiner, by Charlie Spiering
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/5/2013 3:25:20 PM
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton explained to the Women in the World summit in New York today that the clock is turning back for women in America. Clinton praised her own mother for helping empower her to success and marveled at the opportunities that her own daughter Chelsea has pursued. But Clinton warned that there is still so much to do to promote women´s rights in America. "As I look at all these young women that I am privileged to work with, or know through Chelsea, and its hard to imagine turning the clock on them," Clinton said.
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White House Blames Jobs
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Wynton Hall
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The Obama White House is scrambling to blame Friday’s abysmal March jobs numbers on the sequester’s trimming of the rate of growth in federal budgets that have yet to fully commence. After the Labor Department announced that a mass exodus of 663,000 workers left the U.S. workforce last month and that job creation fell 112,000 jobs short of projections, Obama’s top economic adviser Alan B. Krueger, took to the White House blog to blame the sequester: It is important to bear in mind that the March household and payroll surveys are the first monthly surveys to look
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Mediaite, by A.J. Delgado
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/7/2013 5:00:16 AM
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On Friday, Sean Hannity brought Pat Smith, mother of the late Sean Smith, on his radio program. The 34-year-old information management officer was one of four Americans murdered in the Benghazi embassy attack on September 11, 2012. In the chilling interview, a distraught Ms. Smith, in tears, pleaded for answers and spoke of the efforts to silence her. Ms. Smith first relayed how her son, prior to the attack, requested additional security in advance and warned the State Department: He did tell them, ahead of time, he typed it into his little typewriter over there,
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Vanishing workforce
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Washington Post, by Jim Tankersley
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/6/2013 11:28:59 PM
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Put out an all-points bulletin: Millions of Americans have gone missing from the workforce. Every month that those would-be workers are gone raises the odds that they might never come back, dimming the prospects for future economic growth. The vanishing trend is more than a decade old, but it accelerated during the Great Recession. Throughout 2012, economists held out hope that it had stopped. But then came Friday’s jobs report, and hopes were dashed. The Labor Department reported that the U.S. labor force — everyone who has a job or is looking for one — shrank
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Trayvon Martin´s parents
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Orlando Sentinel, by Rene Stutzman
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/5/2013 3:15:25 PM
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SANFORD - Trayvon Martin´s parents have settled a wrongful death claim for an amount believed to be more than $1 million against the homeowners association of the Sanford subdivision where their teenage son was killed. Their attorney, Benjamin Crump, filed that paperwork at the Seminole County Courthouse, a portion of which was made public today. In the five pages of the settlement that were available for public review, the settlement amount had been marked out. Lower in the agreement, the parties specified that they would keep that amount confidential. When asked during an earlier interview whether the amount was
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Beyonce, Jay-Z celebrate 5th
anniversary in Havana, Cuba
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Los Angeles Times, by Nardine Saad
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Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 4/6/2013 8:20:04 AM
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Beyonce and Jay-Z celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary in Cuba this week. The couple, who married on April 4, 2008, took in the sights of Old Havana, visited a school, dined on a rooftop terrace and strolled the fan-filled streets in their island best.(snip).The power couple declined to answer journalists´ questions about their visit to the island nation, but some outlets are reporting that the moguls are there as tourists, though that would be illegal because of the half-century embargo the U.S. has on the Communist country. However, the Miami Herald said Washington has issued special licenses for
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