Frank La Rue, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression who made summer headlines when he proclaimed Internet access as a basic human right, conducted his research and delivered his conclusions with the support of organizations funded by liberal financier George Soros, The Daily Caller has learned. La Rue’s statements on Internet freedom caused [...]
Recently there has been much ado about the validity of Sen. Marco Rubio’s status as a son of exiles. The controversy mistakenly suggests that to be pro-freedom a Cuban must have left the island within a specific time frame. My family history, like Rubio’s, demonstrates otherwise. In 1956, Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista’s policemen dragged my [...]
The data breach disclosed in March by security firm RSA received worldwide attention because it highlighted the challenges that organizations face in detecting and blocking intrusions from targeted cyber attacks. The subtext of the story was that if this could happen to one of the largest and most integral security firms, what hope was there [...]
“It Ain’t Over ‘Til it’s Over” – Yogi Berra This quote has never been more accurate and more worthy than this. The St. Louis Cardinals were in 2nd place 10.5 games in the end of August and came back to make the playoffs. If there were ever a perfect example to the phrase, “never give [...]
BOYNTON BEACH — U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents are investigating nine Cuban adults who came ashore on a raft this morning after spending 11 days at sea. Around 3 a.m., eight men and one woman came ashore near Ocean Avenue, according to Border Patrol agent in charge John Modlin. After coming ashore, the immigrants [...]
The former New York office for ACORN, the disbanded community activist group, is playing a key role in the self-proclaimed “leaderless” Occupy Wall Street movement, organizing “guerrilla” protest events and hiring door-to-door canvassers to collect money under the banner of various causes while spending it on protest-related activities, sources tell FoxNews.com. The former director of [...]
In case that you’ve been busy with the World Series or other personal matters, Manuel Roig-Francia wrote a story about Senator Rubio in The Washington Post: “During his rise to political prominence, Sen. Marco Rubio frequently repeated a compelling version of his family’s history that had special resonance in South Florida. He was the “son [...]
The Cards and the Rangers are playing to their expectations and making the 2011 World Series a memorable one so far. They are knotted at 1-1 and heading to Texas for games three, four and five. Although both games could have gone either way, we’re tied and now it becomes a 5 game series. Preview…..Read [...]
A U.S. Predator drone was involved in the airstrike on Muammar Qaddafi’s convoy Thursday in the moments before his death, a U.S. defense official told Fox News. The official said the drone, along with a French fighter jet, fired on the “large convoy” leaving Qaddafi’s hometown of Sirte. A French defense official earlier said about [...]
The actual and complete name of Mr. Leon Weinstein second book is “Capitalism 101 – My Tea party principles.” It is now available as an eBook and as a download file for a tiny charge. I am urging everyone to read it. The book to the all online book shelves in a few weeks. It [...]
The ability to see through walls is no longer the stuff of science fiction, thanks to new radar technology developed at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory. Much as humans and other animals see via waves of visible light that bounce off objects and then strike our eyes’ retinas, radar “sees” by sending out radio waves that bounce [...]
JERUSALEM – Cheering throngs jammed the streets of Gaza on Tuesday to welcome hundreds of prisoners released from Israeli prisons, as a pale and a gaunt Gilad Schalit, a 25-year-old soldier, returned to his own more subdued welcome in Israel after more than five years in captivity. Schalit was turned over to Egyptian mediators by [...]
October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month — so says the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which asserts Americans have a shared responsibility in increasing the resiliency of the nation and its online infrastructure. Perhaps other federal bodies and departments should visit that website, beginning with the United States Air Force (USAF). The USAF has [...]
(Reuters) – A British investment fund has become the latest company swept up in an investigation by Cuban authorities of corrupt practices among the Communist island’s state businesses and their foreign partners. Police closed the Havana offices of the Coral Capital Group Ltd last week and arrested chief executive Amado Fakhre, a Lebanese-born British citizen, [...]
SPECIAL REPORT: As word of Cuban dissident Laura Pollan’s death spreads today, people will be heartbroken. But many will also be angry. So says Union City native John ODonnell Rosales, who blamed “inadequate medical care because of her peaceful opposition to the terrorist regime of the Castro brothers.” Every week for nearly eight years, Pollan [...]
CAIRO — Egypt’s military rulers are moving to assert and extend their own power so broadly that a growing number of lawyers and activists are questioning their willingness to ultimately submit to civilian authority. Two members of the military council that took power after the ouster of former President Hosni Mubarak said for the first [...]
The United States government has direct ownership of almost 650 million acres of land (2.63 million square kilometers) – nearly 30% of its total territory. These federal lands are used as military bases or testing grounds, nature parks and reserves and indian reservations, or are leased to the private sector for commercial exploitation (e.g. forestry, mining, [...]
By Mauricio Claver-Carone,a director of the U.S.-Cuba Democracy PAC and founding editor of CapitolHillCubans.com in Washington, D.C – 10/12/11 01:01 PM ET What could be more pompous (and insulting) than the argument that American and foreign tourists can “inspire” the Cuban people to seek democracy? Not much. Well, on second thought, maybe Republican Congressman Jeff [...]
The “super-eruption” of a major volcanic system occurs about every 100,000 years and is considered one of the most catastrophic natural events on Earth, yet scientists have long been unsure about what triggers these violent explosions. However, a new model presented this week by researchers at Oregon State University points to a combination of temperature [...]
The US Federal Reserve considered a new round of quantitative easing as an option at its September monetary policy meeting, suggesting that “QE3” is still possible if the economy weakens further. “A number of participants saw large-scale asset purchases as potentially a more potent tool that should be retained as an option in the event [...]