(Reuters) – Cuba’s most prominent dissidents say they have been kept in the dark by U.S. officials over a list of 53 political prisoners who will be released from jail as part of a deal to end decades of hostility between the United States and Cuba.
In an interview with National Public Radio, President Obama was asked about the possibility of opening a U.S. Embassy in Iran before his presidency ends. “I never say never, but I think these things have to go in steps,” he replied.
On Friday’s “Special Report,” Fox News Media Analyst and host of “MediaBuzz” Howard Kurtz said that President Obama’s unilateral actions have received “sympathetic” media coverage. He began by stating “the president’s approval rose only four points, within the margin or
Whether you agree or disagree with the policy itself, the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT)–which kept open gays and lesbians from serving in the U.S. military–was done the right way, unlike so much else President Barack Obama is doing. Then-Senator
President Obama announced last week that the White House would reestablish diplomatic relations with Cuba, while demanding of the communist nation no concessions. Opponents have objected that this negotiation would benefit the Castro regime at the expense of the Cuban people, and that, in freeing the three remaining members of the murderous ‘Cuban Five’ spy ring, President Obama was dishonoring the lives of U.S. citizens.
Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) argued that Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has an “identical foreign policy” with President Obama on Tuesday’s “Laura Ingraham Show.” While Rubio denied there was a spat between he and Paul, he did declare “Rand has made
Congresswoman Barbara Lee, who has always been a supporter of Communists around the world, can chortle now that her decades-old campaign to thaw relations with Cuba has become a reality.
In yet another sign that the Cuban government has no intention of changing its behavior towards the United States in response to President Obama’s restoration of diplomatic relations with the communist regime, the nation’s head of North American affairs asserted that it was Cuba’s “legitimate right” to harbor criminal fugitives on the island if it so wishes.
The maritime horror that has become a centerpiece of the Cuban experience will continue even after President Obama’s overtures to the communist regime, it appears. According to witnesses aboard, the Cuban government sank a boat attempting to reach American shores
The Cuban dictatorship has long had its fans on the left—those who see in the Castro regime a plucky, multiracial workers’ utopia, whose advanced medical system is proof alone that it would thrive absent the bullying of the United States.
After a televised speech last week in which Cuban dictator Raúl Castro declared President Obama’s unilateral actions towards Cuba a victory for “a more prosperous and sustainable socialism,” Castro visited the Cuban National Assembly to declare that, against the United
On Monday, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin urged Americans to light a candle and put it in their windows this Christmas eve to show solidarity with Cubans who are still fighting for their freedom and human rights. Palin accused under
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is taking a nuanced approach to President Obama’s decision to normalize diplomatic relations with Cuba. He recently wrote to Obama to signal disappointment with Obama’s decision. But he also demanded, as a result of supposedly improved
Peggy Noonan’s praise for the Obama administration’s new Cuba policy has one particularly ugly paragraph that demands its own response. (I posted an initial criticism of her overall column on Friday, and this one paragraph has bothered me for the better
On Friday afternoon, on the way out the door, as he headed for yet another vacation in Hawaii, President Obama mounted the podium in the White House press room for a year-end meeting with the media. There he scolded Sony
President Obama’s announcement on Wednesday that the United States would reestablish diplomatic relations with Cuba despite, as President Raúl Castro proclaimed, the Cuban government yielding no concessions on human rights or economic freedom, has highlighted a major rift in the American
Daily Beast Special Correspondent Michael Daly urged Americans to boycott Cuba until they extradite Joanne Chesimard, who killed a police officer during her time in the Black Panthers and then escaped from prison and has been hiding out in Cuba
With the Obama administration acknowledging the personal intervention of Pope Francis in the President’s unilateral decision to re-establish U.S. relations with Cuba, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is applauding the pope’s role in the effort. The USCCB
The Daily Beast’s Eleanor Clift expressed a desire to “get to Cuba before it turns into Miami Beach” on Friday’s “McLaughlin Group.” “the rest of us are all going to be rushing to get to Cuba before it turns into
Columnist Pat Buchanan defended President Obama’s prisoner swap with Cuba on Friday’s “McLaughlin Group,” although he gave a mixed opinion of the opening of economic ties with the country. While Buchanan dismissed the notion that the embargo has had no
Barack Obama tried to sound presidential in his remarks regarding the United States normalizing relations with Cuba. But the real impact to most Americans will be a whole new wave of outsourcing of U.S. jobs to another communist “worker’s paradise.”
In an interview that aired on Friday’s Hugh Hewitt radio show conducted by fill-in host Ed Morrissey, soon-to-be Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) expressed his disapproval of President Barack Obama’s shift in U.S. policy toward Cuba. “I don’t think
Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) expressed disappointment that Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) “decided to adopt Barack Obama’s foreign policy” on Cuba on Friday’s “Mark Levin Show.” “The entire economy is controlled by a holding company basically that is run by the military.
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) continued the debate between him and Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) on Friday’s “Kelly File” on the Fox News Channel, saying that he thought Rubio’s comments were “rude and intemperate” and that “I never start a fight,
Although some Cuban celebrities in Hollywood reacted with pleasure to President Barack Obama’s announcement that the United States will normalize relations with the communist Castro regime in Cuba, those who have opposed the regime simply remained silent. The publicist for
