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Former President Barack Obama joined his former vice president Joe Biden in a virtual fundraiser Tuesday evening, promising that “help is on the way” and urging supporters not to be “complacent or smug” declaring that “whatever you’ve done so far is not enough.” “I am here to say the help is on the way if […]
President Trump fired back on former President Barack Obama subtle tweet for “trying to take credit” on the recent economic gains. Obama tweeted on Monday commented the 11th anniversary of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, “paving the way for more than a decade of economic growth and the longest streak of job creation in […]
“A trigger happy armchair strongman, lacking congressional authority, has recklessly brought our nation closer to war.”
"The true test of a leader is, what do you do when you make that mistake?"
"My mother’s fervor for activism affected the first years of my life, as it touches it today.”
"You are never going to out-gutter Donald Trump."
Over the past 11 months, at least 8 people have been jailed in Venezuela, according to Fox News Latino. The arrests come as street confrontations between students demanding free speech and government forces have been raging for years. Fox News lists the arrested opposition: Lessi Marcano (48), Ginette Hernández (23), Leonel Sánchez (47), Víctor Ugas […]
The effort to relieve, or bail out the U.S. commonwealth of Puerto Rico from its current economic struggles, has just received a big boost form the Obama administration. U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew has said that allowing Puerto Rico the opportunity to file for bankruptcy will in fact help the island get out from under […]
Last week we saw a sight many thought they'd never see. The Cuban flag being raised in Washington DC, and hanging in the State Department's lobby signifies a huge, historical shift in US foreign policy. The embargo however remains. Now, as negotiations and diplomatic relations continue, Cuba is making some demands which they have made […]
Judge Dolly M. Gee of Federal District Court for the Central District of California has ordered the Obama administration to release all children of people crossing the border illegally. In the decision, the judge decreed that the detention of children which the Obama administration has been carrying out, violates am obscure court settlement which deals with […]
Texas junior senator and 2016 presidential hopeful Ted Cruz has introduced a bill in the Senate to rename the street that the Cuban embassy currently sits on, which is 16th st. NW to Oswaldo Paya st. Mr. Paya was a very famous Cuban dissident who dies in a mysterious car crash in 2012. In a […]
As if DACA and DAPA had not been controversial enough, President Obama is now planning even more executive actions in order to allow those in the country illegally to stay. The DHS proposal is not a new program as DACA and DAPA were, but it would expand waiver authority under DACA, to grant green cards […]
The Cuban-American congressional delegation from Miami, Florida, held a press conference denouncing the opening of the U.S. embassy in Havana, Cuba, as well as calling the new Cuban embassy in the United States as a " base" for the Cuban Intelligence Service. Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Carlos Curbelo, and Mario Diaz-Balart, all Republicans, each took turns […]
Junior Florida Senator and 2016 presidential hopeful Marco Rubio has dubber today, Monday, July 20th, 2015 as "Capitulation Monday". The title aims to lambast President Obama on the Iranian Nuclear deal and the official re-establishment of diplomatic relations with Cuba. In a press release put out first thing Monday morning, the Senator says: “History will […]
Shortly after midnight on Monday, and after decades of oppression and human rights violations, the United States has all but pardoned communist Cuba for their past crimes by restoring full diplomatic relations between the two countries. The Cold War era stand off between the communist nation of Cuba and America has ended, as the Cuban […]
The Embargo may not have been lifted by Congress, but diplomatic relations with Cuba are now a reality. Speeches have been given, flags have been raised, embassies are working and freedom is on the march! According to an April 8th report, Obama enjoys an 80% approval rating in Cuba. So, if the Obama administration, and […]
Carnival Corp. has just received the OK to send its ships to Cuba. According to USAToday, the trips will begin in May of 2016. The company has received approval from U.S. authorities, though it it still waiting for approval by the Cuban government. According to the USA Today: The parent company of Carnival, Princess and […]
It seems like every few months rumors start circulating godly around Miami about Fidel Castro's health and the speculation begins as to whether he's alive or dead. But on the back of last week's announcement by the Obama administration that embassies in Havana and DC will open, and that the diplomatic "thaw" with Cuba is moving […]
President Obama's move to take Cuba off the State Sponsor of Terrorism list, and "normalize" relations between the U.S. and that criminal regime has been met with bipartisan disapproval in the U.S. Congress, leaving many Americans questioning where their values as a country have gone. It goes without saying that the American-Cuban delegation in the […]
CNN is reporting the the Unites States and Cuba have reached an agreement, and will announce on Wednesday that the two countries will open embassies in each other's capitals. According to two senior administration officials: "We will formally announce tomorrow that the United States and Cuba have reached an agreement to re-establish formal diplomatic relations […]
After massive protests, hunger strikes, and massive amounts of inflammatory political rhetoric, the Venezuelan electoral body, the CNE (Consejo Nacional Electoral), has finally set a date for parliamentary elections. The CNE, which has for a long time been known to be an "ally" of the dictatorship, announced the election date of December 6th, and an […]
The whole of the Washington political establishment seems to be "whipped into a frenzy" over the coming court decision on Obamacare. But let's assume Obamacare goes away tomorrow, will hispanics be affected disproportionally? Let's have a look at the numbers. According to the Washington Post, in 2012, hispanics were disproportionally still without insurance when compared […]
Last week, the Obama administration held a high level meeting with, alleged drug kingpin, Diosdado Cabello in Haiti. Now, Venezuela's president, Nicolas Maduro, has said that the meetings could "full;le restore diplomatic relations". According to FoxNews Latino: During a national television address Monday night, he said the two countries were now working "to normalize diplomatic […]
As the Obama administration moved full speed ahead with its plan to re-establish relations with the communist regime in Cuba, it is also looking to court Cuba's closets ally, Venezuela. In a contradictory move, Obama administration officials met with Venezuelan officials in Haiti over the weekend. Venezuela was sanctioned by Obama in march, and declared […]
Florida's junior Senator and 2016 Presidential hopeful, Marco Rubio, has called the Obama administration's meeting with Diosdado Cabello "Bizarre and confusing". In a press release, The Senator condemns the administration for meeting with one of Venezuela's "most corrupt officials. By meeting with the Venezuelan regime's most corrupt official, who also happens to be under investigation […]
The Obama administration has had the controversial DACA and DAPA programs, which help illegal immigrants escape the fear of deportation, on hold since a judge ruled back in February that the programs should not move forward while the ongoing 26-state lawsuit proceeds. The hiring of 3,100 DHS employees, who were to be housed in a […]
As the Obama administration barrels toward its end-around on the Cuban embargo, The House of Representatives today made it much harder for the president to formally re-establish diplomatic relations with the communist dictatorship. The State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs subcommittee of the House Committee on Appropriations voted today to prohibit a State Department request […]
In perhaps one of the most controversial foreign policy decisions of the 21st century, President Obama has made unprecedented moves in establishing diplomatic relationships with the Cuban government. GQ Magazine has jumped right on board. In GQ’s June 2015 issue, they proudly feature a 14-page photo spread showing Cuban-American actor Bobby Cannavale and super model […]
As if Obama and Hillary had not made the leftist regimes in Latin America happy enough yet, the rank and file of the Democrat party are giving the Castro brothers and their allies even more hope. Newly minted candidates Martin O'Malley and self avowed socialist Bernie Sanders are drawing overflow crowds to their campaign events […]
Just days after Marco Rubio's opponent in the GOP presidential primary, Rand Paul, made a stand on the Senate floor against NSA spying, the junior senator from Florida may be planning a filibuster of his very own. Today, in a press release from Rubio's senate office in Washington DC, the senator pledged to block the […]
On Tuesday the bill aimed at overturning President Obama's executive actions on immigration was blocked in the Senate. A majority of the Senate Republicans voted 51-48 to proceed with the bill from the House. As for the Senate Democrats, they voted against considering the bill thus leaving the Republicans short of the 6o votes they needed […]
America's Forum on NewsMaxTV featured our Managing Editor, Javier Manjarres and Host of The Good Fight, Ben Wikler. They debated the White House's weak response in regards to the radical terrorist attacks in Paris and the immigration vote in the House yesterday. The passed bill would defund President Obama's dictator immigration bill. When it came […]
Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) called out President Obama about his amnesty bill on Fox News. He agreed with the host, Megyn Kelly, when she said the President is talking out of both sides of his mouth when he tells others he did not say it was unconstitutional for him to pass amnesty reform by way […]
Remember back in 2012 when President Obama made that Polish death camp gaffe that "pissed off" the entire nation of Poland? The President was presenting the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the late Jan Karski, a Polish-born U.S. citizen who was part of the Polish resistance during World War II, and who infiltrated r a […]
