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Obama's Climate of Fear

admin — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:08:11 +0000

Dan Kennedy

Recently I had a long lunch with an old friend. He sits on the board of one of the largest and most successful publicly traded regional banks in America. He got his seat when that regional bank acquired the very successful community bank he built from the ground up. I will not name him or this bank, but I will pass on a few things he said to me.

Raul Castro's Idea of 'Free Enterprise': Drug Smuggling?

admin — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 17:54:47 +0000

Ken Shepherd

Nearly two week ago, NBC’s Andrea Mitchell suggested hard-line Communist Raul Castro really did have a soft spot for capitalism.

“Raul has been in charge of the military and the economy,” Mitchell explained to the August 2 “Today” show audience, calling Fidel’s younger brother “politically hard-line but more open than his brother to free enterprise, including foreign investment.”

Raul Castro: A Hard-Line Commie with a Soft Spot for Free Enterprise?

admin — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 18:28:32 +0000

Ken Shepherd

Raul Castro: a free enterprise-friendly Communist?

That’s how NBC’s Andrea Mitchell portrayed the 75-year old brother of Cuba dictator Fidel Castro in her report on the August 2 “Today” show. But some Cuba experts describe Raul’s concessions to capitalism as mere pragmatism meant to prop up a socialist economy otherwise doomed to failure.