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When it comes to Cuba, President Obama can do little right in the eyes of exilio politicians. When he eased travel restrictions to the island, for example, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen accused him of undermining democracy on the island. Now she's slamming Obama for his decision to order U.S. inspectors to check a deep-water oil rig that is on its way to Cuba. ... "A state sponsor of terrorism [is] poised to achieve a tremendous economic boon by entering the oil business and endangering U.S. waters to boot," she said. "It is deeply disappointing that the Obama administration appears content to...

China is gradually beginning to resemble Japan of the 1930s and the thought of having to stop them with Barack Obama as our Commander in Chief is not reassuring. The Peoples Republic of China (PRC) has made the headlines recently by aggressively deploying missiles capable of striking American forces in the Western Pacific. China’s goal is to deny us access to aid Taiwan when the People’s Army decides to invade the island. China’s Modernization During the last 30 years China has greatly accelerated her economic and military growth. The Communist country’s economic advancement has greatly improved the living standard of...

ON THE heels of President George Bush's call to shift away from United States reliance on Middle East oil, a contingent of Texas oilmen and bureaucrats from Havana gathered in Mexico to discuss a nervy alternative: Cuba. Despite Washington's 45-year trade embargo against Fidel Castro's Government, Cuban officials are courting US energy companies to produce oil in its territorial waters. Late on Friday, an agency of the US Treasury Department, the Office of Foreign Assets Control, asked Starwood Hotels, the company that owns the Sheraton Hotel in Mexico City where the three-day meeting was being held, to require the...