PUERTO RICO… (still being treated with disdain and contempt as a step-child nuisance) Ever since we grabbed it from Spain back in the 1890’s, we’ve never figured out what to do with it, or how to really make it a
Cuba
VIVA CUBA LIBRE MR. PRESIDENT…MORE OR LESS… (and while loading up on cigars…don’t forget our missing cruise missile stashed there) Our President is off to Havana for an official state visit to Cuba, the first and only one to do
THE START OF A CUBAN RENAISSANCE… (…maybe…) History repeats itself, they say, so now we seem to have come to the same point with Cuba that we once did with China. After decades of pretending that several billion Chinese didn’t
TIPTOEING BACK INTO THE SUNLIGHT… (…after fifty years of shadowed life…) Sometimes Presidents can, and do, make bold policy moves, especially when there’s no risk of losing political capital for re-election needs. In this instance President Obama has done just