OAS Votes to Let Cuba Back In – Political News – FOXNews.com

SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras — The Organization of American States announced Wednesday it has revoked a 1962 measure suspending communist Cuba, reversing a landmark of the Cold War in the hemisphere.

“The Cold War has ended this day in San Pedro Sula,” said Honduran President Manuel Zelaya immediately following the announcement.

The action was taken “without conditions,” Ecuador’s Foreign Minister, Fander Falconi, but it does set mechanisms for Cuba’s return — including its agreement to comply with OAS conventions on human rights and other issues.

“This is a moment of rejoicing for all of Latin America,” Falconi told reporters after the session. The decision was taken by consensus, meaning the United States accepted it.

Many countries pushed to readmit Cuba without preconditions, but U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton had urged the OAS to require that Cuba made democratic reforms and improve respect for human rights.

Cuba’s government, however, has repeatedly said it has no interest in returning to the 34-member organization, which it calls a tool of the United States.

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The Religious Right Didn’t Kill George Tiller – WSJ.com

These unqualified reproaches are nothing new. The organized antiabortion movement has always opposed violence against abortion providers. That has never stopped opportunistic prochoice activists, however, from conflating their passionate rhetoric with the behavior of individual criminals. True to form, on Sunday, Mike Hendricks of the Kansas City Star accused anyone who had criticized Tiller as a murderer (Tiller aborted healthy, nine-month old fetuses) of being an “accomplice” to his death.

Over the past decade this argumentative tactic has taken on an even more insidious twist. In addition to fighting violent, Muslim jihadists abroad, some liberals argue that America must deal with its own, homegrown terrorists. These are not just people who commit violence but millions of socially conservative evangelicals and Catholics — “Christianists” — who comprise the base of the Republican Party and threaten the stability of the country.

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Cash for Clunkers is Another Bailout for the Auto Industry » The Foundry

On paper, it sounds great. $4,500 for a more fuel-efficient vehicle. Everyone loves more miles to the gallon. But there’s the law of unintended consequences and the cash for clunkers program is no exception.

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