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Reps tell Biden not to lift terror designation for Castro regime Cuban and American flags (Yamil Lage/AFP via Getty Images)
February 26, 2021 9:00 AM
Congressional Republicans pressed President Joe Biden to get tough on Communist Cuba in a Friday letter obtained by the
Washington Free Beacon.
Reps. Mark Green (R., Tenn.), Maria Elvira Salazar (R., Fla.), and August Pfluger (R., Texas) urged Biden to put additional pressure on Havana, citing the Cuban regime s human rights abuses and its support for terrorism and the dictatorship in Venezuela. Green said that the letter should serve to wake President Biden up to the threat Cuba poses to stability in the region if he returns to President Obama s failed appeasement policies.
Amanda Gorman at the Biden inauguration: “O sing, sweet lucre,” or, The poet wore Prada
Gorman rose from almost total obscurity to the cover of
Time magazine (personifying “The Black Renaissance”) in the space of a single month. On January 1, nobody outside a relative handful of people even knew who she was.
Amanda Gorman at the Biden inauguration, January 20, 2021 (Photo credit–Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff)
Gorman was named the first National Youth Poet Laureate of the US in 2017 and has now performed two high-profile recitations. As noted, she delivered “The Hill We Climb” at the Biden inauguration. Her follow-up performance of “Chorus of the Captains” at the Super Bowl on February 7 was no less celebrated, and no less banal. Affixing firmly the establishment seal of approval, Gorman was interviewed in
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