It's Groundhog Day, and if Punxsutawney Phil is correct, we are in for six more weeks of winter before we can look forward to spring.  Sadly, the weather's temperature is not the only measure of warmth for humans.  As it is, there is no need for a weather predicting rodent in Cuba, because there is [...]

Friday night thinking about Cuba, these lyrics came to mind.
How many freedoms must Cubans be denied
 before their humanity is recognized?
How many must die at sea
Before they’re allowed to sail free?
Yes, how many times must the executioner prevail
Before they’re forever banned?
The answer my friend is blowin’ in the wind
The answer is blowin’ in the wind.
 Yes, how many [...]

While the MSM continues to parrot Cuban state press run by a murderous outlaw dictator, they ignore the brutal violent acts of repression against Cuba's peaceful dissidents. 
The life of Cuban opposition leader Jorge Luis García Pérez (Antúnez) is in danger.

I am pleading with the MSM and international human rights organizations to please speak out [...]

A former citizen of the USSR schools the mental giant socialists comfortably tucked inside the USA. He also points out their patron saint Che's accomplishments under the banner of socialism/communism. At one point one of the occupiers claims the man was thrown out of the country (Russia) by the Soviets because he is 'rich' and [...]

Yesterday in a discussion in comments on my previous post I expressed a stark difference between "politeness" and "consideration". Politeness is a means by which civil control can be expected, imposed, or even demanded. Politeness can be used as a protection defense (step on the mean guy's toe and immediately you apologize) or an offensive [...]

But Chavez is not happy with what he perceives as the "horrible repression" of the wonderful protesters ... By whom I'm not sure, because all the abuse and repression appears to be coming down on the heads of innocent New Yorkers by the protes--- squatters (and I mean that literally, folks). This from the same [...]

Berta Antunez, Women's rights activist in Cuba speaks at the Global Summit against Discrimination and Persecution. 
Powerful testimony on the horrors of Castro's Gulag.

En espanol here.

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Jane Fonda (warning) likes to fancy herself a righteous activist. We all know Jane from her romantic NVA gun-straddling days during the Vietnam War as those pesky American POWs insisted on being tortured, starved, beaten, and killed. But what you probably don't know is dear Jane is pining for the one she let get away. [...]

Frances Martel at Mediaite has written a lengthy article interviewing CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta in Havanna, Cuba. Dr. Gupta is in Cuba to investigate for himself the facts about Cuba's healthcare system that everyone seems determined to hold up as a prime example of a successful government/state-run system. Democrats, Hollywood celebrities such as Michael Moore [...]

Yves Schladenhaugen is French,  as Havana Club's international marketing director,  he enjoys the elite life in Cuba.  His daughter attends the "very international" French School, and I'm sure his family doesn't live in the kind of crumbling unsafe dwelling without adequate plumbing and electricity that the average Cuban family must endure. More likely, they live in [...]

When you seek to have the State completely control commerce, production, consumption, and capital this is what it produces. People always find a way to survive, even if it is outside the restrictions of a system, especially communism. And imagine how it will be here when such policies take full command over our healthcare (see: [...]

You know, I distinctly recall hearing, for years, those who support liberal/leftist/democrat politicians, like Obama, griping about how the U.S. has always done business with and/or catered to the world's dictators, and that was/is the core of our problems around the world. But with Obama he's sorta kinda like Cyrus from that 1970s cult movie [...]

Did he share it with those journalists and reporters he has locked-up in his jail?
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – Hugo Chavez is getting a journalism award in Argentina.
The Venezuelan leader regularly threatens opposition media, but the University of La Plata is giving him an award for what it describes as his work giving people without a [...]

Slavery still exists. Of that there isn’t much dispute, if any. But how widespread is what many experts call modern-day slavery?
Estimates range from about 10 million to 30 million, according to policymakers, activists, journalists and scholars.
The International Labour Organization, an agency of the United Nations that focuses on, among other things, labor rights, put the [...]

One-legged Afghan Red Cross worker set to be hanged after converting to Christianity
Indonesia: Mobs destroy three churches in Central Java
Militants Kill Christian Teenagers For Reading Bible
Indonesia: Muslims Massacre Other Muslims Because They Are The Wrong Kind
Pakistan: Undaunted Christians still go to church despite Islamist threats
Moderate NY Muslim Convicted of Beheading Wife…
Shabaab Cuts Off [...]

From Bridget Johnson @ The Hill:
A key House Republican is quickly pressing forward with her goals to scale back U.S. funding for the United Nations.
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told The Hill that oversight would be a key function of the panel, particularly funding to the U.N. [...]

The mega A-List at last night's White House State Dinner for China's President Hu:
Celebrity star power arrived in the form of singer Barbra Streisand, her hubby-actor James Brolin and action film star Jackie Chan. Big business turned out in force, too, including Microsoft's Steven Ballmer and JPMorgan Chase's Jamie Dimon, among others. Among the big [...]

We are led to believe violence and hatred against Muslims has grown since the 9-11 attacks ... and both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. But according to a recent FBI report it has not. In fact hate crimes against Muslims in the USA are "rare". On the other hand, another recent report has Islamic countries [...]

Isn't he just the sweet little rat-Commie-bastard gift that keeps on giving? ... Well, taking.
And as usual, it's HIS concept of what is and isn't "fair" when he's forced to make such "Acts of Justice" on the people and businesses of Venezuela.
CARACAS, Venezuela — Facing a wave of criticism from business leaders, President Hugo Chavez [...]

Since the February murder of Orlando Zapata Tamayo, his grieving  mother, Reina Luisa Tamayo, has wanted nothing more than to go to Mass on Sunday, and then to visit the grave of her son.  For this, she has been terrorized by the Castro regime.  She has been held prisoner in her home, surrounded by violent mobs, [...]