It sure has been quiet the last few days among the “democratic socialist” crowd. Bernie Sanders, who can’t shut up about much of anything most of the time, seems to have lost his tongue and his Twitter. Ditto for Alexandria…
Little noticed in the recent (or rather, current) fighting between Israel and Palestinian Hamas is that the latter has a cheering section not only in the Fifth Congressional District of Minnesota and New York’s 14th but also in Havana. In…
In Nicaragua, the supposedly rehabilitated Sandinista Cold War dictator Daniel Ortega is cracking down on his opponents. Ortega ruled Nicaragua from 1979 to 1990 with an iron fist, collectivizing land and redistributing wealth. The Reagan administration combatted Ortega’s regime by…
The famous saying “Be careful what you wish for; your wish may be granted” dates back to the wonderful Ancient Greek storyteller Aesop, around 500 B.C. It derives from his fable “The Herdsman and the Lost Bull,” about a herdsman…
If you want to witness real courage by performance artists taking on systemic injustice, look not west to Hollywood but 90 miles to our country’s south, or closer yet at your mobile screen. After more than 60 years of soul-crushing…
The decision by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in the waning days of Donald Trump’s presidency to return the Cuban government to the U.S. terror list drew an immediate reply from Havana and analysts who condemned the measure. Cuba’s…
Next month, the Vatican is expected to renew a controversial and largely secret September 2018 agreement with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The agreement will give the CCP a say in appointing bishops, a troubling move given the communist state’s…
Washington The forces of militant ignorance are in motion again. They are marching with Crazy Bernie Sanders and his spendthrift wife. They are marching with Congressgirl Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the former bartendress. They are rousing the drowsy forces of the Occupy…
I remember very little about Cuba — a field of grassy ferns that closed up when I touched one, the boulders below El Morro Castle, and the fairytale-blue sea. Hazy as these images seem, they’re realer than anything Bernie Sanders…
