Because I’ve long been a big fan of Irish rock group U2, I–in my naive youth–briefly joined Shamnesty International after U2 gave them a free plug during a concert. But then I got older and–as Winston Churchill noted–became more conservative and wiser. And I terminated my membership in the organization.
This news […]
Archive for May, 2008
Why no display on Castro’s prisons?
Thursday, May 8th, 2008Posted in Castro's Fellow Travelers, Human Rights | No Comments »
Ho hum, in other obvious news,
Monday, May 5th, 2008night follows day, the sun rises in the east, water is wet and Cuba’s leader tells another whopper:
As a practical matter, it is impossible for this or any other newspaper to set the record straight every time the Cuban government tells a whopper. Orchestrating lies is the specialty of police states. Anyone who has ever […]
Posted in Media, Human Rights, Raul Castro | No Comments »
New May ‘08 poll
Sunday, May 4th, 2008Who do you think Fidel wants to win our presidential election?
Barack Obama
Ralph Nader
John McCain
Hillary Clinton
View Results
Posted in Poll, Politics | No Comments »











