The economic stories of 2015 with Dr. Ileana Johnson, author and economist..................https://t.co/KAyhv9NXBy
— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) December 31, 2015
Trump has smeared women because of their looks.Clinton has preyed on them, and in a workplace setting where he was by far the superior.That is uncomfortable for Clinton supporters but it is unavoidably true.
2015: The year in politics with Richard Baehr of American Thinker.............. https://t.co/jvo8qLif1P
— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) December 30, 2015
2015: The year in politics with Richard Baehr of American Thinker.............. https://t.co/jvo8qLif1P
— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) December 30, 2015
Back in December of last year, President Obama and the media seemed very interested in labor activist and dissidentVladimir Morera Bacallao when he was part of the list of 53 political prisoners “released” by the apartheid Castro dictatorship pursuant to their deal with Obama to “normalize” relations.Back then, Vladimir fit perfectly into Obama’s narrative that appeasement of the Castro regime yields positive results and the media was all too happy to push that line. However, when Vladimir was arrested and imprisoned again only four months later, he ceased to be of any use to the White House.He no longer provided the positive spin the president so desperately needed to defend his disastrous Cuba policy and literally became a non-person as far as Obama and the media were concerned.Today, after nearly three months of a hunger strike in prison, Vladimir Morera Bacallao is slipping closer to death.But since he is no longer useful to Obama’s pro-Castro and pro-apartheid agenda, you will not hear the president, or his State Department, or his minions in the media, utter a single word about him.It is not that they do not know what is going on in Cuba, but that they simply do not care.
2015: The national security stories of the year with Barry Jacobsen........ https://t.co/iLaQnqvzI1
— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) December 29, 2015
The number of migrants and refugees crossing into Europe by land and sea this year illegally has passed one million, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) says.This represents a fourfold rise on the total last year.Most crossed by sea, with more than 800,000 travelling from Turkey to Greece. Half are migrants from Syria.Eleven more migrants drowned on Tuesday, adding to the IOM toll of 3,695 dying or missing at sea.Seven people were rescued by Turkish coast guards after the craft went down, apparently en route from Kusadasi in Turkey to the Greek island of Samos. One report said the dead were Syrians.
Hard nationalist and xenophobic politicians across Europe are gaining popularity as sections of their society become afraid and angry over immigration. The Economist calls it “The march of Europe’s little Trumps.”Hungary has probably been the best example. Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s vehemently anti-immigrant rhetoric, his country’s border fence with Serbia, as well as his pandering to the far-right Jobbik party has long caused concern in Europe. Among Hungarians, however, Orban’s approval has grown.More recently, Poland’s new right-wing government — though not radical — pledges it will crack down on immigration.
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— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) December 28, 2015
Yenis Rojas should be a symbol of Cuba’s future. A doctor, she has worked all her life for the state, and is full of drive, energy and ambition.And yet, despite the announcement a year ago that America and Cuba were re-establishing ties after half a century of hostilities, she sees no promise in her homeland and has fled. “I had to get out,” she said, speaking from the Costa Rica, close to the border with Nicaragua, where she is camped out. “I couldn’t stand it any more.”
Meadowlark Lemon, Harlem Globetrotter......Dies at 83 .....https://t.co/QaKhvFEewL
— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) December 28, 2015
The week in review with Bill Katz, the editor of Urgent Agenda........ https://t.co/SdpGl5SjvL
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Rubio and Cruz, the two "cubanos" running for president of the US................... https://t.co/cANtdkNohP
— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) December 26, 2015
Rubio and Cruz, the two "cubanos" running for president of the US................... https://t.co/cANtdkNohP
— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) December 26, 2015
It’s Not FunnyThis is actually quite important. The Washington Post has always been a bad page for editorial cartooning. For something like 60 years they featured the ghastly work of HERBLOCK, whose distinctions were drawing like a particularly uncreative five-year-old and labeling literally everything in said drawings. Partly he needed to label because he lacked any imagination at all and kept pushing out the same clichéd metaphor for…everything. Partly, some suspected, it was because he was huffing airplane glue. If you’d like some delicious take-downs of HERBLOCK (his name was Herbert Block, so this all-block-letter-combo-name thing gives you an indication of his dazzling intellect), I’d recommend “Cartoons Without Humor: The underwhelming oeuvre of Herblock, America’s worst political cartoonist” and “Washington’s Blockheads: The perpetual adulation of Herblock.” From the latter, by the great Andy Ferguson:Vampire bats sweep across a skyline, their bellies covered in writing: “takeover tactics,” “raiders,” “greenmail specialists,” “junk bond finances,” and “stock manipulations.” (This must be Wall Street!) And there’s always a caption, too, another 15 or 20 words. “If you don’t get my meaning,” Block seems to be saying to his reader, “I’m going to make you sit here until you do.” It was his politics, mostly, that lifted Herblock above his lack of technical skill to the Pulitzers and the medals and the honorary degrees. His ideas were as simple as his draftsmanship, and perfectly matched to the prejudices of the powerful journalists he hoped to please.All of which to say, Telnaes reminds me a lot of HERBLOCK. She can draw better than he could (all humans can), but her ideas are just as predictably progressive, clichéd, hyper-partisan, and so on. She obsesses over the same, few causes (supporting abortion is her favorite and disdaining Christians is right up there, too). In fact, herattacks on pro-lifers are so hackneyed that nobody will be surprised that she’s been given awards by the country’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood. (Interestingly, this pro-abortion cartoon, which passes for perceptive at the WashingtonPost, also features children on strings, which says nothing about pro-lifers but a great deal about Telnaes.)
Rubio and Cruz, the two "cubanos" running for president of the US................... https://t.co/cANtdkNohP
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And on Friday, Castro took to the airwaves again, this time wearing the uniform of general, to make demands: “During this year we have not advanced to resolve the issues that are essential if Cuba is to have normal relations with the United States.”Among the demands are ending U.S. broadcasts to Cuba (the only break in the Communist news monopoly in Cuba) ending the trade embargo, and the handover of the U.S. military base at Guantánamo Bay to the Castros.In an interview with Yahoo News, Obama last week eerily left open the possibility that this might happen. “There’s no doubt they’d love to have Guantánamo back,” Obama said. “And I suspect that will be a long, diplomatic discussion that will outlast my administration.”Then again, he also seriously misjudged Castro, saying, “I do see in him a big streak of pragmatism. In that sense, I don’t think he is an ideologue.”
There is a price that the Cuban regime will exact from American companies to do business there if U.S.-Cuba relations are fully normalized, a price that likely won’t benefit the country’s lower classes, but will instead line the pockets of Castro & Co., experts on Cuba warn.Because of its tight grip, the Castro regime has kept Cuba’s GDP hamstrung. It’s economy is now at a tiny $72.3 billion, less than half that of the state of Iowa, notes Richard J. Peterson, senior director at S&P Capital IQ. In fact, the average worker earns less than $25 a month.Cuba is in crisis, it needs a bailout. Its crony communism has failed, it is steeped in debt, and its money is running low.
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President Nixon initiated the full-scale bombing campaign against North Vietnam on December 18, when the North Vietnamese — who walked out of the peace talks in Paris — refused an ultimatum from Nixon to return to the negotiating table.During the 11 days of the operation, 700 B-52 sorties and more than 1,000 fighter-bomber sorties dropped an estimated 20,000 tons of bombs, mostly over the densely populated area between Hanoi and Haiphong.President Nixon was vilified at home and abroad for ordering the “Christmas bombing,” but on December 28, the North Vietnamese did agree to return to the talks in Paris. When the negotiators met again in early January, they quickly arrived at a settlement.The Paris Peace Accords were signed on January 23 and a ceasefire went into effect five days later.