BOLD like a Leopard

Liberal guilt's blind spot has never been as large as right now! Paolo Taviani, Italian career politician. As minister of defense in the 1950s he helped make permanent a network that rigged his country's elections for years and actually controlled political parties for the CIA. (By Gcoletti  - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0) Yes reader, you are now living in the Twilight Zone. The Democratic Party and its poodle media are parroting the line that Vladimir Putin manipulated the 2016 election. After failing to unearth any evidence of the Russian autocrat actually influencing the vote, they are now trying to pin the responsibility for smearing Hillary Clinton on him. That's playing it as if only one "bad actor" hacked Clinton, when in reality last year the Senate Homeland Security Committee revealed that three other countries were the originators of other hacks: Germany, South Korea, and China. So now they care about hacking? And how about the credible...

Saturday was the "International Day for Human Rights", a day that the UN has done everything to render meaningless.  Anti-Assad fighters in Aleppo. This endlessly confusing conflict was used for media capital by MSNBC during the election. Not so much to say about it now. If you think that this means that the dignity of people is meaningless, you're missing the point. I'm sorry if people want to act like it's a fully defined issue, but who the hell are you kidding? In September on MSNBC Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson was laughed at by Mike Barnicle when he reacted to a question about the siege of Syria's largest city by asking "What is Aleppo"? Now that the city is in the final stages falling to the Syrian-Iranian-Russian forces besieging it, the question that the media is asking is "Aleppo? What about it?" Now that the year's almost over, I'll be reviewing this year's real human rights issues in a dif...

Even the best of us get fooled by a 90 year-old dictator, right? It's funny that Americans give people credibility by  association.  If Fidel Castro deserves admiration  for his meeting with American  sports icon  Muhammad Ali, then so does Zairian dictator  Mobutu Sese  Seko and notorious  racist Elijah Muhammad. (Twitter) It shouldn't make sense, but it does. I can personally attest to being enchanted by communism in general, and the Cuban Revolution in particular growing up. They made a convincing argument that the Third World needed a philosophy that would take care of all citizens, especially the poorest, by distributing resources equally. The symbolism of Che Guevera and Fidel entering La Habana and ousting Batista in 1959 had a certain risque shine to it. It's ironic though that these communist "revolutionaries" succeeded in embodying the most classic of pitfalls of market capitalism: false advertising. So whether you're...