There’s been praise and condemnation for Francis’ intervention in the Cuba deal: Many Catholics worldwide have expressed pride in seeing Francis stirring hopes of progress in communist Cuba, but some Cuban-Americans say their spiritual leader betrayed them. “I’m still Catholic … Continue reading →
The WaPo’s editorial board keeps hammering home on this issue: …[I]t’s important to know the reaction of those Cubans who have put their lives on the line to fight for democracy and human rights. Many have supported engagement and opposed … Continue reading →
If you’re interested in some in-depth coverage of the Cuba news, go to Fausta’s blog and start reading. There’s a lot there to digest.
Continue reading →Lately the WaPo has been backing off from its kneejerk approval of the Obama administration, but this editorial along those lines is especially strong: IN RECENT months, the outlook for the Castro regime in Cuba was growing steadily darker. The … Continue reading →
Marco Rubio, among others, thinks that Obama is a bad negotiator: I don’t know what his intentions are. His foreign policy is at a minimum naive, and perhaps even truly counterproductive to the future of democracy in the region. Just … Continue reading →
In retrospect, Obama’s push to normalize relations with Cuba shouldn’t have been any sort of surprise. As a leftist and a statist he is ideologically simpatico, and such a move would also appear to be supported by a majority of … Continue reading →
Here’s a good summary article of some of the legal questions involved in Obama’s immigration executive order, and how the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel got it wrong. The basic points: First, the OLC justified the policy as a prioritization … Continue reading →
Commenter “kcom” wrote yesterday: What I’ve been thinking about lately is something that happened early in Barack Obama’s administration and that Neo talked a lot about, and that was his efforts to back the (wannabe) despot in Honduras. The guy … Continue reading →
Take a look at the history of red/blue politics in California, and you’ll see very graphically (in a literal sense) why Obama and company are willing to do just about anything to get more Hispanic people into the country and … Continue reading →
…this, then you’re better at understanding the arcane twistings and turnings of Congress than I am. But I do know one thing, which is that Jeff Sessions is one of the few members of Congress I respect on the subject … Continue reading →
How long has Congress been mulling over some sort of amnesty plan for illegal immigrants? A long time, certainly under several presidents, whether it’s called “amnesty” or whether euphemisms are used to substitute for the word. But there’s a reason … Continue reading →