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Fidel Castro Death Watch

Babalu Blog remains a must-read in the aftermath of Fidel Castro's "health crisis". Some recent highlights:

• George Moneo points to a medical blogger who infers that Fidel Castro will soon buy the farm (Or will his corpse, state property like everything else, be used to "fertilize the farm"?): "My guess - Castro has widely metastatic colon or stomach cancer and will be dead in the next several weeks without ever regaining control of the country."
• In another post, Moneo notes that a MSM outlet has finally conceded that the Cuban troops reported to be omnipresent after Castro's "smooth power handover" might be there for some other reason than to repel a Yanqui invasion. "Dissidents in Cuba's eastern provinces say the country's military has beefed up its presence on the streets and is telling citizens they have permission to respond with force against anyone who speaks out against the government."
• And be sure to read the various installments of Val Prieto's "Raul Castro Watch". From his entry for the seventh day of Raul Castro's ascension: "I thought I saw raul castro yesterday at the deli of my local Winn Dixie. I was wrong of course. Turns out it was actually Elvis picking up a couple party platters of hot wings and finger sandwiches with two side orders of mashed potatoes and gravy." Over a week and no public appearances! Call it 1-D Leadership: Decide, Delegate, and Disappear.

Or you could just go there and start scrolling.

John Stark is back!

Fans of John Stark will be glad to see that he has been blogging lately, including this entry about a news story concerning our government's deceptive accounting practices that I nearly blogged myself.

Harry Binswanger has long made the point that tax cuts are a secondary concern and the primary goal should be to cut government spending. Taxes are only one way that our government loots us; the other two are borrowing and inflation, so lowering taxes without first cutting spending just changes the form of that looting. [Also recommended is his article on why there would be no "Transition Costs" in privatizing Social Security.]

I have been enjoying a free trial subscription to the Harry Binswanger List (first link in excerpt) for the past couple of weeks and plan to sign up for a year when this runs out.

Who needs al-Jazeera ...

... when Reuters are staffed with anti-Semites?

Investor's Business Daily has a great article cataloguing Reuter's anti-ally bias in the current war, from its asinine refusal to employ the word "terrorist", to its recent withdrawal of enormous numbers of "news ""photographs" of the Battle of Lebanon, to the involvement of one of its employees in emailing a threat to LGF's Charles Johnson.

For his effort in pointing out the phoniness of the photograph, he got a warm message from a Reuters account that said: "I look forward to the day when you pigs get your throats cut." The so-far-unidentified person used "zionistpig" as his or her e-mail address.

It should tell you something that the article makes a damning case against Reuters without even having to say that the news agency pulled 920 photographs by Adnan Hajj.

-- CAV