Does this Pope prefer Communism to Capitalism?

Miami Priest to Pope Francis: Why Condemn Capitalism So Strongly, but Not Communism?

“ 'I know,” Father Cutié concludes solemnly, “the majority of people reading this will say, ‘those Miami Cubans,’ we don’t understand. I’ve come to the conclusion that they are right. … I don’t understand–and don’t think I will ever begin to understand–why a man of God can meet with oppressors, but not the oppressed.' ”

Why do you and other religion leaders condemn capitalism so strongly, and offer us a list of all the disasters that result from it on earth, but we never see an equally strong condemnation of atheist communism, which continues to cause the world so much harm? This inequality when the time comes to condemn appears unjust. […]
Why do we ignore those who suffer from the great poverty of a lack of freedom and who, only for expressing their desperation and demanding respect for the most basic human rights, are detained, harassed, and beaten? […]
Is it really more important to have diplomatic relations with a country that has not had free elections in 50 years, that abuses its people, that has a well-documented history of oppressing and robbing the Church–than to seek justice, the common good and freedom for all Cubans?

NRO: US Marines vs Obama

The Democrats have no tolerance for turning your little boys into men. Warning: politically incorrect video here:

The Marine Corps Against Political Correctness — Leaders Are Set to Challenge the Obama Administration

"From the Associated Press: The Marine Corps is expected to ask that women not be allowed to compete for several front-line combat jobs, inflaming tensions between Navy and Marine leaders, U.S. officials say.

"The tentative decision has ignited a debate over whether Navy Secretary Ray Mabus can veto any Marine Corps proposal to prohibit women from serving in certain infantry and reconnaissance positions. And it puts Gen. Joseph Dunford, the Marine Corps commandant who takes over soon as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at odds with the other three military services, who are expected to open all of their combat jobs to women.

"Mabus has responded with sheer PC nonsense: “I’m not going to ask for an exemption for the Marines, and it’s not going to make them any less fighting effective,” he said, adding that the Navy SEALs also will not seek any waivers. “I think they will be a stronger force because a more diverse force is a stronger force. And it will not make them any less lethal.”

 "A more diverse force is a stronger force? Is this guy a university dean or the leader of arguably — pound-for-pound — America’s most deadly fighting force? Rather than reciting Ivy League slogans, perhaps he should pay attention to the actual evidence:

"Women in a new Marine Corps unit created to assess how female service members perform in combat were injured twice as often as men, less accurate with infantry weapons and not as good at removing wounded troops from the battlefield, according to the results of a long-awaited study produced by the service.

"I know I’m only a JAG officer, but even I know that accuracy is directly relevant to lethality — as is the ability to stay in the fight without getting injured. And that’s not even taking into account the profoundly important issue of unit cohesion. (In fact, I deal with all these issues in an essay in this week’s magazine.)

"The Marines are fighting a valiant rear-guard action, but they’re in a race with the PC clock. The left wants to transform the military as much as it can before it faces a new president, and social justice warriors firmly believes that social justice delayed is social justice denied. "

Social justice was denied women because they were not here at Iwo Jima? I visualize in the next TNT series, a number of women will be in this battle. One will even scream at John Basilone because he is a coward, inspiring him to take the following actions. Naturally, being a woman, she will be bypassed for the medal that Basilone receives.  The Tunnel Dweller

The Muslim Islamophobes Who Agree With Ben Carson

In reality, there is not a single country to which they can point. There is no democratic tradition in the Islamic world. There is no history of secular republics, no concept of the equality of all people before the law.

Robert Spencer ( who I am sure is on a kill list of Radical Islamists)

. . . "Here's another:

The first basic difference between the political system endorsed by Islam and democracy is that in democracy, the ultimate authority lies with the people. In Islam, however, the ultimate authority doesn’t belong to people; it belongs to God alone. That means that both the ruler and the ruled in Islam are subject to a higher criterion for decision-making, that is, divine guidance.

"That would mean that the Constitution would have to give way to Sharia wherever the two conflict, as another Islamophobe makes clear when he says:

Democracy runs counter to Islam on several issues. … In democracy, legislation is the prerogative of the people. It is the people who draw up the constitution, and they have the authority to amend it as well. On this issue we differ.

"Supposedly, in Islamic thought only Allah legislates. There is no shortage of Islamophobes who spew this hate.
"Another howled that in Islam, “democracy, freedom, and human rights have no place.”
Still another yelped that in Islam, “democracy is evil, the parliament is evil and legislation is evil.”
"One Islamophobe went Carson one better, saying not only that a Muslim should not be president, but that Muslims shouldn’t even participate in elections. He had the audacity to claim that “electing a president or another form of leadership or council members is prohibited in Islam.' ” . . .

"In order, the authors of the Islamophobic statements I quote [in this article] are:

• Hisham Melhem, the Washington bureau chief of Al-Arabiya,
• Renowned moderate Muslim and Islamic apologist Jamal Badawi,
• Syrian Islamic scholar Abd Al-Karim Bakkar,
• The leader of Iran’s Shia Taliban, Mesbah Yazdi,
• Australian Muslim cleric Ibrahim Siddiq-Conlon,
• Saudi Islamic scholar, Sheikh Abdul Rahman bin Nassir Al Barrak,
• A Muslim group in Wales that plastered Cardiff with posters denouncing democracy and exhorting Muslims not to vote, and
• A Muslim group in Denmark that likewise urged Muslims to boycott elections.

Americans now see a war on police and they know who to blame

Andrew Malcolm

. . . "In a June interview Obama said not that some people are racist or sometimes say racist things. No, the first black president who received more than 135 million votes from his countrymen of all colors in two national elections declared that racism inhabits the very DNA of Americans. You're welcome, sir.

"The new Rasmussen poll found, appropriately, that six-of-ten Americans see such rhetorical involvement of politicians for their own purposes as less than helpful.

"In fact, respondents answered that such statements by Obama and others make police work even more dangerous than it already is for officers. Eighteen percent say they believe such comments actually improve the situation somehow, while 13% say they have no effects." . . .

Once again this president sides with the perpetrator against authorities

Yet again.

http://hopenchangecartoons.blogspot.com/

Obama doesn’t have time to recognize the cop killings everywhere, but he definitely has time for a Muslim teen who got arrested for administrators thinking that the homemade clock he brought to school looked like a bomb.

. . . "Officers said Ahmed was being “passive aggressive” in his answers to their questions, and didn’t have a “reasonable answer” as to what he was doing with the case. Investigators said the student told them that it was just a clock that he was messing around with. “We attempted to question the juvenile about what it was and he would simply only say it was a clock. He didn’t offer any explanation as to what it was for, why he created this device, why he brought it to school,” said James McLellan, Irving Police." . . .

. . . "WHICH brings us to the recent kerfuffle, regarding the 14 year old Muslim who caught the White House’s eye – what a shock – even while there are so many national/international fires raging. Hmm. HUSSEIN Obama has the time for a “sit down” with an “offended” 14 year old! Credo quia absurdum. "

Here’s the statute Ahmed Mohammed authorities originally suspected Mohammed of violating (Texas Penal Code Section 46.08):

(a) A person commits an offense if the person knowingly manufactures, sells, purchases, transports, or possesses a hoax bomb with intent to use the hoax bomb to:
(1) make another believe that the hoax bomb is an explosive or incendiary device; or
(2) cause alarm or reaction of any type by an official of a public safety agency or volunteer agency organized to deal with emergencies.
(b) An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor.

Nobody said Mohammed built an actual bomb. They suspected that he had wanted to frighten or alarm officials with a hoax-bomb. The police said that initially, it was “not immediately evident” that the clock-in-a-case was a class experiment – perfectly plausible, given that Mohammed built the clock-in-a-case voluntarily, without assignment, and in conjunction with no science fair.

Obama had tweeted: ‘Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It’s what makes America great.’

For Obama, being cool trumps (if I may) being presidential. 

After Inviting Muslim Clock Boy To WH, Here’s How Obama Treats Cancer Kids

. . . "According to recent reports, Secret Service has recently kicked out a few cancer-stricken children, along with their parents, from a park close by the White House, citing “security precautions.” . . . “The parents and children gathered at Lafayette Park Saturday night for a scheduled candlelight vigil to call attention to childhood cancer and push for increased funding for cancer research.” It was part of a two-day event called CureFest for Childhood Cancer, but before they could participate, they were told to leave."

Hillary supporters must be either ignorant of her history or just plain cynical

Hillary Clinton: I'm The Ultimate Outsider or Something Because I'm a Woman

Victor Davis Hanson: Hillary Clinton’s Empire of Dirt

"The more she castigates others, the more she convicts herself. "

"For nearly 40 years, Bill and Hillary Clinton have crafted joint power careers. But “in the end,” what have they become? What is left but their front foundation, their Soros-funded surrogates, and their lock-step loyalists — in other words, their “empire of dirt”? Hillary Clinton just released a brief video about the need for women to stand up to their sexual assaulters while demanding relief from society’s unwarranted doubts about their allegations: “It’s not enough to condemn campus sexual assault. We need to end campus sexual assault!” Who would not agree with that assertion?
. . .

"Bill Clinton’s sordid sexual harassments are ancient history better forgotten. But Ms. Clinton must accept that her advocacy video about sexual assault and harassment unfortunately dredges them back up. Do her present boilerplate professions of believing the alleged victim amount to a sort of postmodern “I will let you down” confession? For two decades of Bill Clinton’s political ascendance, Ms. Clinton’s own attitude toward women who alleged that they were either harassed or sexually assaulted by Governor and then President Bill Clinton was that they were either delusional or gold-digging connivers. Nothing that Ms. Clinton said or did ever suggested that Juanita Broddrick, Kathleen Willey, Paula Jones, or Monica Lewinsky — or scores of others — was anything other than a liar or an opportunist."  Read the full article

Mona Charen asks: Why Won’t the Media Hold Hillary to the Same Standard They Did Bob McDonnell?

Pope Francis doesn't understand how to alleviate poverty

George Will in NRO
"Pope Francis embodies sanctity but comes trailing clouds of sanctimony. With a convert’s indiscriminate zeal, he embraces ideas impeccably fashionable, demonstrably false, and deeply reactionary. They would devastate the poor on whose behalf he purports to speak — if his policy prescriptions were not as implausible as his social diagnoses are shrill.

"Supporters of Francis have bought newspaper and broadcast advertisements to disseminate some of his woolly sentiments that have the intellectual tone of fortune cookies. One example: “People occasionally forgive, but nature never does.” The Vatican’s majesty does not disguise the vacuity of this. Is Francis intimating that environmental damage is irreversible? He neglects what technology has accomplished regarding London’s air (see Page 1 of Dickens’s Bleak House) and other matters.

"And the Earth is becoming “an immense pile of filth”? Hyperbole is a predictable precursor of yet another U.N. climate-change conference — the 21st since 1995. Fortunately, rhetorical exhibitionism increases as its effectiveness diminishes. In his June encyclical and elsewhere, Francis lectures about our responsibilities, but neglects the duty to be as intelligent as one can be. This man who says “the Church does not presume to settle scientific questions” proceeds as though everything about which he declaims is settled, from imperiled plankton to air conditioning being among humanity’s “harmful habits.” The church that thought it was settled science that Galileo was heretical should be attentive to all evidence." . . .

The Pope, Obama, and the oppressive left

As Cuban dissidents arrested, Pope Francis enjoys 'friendly and informal conversation' with Fidel Castro

Obama just can’t help taking victory laps, this time around Pope Francis

. . . "Obama should be grateful to the pontiff, who helped the President achieve a very rare foreign policy “success”. If he is, the Obama sure has a strange way of showing it.

In a stunning show of political indecorum, Obama has invited a series of individuals who publicly flout Catholic teaching, including a pro-abortion religious sister, a transgender woman and the first openly gay Episcopal bishop, along with at least two Catholic gay activists.

"Truly, this is the sort of SmartPower^TM move we have come to expect from the White House." . . .

As Cuban dissidents arrested, Pope Francis enjoys 'friendly and informal conversation' with Fidel Castro
. . . "Meeting under the gaze of Che Guevara,* a bloodthirsty man who enjoyed executing his political opponents – personally machine gunning them for sport – is abominable.  But I suppose the pope had no choice in the venue if he was committed to seeing Castro.  The photo of the meeting is certainly will do nothing to harm Castro’s image with believing Catholic Cubans:"

* Guevara can't be all bad; his picture hung in some Obama election offices in 2008.

Scott Walker drops out

The fall of Scott Walker
. . . "Scott Walker had three different positions (count them: three) on  birthright citizenship alone in a week's time.  He quickly became known as being squishy on immigration.
. . . "I've always felt that he was a governor who did a conservative thing with the unions rather than a conservative governor who did a conservative thing with the unions.  He's probably the best liberal Wisconsin can do with, but American can do better." . . .

Caffeinated Thoughts  

""Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker announced Monday afternoon that he is suspending his campaign for the Republican nomination for President. He follows former Texas Governor Rick Perry as the second candidate to drop out of the still large field of 15 major candidates.

"Walker said he was disappointed by the debate taking place in the Republican party that is not focused on Ronald Reagan’s optimism, but instead has devolved into personal attacks.

“ 'In the end, I believe that voters want to be for something and not against someone. Instead of talking about how bad things are, we want to hear about how we can make them better for everyone,” Walker stated.

“ 'Today, I believe that I am being called to lead by helping to clear the race so that a positive conservative message can rise to the top of the field. With that in mind, I will suspend my campaign immediately,” Walker announced." . . .

“The short answer is money,” said a supporter of Mr. Walker’s who was briefed on the announcement. “He’s made a decision not to limp into Iowa.”
“ 'I encourage other Republican presidential candidates to consider doing the same, so that the voters can focus on a limited number of candidates who can offer a positive conservative alternative to the current front-runner,” Mr. Walker said in the short appearance, at which he took no questions. “This is fundamentally important to the future of the party and, more importantly, to the future of our country.' ” . . .

Walker’s Collapse Isn’t Trump’s Fault

Debbie Wasserman Schultz would say what about Bill's women?

Bookworm Room

Once upon a time, the women who accused Bill Clinton of sexual assault had to listen to hateful, misogynist garbage like this: “Drag a $100 bill through a trailer park, you never know what you’ll find.” But as of right now, those days are over.

Hillary Clinton

✔ @HillaryClinton

Hillary to every survivor of sexual assault: You have the right to be heard and believed. We're with you.

"I believe Juanita Broaddrick, Kathleen Willey, and all the other women who have accused Bill Clinton of sexual assault. And as we just heard, so does Hillary Clinton.

"So, what’s she going to do about it? This is what she’s going to do about it:

 

"See? Hillary Clinton believes victims of sexual assault. Their attacker’s punishment: not serving as Vice President of the United States. Harsh but fair.

"There. The discussion is now closed. You will not bring up any of the women who have accused Bill Clinton of sexual assault. Ever.
"P.S. From all the way back in July 2014: Hillary Clinton Refuses To Apologize For Laughing About 12-Year-Old Rape Victim She Maligned In Court.

Debbie the Democrat says transgenders should play contact sports

Wasserman-Schultz: transgender women should play contact sports

Following the CNN Republican Debate, Wasserman-Schultz told The Daily Caller:

“’I think that transgendered women — I think women should be able to participate in contact sports if they can compete effectively,’ she told The Daily Caller in the ‘spin room’ after the CNN Republican presidential debate Wednesday night.
‘I think that if they are living as a woman and identifying as a woman that they should be able to play on a women’s team’” she added. ‘But also I think that there are women who should be able to play on a men’s teams if they can effectively compete and vice versa.’
Asked specifically whether men who become women should be able to compete in female boxing or female mixed martial arts, the DNC chair punted.
‘You’re going a little deep on the type of sport,’ she said. ‘I think we are a little afield of what we are here to talk about.’”

"Can we just call this the “Hillary Clinton Rule?” That’s right, “She’s a man, Ba-By!' ”. . .

Read more at the Black Sphere

Why CNN omitted race from the GOP debate

The Black Sphere

"You don’t need a poll to tell you that the subject of race is one of the top issues on the minds of America. But for those who need polls, according to a July Gallup poll, race relations ranked third, behind only the economy and dissatisfaction with the government.

"So with that in mind, CNN brought us political WrestleMania. The moderators at CNN did moderate. Instead of covering the substantive issue of race relations, which have undoubtedly worsened during the Era of the Black President, CNN moderators were content to incite the candidates into attacking one another. Like a schoolyard provocateur, Jake Tapper prodded the candidates to respond to what each other had said about the other.

“So what about your face, Carly? You gonna let Trump get away with that?”

Let’s recap: #1 issues with Americans is the economy, and #2 dissatisfaction with the government, and CNN decides to discuss if Trump should have his hand on the button? Would that be the same button that Hillary Clinton gave to the Russians? Or would that be the button Obama has pushed on America’s debt and deficit? That button should be labeled “Armageddon!”

"CNN had no interest in hearing the real policies of the candidates. For them it was about entertainment, ratings and money. Those who were able to outline their positions on key issues did so by brute force. God forbid CNN actually address the issue that would showcase just how reckless the Democrats have been, fiscally or otherwise. Why do that, when the real goal was to make the Republicans look childish and petty." . . .

All emphases in the original