List of members of Congress who went to Cuba with Obama:

Mark Knoller

Watch: Al Sharpton In 1992 Endorses Shooting Police Officers…

Weasel Zippers

Generational Whine vs Free Speech

John Stossel   "Samantha Harris (FIRE Director of Policy Research) and Taylor Schmitt (Claremont McKenna student) joins John to discuss the politically correct nitwittery that is crushing free speech principles at American colleges. http://www.LibertyPen.com"

Kasich says he would consider nominating Garland for SCOTUS if he were president

Rick Moran   "You have to wonder what John Kasich is thinking these days as he continues his futile quest for the Republican nomination. 

"With almost the entire GOP united in opposition to Obama's SCOTUS pick Merrit Garland, Kasich scolded Senate Republicans for refusing to meet with the nominee, and claimed that he would consider nominating Garland himself if he was elected president.

. . . 

"But does anyone doubt Garland would be a reliable left wing vote on the high court? On a host of vital issues that will come before the court over the next few terms, Garland would cast his vote with the liberal wing. This is a given, which is why opposition to his confirmation is so universal on the Republican side.

"Kasich is not going to get the nomination. And if he thinks taking liberal positions on the issues will endear him to Donald Trump who might then choose him for vice president, he has no concept of the tenor and mood of the country. "

Secretary of Mistake

HopeNChange

"After much diplomatic hemming and hawing, Secretary of State John Kerry finally admitted that when ISIS beheads, burns, drowns, crushes, stones, and blows up people singled out solely because of their religion...it just might kinda sorta be genocide-ish.

"What he did not say, owing to the fact that he isn't suicidal, is that Hillary Clinton's totally failed tenure as Secretary of State pretty much laid waste to the Middle East and softened up the region for the nightmarish growth of ISIS.

"Rather than blame his predecessor, Kerry made a point of saying that while the determination of genocide is very serious, it won't have immediate policy repercussions because (brace yourself) it's going to be so difficult to bring the genocidal throat-slashing maniacs to court to be tried - no doubt with American taxpayers paying their legal defense bills." . . .

FALSE: U.S. Troops Forced to Observe Ramadan

Snopes   "Claim:   U.S. troops stationed in Muslim countries are being ordered to fast and practice Sharia law during Ramadan." 

. . . "Such claims were based on a single article from the military publication Stars and Stripes which has been greatly exaggerated in the telling. What that article actually reported is that some U.S. military personnel in Bahrain have been briefed about the significance of Ramadan, Navy personnel there have been ordered to dress more conservatively while off-base during that month, and troops have been reminded that activities such as eating, drinking, and smoking in public in the daytime during the month of Ramadan is a violation of local law (and as with other local laws, they can be detained by authorities for breaking them): " . . .

"As a number of servicemen who have been stationed in Muslim countries have observed to us, the restriction against eating and drinking in public during Ramadan didn't affect them much since most businesses, shops, and restaurants in such areas are closed in the daytime throughout that month."

Cuba ordering its dissidents to skip meeting with Obama

LA Times

In Havana on the eve of President Obama's visit, a child runs in front of a wall reading "We keep defending the revolution."

"On the eve of President Obama’s historic visit to Cuba, authorities there are ordering dissidents invited to meet with the American leader to stay home instead, a leading human rights activist said Saturday.

"Elizardo Sanchez, a Cuban anti-government activist who chronicles political detentions month-to-month, said he and most of those invited planned to defy the government order.

"Sanchez, speaking by phone from Havana, said U.S. officials were offering to help the activists get to the meeting with Obama, scheduled for Tuesday.

“ 'Everyone is pretty determined,” he said.

"There was no immediate comment from the U.S. Embassy in Havana, the White Houseor the Cuban government." . . .

It is well to recall when the Iranian people rose up against the Ayatollahs in Iran, Obama sided with the Ayatollahs against the people. 

Fox News fires back at Trump: Enough of your “extreme, sick obsession” with Megyn Kelly

Hot Air   "John flagged Trump’s latest Twitter attack on Kelly in this post last night but you should read Fox’s reply too. Imagine: This guy can all but break the back of conservative resistance to him and become the prohibitive favorite for the Republican nomination by beating Cruz handily in Arizona and Utah on Tuesday night — and this is what he’s busy stewing about. He has a general election campaign coming up, he has fundraising to think about, he has a convention to plan, and he’s sitting in front of his TV fulminating about one of the two hours of programming each day on Trump TV that’s not devoted to glorifying him. (Bret Baier’s show is the other.) Good guy. Definitely a guy who’ll have his priorities straight as leader of the free world." . . .

Our nominee is a disaster: Time may be running out, but Democrats will come to rue Clinton over Sanders

Salon

The writer says there's no chance of him voting for Hillary, then doubles down by telling us we should not either. Not to worry.

"Bernie Sanders is the only Democrat not linked to an FBI investigation. If this doesn’t mean anything to you, then you’re too terrified of Trump’s rallies to realize that Clinton could get indicted. Also, if you can’t fathom the possibility of Donald Trump winning, then keep in mind that most Americans don’t trust or like Hillary Clinton. A general election isn’t a popularity contest among Democrats. In 10 out of 10 national polls regarding favorability, Hillary Clinton has negative favorability ratings nationally in all 10.

"Be very careful what you wish for, because most Americans have an unfavorable view of Clinton and Bernie Sanders already beats Trump by a wider margin. I’m only voting for Bernie Sanders in 2016 and I explain why in this YouTube segment. Most importantly, Democrats should remember that 33% of Bernie Sanders voters will refuse to vote for Clinton in November, if she becomes nominee.

"As stated by The Wall Street Journal, there are a great many Bernie Sanders supporters like myself:" . . .

17 Things You Probably Didn't Know About the P38 Lightning

Hat tip to long time friend and former aerospace engineer Val Brose  for this.

Garfields Memorial Team House Association

Veterans are people who, at one point in their life, wrote a blank check payable to the United States of America, for an amount up to and including their life. Remember ALL of our Vets.....

More photos and text at the link. . .  

In this site: Awesome panoramic views of the Bataan Death March Memorial
The Bataan Memorial  Activists not to worry; the cross at the memorial is in the Philippines. TD

Back to the P38:  Good technical demonstration and pilots will appreciate it. The Northern Oregon Coast is visible below and the Tillamook Air Museum is the site of the landing, visible at 20:41.

THE CONFORMITY FASCISTS ARE AT IT AGAIN

The writer Joseph Farah

World Net Daily  . . . "For instance, after the group distributed a particularly hateful leaflet characterizing Elder as “without a doubt, the most racist, anti-black talk-show host in Southern California, who describes blacks as lazy, dumb and stupid.” Elder was so bemused by the fallacious attack that he read the flier on the air.

"Now the group incites more hatred and abuse of Elder by using an out-of-context recording of that show to “prove” to anyone they can get to call their telephone number that he believes blacks are lazy, dumb and stupid.
. . . 
"Ironically, while Larry Elder is being attacked for “racism,” the truth behind the tale is that he is being singled out for attack primarily because of his race. If Larry Elder were a white guy saying the same things, he would hardly cause a ripple of concern with the conformity fascists. They hate him because he is living, breathing evidence that there is philosophical and ideological diversity among all groups of thinking people.  

Joseph Farah  is founder, editor and CEO of WND and a nationally syndicated columnist with Creators News Service. He is the author or co-author of 13 books, including his latest, "The Tea Party Manifesto," and his classic, "Taking America Back," now in its third edition and 14th printing. Farah is the former editor of the legendary Sacramento Union and other major-market dailies.

Queen Refuses To Meet With Obama When He Is In London

Weasel Zippers

Via Daily Mail:

The Queen refuses to come to London to meet President Barack Obama next month.

Instead, accompanied by his security circus, he’ll trundle to Windsor in his bomb-proof, seven-ton limo for lunch.

He’s due to stand alongside the PM and urge Britain to stay in the EU.

‘But he’d be well advised not to give a pro-EU sermon over lunch after the row about the Queen supporting Brexit,’ says my source.

The Queen in 1947  Back in the days when Communism threatened to overthrow the free enterprise nations.