The Butcher of La Cabana

The image of Che Guevara is plastered all over Cuba. Pope Francis has associated himself with and lent legitimacy to a homicidal maniac.

"What we affirm is that we must proceed along the path of liberation even if this costs millions of atomic victims." --Che Guevara

"To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary." Those who mindlessly strut around in Che Guevara t-shirts are the same people who oppose the death penalty in the United States.

And don't forget his hatred for black people. And homosexuals. That Pope Francis deems it fit to endorse the communist Castro regime does not reflect well upon him.

I believe a compelling counterpoint to the Castro regime can be found in the Pinochet regime of Chile. The same one that leftists are always screaming is the blinding outrage of the Reagan presidency. Castro's death toll is ten times greater than Pinochet's. And Pinochet relinquished power voluntarily. Today, Chile is a first-world economy. In twenty years, Cuba will still be an economic basket case fetishized by romantic leftists.

Lately, the legacy media have been making hay because of a poll that shows 43 percent of Republicans believe Barack Obama is a muslim. Well, they took a poll in February and didn't tell anybody about it. It showed that a clear majority of Democrats don't believe Obama is a Christian. Democrats are ok with their leaders lying to them.

Obama could demonstrate his faith in Jesus Christ by taking communion with the Pope. But he won't.

Pope Francis is going to address a joint session of Congress. Will he make a passionate defense of the unborn? I don't think it matters one way or the other. It will only allow cafeteria Catholics to continue to pick and choose which teachings to follow, and which to ignore.

The Pope is fighting poverty by crusading against "rampant capitalism." The same "rampant capitalism" that has raised billions out of poverty.

"Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.

This is known as 'bad luck.'" Robert Heinlein