Tuesday, January 6, 2015

BloggeRhythms

Here’s one you can file under liberals meeting the real world for once. And while many media outlets are publishing the story, the one shown below comes from yesterday's New York Times, the bastion of liberal ideology, as follows:
 
“For years, Harvard’s experts on health economics and policy have advised presidents and Congress on how to provide health benefits to the nation at a reasonable cost. But those remedies will now be applied to the Harvard faculty, and the professors are in an uproar.

"Members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the heart of the 378-year-old university, voted overwhelmingly in November to oppose changes that would require them and thousands of other Harvard employees to pay more for health care. The university says the increases are in part a result of the Obama administration’s Affordable Care Act, which many Harvard professors championed.”

So, here we have a classic example of liberalism's core, which predicates on the belief that all  the wealth in the world should be shared equally. Except for theirs. 

Item two isn’t really all that newsworthy. But is worth reading anyway. It concerns Jeb Bush’s new Right to Rise PAC and a statement to Fox News, in which a source close to him said, “We will celebrate success and risk taking, protect liberty, cherish free enterprise, strengthen our national defense, embrace the energy revolution, fix our broken and obsolete immigration system, and give all children a better future by transforming our education system through choice, high standards and accountability.”
 
What’s truly amazing about the Bush mission is that it isn’t much more than restoring basic American values, and highlights the fact that for the past six years, those values have been almost thoroughly eliminated by the current president’s administration.
 
And lastly, AP’s Andrea Rodriguez via abcnews.go.com headlined her column today: “Cuban Human Rights Group Says Short Detentions on the Rise.”
 
Ms Rodriguez writes that, “The Cuban government carried out a record number of detentions of dissidents and political activists last year, an independent Cuban human rights group said Monday.

“The Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation recorded 8,899 short-term detentions of dissidents and activists in 2014. That was about 2,000 more than the previous year and four times as many as in 2010, said the group's head, Elizardo Sanchez.”

While detentions can last for a few hours or a few days, but do not lead to prison time, the reasons for them provide considerable insight, whereas, “Cuba's government has long narrowly defined the bounds of acceptable speech, accusing many dissidents of being agents of the U.S. government or right-wing exile groups, and subjecting them to surveillance, temporary detention and harassment.”

Which leads to the question, once again, as to why in the world an American president would create diplomatic ties to an oppressive dictatorship while demanding absolutely no benefit to Cuban citizens in return. However, maybe his ill-thought-out change in Cuban policy was recommended by professors from Harvard. 

That’s it for today folks.

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