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Why Would a Pro-Castro Sentiment Only Offend Cubans?

rmccarthy Wrote: Apr 22, 2012 5:10 PM

There is less investment with higher taxes, higher regulations, greater uncertainty of the future viz a vi government and other factors. Making the job creators (other than govt) the bad guys doesn't help. And then there is the changing job scene...a global labor market while the U.S. school system and students are going nowhere in adjusting to the change from a low skill manufacturing base. And so it goes.

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Why Would a Pro-Castro Sentiment Only Offend Cubans?

As all baseball fans and many other Americans know, the manager of the Miami Marlins, Ozzie Guillen, told Time magazine that he loves Fidel Castro.

The news focus has been on Guillen's remarks -- for which he has profusely apologized -- and whether the Marlins were right to suspend him for five games.

More important, however, have been the reactions to Guillen's comment. They sustain a thesis that I develop in my book ("Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph") that comes out next week: Leftism poisons just about everything it touches.

Take baseball commissioner Bud Selig's comments:

"Major League...

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