Today's Big Lie.... Well... there were many on tap today such as "Arnold Schwarzenegger is a 'Reagan Republican.'" (more like an Arlen Specter Republican) or "The war in Iraq was a waste of time/started on lies/fill in your own Howard Dean quote here..."

BUT, the biggest lie today is tied to Fidel Castro on the occasion of his birthday. El Bastardo is 77 today! Too bad he has not met the same fate as Ceausescu -- a bullet to the head from his own countrymen after raising the flag of democracy and republican government. This story illustrates the bias in America towards Castro.

Why -- he's a hardworking leader of a country that is not so bad! He's almost human. This puff piece is indicative of Castro's treatment by much of the mainstream media. A total glossing over for a brutal dictator. Castro is no friend of democracy and certainly no friend of Cubans and he deserves our condemnation and enmity. Hell, he at the very least deserves our disdain -- not lionization by Al Sharpton (do not get me started), Oliver Stone, Danny Glover, and Charlie Rangel.

I have actually had conversations with those who excuse Castro because Cuba has healthcare for all and compulsory education. "Compulsory" does not begin to define Cuba's "training" regimen. And the healthcare system comes in handy after one's testicles have been shocked for advocating democracy and free press or his health has deteriorated in Castro's prisons for trying to escape to the U.S. and liberty. I had one conversation where one tried to actually argue (and sincerely -- sadly) that Reagan was the butcher and Castro was the underdog leading the people. That someone would spout that absolute Bravo Sierra in 2003 is absolutely mind boggling -- almost to the level of a "flat-earther". Castro was, is, and will be evil absent a life changing conversion.