Michael Totten:

RULES OF JOURNALISM: CNN tells its reporters how to write about Fidel Castro. “Please note Fidel did bring social reforms to Cuba – namely free education and universal health care, and racial integration. [sic] in addition to being criticized for oppressing human rights and freedom of speech.” Was he just criticized for oppressing human rights and freedom of speech, or did he actually, you know, oppress human rights and freedom of speech?

John Derbyshire is right: “Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy.”

I often wonder if people really think about all the families suffering or murdered under totalitarian dictatorships. A friend was complaining that Bush had called North Korea, Iran and Iraq an "Axis of Evil." I wonder how he would feel about it if it was his wife and beloved children who had been murdered by Kim Jong Il. Take one sample of that grief and multiply it by two million, and you've got some idea of what's going on in such nations.

Love your neighbor as yourself.