This headline from Thursday’s Miami Herald is priceless: “Cuba examining socialism for flaws,” and check out the subhead:

“The Cuban government has launched a study with a surprising focus: What about socialism causes people to steal?”

There’s a real head scratcher, huh? Gee, guys, do you think it could be the fact that Hollywood’s favorite commie dictator has been stealing the work product, not to mention the freedom, of every soul unfortunate enough to be imprisoned in that hellhole of a country?

Speaking of El Commandante, which of the following do you suppose causes his admiring friends like Steven Spielberg and Oliver Stone more discomfort: (a) the treatment of average citizens in Cuba, including those thrown in tiny dirt-floored, vermin-infested cells for the crime of reading certain books, writing something critical of the government or attempting to leave (b) the head choppers living on our dime at Gitmo, eating orange-glazed chicken and rice pilaf, and reading U.S. government issued Korans? There’s another real mystery.

The good news for Barbara Walters, Spielberg, Stone, Danny Glover and Harry Belafonte is that according to the latest reports, Fidel Castro is not dead after all. State television showed him reading a newspaper aloud, which hardly seems necessary. The liberals are always telling us that, notwithstanding the food shortages, censorship, and executions, all of which suggest a really high misery index by my way of thinking, Cuba’s a socialist paradise because it has such a high literacy rate.

I can’t wait to read the results of the Cuban government’s study. I suspect that they will discover that socialism isn’t the problem after all, and that George W. Bush causes Cubans to steal.

Cuba, Steven Spielberg, Oliver Stone, Gitmo, Korans, Barbara Walters, Danny Glover, Harry Belafonte, Fidel Castro, literacy, George W. Bush   

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