Today I am sharing 2 articles from The Washington Times. The 1st article addresses former President Obama’s duplicity, and the 2nd article concerns the ultimate demise of Cuba. Enjoy!
Obama and the art of projection
BY: Everett Piper, The Washington Times (May 17, 2026).
In a recent interview with Stephen Colbert, former President Barack Obama said, “I’m worried about the Republican Party … I’d love a loyal opposition. I’d love a Republican Party that is conservative in some ways, that didn’t agree with me on a whole bunch of stuff but believed in [the] rule of law, judicial independence and empirical evidence and science. … There has been a Republican Party like that in the past, and I want to see that return.”
Thus, Mr. Obama once again proved to be the master of what Sigmund Freud called “psychological projection.”
Projection is the art of attributing your own negative qualities, thoughts and actions to others. In layman’s terms, it is the skill of the pot calling the kettle black, the tactic of accusing someone else of what you yourself are guilty of doing.
Projection is akin to looking out the window when you should be looking in the mirror. It is a manipulative tactic of blaming other people for your own sins. At its core, projection is the quintessential poster child of the self-serving lie.
Let’s take the former president’s above statement and dissect it point by point.
Mr. Obama suggests that it is Republicans who presently stand against the rule of law and that the Democrats represent the opposite. Is this true? Any honest reading of the news proves it is not.
Who can deny that it is the Democrats who have encouraged massive illegal immigration with all its compounding effects of welfare fraud, gang violence and general anarchy? Who can pretend that it is not the Democrats who have flooded the streets of Seattle, Portland and Los Angeles with illicit drugs, vagrancy and homeless encampments?
Who can deny that it is the Democrats who have fomented civil unrest and violence in our nation’s cities from coast to coast?
Does our former president honestly think we do not see the obvious: that it is he and other Democrats who have tacitly encouraged the burning and looting of businesses in Kenosha, Wisconsin, St. Louis and the District of Columbia? That it is his party that has campaigned to defund the police and stop paying for law enforcement in the very cities that his “useful idiots” are literally burning to the ground?
Yet Mr. Obama sits smugly commiserating with Mr. Colbert about the Republicans, who are supposedly at fault for the anarchy that the Democrats themselves inflame. This is Gaslighting 101.
Next, we have Mr. Obama’s claim that he wants an opposition party that believes in judicial independence. Really? If an independent judiciary is what you want, then why is your party now openly calling for upending the Supreme Court from its current configuration and replacing it with a packed court that will do your political bidding?
If judicial independence is your ideal, then why are you trying to throw the judicial branch of the American government into constitutional chaos simply because you do not like the rulings of the somewhat “conservative” opposition that you say you want and respect?
Does Mr. Obama think we do not see that he is guilty of advocating for the very judicial impropriety that he pretends to condemn? Some might call this throwing stones while sitting in a glass house. Some might call it a big lie. Some might call it textbook projection.
Then we have Mr. Obama’s pedantic preaching that he and his party are the ones who believe in science while Republicans don’t. Is there any truth to this?
Last I knew, it is the Democrats who keep telling us that they do not know what a woman is, and it is the Democrats who keep saying that boys are girls and girls are boys. Unless I missed the memo, it is the Democrats who keep saying that babies are not human beings and that executing them at their most innocent stage in life is somehow a moral good.
Mr. Obama keeps prattling on about “following the science” when he and his party show us time and again that they do not even believe in biology, genetics, the basics of physiology, or the ontological dignity of what it means to be human.
There was a time when Mr. Obama and many within his political party told us they were Christians and governed accordingly. If he and any of the rest of them still make such claims, then maybe they would do well to go back and read the book that their faith elevates above all others. Maybe they should start with these words from the Apostle Paul: “In passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things.” (Romans 2:1)
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My time in Cuba helped me understand the island’s suffering
Instead of talking to communists, we should demand ‘Cuba libre!’
BY: Don Feder, The Washington Times (May 17, 2026)
In a social media post last week, President Trump called Cuba a “failed country and only heading in one direction — down.” Then he added, “Cuba is asking for help, and we are going to talk!!!!”
The only thing Washington and Havana have to talk about is how soon the communists can pack their bags and leave.
I would like to volunteer to be part of the American negotiating team.
I feel a special connection to Cuba. I was there for a week as a journalist in 1998. What I experienced left a lasting impression. The situation was wretched when I was there. It is worse now.
Without Venezuelan oil, there are rolling blackouts. Hunger is rampant. In 2025, the average Cuban worker earned the equivalent of $16 a month. Garbage piles up in the streets.
The regime blames the United States for choking off its fuel supply. Good for us.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was asked whether he believes Cuba is a threat to our national security. Silly question.
Cuba has been a thorn in our side since Fidel Castro and his gang seized power in 1959. It has been allied with the worst of the worst: China, Russia, Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah. As Venezuela moved to Marxism, Cuba sent secret police to Caracas to instruct its goons in the instruments of repression.
Climate kook Greta Thunberg took time out from campaigning for Hamas to denounce the U.S. fuel blockade as “a brutal act of collective punishment.” Yet the suffering of the Cuban people is a result of the merciless regime that rules them, not the U.S. blockade.
Food and medicine are exempt. Most of the chicken in Cuba comes from Mississippi and Alabama.
Pre-Castro, Cubans had the third-highest caloric intake in Latin America. Today, the average Cuban gets half a pound of chicken and 10 to 12 eggs every 10 days.
Hardly a night goes by without a demonstration somewhere on the island. On March 13, a march through the streets of the regional capital of Moron ended with a mob storming the Communist Party headquarters.
In Cuba, the regime has all the guns, which makes open revolt impossible. It operates a string of political prisons where 1,200 are currently incarcerated. That is the equivalent of 40,000 political prisoners in the U.S.
On my first day in Havana, I was walking along the Malecon by the sea when I struck up a conversation with a gentleman who seemed well-informed. I invited him to come back to my hotel for lunch. He politely declined. Ordinary Cubans are not allowed to enter tourist hotels. It is one of the many contradictions of Cuban communism. Power to the people — but not access to the hotels they are forced to build.
The doorman at my hotel told me he was a civil engineer. He could earn $20 a month practicing his profession or $20 a day in tips. Communism turns engineers into doormen.
My most poignant encounter was on my last night in Havana. I met a young man who was selling postcards. He came to the capital to study physics but then decided there was not much of a future in that or anything else in Cuba.
When he heard me speaking English, he approached me. “You’re an American? For God’s sake, help me to get out of here! I don’t want to end up like them.” He pointed with his chin to older Cubans shuffling by on the street. I gave him $20 and the name of a contact who might have been able to help. I hope he made it out.
I think of him and others I met in Cuba as the island wakes from a 67-year-old nightmare.
The Miami-based Center for a Free Cuba is calling for the release of all political prisoners, bringing in international human rights monitors and holding free and fair elections for a popular government.
Cuba has been part of our consciousness for as long as I can recall: the Castro revolution, the Bay of Pigs invasion, the Cuban missile crisis, the Mariel boat lift and the flight of more than 1 million Cubans, including the parents of Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Cuba’s rulers will never give up on communism any more than the ayatollahs will give up on radical Islam.
Talk is cheap. The island’s future lies in two words: Cuba libre.
GFK
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