By SILVIO CANTO, JR. We all have new year’s resolutions, from weight loss to reading more books. In my case, I decided to get out of the Twitter world. My decision was based on all the crazy stuff I had been reading on Twitter and the obvious censorship of conservative opinions. Now Twitter has deleted U.S. President Donald Trump’s account.
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By SILVIO CANTO, JR. Did Facebook or Twitter plan to kill the Hunter Biden story? Maybe so, but they accomplished the exact opposite. In other words, more and more people are talking about it and wondering why it was censored in the first place. This is from an article in the Daily Wire by Emily Zanotti: “Twitter’s crackdown on a
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By SILVIO CANTO, JR. For the first time in a century, there are no rigs searching for oil in Venezuela. Wells that once tapped the world’s largest crude reserves are now abandoned or left to flare toxic gases that cast an orange glow over depressed oil towns. Refineries that once processed oil for export are rusting hulks, leaking crude that
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By SILVIO CANTO, JR. So who got the National Basketball Association (NBA) to shut up and dribble? Answer: China in its most intimidating ways, as David Whitley wrote in the Orlando Sentinel: “Amid all the preaching, would someone please make a peep about a country that commits more human rights abuses in 10 minutes than the United States does in 10
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By SILVIO CANTO, JR. As my late father used to say, “la bola pica y se extiende,” or, loosely translated, “the ball hits the ground and keeps on rolling.” It’s actually an old Cuban baseball expression about a ball that lands between two outfielders and rolls to the wall. It’s used by Cubans when a situation just keeps on rolling
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