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Shark Tank stars Mark Cuban and Kevin O'Leary blasted Senator Bernie Sanders over his recent controversial remarks about the legacy of former Cuban leader Fidel Castro Tuesday.

The pair made their comments during an appearance on ABC News' The View. Neither of the wealthy reality show hosts seemed pleased with the prospect that Sanders could become president. Cuban criticized the state of the presidential election and politics in general.

"Oh, my goodness, it's like pick your choice of crazy," said Cuban. "It's unbelievable. It's like sitting down with kids and telling fairy tales and hoping something comes true. Politics used to be around facts, policies, intellectual discussions. Now, it's like who's team are you on? It's more about what story you want to fall behind."

Billionaire Cuban went on to say that the Sanders narrative was like "Robin Hood" because he wants to "take from the rich and give to the poor," while Trump was "robbin' from the hood" because he wants to "take from the rich and keep it for himself."

The panel then quickly turned to the topic of Sanders' Sunday appearance on 60 Minutes, where he controversially praised a literacy program initiated by Castro after taking power in Cuba. O'Leary believed the comments were a mistake on the part of Sanders.

"That's probably a mistake from a point of view of trying to get momentum in a state like Florida," said O'Leary. "I have a home in Miami, it's a very multicultural place. You don't talk about Fidel Castro, ever. They don't even like to talk about him and here's Bernie out here with 'yeah you know, this dictator isn't so horrible.' Yeah he's horrible."

Co-host Joy Behar pushed back on O'Leary's characterization of Sanders' remarks, saying "[Castro] did one good thing, he said."

O'Leary then claimed that Castro's literacy program was really a "re-education program," noting that "there's a big difference." The 1961 program did include overt political messaging that could be considered propaganda.

However, the program was also successful in increasing literacy rates in the country, regardless of politics. An estimated 23.6 percent of Cubans were illiterate in 1959, but only 3.9 percent could not read and write when the program ended two years later.

O'Leary has previously been a political candidate in his home country of Canada, where he ran an unsuccessful 2017 campaign to become the leader of the country's Conservative party. The businessman did not believe Sanders' current campaign was likely to be successful either.

"I think the chance that Bernie is going to turn this country into a communist country is zero, that's what I think," O'Leary said.

"Of course, he's not going to do that," countered Behar.

Although many critics of Sanders have labelled him a "communist," the senator has consistently denied being one. The label he does accept is that of democratic socialist, a political ideology that has some key differences from communism.

Newsweek reached out to the Sanders campaign for comment but did not receive a response in time for publication.

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Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee and Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa sat down for an interview with the Townhalls Katie Pavlich on the main stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference Thursday, where they equated socialismand communismandadmitted thathaving GOP women on the Senate Judiciary Committeeon which they both servewas long overdue.Both Ernst and Blackburn received that committee appointment last year, making them the first Republican women to serve on the Judiciary.

Ernst, who is up for reelection in 2020, recounted her brush with a socialist country by a personal story about going on an agriculture exchange trip to the Soviet Union while attending Iowa State University. The Soviet Union was communist.

I had the opportunity to go on an agriculture exchange to the Soviet Union. I lived on a collective farm, where my family had no running water, they were farming with horses and wagons on the collective, they had no refrigerator, they had no automobile. They shared one bicycle amongst all the family members, Ernst said. That was socialism, folks, living in poverty. If thats what were striving for as the United States, Im not having any of it.

Pavlich chimed into notethat the Soviet Union was communistbefore suggesting they were oneandthe same.

I think when you say Bernie Sanders went to honeymoon in the former Soviet Union, it wasnt a socialist country, it was a communist country, Pavlich said. Were not talking about some low-level tinge of socialism, were talking about tyranny, authoritarianism, and the opposite of freedom for individuals;its completely the opposite of what America was founded on.

Blackburn used the mention of Democratic presidential frontrunner Bernie Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont,to attack Sanders for applauding Cubas literacy program on 60 Minutes Sunday. He was probably excited that Castro was teaching them how to readThe Communist Manifesto,which was on his bedside tableit wasnt the Gideon Biblewhile he was honeymooning in the Soviet Union, Blackburn said.

Blackburn recalled hosting people from the old Sovietblocwhen she was in theTennesseestate Senate. A man from Estonia, she says, kissed the floor at the Grand Ole Opry. He said, You know, I would listen toRadio FreeEurope. And I would hear country music, and it would come from the Grand Ole Opry, she said,going on to suggestthat country music had inspired him to lead his country to freedom. Here was this individual who was standing up to lead his country to freedom as a newly minted, newly found leader. What had inspired him was music that he heard over the radio, she said.

At one point during their conversation, Ernst mentioned serving on the Senate Judiciary Committee with Blackburn. Both of us serve on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Were the first Republican women to serve on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Ernst said.

Ever, Blackburn interjected.

Ever. Long overdue, I would say, Ernst said.

Long overdue, but were at 192 judges, 192 federal judges, Blackburn said, referring to the number of Trump-appointed judges confirmed by the committee.

Blackburn and Ernst were appointed to the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2019, nearly three decades after Democratic Sen. Diane Feinstein became thefirst womanto serve on the Judiciary Committee. In 2018, Sen. Chuck Grassley, then the chairman ofJudiciary,explainedthe lack of Republican women on the committee by saying, Its a lot of work. Maybe they dont want to do it.

Ernst, who was elected to the Senate in 2014, once endorsed the notion of impeaching former President Barack Obama and suggested that states could nullify federal laws. She also has taken to peddling in conspiracy theories around Agenda 21, a 1993 non-binding U.N. treaty on sustainable development methods.

In 2013, Ernstpredictedthat Agenda 21 agents may start moving people off of their agricultural land and consolidating them into city centers and then telling them that you dont have property rights anymore. These are all things that the UN is behind, and its bad for the United States, bad for families here in the state of Iowa.

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On Wednesday morning on Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough dismissed a Princeton University professors explanation of Bernie Sanderss electoral appeal despite Sanderss open, lifelong admiration for socialist dictators.

Who is telling him to continue to defend Castro, to continue to defend the Sandinistas, to continue to defend the Soviets? I think he can check the [polling] crosstabs, its doesnt play well in Charleston, Scarborough said.

I think two things, responded panelist Eddie Glaude Jr., chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. One, I think its Bernie Sanders being true to his brand, that hes consistent, hes authentic, that there are particular segments of folks who fought the battles of the 1960s and held particular positions around the revolutions around the world particularly those revolutions that were about decolonization, right, fighting back against the West.

Note that Glaude is spewing the Communist Party line here about Communist-incited and -funded proxy conflicts during the Cold War. It not incidentally is the perspective shared by the 2.6 million-copy-selling A Peoples History of the United States, by Howard Zinn, which is common in U.S. classrooms despite compounded factual errors and rank political indoctrination.

While the U.S. government still considers Communist Party membership a disqualifying factor for U.S. citizenship, elites like Zinn and Glaude are cultivating its perspectives among the native-born. As Ill show below, theyve been successful.

So hes got that 2 percent on his side, alright, what does he do with the other 98 percent? Scarborough interjected.

The other 98 percent, what [Bernie] should do is say, what is it about he shouldnt talk about necessarily defending Castros betrayal of the Cuban revolution, or defending the brutality of the Sandinistas in some ways, what he should be talking about what he values, Glaude responded. What is it about the campaign for literacy that was valuable, what is it about the doctors thatCuba sent around the world to help in the CaribbeanWhat I value is that everybody should have a good education, everybody should have health care, everyone should be able to not only dream dreams but make those dreams a reality.'

The problem is, though, he has, he has an affinity and you look at the tapes, he has an affinity for these communist dictatorships, Scarborough replied.

Joe Scarborough needs to get out a little bit more. Hatred for the West is strong, and rising, especially among the young who are Sanderss most ardent supporters.

This is directly due to compounded generations of increasingly atrocious public education. The anti-America trend started at the university level, but has now trickled down to K-12 public schools through decades of university miseducation of those who teach in and lead those schools.

Not only have American public schools now failed for generations to bestow a knowledge of and respect for their own countrys magnificent political achievements and uniqueness, they have begun open political indoctrination that feeds this ignorance with lies. The United States is now host to large numbers of citizens who believe that theirs is an evil country, with no exposure to facts and viewpoints that contradict this opinion.

It has been long known that American education institutions are spectacular failures at teaching the rising generation about their birthright to self-governance. The famous 1983 report A Nation at Risk declared it a national crisis that In many schools, the time spent learning how to cook and drive counts as much toward a high school diploma as the time spent studying mathematics, English, chemistry, U.S. history, or biology. Things only got worse.

Today, 4 in 10 Americans who are younger than 39 disagree that the United States has a history we should be proud of, according to a 2019 poll by FLAG/YouGov. The poll also found that half of all Americans agree the United States is a sexist and racist country, including two-thirds of millennials. Millennials showed the lowest level of agreement with the statement, Im proud to be an American. Thirty-eight percent of younger Americans do not agree that America has a history that we should be proud of,' according to the poll.

2019s annual poll from the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation found that 37 percent of millennials think the United States is among the most unequal societies in the world. Despite their curriculas obsession with so-called multiculturalism and diversity, they clearly have zero sense of what life is like in most of the world, and how that contrasts with the United States singular freedoms and opportunities.

The VOC poll found that 70 percent of millenials said they are likely to vote for a socialist. It also found that 57% of Millennials (compared to 94% of the Silent Generation), believe the Declaration of Independence better guarantees freedom and inequality over the Communist Manifesto.

That poll also found that large percentages of younger Americans said communism was presented favorably in their elementary, middle, and high schools. The survey didnt ask about favorable presentations of socialism, but since socialism is regarded as nice communism, its likely favorable presentations of socialism in public education today are at much higher numbers.

It gets far scarier. Thirty-five percent of Americans ages 18 to 29 said in a 2019 Cato poll that sometimes violence against the rich is justified. Violence. In the poll, people who supported socialism of any age group were more likely to agree that sometimes violence against the rich is justified. This poll, like others, found that support for socialism is strongest among the young.

This support for socialism, communism, and political violence dovetails with mass ignorance about Americas unique political system of constitutionally secured natural rights and limited government. In the FLAG/YouGov poll, for example, more than 80 percent of Americans ages 39 and younger could not say what rights the First Amendment protects, and three-quarters or more couldnt name any authors of The Federalist Papers. Not incidentally, during its reign the Obama administration ended nationwide U.S. history and civics tests, which for several decades consistently showed similar civic ignorance.

This ignorance isnt remotely new. A decade ago, a survey of American adults found, according to NBC News:

over twice as many people know Paula Abdul was a judge on American Idol than know that the phrase government of the people, by the people, for the people comes from Lincolns Gettysburg Address.The study finds that only half of U.S. adults can name all three branches of government, and just 54% know that the power to declare war belongs to Congress.

The Northwest Ordinance, one of the four organic laws that created the United States, is the only one that mentions education. The very reason that the United States has public schools is to ensure the continued strength of our historic experiment in republican self-government under the rule of law. An ignorant people are incapable of governing themselves.

The Ordinance expresses the broad commitment of Americas founding fathers to broadening literacy and education for the key purpose of perpetuating our nation in fidelity to its original design. It states, Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.

Notice here how one of the nations supreme laws defines the civic purpose of education: to uphold religion, morality, and knowledge. If a nation maintains an education system that encourages vice, apostacy, and ignorance, how can it possibly justify either those institutions or the funds spent on them? And how can a nation whose education institutions use public resources to attack their own people, form of government, and history long expect to endure?

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NEW HAVEN The Woodland girls indoor track team put together its best showing in Class S, finishing sixth among 27 teams Feb. 14 at the Floyd Little Athletic Center.

The Hawks, winners of nine straight Naugatuck Valley League indoor titles, tallied 26 points. Bloomfield won the championship with 83 points.

The Hawks other top-ten showings at states were eighth-place finishes in 2019 and 2004.

We are very fortunate to have athletes who believe in each other and believe in themselves, Woodland girls head coach Jeff Lownds said. It filters down from our seniors to the rest of the team.

Jaden Young and Jasmine Michie led the way for the Hawks. Young placed second in the 1000 meters (3:03.58) and Michie took second in the shot put (38-02). Both athletes advanced to the State Open Feb. 22.

Jaden and Jasmine are very dedicated athletes, Lownds said. They always come into it with a positive attitude and support one another. But the reason for the success is they put the work in. There are no short cuts to success.

The 4400 relay team of Young, Jade Brennan, Sara Alessio and Rebecca Benoit also qualified for the State Open after placing third (4:21.65) at the Class S meet.

Young placed fifth in the 1000 (3:04.54) at the State Open. Michie finished seventh (37-07.5) in the shot put.

Woodland had several other girls finish in the top ten of events at the Class S meet. Emma Slavin placed fifth (5:23.03) in the 1600. Chloe Poulos took seventh (5:29.87) in the 1600 and eighth in the 3200 (12:22.77). Brennan placed sixth in the 600 (1:46.65) and Hailey Bernier finished sixth in pole vault (8-0).

We have a great staff to help them achieve that success, with Billy Ferrare putting a young boys team together, Mario Longo our distance coach, Deb Flaherty our jumping coach and Mike Sirowich our throwing coach, Lownds said. We are very fortunate to have a dedicated staff like this to help these kids do well.

The Woodland boys team, which had just four upperclassmen, had six athletes qualify for the Class M meet Feb. 15. The Hawks finished with no points out of the field of 30 teams. Tolland won the championship with 61 points.

Colin Slavin (27th, 1600) Eric Meade (24th, 55 hurdles), and the 4200 relay team of Sean Swanson, Ervin Owusu, Alex Farr and Luca Cambra represented the Hawks at the meet.

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PEMBROKE -- Matthew Ward had a goal and an assist within a 1:48 span of the third period Wednesday night to break a tie and lift the Norwell High boys hockey team to a 3-2 win over Hanover in the final of the George R. Gould Memorial Tournament at Hobomock Arena.

The Clippers, who faced Nantucket in Thursday's regular-season finale, improved to 15-3-3 with their 10th straight victory.

The Indians, who had won seven in a row, will enter the MIAA Div. 3 South tournament with a 16-3-1 record.

Ward, who fed linemate Harrison Reed for the go-ahead goal at 5:51 of the third, then took Mac Maiellano's pass to make it 3-1 on a breakaway at 7:39. Hanover pulled within 3-2 on Christian Sacco's with 56.4 seconds remaining, but Norwell junior goalie Sean Ennis (27 saves) shut the door after that.

Ethan Davis had two assists for Hanover, which got a first-period goal from Nathan DelPrete. Connor Therrier converted Luke Norton's setup 6:46 into the game to give Norwell a 1-0 lead.

Ward earned tournament MVP honors for Norwell; Ethan Davis was Hanover's MVP.

-- MIKE LOFTUS

In other high school action on Wednesday:

BOYS HOCKEY

Oliver Ames 5, Stoughton/Brockton 2: Cam Perron scored twice, and Matt Nosalek, Jake Gottwald and Hunter Costello added goals for OA (6-12-2). Joe McNulty and Colin Alessi scored for Stoughton/Brockton (4-17-1).

Whitman-Hanson 4, Greenfield 1: Jack Allen, Matt Solari (2 assists), Adam Solari and Chris Stoddard scored as the Panthers (15-5-1) concluded the regular season. Calvin Cooper and Ed Collins had strong games for W-H, and goalie Erik Dean earned the victory.

Duxbury 3, Austin Prep 0: Billy Mrowka, Drake Hadley and Will Nolan had goals, and Steve Pisani pitched his eighth shutout as the Green Dragons (12-6-4) concluded the regular season with a win at the Buddy Ferreira Classic in Falmouth.

North Quincy 5, Cambridge 2: James Hooley scored twice, and Mike Izzo, Johnny Lynch and Cormac Flaherty added goals for NQ.

Franklin 4, Weymouth 0: The Wildcats (6-11-2) lost in the first round of the Coach Melchiano Showdown.

Arlington 3, Braintree 2: The Wamps (11-6-3) lost to Arlington (16-1-4) on the road.

Foxboro 4, Abington 1: The Green Wave (10-6-3) lost in the final of the Dan Jordan Cup.

GIRLS HOCKEY

Norwell 5, Cohasset/Hanover 2: Casey Ward was named MVP of the Gould Tournament as the Clippers (18-2) won the title by beating the Skippers (9-6-3) in the final.

Pembroke 3, Scituate 0: Victoria McLaughlin, Megan Dorsey and Jade Sullivan scored as the Titans (8-10-2) qualified for the Div. 2 state tournament by winning the Gould Tournament consolation game. Kaleigh Murphy posted the shutout.

Canton 4, Walpole 0: Olivia Maffeo had a hat trick, and goalie Carolyn Durand posted her 13th shutout of the season for the Bulldogs (16-1-4).

Plymouth North/South 3, Bourne/Mashpee/Old Rochester/Wareham 2: The Plymouth co-op finished the regular season with a 9-8-4 record.

Weymouth 2, Marshfield 1: The Wildcats (4-17) closed the season with a win over the Rams.

BOYS BASKETBALL

Quincy 61, Milton 59: The host Presidents (4-16) upset the Wildcats (11-9) in the consolation game of the Vin Moscardelli Tournament. Andrew Lynch scored 21 points for Milton, and Daylon Trotman added 12. Catholic Memorial won the title, beating Malden Catholic, 69-52 in the final. CM's Kurtis Henderson of Brockton was named MVP and was joined on the all-tournament team by Ta'Quan Williams (CM), Tony Felder Jr. (MC), Drew Polsgrove (Quincy) and Trotman.

Whitman-Hanson 72, Mansfield 59: Nate Amado scored 23 points, and Ben Rice (15), Stevie Kelly (14) and Cole Levangie (13) also contributed as the visiting Panthers (20-2) won the championship game of the Mansfield Roundball tournament. Jonathan Zeidan and Colby Ahern led the defensive effort for W-H, which ends the regular season on an 18-game winning streak.

Oliver Ames 81, Southeastern Regional 27: Jay Spillane scored a career-high 32 points as host OA (11-11) qualified for the Div. 2 South playoffs by winning its regular-season finale. Adam Cann added 16 points for the Tigers, and Amari Brown chipped in with 13.

Cohasset 67, Atlantis Charter 41: Junior captain Liam Cunnie scored 27 points, and senior Luke Adams added 11 as the Skippers (15-5) finished the regular season with a road win.

Archbishop Williams 75, Walpole 58: Freshman Andre Mills Jr. (16 points), junior Will O'Malley (15 points) and senior Jesse DeAngelis (14 points) led the Bishops (11-9) to a home win.

Cristo Rey 66, Cardinal Spellman 57: Craig Faria (21 points) and Jakai Gall (14 points, 10 assists) starred for the Cardinals (10-10) in the road loss.

Archbishop Williams 75, Walpole 58: The Bishops (11-9) wrapped up the regular season with a home win.

Hingham 63, Norwell 57: The Harbormen (16-6) concluded the regular season with a road win over the Clippers (10-10).

Mashpee 61, Hull 58: The Pirates (8-12, 3-10) lost a South Shore League game at home.

GIRLS BASKETBALL

Rockland 68, Plymouth South 24: The Bulldogs (18-2) drained 11 3-pointers with six coming from tournament MVP Caroline Elie (18 points) to win the Shawn P. Cotter Tournament. Sophomore Julia Elie, who was named to the all-tournament team, scored 17 points. Freshman Maggie Elie also scored 2 points. Teja Andrews led Plymouth South (4-16) with 9 points in the loss. Andrews and junior captain Kat Sullivan were named to the all-tournament team.

Whitman-Hanson 57, Abington 31: Brittany Gacicia scored 17 points and was named to the all-tournament team as the Panthers (14-6) beat the host Green Wave (11-11) in the consolation game of the Shawn P. Cotter Tournament.

Hull 49, North Quincy 25: Lauren Anastos had 21 points, 7 rebounds and 3 steals as the host Pirates (4-16) won their season finale. Jackie Diemer added 5 points and 15 rebounds, and HayLee Londergan (10 points, 5 rebounds), Kayla Chenette (14 rebounds) and Lucy Peters (6 points, 2 steals) also starred.

Westport 51, Holbrook 33: Destiny Morales-Williams had 20 points, 7 rebounds and 8 steals, but the Bulldogs (14-6) ended the regular season with a road loss. Freshman Alyssa Slamin (10 points) and freshman Olivia Hingston (11 rebounds) also starred.

Norwell 63, Oliver Ames 51: The host Clippers (18-2) claimed the Norwell Invitational Tournament crown. Caroline Peper led OA (14-6) with 16 points, Caroline Flynn added 10, and Tori Haney had 9.

Newton North 59, Duxbury 46: Captain Sydney Ropes had 17 points and 10 rebounds, but the Dragons lost the consolation game of the Norwell Invitational Tournament. Seniors Sophie Thompson (11 points) and Caeliana Fitzpatrick (5 points) also contributed for Duxbury.

Archbishop Williams 49, Nauset 48: Ari Hay (8 points) had two big baskets in the fourth quarter as the Bishops (13-7) concluded the regular season with a road win. Jess Knight led Williams with 12 points.

Cohasset 55, Weymouth 41: Molly Greer scored 24 points as the Skippers (8-10) won their regular-season finale at Weymouth (5-17).

Thayer Academy 62, St. Paul's 35: Freshman Emma Dahl (Quincy) scored 18 points for the host Tigers (9-12) in the win.

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