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Secure Communities Eroding
By Daniel Nardini The State of Massachusetts is set to pass a state law that will end all cooperation between it and the federal government in the U.S. government’s Secure… Read more
Never Give Up U.S. Citizenship!
By Daniel Nardini I find the famous Puerto Rican singer and one of the members of the reggaeton group Calle 13, Rene Perez, a hard person to understand. In an… Read more
Off to Vietnam
By Daniel Nardini For all my readers, all those of you who possess iphones (and that is just about everybody), the chances are they may be Samsung Galaxies. More than… Read more
The Cuban Jewish Community in Solidarity with Alan Gross
By Daniel Nardini Despite the type of government the Cuban people live under, there are those ready and willing to risk the wrath of their own government for a simple… Read more
About Traveling to North Korea*
By Daniel Nardini I feel especially sorry for the family of former Korean War veteran Merrill E. Newman. I am thoroughly convinced that he said something that he should not… Read more
Secession Sentiment?
By Daniel Nardini I remember some downstate Illinois legislators (who shall remain nameless) proposing that Chicago be made a “separate state” and allowed to be separated from the rest of… Read more
More Trouble in Toyland
By Daniel Nardini In a report put out by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, an independent consumer group, the number of recalls for toys is down compared to 2012…. Read more
Oscar Lopez, Political Prisoner?
By Daniel Nardini I find it hard to understand how the term “political prisoner” can be used for people who were found guilty of committing acts that would make them… Read more
The Unlucky Fisherman
By Daniel Nardini This story reminds me of too many I had personally covered in Mexico, and why many Mexicans were eventually forced to leave their country. The story of… Read more
There are Lies, and There are Government Statistics
By Daniel Nardini Long ago, we had a saying in college, “there are lies, there are damned lies, and then there are statistics.” What this meant was that statistics can… Read more »