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What Book Titles Can Tell You

What Book Titles Can Tell You

By: Daniel Nardini Every now and then I go to visit a bookstore in one of my favorite shopping malls. The bookstore, Dalton Books, has a lot of books in… Read more »

Democracy Alive and Entrenched

Democracy Alive and Entrenched

By: Daniel Nardini According to its annual report on democracy worldwide, Freedom House states that democracy has not overall advanced for the seventh consecutive year. What does this mean? It… Read more »

Respect the Wishes of the Falkland Islanders

Respect the Wishes of the Falkland Islanders

By: Daniel Nardini Last week, the people of the Falkland Islands voted by 99.8 percent to remain part of Great Britain and remain British citizens. Since almost all of the… Read more »

Ending a Bad Tradition

Ending a Bad Tradition

By: Daniel Nardini In a report by the World Health Organization, an arm of the United Nations, the practice of female genital mutilation has been on the decline in many… Read more »

The Iraq Reconstruction Aid Fiasco

The Iraq Reconstruction Aid Fiasco

By: Daniel Nardini Stuart Bowen, head inspector for the U.S. office overseeing Iraq’s reconstruction after the initial U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, stated that as much as $8 billion… Read more »

Jeb Bush: Moderation Out the Window

Jeb Bush: Moderation Out the Window

By: Daniel Nardini And this man may run for president in 2016? In his newly published book, Immigration Wars: Forging an American Solution, Jeb Bush is arguing that while undocumented… Read more »

The Patriot Movement Undaunted

The Patriot Movement Undaunted

By: Daniel Nardini Despite the reelection of U.S. President Barack Obama to a second term, there continues to be a growth in the number of what the Southern Poverty Law… Read more »

Chavez Gone

Chavez Gone

By: Daniel Nardini I guess miracles do happen. The revolutionary socialist and former Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez died of cancer last week. He has been succeeded by his Vice-president Nicolas… Read more »

A Regretable Anniversary for Immigration

A Regretable Anniversary for Immigration

By: Daniel Nardini Whatever we all may have thought about the former Immigration and Nauralization Service (INS), at least its main concern was immigration. It may have not been the… Read more »

Extending the Violence Against Women Act to the Undocumented

Extending the Violence Against Women Act to the Undocumented

By: Daniel Nardini This was something that should have been done some time ago. The U.S. House of Representatives finally voted to include undocumented women in the Violence Against Women… Read more »