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An Old File Case
By: Daniel Nardini When my wife returned from school, she brought back a very big sort-of suitcase made of leather and cardboard. It had a sturdy handle and brass clasps…. Read more
Why do They Call It Amnesty?
By: Daniel Nardini Several agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are suing the federal government over the student deferment program that was recently initiated by U.S. President Barack Obama…. Read more
One Small Victory for the Undocumented
By: Daniel Nardini At a time when the undocumented are being treated as anything except human beings, there is one brought spot in an unlikely place. A man named Jesus… Read more
The Sensata Workers: The Truth Gets Sicker
By: Daniel Nardini Everywhere Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney goes, some of the Sensata Technologies workers from Freeport, Illinois, follow to protest. As I wrote before, the workers at Sensata… Read more
Embassy Sovereignty is Sovereignty
By: Daniel Nardini For over 300 years, the grounds of any embassy or consulate have been the sovereign territory of a country that designated place is occupied by. Because of… Read more
Fighting for a Bunch of Rocks
By: Daniel Nardini One of the sad things about ultra-nationalism is that those who espouse it are stuck in the past. Such is the case with Japan and South Korea… Read more
The Setting Up of a Civil Rights Unit in Alabama
By: Daniel Nardini The situation has gone so far out of hand that the federal government, at the insistence of the U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Jr., has set up… Read more
An Apology, But No Compensation?
By: Daniel Nardini From 1946 to 1948, the U.S. government conducted secret medical experiments on unsuspecting people in Guatemala. An estimated 1,300 were infected with venereal diseases in an effort… Read more
The So-called “Hoax of the 20th Century
By: Daniel Nardini There are some books I truly distaste reading. The Hoax of the 20th Century by Arthur Butz is one of them. An associate professor at Northwestern University,… Read more
Good Judgement, Bad Judgement
By: Daniel Nardini A federal judge ruled that Texas’ voter identification (ID) law is unconstitutional, and that it is discriminatory against racial and ethnic minorities as well as low-income families…. Read more »