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Puerto Rico’s English Language Conversion
By: Daniel Nardini According to Puerto Rico’s Secretary of Education, Edward Moreno Alonso, English will be used as the sole language of instruction in 31 public schools starting this August…. Read more
OAS: A Dying Dinosaur?
By: Daniel Nardini Last week the governments of Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua and Ecuador announced that they are leaving the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal. The reason they gave was the same—the… Read more
Mission Improbable
By: Daniel Nardini Conspiracy theories abound around the assassination of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy. Here is one more. Recently, the author of the book Castro’s Secrets: The CIA… Read more
Slipping Deeper Into the Police State
By: Daniel Nardini In an effort to stop what the Venezuelan government calls a crime wave gone out of control, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has announced a complete ban on… Read more
The STARS Act
By: Daniel Nardini This piece of legislation is the Republican Party’s answer to the DREAM Act. This legislation, sponsored by U.S. House Representative David Rivera (Republican-Florida), is aimed at the… Read more
Florida Voter Purge
By: Daniel Nardini The Florida Department of State, in an effort to “purge” non-citizens on the voter lists, issued directives to local pollsters of people who should not be allowed… Read more
Let Them Eat Unemployment Checks
By: Daniel Nardini Well, the U.S. Congress passed yet another bill that would allow for unemployment checks to go through. That sounds good—think of all the people who need the… Read more
Leakey’s Leap of Faith
By: Daniel Nardini In a recent interview, the famous archeologist Richard Leakey said that eventually people will have to accept the evidence that all humans descended from remote human-like creatures… Read more
Happy Days in Eastern Germany?
By: Daniel Nardini I have a close friend named Constanze. She was originally born and raised in what used to be the German Democratic Republic (also known as East Germany)…. Read more
The Beautiful World of the Clockmaker
By: Daniel Nardini In a town not far from where I live, there is an old man who repairs and sells old clocks. He used to be a clockmaker himself…. Read more »