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Unable to Marry the One You Love

Unable to Marry the One You Love

By: Daniel Nardini One day you meet that someone special (in this case I am talking about a man and a woman). You get to know them, you live with… Read more »

Deconstructing the Immigration Truth

Deconstructing the Immigration Truth

By: Daniel Nardini Recently I viewed a video put out by the John Birch Society. The video, “Trespassing Allowed,” dealt with the issue of immigration and the undocumented (“trespassing” in… Read more »

Georgia’s Harvest of Sorrow

Georgia’s Harvest of Sorrow

By: Daniel Nardini Be prepared to pay more for blueberries and Vidalia onions. They will cost more come 2012. Georgia’s state immigration law is now taking its toll in an… Read more »

The Lone Wolf?

The Lone Wolf?

By: Daniel Nardini Anders Behring Breivig, the man who murdered 77 people in Norway, will soon go to trial for his mass killings. If convicted he could face life imprisonment…. Read more »

The Fifth Degree for Food Stamps

The Fifth Degree for Food Stamps

By: Daniel Nardini New York City Council member Christine C. Quinn has called for an ordinance to be passed tracking the costs of fingerprinting those who apply for food stamps…. Read more »

The War-mongering President

The War-mongering President

By: Daniel Nardini Just as the civil war in Libya is sort-of finished (well, not really), now U.S. President Barack Obama is putting 100 “advisers” into Uganda to “help” in… Read more »

Gutting Medicaid for Latinos

Gutting Medicaid for Latinos

By: Daniel Nardini While the United States is in the middle of two wars and getting involved in two conflicts (Libya and Uganda), the U.S. Congress is considering cutting funding… Read more »

Tania Leon

Tania Leon

By: Daniel Nardini [We continue our Hispanic Heritage Month series on Latino composers with the Cuban American composer Tania Leon] Tania Leon is a Cuban American composer, conductor and lecturer…. Read more »

Forbidden Hawaiian Island

Forbidden Hawaiian Island

By: Daniel Nardini Imagine a place anywhere in the United States where there are no computers (certainly no Internet), no TVs, no radios, no cars, no trains, no electricity, no… Read more »

Finding the Sacred Kings of Tenochtitlan

Finding the Sacred Kings of Tenochtitlan

By: Daniel Nardini Recently archeologists in Mexico City have unearthed a stone ceremonial platform that was used to cremate the dead kings of the Aztec Empire. The sacred platform was… Read more »