By: Daniel Nardini With all of the talk about the U.S. national debt crisis, the three wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, and the Great Recession and the dismal jobs… Read more »

By: Daniel Nardini Every now and then a gem of a movie comes along. This is true about the film, “A Better Life” by director Chris Weitz. The film, of… Read more »

By: Daniel Nardini The U.S. National Institute on Mental Health released a study it had done on Mexican migrant workers. The study included 259 men and 295 women. It documented… Read more »

By: Daniel Nardini The small town of West Liberty, Iowa, may be like so many other small mid-western towns in that state. Except for one thing—52 percent of the town’s… Read more »

By: Daniel Nardini Most people in Cicero or anywhere in the Chicago area have never heard of Thomson, Illinois. In a way they should have. This was going to be… Read more »

By: Daniel Nardini In 2009, a video was shot of some large snake-like creature moving in the waters in the Gulf of Alaska. Problem, the video was blurry and you… Read more »

By: Daniel Nardini We know only too well the heinous acts of mass murder by an extreme rightwing nutcase in Norway named Anders Behring Breivik. He murdered 87 innocent people…. Read more »

By: Daniel Nardini Puerto Rican Governor Luis Fortuno had declared a five day mourning period for Ricardo Alegria. Ricardo Alegria was not only Puerto Rico’s leading expert on Taino culture… Read more »

By: Daniel Nardini These days most Americans are concerned, if they are concerned about anything “radical,” is about Al Qaeda and what has been defined as “radical Islam.” But long… Read more »

By: Daniel Nardini A long time ago, there was a place in Oakbrook called Castle of Toys. I used to buy toys there 40 years ago, and they had an… Read more »