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No Right to Personal Property

No Right to Personal Property

by Daniel Nardini Americans take for granted that no private or government agency can confiscate private or personal property unless so designated by a court order. And even then, an… Read more »

Wisconsin’s Proposed Right to Work Law

Wisconsin’s Proposed Right to Work Law

Flushed with the election victory of November 4th, the Republicans in Wisconsin are proposing a number of changes with laws that would affect working class Wisconsin residents. One of these… Read more »

Don’t Always Expect the Seventh Cavalry

Don’t Always Expect the Seventh Cavalry

by Daniel Nardini An effort to rescue an American photojournalist named Luke Somers, held hostage in Yemen, failed when his Al Qaeda captors shot him dead as U.S. special forces… Read more »

Trying to Change Dominican Republic’s Abortion Law (Somewhat)

Trying to Change Dominican Republic’s Abortion Law (Somewhat)

by Daniel Nardini Dominican Republic President Danilo Medina has called upon legislators to change parts of the Dominican Republic’s draconian abortion law. In a constitutional amendment passed in 2009, abortion… Read more »

Forging Ahead With the Nicaragua Canal

Forging Ahead With the Nicaragua Canal

by Daniel Nardini On December 22nd, work will officially commence on the building of the trans-oceanic canal in Nicaragua. The Nicaraguan government had been planning for years to build a… Read more »

Not Allowed to Vote for Life

Not Allowed to Vote for Life

by Daniel Nardini Just before we went grocery shopping, my wife and I went to the nearest polling station to vote. We wanted to vote for the people of our… Read more »

More Victims of the Drug War

More Victims of the Drug War

by Daniel Nardini As the investigation of 43 missing students from the Raul Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers’ College of Ayotzinapa continues, it is obvious that they were murdered by the… Read more »

Did the Muslims Discover America?

Did the Muslims Discover America?

by Daniel Nardini The most recent claim by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that Muslims reached the Americas 300 years before Christopher Columbus did is not a new assertion. Many… Read more »

Death of the Hanover Plant

Death of the Hanover Plant

by Daniel Nardini In the far northwest corner of Illinois lies a town called Hanover. Located 20 miles from Galena, part of the town has a huge factory complex that… Read more »

Virtual Latino Employment Collapse in Illinois

Virtual Latino Employment Collapse in Illinois

by Daniel Nardini Illinois still faces a higher unemployment rate than is true of its neighbors Indiana, Iowa and Wisconsin. But that in of itself does not tell the whole… Read more »