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Spain Trying to Improve Image in Latin America

Spain Trying to Improve Image in Latin America

By: Daniel Nardini When many people in Latin America think of Spain, they think of the country as the historical enemy that ruled and oppressed their ancestors. During the wars… Read more »

The Liberty Legal Foundation

The Liberty Legal Foundation

By: Daniel Nardini One name I have been seeing pop out in a number of publications is the Liberty Legal Foundation. Who are they? They are an ultra-conservative (read: right… Read more »

Wisconsin: Still the Divided State

Wisconsin: Still the Divided State

By: Daniel Nardini During the recall vote, I decided not to bother commenting on what might happen or on what a victory or defeat for Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker might… Read more »

The Seven Week 100 Degree Days

The Seven Week 100 Degree Days

By: Daniel Nardini For the last seven days, much of the U.S. Midwest and Northeast were experiencing 100 plus degree weather. So far, this has proven to be the hottest… Read more »

News Writer in Trouble

News Writer in Trouble

By: Daniel Nardini Journalist Mario Guevara, a writer for the State of Georgia’s largest Spanish language newspaper, has been writing about immigration issues and those poor unfortunates caught up in… Read more »

When General Grant Tried to Expel the Jews

When General Grant Tried to Expel the Jews

By: Daniel Nardini It is one of the most unusual events in U.S. history. During the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865), Union General Ulysses S. Grant was concerned about how smugglers… Read more »

An ACLU Public Service Announcement

An ACLU Public Service Announcement

By: Daniel Nardini Since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the State of Arizona does have the right to ask for legal papers for those stopped for any crime on… Read more »

What is Agenda 21?

What is Agenda 21?

By: Daniel Nardini The John Birch Society, an extreme rightwing organization, has been talking about a part of a United Nations’ program called Agenda 21. What is Agenda 21? All… Read more »

The Other Ugly Side of the Drug War

The Other Ugly Side of the Drug War

By: Daniel Nardini The last of the Reyes family, the matriarch of the family, Sara Salazar de Reyes, left her native village in the Juarez Valley near Ciudad Juarez for… Read more »

Immigrant Heaven

Immigrant Heaven

By: Daniel Nardini There are a growing number of towns and cities across this great land of ours that are seeing their people leave. With no jobs around, higher taxes… Read more »