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Puerto Rico’s English Language Conversion

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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 »

Mexican Cinema Making a Return?

Mexican Cinema Making a Return?

By: Daniel Nardini Everyone considers the 1940’s and 1950’s as the golden age of Mexican cinema. Mexican movies were not just playing and being enjoyed in Mexico but in the… Read more »