by John Mancini | Jun 11, 2023 | Uncategorized
Why didn’t Italy stay neutral in 1940? In hindsight it seemed like the smartest course. Nevertheless, on June 10th of that year, Italy threw in its lot with its Axis partner. Its ultimate strategic goal: access to the world’s oceans. Benito Mussolini...
by Bill Dal Cerro | Jun 7, 2023 | Uncategorized
Having recently visited Italy again for the first time since 2019 (from April 19th-May 4th), I decided to engage in that most clichéd of tourist activities: I took a cooking class. My chef, Giuseppe, was a Lucca native who does them out of his house for tourists. On...
by John Mancini | Jun 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
Political Enemy #1 in America today is presidential candidate Ron DeSantis. Both Donald Trump and the liberal media want to take him out pronto. But Ron’s worst enemy appears to be the Black Establishment. Anticipating Ron’s entry into the presidential...
by Bill Dal Cerro | May 29, 2023 | Uncategorized
In my last blog, I wrote about the new documentary on baseball icon Yogi Berra (It Ain’t Over), which I highly recommended. (Incidentally, it’s playing exclusively in theaters right now. As a film purist, I urge people to make the effort to see it there....
by John Mancini | May 28, 2023 | Uncategorized
An estimated 750,000 Americans on both sides died during the Civil War. A fratricidal war that ended the “original sin” of slavery and gave the North mastery of the nation. For the next 150 years the United States pursued the goals of a more...
by Rosario Iaconis | May 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
Some 36,000 are left homeless as six months of rain falls in 36 hours. When it comes to nation-states, the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away. And then there’s Giorgia Meloni’s Italy. Following a successful G-7 summit at Hiroshima, wherein the Italian prime minister...
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