by John Mancini | Oct 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
The city of Los Angeles is in the middle of a mayoral election pitting two Democrats against each other. One candidate is a Black woman, her opponent is a White man – or is he? During a televised debate last week, the moderator summed up the contest as between...
by Rosario Iaconis | Oct 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
The never-ending battle over Columbus Day brings to mind the world’s second oldest profession. As Harry S. Truman noted: “My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there’s hardly any difference.”...
by Bill Dal Cerro | Oct 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
Part Two of Season Two of CNN’s Searching for Italy began on Sunday, October 9th, the day before Columbus Day. And the first episode was auspicious: the series’ star and tour guide, actor Stanley Tucci, visited the ancestral region of both sets of his...
by John Mancini | Oct 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
Christopher Columbus was a deluded man – thank God! He convinced himself that he could island-hop his way to Asia. And many fellow Italians provided the maps that fed his delusion. It started with his own experience as a young sailor venturing out into the...
by John Mancini | Oct 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
Think America has a problem with Mexican drug cartels, Chinese fentanyl, random street violence, computer hacking, and scam artists fleecing the feds for billions? Think again. The NYTimes recently did half a page on “Nine Charged in Scheme Tied to Mafia...
by Bill Dal Cerro | Oct 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
In an era allegedly dedicated to “wokeness” – that is, being attuned to how an American’s race, religion, ethnicity, or sexuality are portrayed in the media – it’s truly astonishing how Americans of Italian heritage continue to slip under the...
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