by John Mancini | May 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
There are many quotes in the Bible that guide us but there is one that challenges us. It was uttered by the Roman perfect of Judea Pontius Pilate, with Jesus standing before him: “What is truth?” In the New Testament according to John (18:33-38) Pilate and...
by Bill Dal Cerro | May 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
On the May 8th episode of CNN’s Searching for Italy, actor Stanley Tucci and his crew visited one of his favorite parts of Italy: Piedmont. Unlike past episodes, this one had a bit more history than usual. It also managed to capture that region’s misty, autumnal...
by John Mancini | May 8, 2022 | Uncategorized
Appropriate for Mother’s Day is the old quip, “Well, at least your mother loves you!” That might be the way Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito rationalized his overnight descent into Hell last week when his draft opinion on abortion rights was outed by some...
by Bill Dal Cerro | May 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
Season Two of CNN’s “Searching for Italy” series with Stanley Tucci began on Sunday, May 1st. The show was scheduled two months earlier but was understandably interrupted by the tragic war in Ukraine. No matter. This only postponed the inevitable:...
by John Mancini | May 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
In our pantheon of heroes, Americans of Italian stock can look back some 3,000 years to a people who struggled to reconcile human existence with Nature. That struggle encompassed the many goals of revealing the secrets Nature, of controlling Nature, and of...
by John Mancini | Apr 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
President Eisenhower, a former general, warned us about the Military-Industrial Complex. But, the last few years has given us another danger: the Corporate-Woke Complex – a multilateral movement to undermine democracy and subvert Western culture. Standing in...
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