by John Mancini | Sep 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
Like many of you, I tend a vegetable garden in the Italian tradition with the goal of preserving the harvest, not merely consuming it fresh. Planting seeds, transplanting seedlings, caging, staking, weeding, mulching, watering, and fertilizing even on a small...
by John Mancini | Aug 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
This week, a fanatic at the Kabul Airport chose to annihilate himself and 108 innocent people, including thirteen American military members, in the name of Allah “the Compassionate, the Merciful.” Akin to human sacrifice, suicide bombings have always appalled...
by Bill Dal Cerro | Aug 23, 2021 | Uncategorized
“Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita…” begins the opening line of L’Inferno, the first part of Dante Alighieri’s three-part literary epic, La Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy). It’s a line every Italian student can recite by...
by John Mancini | Aug 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
No one can deny that our current exit from Afghanistan is a national humiliation brought on by incredible political and military incompetence; and the chips haven’t finished falling where they may. But, there is a greater humiliation that few will discuss:...
by John Mancini | Aug 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is seeking immortality. At 80, this may be her last term in public office, her last chance to create a socialist republic the utopian Left dreams about: a cradle-to-grave federal safety net, couch-potato voting, endless Black...
by Bill Dal Cerro | Aug 9, 2021 | Uncategorized
An Italian named “Marcell Jacobs” shocked the world by winning the 100-meter race at the Tokyo Olympics, earning the title, “World’s Fastest Man.” But, just as in other historical examples, there is a woman in his background – in...
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