Author: Daniel Nunez
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Debt Disaster
Washington DC, the home of the American government that draws millions from home and abroad; history crackles and awakens at every corner, every brick brushed against by millions that have come and gone, imbued with the touch and hopes of millions. That feeling that permeates in every human sense does…
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Trump Syndrome
June 16, 2015, a day that will forever be remembered, when the fate of the country and the Republican Party would change. The image of Donald Trump making his down the escalator is the stuff of legend burned in the American psyche, shot into the political stratosphere like an exploding…
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The Earthquake
Rescuers walk across the fields of rubble, the apocalypse has come, and nothing has remained, collapsed for as far as the eyes can see. Death and destruction poisoned the air; the injured are carried away to safety, and for the unlucky, the light that didn’t pierce the dark veil that…
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Monday
Today is Monday, the first day of the week for many, where parents, and especially students, groggily fight their want to sleep in, the rush to get ready as parents yell out to kids to hurry up or be late. The drive to school, the morning breakfast, and the numerous…
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Embellishing Lies
“Democracy dies in Darkness” is the motto utilized by the Washington Post meant to signify that without an informed populace, democracy will die at the hand of tyrants; democracy does die in darkness, but I propose it also dies in deafening silence. The 2022 election reflected a sad state of…
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The Final Triumph Of The West
Today, 31 years ago, mankind received the greatest belated Christmas gift; the final triumph over the forces of communism that had terrorized the world for nearly 50 years passed into history, another empire that failed under the unfeeling and merciless touch of the ages and became yet another on the…
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Remember Tiananmen
“Give me liberty or give me death,” a timeless phrase uttered by Patrick Henry in protest against British colonial rule, a phrase that embodies the essence of all people who yearn to be free; we heard it this weekend in China. Protestors across the mainland, from Beijing to Shanghai, erupted…
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The House Conundrum
The shock of the 2022 midterm elections still rings out two weeks after they occurred; the unexpected massive Republican underperformance threw the entire political atmosphere into pure confusion and chaos. What was predicted to be a 230+ seat count for republicans according to various forecasters like FiveThirtyEight was whittled down…
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2022 Election “What Happened?”
America waited on bated breath for the results; months of political discourse and anticipation finally came to a head on November 8th. The red wave seemed imminent as the polls had suggested a red wave on the scale of 1994 or 2010 was coming: republicans up in critical races that…
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Hurricane Ian
Late last week, as families prepared for the weekend in a typical fashion, packing up shop, getting their beach clothes in order, children asked about what they would do that weekend; little did anyone know the devastation that would wreak havoc in the following days. A depression entering the open…