For Nicola Gilardi, owner of Gilardi's Restaurant, Christmas is a wonderful time of the year, evoking memories made both here in the U.S. and at his home, in Italy. “Christmas is always with the whole family, everybody gets together. We try to make it spiritual, not only about the gifts, not only materialistic. The spiritual part of Christmas is fading out.”

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Coke used to have a commercial differentiating its taste from Pepsi by calling itself – “the Real Thing." Unfortunately, when I watch today’s critical debates over public policy I rarely, if ever, see “the Real Thing.”
Break out the disco ball and head to the nightclubs this holiday season because the ‘80s styles are back with a vengeance. A touch of ‘80s nostalgia is the driving force for this year’s winter fashion trends. Structured jackets and miniskirts are being seen on all of the runways along with the neo-grunge look from the early ‘90s.
“If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls would be necessary. In fashioning a government that is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this:
The United States of America has fallen and many fear its inability to pull itself back up. Finally the USA, which has been perched for some time on the wall teetering between socialism and capitalism has now fallen, some say, irreparably on the cold hard ground of socialism. Who is going to put her back together again?







