Posted by Nolan Dalla on Aug 15, 2012 in Blog |

Organized religion is on the decline, which means science and reason are on the rise. That’s positive news to those of us fatigued by the insufferable influences of religion on politics and society.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Aug 9, 2012 in Blog, Personal, Politics |

If Watergate didn’t happen, would America now have universal health care? Maybe — yes (thanks to Richard Nixon).
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Aug 8, 2012 in Blog, Featured, Personal, Politics |

Romanian Army forces during the 1989 Romanian Revolution
The Romanian Revolution took place in December 1989. I lived in Romania at the time and was assigned to the American Embassy in Bucharest.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Aug 6, 2012 in Blog, Politics |

LBJ’s “Great Society” was the perfect blueprint, but was mostly ignored by the Obama Administration.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Aug 1, 2012 in Blog, Personal, Travel |

This photo was taken in December 1989, just after the Romanian Revolution. I’m standing In front of the unfinished Casa Republicii (House of the Republic) in Central Bucharest a short time after the fall of Nicolae Ceausescu. Casa Republicii, then under construction, was to be the new government center for the Romanian Communist Party. Ceausescu oversaw its construction personally, which essentially bankrupted the nation. It still stands as the world’s largest office building. But he never saw it completed. He was shot by a firing squad on Christmas Day in 1989.
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