Buon Natale

If the holiday party at the residence of Ambassador Claudio and Laura Denise Bisogniero was meant to give a brief respite to a nation in distress, they succeeded. Great Italian Opera as well as traditional Chirstmas songs indeed lifted the spirits of guests, while outside the doors of Firenze House life was feeling more precarious just after the Oval Office address to the nation by President Barack Obama on worldwide threats to our nation’s security.

It didn’t hurt that former CIA and FBI cheif was in attendance as well as Supreme Court Justice Alito with his wife ...