Author: mtc9393

There was an FBI agent in Chicago who was around in the 1950s to the 1970s who wrote several books about his experience as an FBI special agent. He told how much he loved the job. But it was not like that all the time. When he first went in he began to hate it…

President Joseph Biden announced that his first foreign trip will be to Saudi Arabia. Ooops! That wasn’t Biden, it was Trump who did that. President Joe Biden announce that he had a meeting schedule with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the White House.  President Biden shook hands with Russia’s ambassador to America, Sergey Kislyak….

It was a while ago when I was in conversation with a guy I was friendly with over lunch. I really forget who it was sometimes thinking it was another guy but that other guy would not have been in the country where I remember the conversation took place. I do recall he was a…

I have written about this in the past. It is the FBI’s penchant for protecting top level criminals in exchange for those criminals giving it  information about others. It is an absurd program that was created by J. Edgar Hoover back in the 1960s when he got embarrassed by the Mafia. His first instinct was…

My apologies to the Washington Post and 2014 Pulitzer Price winner Ed Saslow a reporter for the Post from whom much of this post will be taken. He published and interview he had with 88-year-old Stanley Plotkin. Vijay B. Samant, President and CEO of Vical, Inc. said this: “Dr. Plotkin has been a tireless advocate for…

A friend called me the other day. “Hey, Matty, did you get your vaccine shot?” I said no I’m waiting. “I’ve got mine a couple of weeks ago and next week I’ll get my second shot.”  It turns out he was registered with the VA. He received a call from the VA telling him he…