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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…

 How can one not be struck by the following? The day after November’s election, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, the former Vatican ambassador to the United States, who was born in Varese in northern Italy to a wealthy family and was ordained a priest in 1968, wrote a “Letter to American Catholics and Americans of Good…

“The mob was fed lies. They were provoked by the president and other powerful people, and they tried to use fear and violence to stop a specific proceeding of the first branch of the federal government which they did not like.” Thus spoke the leaders of the Senate in the United States Congress Mitch McConnell…

One thing I found ironic is the suggestion that the Republicans continue to be the party of Lincoln, representing the general ideas about equal rights for our Black citizens; and that the Democrats represent the party of Jim Crow, the Ku Klux Klan, and others that worked to suppress Black rights. I know that is…