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The Catholic Church of which I am a member has a list of what is permissible and what is forbidden In a book called the Catechism. It teaches that if you do not follow the what is permissible but slip into the land that is forbidden then you have committed a sin.   There are…

Alexie  Nalvany might be dead by the time you read this.  You know who he is of course. Let me remind those of you who don’t. He leads the opposition against Putin. It started out as few people but grew  and grew. He wanted to run against Putin in Russia’s last election. He was not…

I am again reading my introduction to my book tentatively titled, “Boston Gangster Wars. The 100 Gangster Murders Between 1956 and 1976″ I hope it to be ready for publication soon. In the introduction I say that Thomas Sperrazza once said something to the effect that after you commit your first murder the rest are easy….

This is a poem my mother would recited to me. She was the only person among her nine siblings who attended college shown here in her college photograph. Under her name was written: “And heaven’s soft azure in her eye is seen.” It was written about her: “Had she lived when knighthood was in flower we…

Black’s Law Dictionary defined bail as: “v. To procure the release of a person from legal custody, by undertaking that he shall appear at the time and place designated and submit himself to the jurisdiction and judgment of the court.” A court speaking tells us it is : “To procure release of one charged with an offense…

The slogan making America great again made me think there was a time in the past when it was great unlike the year when the slogan was being bandied about which was 2016. When was that I wondered? I tried to figure out what year or group of years were the time we were great….