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“Ad Deum qui laitificat juventutem meum.” —  “I said strike that!” The two persons who  had been speaking in Latin stopped and turned. They looked around to see where the voice was coming from. Walking up the center aisle was a person dressed all in white. As he got closer they recognized him. It was…

Student loans, the bugaboo of the progressives is back again in the news. The other day I read an article telling how President Biden is mulling the idea of capping loan payments at 5% of income instead of the present 10%. It went through the ins and outs of the benefits of Biden’s plan and…

On a trip to New York City by plane at LaGuardia Airport I grabbed a cab to take me to my hotel in Manhattan. I entered into a conversation with the taxi driver who was from Haiti. I forget most of the details now. His anwer concerning how he arrived in the United States had…

It was not until I reread Ralph Ranalli’s book Deadly Alliance that I recalled the following statement by the federal prosecutors.  The statement was made in its appeal of Judge Mark Wolf’s 661 page decision handed down in 1989 concerning the FBI’s relationship with two of its informants, James “Whitey” Bulger and Steven Flemmi.  During the hearing…

Jesus “began to speak to the people this parable: A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it out to husbandmen: and he was abroad for a long time. And at the season he sent a servant to the husbandmen, that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard. Who, beating him, sent…

Anyone with a fair knowledge of Afghanistan should have known a few things prior to September 11, 2001. These were: that the Russians attempted to occupy the country and were unable to maintain their presence there; the group called the Taliban took control of the country; that group introduced a harsh form of Islamic law…