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I was rereading Deadly Alliance by Ralph Ranalli – sub titled “The  shocking true story of the FBI’s Thirty-Year Bargain With Evil” – that bargain was the creation of the Top Echelon Informant program. Ranalli quoted Former FBI Agent John Connolly who described it as: “You have to understand the business that I was in. I was…

I suppose one has to be compos mentis  to offer an apology. Certainly a a person not of sound mind would be unable to do so. I wonder this because lately the manner in which I have gone about making decisions about this blog has had me questioning my mental state. Why it was only…

I wish you all a happy 4th of July. It certainly is an unusual one – actually the first in our history – where one man claims he is the rightful president and that the one holding the office of president cheated him out of it.      

[ For those interested there is a post today on Gangsters Gambits.] Is this true? Is abortion the one great sin in the American Catholic Church? When Jesus said the way to heaven was to love God and love your neighbor did he forget to add in anything about abortion? When Moses came down from…

I find that lately my time to spend writing has been very limited. With normal household duties along with confronting some clothes moths which changed into straightening out the many things I have accumulated over the years time is limited. I am often called back to the blog when there is something in the air…

I was in the process of having one site for everything but gangster business and one site (blog) dealing with gangsters. So I changed the name of this site to “A Moderate in A Strange Land.” I spoke to someone today and he was confused because all of a sudden he saw a new site…