What's going on?

  I know that many of you have heard about MS-13.  They are a violent gang, with their origins in Central America.  Increasingly, they have populated American cities to wreak havoc here, doing whatever they wish with hardly any consequences.  But all of that has changed recently, because now they have finally been labeled as a terrorist organization and there are more resources and laws that can get them arrested for longer times and keep them off the streets where they can't hurt anyone.  They are in many American cities, but what I didn't realize was that they have a large presence here in Virginia.  Mostly northern Virginia and Maryland.  But they also have a large presence on Long Island, New York, which was where I grew up.   When I was a child, my step-father was Italian, his parents from Sicily. One day we were in the grocery store, and a man kept calling out to him, and my step-father was ignoring him.  I thought he couldn't hear...

Many people hear about the Federal Reserve.  If you are like me, you might have thought that it was the bank of the United States.  I thought it was attached to the United States government, or a part of the United States.  I was wrong.  It is actually a private bank, owned by private citizens. In the early 1900's the most influential families in the United States talked about starting a central bank.  Those families were: The Rockefellers, JP Morgan, The Rothchilds, Benjamin Guggenheim, Isadore Strauss, and John Astor.  There were three people totally against it, Benjamin Guggeneheim, Isadore Strauss, and John Astor.  They did not think it would be good for the American people to have one central bank.  But the others knew that if they began a central bank, they could control everything.   Think about it, they print all the money.  They can print as much or as little as they want.  Then, when the United States needs more money...