Author: mtc9393

I don’t know how many remember when it was first revealed in articles written by David Boeri that Father Robert Drinan, S.J. had tried to help Whitey Bulger straighten out his life. He was at the time a twenty-something inmate serving his first hitch in federal prison for some robberies he committed. Drinan, a Catholic…

It was from Joseph Goebbels the Boston Globe learned it tactics. The Jewish Virtual Library quotes him as saying: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or…

Our nation has faced peril before. The Revolutionary War gave us the nation; the Civil War kept the Union together; the ongoing wars against the Native American tribes and the Mexican government allowed us to claim all the lands between the two oceans as part of our Manifest Destiny; World War I showed our willingness…

It has been a long time coming. We can finally get a mid-term report card on the Trump. The vote will tell a lot about America. I really can’t believe there are many who are happy with Trump. As a Democrat I’m hoping there will be good news which.means a Democrat takeover of the House. …

Over the last week or so I’ve received three of those big 8 ½ by 11 post cards asking that I “re-elect Vinny deMacedo.” One card had photos of various elected town officials who were supporting him with each one being quoted saying something nice about him. I looked to see what party he belonged…

Ali, the great Ali Mohammed brought rope-a-dope into our language. It is defined as “relating to or being a strategy in which one behaves passively or with little aggression until an opportune moment arises for successful action.” Ali used the term to describe his actions in his major fight with George Foreman where he seemed…