Author: mtc9393

              “The time has come,” the Trekker said, “To talk of many things: Of shoes – and ships – and sealing wax – Of cabbages – and kings – And why the sea is boiling hot – – And whether pigs have wings – – And how it’s time…

Roger Concannon died yesterday. He had been living in Berlin. When I last spoke to him he told me that Berlin reminded of how Southie used to be in the old days. My earliest childhood friends were Roger and Jimmy Concannon. Their mother, Honey, and my mother Alice, were the two “Rogers sisters” who were about…

A week or so ago on the McLaughlin Report the host raised the issue of Trump’s suggesting he might not go to the aid of the Baltic States – Lithuania, Estonia or Latvia – were they to be invaded by Putin and his Russian forces. Buchanan said he was against bringing the Baltic States into…

There was no need for the federal sentencing guidelines. It is an example of ceding power to bureaucrats by lazy judges who want others to do the work for them even though the work they are trying not to do amounts to little. The guidelines were designed to bring uniformity to sentencing throughout the United…

I wrote recently about how a multi-millionaire whose actions defrauded the federal taxpayers of millions of dollars and a guy scraping by as a custodian who took less than ten thousand dollars to move some people up on a federal waiting list both received a recommendation of two years in prison. I pointed out that…

Some prisoners in some states are complaining about their uncomfortable accommodations in prisons during the summer. They allege they are too hot. They have filed suit claiming the failure to air condition their cells violates the Eighth Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. I must remind you that Amendment applies only to action by…