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I mentioned earlier this week about my friend Timmy O sending me a couple of columns from the Boston Globe that he had clipped out.  One dealt with Fred Wyshak who I wrote about earlier this week. The other one which I missed when reading the Globe online was about John Connolly the retired FBI agent who was…

James “Whitey” Bulger has been a money tree for lots of people who find it in their interest to make him into something he really wasn’t. But there’s a good case to make that he only murdered three or four people not the nineteen  the federal prosecutions want you to believe because they entered into…

I suppose  we should start off with the basic truth about gangsters which is “they lie almost all the time.”   Even though we can say that  and be correct there is a way to know if one is lying. But before I get to that I am always intrigued by the interactions between a prosecutor and…

I subscribe to the Boston Globe to keep up with the happenings around the city. I don’t subscribe to the Boston Herald because of inane support of things of I find repellent, not the least the prominence of a bigot who has a radio show and routinely played Mexican music while reading off police reports of…

There was a time in America where Black voters were allowed to vote just like their fellow citizens. They were given the right by Amendments to our Constitution filed during and after the Civil War which was fought to keep Black folk enslaved. They had these rights during the ten or so years that followed…

My friend Ed called. He asked me if I knew what was in the Democratic Covid-19 relief package and pointed out some of the things that had nothing whatever to do with Covid-19. I agreed with him that it was one of those pieces of legislation where everything but the kitchen sink was thrown into…