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“mattofboston.com”as you know is the address of this blog.  That trial happened back in 2013 and an appeal is pending so in a sense the trial goes on until the court decides his appeal. But when that happens, the name of the blog will have little meaning. You also know the blog has gone  into…

Ray Flynn former Boston Mayor and Herald Columnist noted that the present pope came out against the death penalty. He wrote: “Francis called for the worldwide abolition of the death penalty, noting that “You shall not kill” was absolute and equally valid for the guilty as it is for the innocent.” Flynn wrote about his…

One of the great ideas of liberals is that what consenting adults choose to do is their business as long as it does not hurt others. We are told to keep our noses out of their lives and our own set of standards to ourselves. Yet even though the freedom of consenting adults is a…

The gun told us it was over. Or perhaps it was even before that when he said “please clap!” Or perhaps with these other faux pas. Maybe it was when he thought the people would elect a guy name “Jeb” who had no last name. Who names a kid Jeb? I wrote a novel a…

I’ve written more times than I can count of the symbiotic relationship between the Boston Globe and the Boston U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz. Here’s what is behind it. Attorney Ortiz was appointed as Boston’s U.S. attorney. Shortly after she was in that office and before she had really gotten her feet wet the people at…

Here is a simple way to look at this. You own ABX Tools. It is located at the end of a long  street with one other business, ISIS Matters. The FBI suspects terrorist operate at ISIS. It tells you it wants to take over your business for a few months to conduct surveillance. You say…