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Former Mayor Ray Flynn is to be honored. He deserves it. In the matter of full disclosure I am not a totally disinterested person when it comes to giving him his due. I’ve always liked him. It was not just because he was from South Boston but more importantly on the couple of occasions that…

I first thought “Poor Peyton – his alleged sins of 13 years ago have come back to haunt him. What are we to think of him that he may have done something stupid when he was a 19-year-old college student?” How mistaken I was to think that is all that was involved. The story about…

Yesterday I wrote about the power of five — a five judge majority on the Supreme Court deciding for us what we must do without any restrictions on it .  I explained how the doctrine of stare decisis had pretty much been abandoned when it is accepted it is the philosophy of the Court that will…

The power of the five — that is what we will soon face. With the death of Justice Scalia the United States Supreme Court will never be the same if he is replaced by a Democrat presidential nomination. To get a sense of this read the article by Linda Hirshman entitled: “If Republicans block an…

On Soup Bowl Sunday, February 7, 2016 I sent off the following letter to Federal Judge F. Dennis Saylor, IV, Dear Judge Saylor, I write on behalf of Catherine Greig. Her predicament reminds me of what Mae West once said: “Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.” True though…

I’m told the nuns at St. Elizabeth hospitals with a malicious smile used to tell the young women who came into the maternity section of that hospital “you’ve had your fun – now suffer.” I cannot  vouch for them saying that because I was never in that position or condition. What verified that it may…