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I woke to the news today about the nation that was relatively stable until we adopted it and since that time has acted our prodigal and disobedient child. We supporting putting Maliki in charge of this nation but we now want him out. (Shades of Vietnam) “He ain’t going to be prime minister,” a high State Department…

Did you ever see anyone take such a battering as Secretary of State Kerry when he went to Egypt to try to gain a cease fire in the mini-war that has seen as of Monday of last week 67 Israeli deaths, none being women or children, and 1,806 Palestinian deaths with about half being women and…

My mother’s name before she got married was Alice Rogers. I sometimes thought it would be nice if rather than taking our father’s surname we took our mother’s. I’d imagine at times my last name to be Rogers rather than Connolly. If that if that were the tradition I thought my cousin Roger would be known…

It took that new business owners a year to figure out its advertising strategy which it kicked of in May 2003 when it started to hype the fake sell-out streak which lasted until April 2013. The people who were now running the show had a slight relationship with Boston but a much closer one with the balance sheet. They…

At one time not so long ago I was a Red Sox fan. It all ended shortly before the team won its first World Series in my lifetime. I found myself not really caring whether they won or not. I had lost interest. In retrospect, one of the things that turned me off was the…

The case involving John J. O’Brien concerns the scandal that never happened. It began with a media report that the O’Brien filled positions in the probation department with people who were politically connected. The beginning of the end for O’Brien came with a federal racketeering indictment. The words of the federal indictment, here, charging him with…