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I wrote the other day about Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis and Boston Municipal Court Justice Elijah Adlow telling us about one of the basic rights in a civilized society is to be let alone to enjoy our lives in peace. That requires a bargain that if I want to be left alone then I…

Louis Dembitz Brandeis parents, Bohemian Jews came to America in 1848.  In 1875, at the age of 18, Brandeis entered the Harvard Law School without a formal college degree. He was not the required age of 21 to receive a bachelor of law degree in 1877 so the Harvard Corporation gave him a special pass. In…

When all else fails and you see your son’s life snatched away by cops who refuse to explain their actions in what you believed was a civilized society, you turn the person who travels the world preaching to others as a last recourse. You hope he understands that his message falls on deaf ears when…

You must always keep in mind when thinking of the FBI is that a handful of members of Congress, including my Congressman William Keating, seeking to find out information on the Boston Marathon Terrorist Attack of April 15, 2013, had to go to Russia. The FBI refused to deal with them. In addition, when Congress…

Reading an old Economist (November 7th-13th 2009) I came across this statement: “To Russia’s once and possible future president, Vladimir Putin, the collapse of the Soviet Union – two years after the fall of the Berlin Wall – was “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe” of the 2oth century.” I suggest that anyone but the most obtuse…

The time between Christmas and New Year’s is a time for reflection. A review of the past is always good as long as you recognize you don’t dwell there. Learn from it and move on. In truth, you can’t move forward without looking back. All you Greek scholars know that Socrates suggested the same thing…