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I don’t know what caused me to think of this again but there it was in  the forefront of my brain as I was moving over the Tamiami Trail. Am I the one-eyed man and the other people involved in this matter blind? How else describe the manner in which the Whitey Bulger story has…

Howie Carr wrote a column the other day called “There’s a Reason The Call Them Dumbocrats. “ Howie is the radio guy who used to read police reports with Hispanic names and play Mexican music in the background in this not so subtle way of suggesting to his mainly white audience that Hispanics were criminals….

They’ll be no more love letters; those that have come in the past might as well have been written in the sand. My wife said: “Are you worried?”  I answered, “Yes.” There is something particularly unusual with what is going on. It started a while ago. I guess the first time it struck me was…

I was in court during the Whitey trial. I sat in the same room at times with Howie Carr who would arrive with some morning snacks that he shared with other people. I said hello to him two or three times going in and out of the press room where the trial was being broadcast…

The Boston disease is the idea that whatever happens in Boston is the most important thing in the world or at least has worldly significance. That is how James J. “Whitey” Bulger was hoisted to the pinnacle of criminals even though a true analysis would show he was little more than a tough guy who…

Trump’s Mickey Cohen: – I missed the Cohen testimony. I did so deliberately. The reason was that nothing he would say would change anyone’s mind. Afterward I saw some summaries of it. I knew I was right. The Republicans are going to stick with Trump even in the face of his patently obvious lies like”I…