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I’m watching the US Senate hearings considering the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to a seat on the United States Supreme Court. I’ve got other things I’m trying to do so my attention is not totally consumed by them. The battle lines are pretty clear. One thing that seems a little out-of-place are the constant interruptions…

Tuesday night somewhere in the state of West Virginia Trump announced that “The last known Nazi officer living in the United States, they’ve been trying to get him out for decades, President Obama tried, they all tried. We got him out — gone. He’s back in Germany.” Was Jakiw Palif the man referred to by…

I mention Drinan ran for Congress in 1970. He was elected. He served until 1980. He wanted to continue but the Pope forbid it. Boeri not content with having approached other people then went to a close friend of Drinan’s, Jerome Grossman who first convinced Drinan to run for Congress. He responded to Boeri, “It’s…

Father Drinan had returned from Italy in the summer of 1955. He was assigned to Boston College Law school as a faculty member. He would be named the dean the next year in 1956. Bill Bulger returned from the Army in the summer of 1955. He would start his second year as an undergraduate at…

To try to ascertain how Father Drinan and the Bulger family may have got to know each other in the 1953 to 1954 period I looked at what the family was doing around that time. Whitey’s next younger brother was Bill. He finished up his first year at Boston College in 1953. He then volunteered…

The Whitey Myth arises because of the failure to put events into their proper place in time. We know much about James “Whitey” Bulger today because of all the books, the overtop media coverage of him, as well as all the all the gangster testimony telling of his exploits. Too many take what we know today…