Category Archives: politics

We Miss You Bobby

June 6, 2021 – 5:56 pm

In the summer of 1966 I was standing with my father at the Lower Mills station outside of Boston. We were headed to work. A Mattapan-bound trolley stopped to let off a crowd. My father and I were mystified by the hubbub, until the trolley pulled away from the platform and we spotted Robert F. […]

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$47

December 29, 2020 – 3:32 pm

Back in 2012 the BBC reported that former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi held a bunga-bunga party featuring strippers in nun uniforms for his guest. Each dancer was paid $2000 for her performance plus tips. This information came to light during the testimony of a dancer. One of her compatriots was rewarded with the post of […]

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Honest To Goodness Patriot

November 22, 2020 – 9:24 am

“I didn’t vote for him but he’s my president, and I hope he does a good job.” John Wayne – On John F. Kennedy’s election Disgruntled GOP voters should learn from that as well as Democrats. We are one. e pluribus unum. Latin for ‘out of many one’. ps Donald Trump has never been my […]

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APOCALYPSE NOW AND THEN by Peter Nolan Smith

November 10, 2020 – 1:56 pm

In 1968 I lied about my age and tried to enlist in the Marines soon after my 16th birthday. My mother refused to sign the papers. The Tet offensive fed her doubts about the final outcome of the Vietnam Conflict. Boys were returning in coffins, wheelchairs, or hooked on heroin. Returning soldiers were portrayed as […]

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The Blue Ripple of November

November 7, 2020 – 1:11 pm

For the last month the mainstream media and pollsters had been predicting a blue wave of Democrat voters to sweep Trump out the White House, take back the Senate, and strenghten their Congressional majority, however the eperts were shocked by conservative base hitting the polls in record numbers to create a swarth of red states […]

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