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A verdict has been reached in the murder and racketeering trial of James “Whitey” Bulger, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced. The eight men and four women on the jury deliberated for more than 30 hours. The 32-count indictment before them accuses Bulger, 83, of the gangland shootings and strangulations of 19 men and women between 1973 and 1985, money laundering, extortion, drug distribution and illegal firearms possession. The former leader of the Winter Hill Gang faces a maximum sentence of life plus 30 years.

WBZ-TV coverage on now. Jim Armstrong of that station says Whitey has entered room... a hush falls

Howie thread for the month starting with his Aug 2 column

Howie thread for last half of Aug starting with his July 17 2013 Herald column

Howie thread for the first half of July starting with his Tue 7/2/13 column. Remember he has trial updates etc on twitter @howiecarrshow

Howie thread for the second half of June, 2013 starting with his Sunday Herald column, another one related to Whitey Bulger: "Stench from garage finally out"

Howie thread for first half of June, 2013 (jury selection for Whitey Bulger trial to begin Thu I think). We'll start off with this special Saturday column: It’s not exactly the resume-enhancer I’d have picked for myself — “defense witness for Whitey Bulger.” But I can’t say I wasn’t expecting it either. And I’m not sure how serious Whitey’s lawyers are. Maybe they’re just trying to keep me and the Globe reporters out of the courtroom. There’s an old saying in the law: If you have the facts, pound the facts. If you have the law, pound the law. If...

This week the state Senate punted yet again on doing anything about the out-of-control EBT-card program, you know, the one that kept the Tsarnaev brothers in gunpowder and pressure cookers. During the annual budget debate, Sen. Robert Hedlund (R-Weymouth) proposed putting photographs on the EBT cards to perhaps slow the trafficking in them. Do you realize, he said, the gimme girls and guys “lose” 15,000 cards a year? The state’s motorists don’t misplace that many driver’s licenses in a year. “We know they are sold,” Hedlund said, “passed along.” The enablers used to say that the cost of photo IDs...

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The Legacy Lives On! Mark’s Lost Dog & Cat Rescue Foundation “Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny precisely because its principles are the founding principles.” --Mark Levin in Liberty and TyrannyWelcome to “The Levin Lounge”… Step in and have a virtual FRink.Taking the country by storm, one radio station at a time – and kicking the BUTTS of the competition! Welcome all, to the most FUN LIVE THREAD on FreeRepublic.com! You can call Mark’s show: 1-877-381-3811

Howie thread for the second part of the month starting with his Fri 5/17/13 column, actually; reminder that Howie is nationwide on Tue as he again fills in for Mark Levin (6-9 pm ET though 7-10 on WRKO)

The Legacy Lives On! Mark’s Lost Dog & Cat Rescue Foundation “Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny precisely because its principles are the founding principles.” --Mark Levin in Liberty and TyrannyWelcome to “The Levin Lounge”… Step in and have a virtual FRink.Taking the country by storm, one radio station at a time – and kicking the BUTTS of the competition! Welcome all, to the most FUN LIVE THREAD on FreeRepublic.com! You can call Mark’s show: 1-877-381-3811

Howie thread for first part of May starting with his Wed. column "One hundred thousand bucks? I guarantee you that’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the welfare that’s been dished out to these Chechen chiselers over the last decade. It’s “stunning,” said someone at the State House who’s seen the documents. It’s a “bonanza.” It’s also business as usual when it comes to taking care of foreign freeloaders, legal or illegal. The scope of the welfare these people were grabbing is so immense that even Gov. Deval Patrick’s PC veneer is wearing thin. Last week...

It’s time for all the bureaucrats, paper-shufflers and flak-catchers to come clean on the Tsarnaev clan, those chiseling Chechens who tried to kill us last week. Open the damn books! If somebody tries to murder you, you have a right to know everything about them, privacy be damned. I want to know everything about them, and I want to know it now, right down to the quality of the weed Dzhokhar was peddling down at UMass Dartmouth. Were they living in Section 8 housing in Cambridge? .Did they use Obamaphones to detonate the pressure-cooker bombs? Did lovebirds Katherine and Tamerlan...

Howie Carr thread for the second half of April. The discussion of the Boston bombings continues, and I will provide a link below to hear Howie's show (3-7 pm ET) I heard a caller yesterday on Howie's show saying the friend of their daughter was thought to be OK and her name was Krystal...but this may be the Krystal that has now been identified: >> Karen Rand survived, but was in surgery for her serious injuries through Monday night. Cheryl Rand Engelhardt, Karen Rand's relative, wrote on Facebook that Krystle's parents at first believed that Karen was their daughter, and...

Howie thread for the first half of April

Thread for second half of March 2013 for the Howie Carr Show. So, anything happen while Howie was in Florida? Any new Popes? (Word has it Francis I has banned Bernie Law from the Church he'd been assigned to) Any alternative Boston newspapers go out of business? ($17.5 million of Clear Channel money couldn't save Mindich) Howie back on this Monday. I think. Halitosis Hall tomorrow, with kneeslapper jokes like: "What do you call a wandering priest? A roamin' Catholic!" John Kerry: "Who said I don't have the matzoh balls to be here?" Bill Weld, singing: (to Billy Bulger) "You're...

Howie thread for the first half of March

Who in his right mind would ever buy The Boston Globe? Maybe the physical plant of the “newspaper” on Morrissey Boulevard, but the actual product? Let me put it another way: When was the last time you bought an actual copy of The Boston Globe? Why would you, it only encourages them. Has ever a publication fallen so far, so fast? It’s the Carnival Triumph of the newspaper business. It’s the Patriots in the second half against the Ravens. It’s Tim Murray in his jammies, flooring his state Crown Vic as the stone wall looms up ahead. [Snip] Everybody at...

Howie Carr thread for the second half of Feb. starting with today's Boston Herald column, "Whitey Trial Made for TV"

Howie Carr thread for the first half of Feb. starting with today's Boston Herald column, "Dear John, it was something you said" "This is a great day for Massachusetts. This is the day John Forbes “Liveshot” Kerry stops being our senator. The governor, who was born in Illinois, is replacing the senator who was born in Colorado with an interim senator who was born in North Carolina who will serve on Capitol Hill with the “senior” senator who was born in Oklahoma." More below

Howie Carr Show thread for the second half of January starting with his Boston Herald column, "‘Forward’? You’ve been forewarned " Excerpt: "They’re planning to HAMMER the middle class! That’s all you need to know about this evening’s State of the State speech. Here you have the working population of Massachusetts still reeling from the 2 percent pay cut imposed by Barack Obama earlier this month, and now comes Gov. Deval Patrick’s tax-crazed scheme, 'The Way Forward'.""

Maybe will do the thread once every two weeks, a "fortnight" eh? Howie returns tomorrow, Wed the 2nd. In Boston WTKK 96.9, where Howie hoped to flee to, will end sometime tomorrow. The format is expected to change to music sometime after Eagan & Braude do a farewell show 7-10 am. So, 10 am? Noon? 3pm? 5 pm? And we don't know the new format...There was an article on a left-leaning blog from the Pacific NW wondering if the failure of WTKK is a sign of the end of conserv talk radio. One comment to it, by "Vin": "WTKK conservative?...

Howie Carr thread for the final 2 weeks of the year starting with his Sunday Boston Herald columnm

Howie tjread for the week starting with his Sunday Boston Herald column

Howie thread for the week starting with his Sunday Boston Herald column

Howie Carr thread for the week starting with his Sunday Boston Herald column, "Moonbats' Remorse". Excerpt: "as strange as it seems, a plurality of Obama voters probably have real jobs, some even in the Dreaded Private Sector. Man, are they in dire straits. Take the instructors at Community College of Allegheny County in Pittsburgh. Their hours are being cut back so the college can get around Obamacare. All you teachers, hope you enjoy being adjunct professors, because you ain’t getting tenure anytime soon. Wonder who they all voted for on Nov. 6?"

Howie Carr Show thread starting off with his Sunday Boston Herald column

Howie thread for the week starting off with his Sunday Boston Herald column. Howie is off his radio show tomorrow (McScreamer alert) due to Veteran's Day--Observed.

This is the official thread for Election Day (the entire week if need be!) relating to the Howie Carr Show and the Jeff Kuhner Report. We'll start off with Howie's column about Elizabeth Warren in her wigwam. "I have pictures but they're not for you..."

Howie thread for the week starting with his Sunday Boston Herald column. There will also be a special Howie Carr/ Jeff Kuhner ELECTION DAY thread to launch probably tomorrow

Howie thread for the week starting with his Sunday column

October 21, 2012 It’s Code Red in Moonbat nation Howie Carr The moonbats are melting down. They look at the polls, they see Romney ahead, and they react the only way they know how — badly. An outbreak of Bush Derangement Syndrome, a mental disorder previously believed to have been eradicated in 2009, was observed last week at Hofstra University. MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell, the tough street kid from St. Sebastian’s and Harvard, challenges Tagg Romney, that wimp from Belmont Hill, to a fistfight. Preppie-on-preppie crime. Ann Romney is badgered on “The View” about Mormonism, by yentas who would never dare...

Howie thread for the week starting with his Sunday Boston Herald column "It's Meltdown Time in Moonbat Nation". btw George McGovern died and I think that may be the person that Howie _wouldn't_ allow in the death pool because it was getting obvious he was about to go (or maybe it was someone else?)

Howie thread for the week starting with his Sunday Boston Herald column about Liz Warren

Howie Carr thread for the week starting with his Sunday Boston Herald column

Howie Carr thread for the week starting with his Sunday Boston Herald column, "Stick to your guns, Scott"

Howie thread for the week starting with his Sunday Boston Herald column

Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) came out in opposition to Mitt Romney's controversial remarks on the "47 percent." Brown, who has been distancing himself from elements of the Republican Party, joins GOP Senate candidate in Connecticut Linda McMahon in coming out against the statements. "That’s not the way I view the world. As someone who grew up in tough circumstances, I know that being on public assistance is not a spot that anyone wants to be in. Too many people today who want to work are being forced into public assistance for lack of jobs," he said in an email to...

Howie Carr Show thread for the week, starting with his Sunday Boston Herald column (excerpt: Inside the DNA of a blue-blood voter By Howie Carr --Who are these people voting for Obama and Granny Warren? Obama’s flack, Jay Carney, sounds more like Baghdad Bob every day. As for Warren, one of her new TV spots says she represents “people who play by the rules.” That’s a joke, right? Somebody’s voting for them, though. And they share certain behavioral traits. Consider this your guide to the modern Democrat electorate. Not all of these characteristics apply to each one, but every layabout...

The Pow Wow Chow cookbook is important in Granny Warren’s biography for two reasons. First, it marks the first time Granny “comes out,” as it were, as an Indian, two years before she checked the box on the Penn Law School employment application form and began her meteoric rise in race-quota obsessed academia. Consider Pow Wow Chow her spring training, her exhibition season in lying about her alleged heritage. Within just a few years after the first little white (get it?) lie, she had transformed herself into Harvard’s “first woman of color.” Second, this is the first instance we see...

Howie thread for the week starting with his Sun column "Beating the drum for Warren a big mistake"

Howie thread for the week starting with his Sunday Boston Herald column about "Mumbles" Menino speaking at DNC

This time it's Joan Vennochi, one of the Boring Broadsheet's "paralyzing snoremongers," to use Tom Wolfe's phrase. The wrinkly longtime pom-pom gal for the Democrat party has been suspended for two weeks for "use of material without attribution (which) was inconsistent with Globe policies and the Globe regrets the error." In other words, plagiarism, or, to continue the Globe's groveling apology, for "some similarities in phrasing and structure." On Aug. 15, GOP political columnist Todd Domke wrote on a WBUR blog that Vice President Joe Biden should apologize for his "chains" remarks. Two days later, in an unsigned editorial, Vennochi...

Howie thread for the week starting with his Sunday Boston Herald column

Howie Carr thread for the week starting with his Sunday Boston Herald column. Excerpt: >>The more the campaign goes on, the more desperate the bowtied bumkissers of the lamestream media become in their attempts to save the failed administration of their hero. The latest example: A hip-hop expert went on MSNBC (where else?) and claimed that using the word “angry” to describe Barack Obama is racist. Then he threw in the n-word for good measure. Angry used to be popular with this crowd, at least when describing “angry white men” (Republican voters) or “temper tantrums” (GOP victories). But now “angry”...

Teresa Stanley, the onetime Whitey Bulger moll who left behind a cross-country life on the lam to return to her family in South Boston, has died of lung cancer, her family said. She was 71. “She was truly just a beautiful woman,” her son-in-law, Ron Adams, told the Herald. “To look at her, you would know that. But what a lot of people didn’t know is how beautiful she was on the inside as well.” Bulger whisked Stanley away for what he said was a cross-country vacation in late December 1994, starting his 16 years on the run upon learning...

Teresa Stanley, the onetime Whitey Bulger moll who left behind a cross-country life on the lam to return to her family in South Boston, has died of lung cancer, her family said. She was 71. “She was truly just a beautiful woman,” her son-in-law, Ron Adams, told the Herald. “To look at her, you would know that. But what a lot of people didn’t know is how beautiful she was on the inside as well.” Bulger whisked Stanley away for what he said was a cross-country vacation in late December 1994, starting his 16 years on the run upon learning...

Granny Warren and Deval Patrick and the rest of the Massachusetts Democratic Party have a very consistent position when it comes to compliance with the state’s laws. If the law increases Democrat turnout, it is absolutely mandatory that it be enforced, costs be damned. If the statute adversely impacts any Democats — say, illegal aliens — then said law should be ignored, not to mention denounced as racist and/or nativist. This is the lesson of last week’s $276,000 mailing to the state’s 477,000 welfare recipients, including illegal aliens, exhorting them to register to vote. Are you confused about this sudden...

Howie thread for the week starting with his Sunday Boston Herald column, "Ryan pick misses the Marco"