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The late Jennifer Martel didn’t need a restraining order Thursday night, she needed a gun. This is what happens when the population is disarmed. They can’t fight back. Kristina Hill and Benjamin Ray courageously risked their lives to save their defenseless neighbor, but what could they do with their bare hands against this monster? They needed a gun, too. The National Rifle Association has a host of slogans that drive moonbats crazy, probably because most of them are indisputably true. This is one of them: “When seconds count, police are minutes away.” Another one is, “I’d rather be judged by...

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...