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In a remarkable Saturday filing, Assistant U.S. Attorney John McNeil  burps, pats his full belly, and orders a few more courses. The  Department of Justice is not satisfied with a court ruling that hands them fully a </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigmackers/~3/d9dwBBxTDeY/chris-bray-on-nom-nom-nom.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (AM)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bigmackers/~4/d9dwBBxTDeY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://thepensivequill.am/2012/01/chris-bray-on-nom-nom-nom.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-8874892605347847232</guid><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:16:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-27T09:37:34.835Z</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Boston College</category><title>A Response to Ted Folkman</title><atom:summary>Tonight The Pensive Quill carries a response from Ed Moloney and Anthony McIntyre to an article written by Ted Folkman in his blog Letters Blogatary.

Ted Folkman, a Boston based lawyer, is living proof that because one follows a case it does not follow that they come remotely close to grasping what lies at the heart of it. 

He writes that he has been struck by a change in emphasis among those ‘</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigmackers/~3/i0cWvM2gR4E/response-to-ted-folkman.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (AM)</author><thr:total>3</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bigmackers/~4/i0cWvM2gR4E" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://thepensivequill.am/2012/01/response-to-ted-folkman.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-7536777176950861546</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:38:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-25T17:38:38.419Z</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Boston College</category><title>Statement After Court Hearing</title><atom:summary>This afternoon’s judgement in Boston comes as no surprise.  However we will appeal Judge Young’s decision, along with the rest of our case, which will be heard in the US Court of Appeals in March when we expect a much more positive outcome.

We would like to welcome Judge Young’s remark about the Belfast project: “I’ve read thousands of pages of the transcripts. This was a bona fide academic </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigmackers/~3/NUs96Yq9Vdc/statement-after-court-hearing.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (AM)</author><thr:total>11</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bigmackers/~4/NUs96Yq9Vdc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://thepensivequill.am/2012/01/statement-after-court-hearing.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-5047339617053027336</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:50:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-24T19:55:02.900Z</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Gerry Daly</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Guest Writer</category><title>Renewed Appeal for Gerard Anthony Daly</title><atom:summary>Tonight the Pensive Quill featured Guest Writer Belinda Daly who renews her appeal for her missing brother Gerry Daly. 

Missing Person Bailieborough, Co. Cavan, Ireland.
The family and friends of Gerard Daly (43), known to his friends as “Gerry”, are renewing their appeal for information regarding his disappearance. Gerry, a resident of Bailieborough, Co. Cavan and originally from Tallaght, Co. </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigmackers/~3/h9wvPI3cD8k/renewed-appeal-for-gerard-anthony-daly.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (AM)</author><thr:total>5</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bigmackers/~4/h9wvPI3cD8k" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://thepensivequill.am/2012/01/renewed-appeal-for-gerard-anthony-daly.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-3808839131455976487</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:35:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-23T21:35:51.807Z</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Boston College</category><title>Boston College Statement</title><atom:summary>Statement to supporters from Boston College researchers Ed Moloney &amp; Anthony McIntyre.

Contrary to widespread media reports, this Tuesday’s court hearing in Boston will not decide the outcome of our fight to prevent AG Eric Holder from handing over IRA interviews to the PSNI in Belfast.

The important hearing in this case will instead take place some time in March before the US Court of Appeals </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigmackers/~3/f5wXweDzGzA/boston-college-statement.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (AM)</author><thr:total>2</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bigmackers/~4/f5wXweDzGzA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://thepensivequill.am/2012/01/boston-college-statement.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-7245134617043755813</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:59:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-21T19:59:53.998Z</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Guest Writer</category><title>Iron Lady</title><atom:summary>Tonight the Pensive Quill features guestr writer self proclaimed Revolutionary Unionist Dr John Coulter who casts a critical eye over the supposed blockbuster on former British Prime Minister Maggie Thatcher. 

Hollywood screen legend Meryl Streep will have to made a second blockbuster flick about British PM Maggie Thatcher entitled The Real Iron Lady. While the current film featured numerous </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigmackers/~3/j27TFKGlLq0/iron-lady.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (AM)</author><thr:total>34</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bigmackers/~4/j27TFKGlLq0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://thepensivequill.am/2012/01/iron-lady.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-697061467286376871</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:44:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-20T21:44:52.801Z</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Boston College</category><title>Chris Bray On Obvious and Dangerous Lies from Boston College</title><atom:summary>Tonight The Pensive Quill links to an article by Chris Bray on his excellent blog in which he damns the Boston College figures who wrote a column in yesterday's Irish Times. Bray cuts to the chase and slices through their self exculpating narrative with a swingeing piece of analysis which pulls no punches about the mendacity employed by Boston College as it continues to evade its responsibilities</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigmackers/~3/m4XbsU8yyeY/chris-bray-on-obvious-and-dangerous.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (AM)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bigmackers/~4/m4XbsU8yyeY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://thepensivequill.am/2012/01/chris-bray-on-obvious-and-dangerous.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-3693323436693681111</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:52:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-19T20:52:34.403Z</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Guest Writer</category><title>Poachers Turn Game Keepers - Policing is Political</title><atom:summary>Tonight The Pensive Quill features an article by guest writer Sean Matthews on Sinn Fein and policing which looks at the issue from an anarchist perspective. 

The transition from opposition to defenders and enforcers of the status-quo by the Provisional Republican Movement has not been without its hiccups along the way which is what you would expect with a path littered with hypocrisy and broken</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigmackers/~3/_QaJ8jmh1VY/poachers-turn-game-keepers-policing-is.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (AM)</author><thr:total>17</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bigmackers/~4/_QaJ8jmh1VY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://thepensivequill.am/2012/01/poachers-turn-game-keepers-policing-is.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-3643697508885657195</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:44:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-18T20:45:58.951Z</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Boston College</category><title>Chris Bray On Boston College and Jack Dunn</title><atom:summary>Last Chris Bray wrote a piece about the hapless attempts by Boston College PR man Jack Dunn's unenviable task of trying to get the the college off the hook. As always with Chris his observations are well worth a read. Universities taking responsibility for their actions is not the done thing it seems. 


http://chrisbrayblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/and-starring-jack-dunn-as-tweedle-dee.html</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigmackers/~3/jLK2P_T21Bo/chris-bray-on-boston-college-and-jack.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (AM)</author><thr:total>3</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bigmackers/~4/jLK2P_T21Bo" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://thepensivequill.am/2012/01/chris-bray-on-boston-college-and-jack.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-4637505001680075890</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:58:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-17T21:00:46.096Z</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">NI Policing</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Boston College</category><title>British State Investigating Half The Past</title><atom:summary>A few days back the The Irish Times carried a powerful letter  written by a Catholic priest who is  the brother of a young man shot dead by loyalist gunmen in North Belfast in 1972. In his letter Joseph McCullough shows how all queries have 'drawn a complete blank from the RUC/PSNI.' He described their response as abysmal.

On the basis of this letter Ed Moloney in his blog Broken Elbow penned a </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigmackers/~3/y3_ASvhXUxM/british-state-investigating-half-past.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (AM)</author><thr:total>16</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bigmackers/~4/y3_ASvhXUxM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://thepensivequill.am/2012/01/british-state-investigating-half-past.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-7918282598582979386</guid><pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 21:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-14T22:13:36.927Z</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Boston College</category><title>A Reply to Niall O’Dowd</title><atom:summary>Tonight The Pensive Quill features a response from Ed Moloney and Anthony McIntyre to Niall O'Dowd. Ed Moloney writes a preamble to that response.

Preamble
Yesterday, Niall O'Dowd published an article on his website accusing Anthony McIntyre and myself of tricking Republican interviewees into participating in the Boston College oral history project with false promises of confidentiality. The </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigmackers/~3/rNmKA_lVMpI/reply-to-niall-odowd.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (AM)</author><thr:total>23</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bigmackers/~4/rNmKA_lVMpI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://thepensivequill.am/2012/01/reply-to-niall-odowd.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-6334290043866560536</guid><pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 10:17:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-14T10:18:17.330Z</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">GARC</category><title>GARC</title><atom:summary>Today The Pensive Quill features a piece from Greater Ardoyne Residents Collective, otherwise known as GARC. GARC describes itself  as a non-political residents' group that is there to serve and give a voice to all the people of Ardoyne, Mountainview and the Dales in opposing unwanted, bigoted sectarian parades through our community by the Loyal Orders. GARC states that is committed to peaceful, </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigmackers/~3/MwICyJ5jp94/garc.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (AM)</author><thr:total>25</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bigmackers/~4/MwICyJ5jp94" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://thepensivequill.am/2012/01/garc.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-674994149505794284</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:42:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-12T19:42:15.674Z</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Boston</category><title>Chris Bray On US Courts Deferring To The Government</title><atom:summary>Chris Bray with yet another good piece on the Boston College crisis. In this piece Bray outlines how courts tend to give way to governments on matters of foreign policy


http://chrisbrayblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/unalloyed-ministerial-right-to.html</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigmackers/~3/-YNGBlsWVRI/chris-bray-on-us-courts-deferring-to.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (AM)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bigmackers/~4/-YNGBlsWVRI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://thepensivequill.am/2012/01/chris-bray-on-us-courts-deferring-to.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-6176275756719985008</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:48:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-11T19:48:33.404Z</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">A Little of This A Little of That</category><title>This &amp; That: Take 5</title><atom:summary> Kick About 

Great footage here of the game between Amsterdam and AZ Alkaar:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgvJAq2Lyag&amp;feature=related. 

An Ajax thug already banned for his antics at soccer games ran on to have a kick at the goalkeeper. The keeper was too quick and knocked the bollix out of the clown who is now banned for life from attending games. A Dutch court also sentenced the moron, </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigmackers/~3/8MX1oJH4S1c/this-that-take-5.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (AM)</author><thr:total>20</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bigmackers/~4/8MX1oJH4S1c" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://thepensivequill.am/2012/01/this-that-take-5.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-8324573645321989932</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:57:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-10T19:57:41.625Z</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Boston College</category><title>Chris Bray On Boston College And State Failure</title><atom:summary>Chris Bray has a very strong piece in today's Irish Times detailing what he sees as serious systemic failures underlying the Boston College tapes crisis.

Bray has proven to be one of the sharpest observers of the issue and continues in the same vein with his copy today. 


http://bostoncollegesubpoena.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/boston-college-saga-shows-how-the-state-has-failed/</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigmackers/~3/Z94oo6BHMNI/chris-bray-on-boston-college-and-state.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (AM)</author><thr:total>15</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bigmackers/~4/Z94oo6BHMNI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://thepensivequill.am/2012/01/chris-bray-on-boston-college-and-state.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-5272642906019804927</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 20:39:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-08T13:53:20.123Z</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Boston College</category><title>Chris Bray on Boston College And Reckless Negligence.</title><atom:summary>The historian and blogger Chris Bray has crafted a discerning piece that gets beneath Boston College dissembling. Bray has followed the case since the early days of the subpoena being issued by the British police and has offered some of the most piercing commentary on the affair. 

Bray’s piece shows how Boston College ignored proposals to protect the oral history archive in the wake of the first</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigmackers/~3/LujrawXYdDY/chris-bray-on-boston-college-and.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (AM)</author><thr:total>12</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bigmackers/~4/LujrawXYdDY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://thepensivequill.am/2012/01/chris-bray-on-boston-college-and.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-7280299226434207283</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:13:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-06T21:13:12.999Z</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Gerry McGeough</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Guest Writer</category><title>Fighting For Release</title><atom:summary>Tonight The Pensive Quill carries a report from guest writer Martin Galvin on developments in the case of republican political prisoner Gerry McGeough 

Gerry's hearing today lasted more than 4 hours  as his solicitors  argued for his entitlement to release under the Good Friday arrangement. The first challenge was whether the Court had any authority to review the crown's power to grant or </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigmackers/~3/fQO4KDxmcRc/fighting-for-release.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (AM)</author><thr:total>11</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bigmackers/~4/fQO4KDxmcRc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://thepensivequill.am/2012/01/fighting-for-release.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-7402429582723329836</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:02:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-05T23:02:14.116Z</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Gerry McGeough</category><title>Statement From Gerry McGeough</title><atom:summary>Tonight The Pensive Quill carries a statement from republican prisoner Gerry McGeough.

There is increasing evidence that the Sinn Fein leadership is crushing down on the membership of the party, especially on those who have been trying to highlight my case.

This serves to underscore the wide spread informed belief that as part of a secret deal between the Sinn Fein leadership, the Unionists and</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigmackers/~3/yA7pGFBgDQs/statement-from-gerry-mcgeough.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (AM)</author><thr:total>10</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bigmackers/~4/yA7pGFBgDQs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://thepensivequill.am/2012/01/statement-from-gerry-mcgeough.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-2476924172958112690</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:48:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-04T20:59:37.227Z</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Guest Writer</category><title>Continuity RUC - Ten Years On</title><atom:summary>Tonight The Pensive Quill features guest writer Sean Matthews, sharing his view on the PSNI.

This year marks the ten year anniversary of the Continuity RUC/PSNI with former Chief Constable Hugh Orde once referring to the force as the ‘most democratic, accountable police service in the world.’ However, despite the cosmetic changes and window dressing the reality on the ground in working class </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigmackers/~3/6PqYGyT1x04/continuity-ruc-ten-years-on.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (AM)</author><thr:total>5</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bigmackers/~4/6PqYGyT1x04" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://thepensivequill.am/2012/01/continuity-ruc-ten-years-on.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-7978132756859953700</guid><pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 22:59:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-31T23:00:14.959Z</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Obituary</category><title>Peter Skeet Hamilton</title><atom:summary>As the year moves into its final hours it leads to reflection on those who will not cross the threshold of the year about to dawn. Skeet Hamilton may have remained with the Provos right up to his last breath, even having voted for Gerry Adams in Louth a few short hours before he died, but those of us who knew him and journeyed with him through difficult times never allowed that to get in the way </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigmackers/~3/d2LtLINcJd0/peter-skeet-hamilton.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (AM)</author><thr:total>30</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bigmackers/~4/d2LtLINcJd0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://thepensivequill.am/2011/12/peter-skeet-hamilton.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-141079400799376057</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:18:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-02T15:03:35.443Z</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Boston College</category><title>Chris Bray On Boston College</title><atom:summary>Below is a link to separate locations that feature an article by Chris Bray, a Los Angeles based blogger and historian who has been following the Boston College subpoena crisis. In the article Chris Bray, in the words of the Belfast Project director Ed Moloney, ‘charts a disgraceful and shameful chapter in the history of American academic life.’


http://chrisbrayblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigmackers/~3/7k0DsvNSG18/chris-bray-on-boston-college.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (AM)</author><thr:total>72</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bigmackers/~4/7k0DsvNSG18" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://thepensivequill.am/2011/12/chris-bray-on-boston-college.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-1957815284513016848</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 22:46:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-23T22:47:18.647Z</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Gerry Daly</category><title>The Case Of Gerry Daly</title><atom:summary>It is very distressing for my mum and dad, Gerard and Bridget. They are very concerned about him, as we all are at this point. Not knowing anything is very distressing. Hopefully this appeal will help somebody to remember something that may lead to whereabouts – Belinda Daly.

In recent weeks Prime Time ran a feature, Hidden Dead on the re-emergence in Ireland of a phenomenon better known for its</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigmackers/~3/HALJynAb46w/case-of-gerry-daly.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (AM)</author><thr:total>37</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bigmackers/~4/HALJynAb46w" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://thepensivequill.am/2011/12/case-of-gerry-daly.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-8325552173059905529</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:41:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-22T23:11:36.742Z</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">A Little of This A Little of That</category><title>This &amp; That. Take 4</title><atom:summary>The Sky Blues
Coventry is one of those English cities I have never been to. It is hard to make any claim on its behalf that it is best known for its soccer team. When we think of footballing greats Coventry City does not figure amongst them. To my mind rather than reaching for the skies the history of Coventry is more one of the skies reaching for it. It has a history of things falling on it from</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigmackers/~3/5HH2wicoOGA/this-that-take-4.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (AM)</author><thr:total>37</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bigmackers/~4/5HH2wicoOGA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://thepensivequill.am/2011/12/this-that-take-4.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-6365310529505247331</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 23:58:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-21T23:58:45.034Z</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Cartoon</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Brian Mór</category><title>Gerry Liar</title><atom:summary>



Cartoon by Brian Mór
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There are more things to be concerned about in Holland than those hedonistic pursuits in Amsterdam that Christy Moore sang about that so annoyed Gregory of God and his bible bashing devotees. A report just released by the Deetman Commission has found that Dutch priests abused 'up to 20,000 children'. Deetman reported that ‘to prevent a scandal, nothing was done.’  A culture of </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigmackers/~3/vx1KACIZTiA/this-that-take-3.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (AM)</author><thr:total>6</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bigmackers/~4/vx1KACIZTiA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://thepensivequill.am/2011/12/this-that-take-3.html</feedburner:origLink></item></channel></rss>

