The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. If the latest Iowa polls are to be believed, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders are the front-runners. Since the peculiarities of caucus system turnout favor Bernie, he is poised to win in Iowa. The Vermont senator also…
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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Watching the impeachment trial, waiting for the Senate decision on relevant witnesses versus brazen cover-up, I keep thinking about three ridiculous arguments made by President Trump’s defenders and echoed incessantly on Fox and its spillover social media and…
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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. editorial board deserves some praise for revealing its process for endorsing in the Democratic Presidential primary. Some, far smaller, newspapers started years ago to post their candidate interviews on their websites. Last night, The Times expanded its weekly…
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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Though cynics may mock it as a bit theatrical, the somber demeanor of House leaders delivering the the Articles of Impeachment to the Senate did fit the gravity of the event. Understanding the importance of the message conveyed…
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Then entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. It wasn’t just Buffalo’s NFL Wild Card loss yesterday that got me thinking about long-suffering Bills fan Tim Russert, who set the gold standard for a tough but fair Sunday news show interviewer. When Chuck Todd eventually became…
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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The Guardian Yesterday’s message? It was a sad day for the country but a good day for Constitutional democracy. The Democrats greeted the approval of two Articles of Impeachment with the solemnity and gravity the event warranted. Donald…
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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. After an expected vote for impeachment in the House of Representatives, the fate of Donald Trump will move to the U.S. Senate, where the prospects for the triumph of Constitutional values are bleak and where GOP stalwarts like…
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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead. The author of The Underground Railroad has done it again, this time with a story of a prison-like reform school in Florida. Worse-than-Dickensian abuse occurred throughout this narrative, based on the real-life…
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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout. If you enjoyed Strout’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Olive Kitteridge , you will love reading Olive, Again, the sequel. Oh, to be able to write like Elizabeth Strout! Olive is sui generis……..except I find in…
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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The hammering from daily political news has kept me away from devouring my normal quota of books on contemporary politics. If you too are on overload, here are some non-fiction alternatives I’ve recently enjoyed. The River of Doubt:…
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