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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Nebraska Senator Roman Hruska once defended Richard Nixon’s ultimately failed nomination of G. Harrold Carswell to the Supreme Court by stating, “Even if he were mediocre, there are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers.…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke is a nicely woven mystery set in rural East Texas.  Two murders occur in just a matter of days in a tiny town called Lark. Are the two crimes related?  That’s just one of…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. This time the pollsters were right. They had held all along that the election outcome was within the margin of error. It could go either way. And so it did. But in the wrong direction. Donald J.…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. The Hunter by Tana French is a murder mystery set in the hardworking village of Ardnakelty  in Ireland during an abnormally dry, searingly hot summer, oppressive to humans and animals alike. Nerves are on edge. The only relief for…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Kamala Harris pledges, “We won’t go back.” Tonight, however, we all will. At 2 a.m. tomorrow morning we set the clocks back an hour. Sure, it means an extra hour of sleep, but, for many of us,…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy by journalist Nathan Thrall won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction this year.  The core of the narrative is simple: in 2012 a rickety school bus carrying…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Hiding out from election coverage isn’t working all that well for me. Half my recent blogs have been non-political book reviews, but that hasn’t diluted the tension leading up to November 5th. Now I feel compelled to…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. The Forever War: America’s Unending Conflict with Itself by senior BBC correspondent Nick Bryant is a frigid splash of icy water on the notion of American exceptionalism. It may help us to understand Donald Trump’s enduring, if frightening appeal…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Donald Trump may claim he’s immune to prosecution for multiple crimes to overturn the 2020 election results, but you can read the Government’s just-released response to federal District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan showing why he acted as a private citizen…