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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. For decades, sports and entertainment celebrities avoided political endorsements lest they hurt their personal brands and lucrative pay days. This, despite notable exceptions like Ronald Reagan, John Wayne, Clint Eastwood,  John Voight and Kelsey Grammer on the right…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Somewhere Robert Bork is chortling. In 1987, his honest articulation of his extremist originalist philosophy was deemed so frighteningly outrageous that, despite his excellent paper qualifications, he was deemed unfit to serve on the United States Supreme Court.…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Donald Trump apparently listened to his advisers not to be the rabid beast he was in the previous debate. This may have firmed up some Trump voters who had been wavering. But the fact that he was reined…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog.   Donald Trump just received the best government-financed medical care in the country.  He left the hospital while still infectious, still needs monitoring for abruptly deteriorating and possible side-effects of the medication he’s on, has given no indication…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Last night’s despicable mud-wrestling, schoolyard bullying, name-calling event was neither Presidential nor a debate. Thank you, Donald.  The President who  violates all norms of behavior,  tramples science and facts, lies about virtually everything, foments divisiveness,  incites violence,  savages…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. No, Charlie, we do not need more Senators like Maine’s Susan Collins.  We don’t even need Susan Collins.  What we do need is to flip the Senate and deal responsibly with Covid-19 impacts, revitalize environmental standards to halt…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. News of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death Friday hit hard, but it did not come as a surprise.  She had been diagnosed with cancer five times since 1999 and fought back fiercely. When she succumbed, at the…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. When you’re done reading James H. Barron’s new sweeping biography and political thriller,  “The Greek Connection,” (shameless plug!)  here are some other non-fiction possibilities for the last weeks of summer. Not everything has to be about Donald Trump!…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The most discordant note in Joe Kennedy’s elegiac concession speech on Tuesday night was his observation that, even knowing the outcome, if he had to do it all over again, he would do it “in a heartbeat.” Giving…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog.  RNC a gaslight convention In what universe do Trump Republicans reside?  The world embraced by their national convention is the kind of horror show I’d never pay to see, and couldn’t sit through if it were free. Cue threatening…