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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. If you tuned in late, you might think you were watching The Apprentice, just another episode of Donald Trump’s “You’re fired.” Or you might think a time machine had catapulted us back to the infamous “Saturday night massacre,” when embattled…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Fans’ racial slurs at Fenway Park this week led to national news stories about Boston as a racist city. People are all too quick to believe that and damn the city, as did Saturday Night Live’s Michael Che several weeks ago.…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Speculation is stirring; the mentioners are mentionning. Despair about the lack of a Democratic bench is giving way to thoughts of who may really be “out there” as potential contenders for opposition party candidates for President in 2020.…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Don’t snicker at Donald Trump’s high unfavorable ratings and lack of legislative achievements. He’s doing better than you think. Trump may not have succeeded yet on his promise to repeal/replace the Affordable Care Act. He may not have…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. For Democrats hoping to unseat Republican Governor Charlie Baker in 2018, my advice is: hang onto your day job. Would-be opponents will charge that Baker may be an okay manager, but he lacks vision. Making the charge stick will be…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Once upon a time, when students learned civics in high school, we were taught that one of the inspired decisions of our Founding Fathers was the creation of a bicameral Congress with different yet complementary roles. The House…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Life under Donald Trump resembles what I would imagine a bad LSD trip to be. Psychedelically shocking news one day. Excruciating news the next. Today we awoke to an executive order ending a regulation that officials consider climate change when…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. colorbox.com graphic They say it’s DOA – that all Presidents’ budgets are dead on arrival. We might want to think this is just the opening gambit from the central player in The Art of the Deal, in this…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Twelve days in Florida were a therapeutic escape from grey snow and brutal cold in Massachusetts, but even in the Sunshine State one couldn’t escape the maladies of the political environment. A tour boat along the inland waterway near…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Getty Images Immigration advocates called President Barack Obama the “Deporter in Chief.” His administration deported record numbers of immigrants while Republican critics insist he was soft on illegals. Now comes Trump, with his vastly expanded list of immigrants who…
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