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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Walter Palmer’s pleasure in life is apparently hunting and killing large animals, legally or illegally. In the last few days, millions of people around the world have come to know that the American “sportsman” has slain Zimbabwe national treasure Cecil,…
Read More »photo Boston Globe The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, who has long seemed in thrall to the Boston 2024 Olympic bid, said at a press conference this morning that he refuses “to mortgage the future of the city away.”…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. A serious debate over the bid to bring the 2024 Olympics to Boston was a good idea. What took place Thursday night wasn’t. Promising a no-rules, informal format, the two moderators (the Boston Globe’s Sasha Pfeiffer and…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Former Massachusetts House Speaker Sal DiMasi used his office to enrich himself to the tune of $65,000, securing a state contract for Cognos, which paid him on a monthly basis for his efforts. The third House Speaker…
Read More »photo Washington Post The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. When John F. Kennedy was asked how he became a hero in World War II, he said, “It was involuntary. They sank my boat.” But it wasn’t the Japanese sinking of PT 109 that made JFK a…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Jeb Bush put his foot in it last week when explaining his aspirations for improving the economy. His assertion that “people need to work longer hours” continues to prompt outrage. Even looking at it in context doesn’t help…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The July Fourth holiday heightens an appreciation of the remarkable events of last week, events that validate our forebears’ notion “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Massachusetts is officially a casino state. Yesterday at two p.m. a slots parlor opened to the public in Plainville. Penn National reportedly spent $250 million to build and start up the facility, the first to bring Las Vegas…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Thirty-six hours after Dylann Storm Roof slaughtered their loved ones in a Charleston, S.C AME Church, family members of the victims grieved their loss but urged the mass murderer be treated with grace, dignity and forgiveness. Like Nadine Collier,…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Take a yellow legal pad. Draw a line down the middle. Put Hillary Clinton’s pluses on one side and minuses on the other. The symmetry is disturbing. Let’s start with the good stuff. I confess to a…
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