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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Where has all the outcry gone? Last April, when the radical jihadist group Boko Haram kidnapped 200 Nigerian schoolgirls, politicians and celebrities here and abroad protested their treacherous act. “Where are our girls?” became the social media cause de jour, but…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. We don’t need a Rockwell painting to remind us that Thanksgiving is all about those who came to this nation as immigrants. Everyone, of course, except the Native Americans. The Pilgrims came to escape religious persecution. My great…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Check it out too. It’s as if we learned that Mr. Rogers was a pedophile, or Marcus Welby had sexually assaulted patients in his exam room. This week we learned that Bill Cosby, the apogee of middle class…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Most of us probably find ourselves somewhere around the center of contemporary political thought, whether it’s to the right of center or left of center. Our movement in elections often determine outcomes, and we’re usually out of touch with…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. This fall marks the 50th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement at U.C. Berkeley, a pivotal moment in the history of student activism and political organizing that laid the groundwork for the antiwar movement and other social causes. …
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Governor-elect Charlie Baker is off to a good start. He was gracious to losing candidate Martha Coakley on election night and the day after. He struck the right tone with Deval Patrick in discussing the transition. Pushed to…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Tip O’Neill famously said all politics is local. Yesterday, Republicans won big by turning that adage on its head. They nationalized state races and turned President Obama’s unpopularity and his administration’s failures into anvils around the necks of…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. New York City likes to see itself as informed and sophisticated, but the city’s response to its first case of ebola was anything but. The headlines screamed “Ebola in NYC.” News stories on television and on the electrified sides…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Tonight’s televised benign if mildly tense debate between Charlie Baker and Martha Coakley was clearly a draw, which may have been the defensive objective of all concerned. Comfortably moderated by WGBH talk show hosts Jim Braude and Margery Eagan,…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Forget the Pilgrim, the Minuteman and the Indian (Squanto?). The real symbol of Massachusetts is the pothole. The state has done a dreadful job of keeping up our infrastructure. There are particularly bad places where hubcaps pile up…
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