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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Former Ambassador Nikki Haley and Governor Ron DeSantis were like two playground kids pretending to be scorpions in a bottle in Wednesday night’s debate, jabbing at each other, oblivious to the big foot about to crush them…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Few windows into today’s higher education leadership were as shocking as the testimony of three distinguished university presidents (from Harvard, Penn and MIT) before the star chamber hearing of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron own blog. It’s bedtime for 2023. It has been an ugly year. Ukraine. Hamas’ October 7th attack. Bloodshed in Gaza. Wildfires and floods from global warming. House of Representatives chaos and gridlock. Biden’s slump in polls. Social media’s pollution of young…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Small wonder that public approval of Congress ranges between 13 and a scant 15 percent. The year started with chaos and the gelding of Speaker Kevin McCarthy after 15 marathon rounds of voting. It ends with the House commencing an…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. As the nights get shorter and colder, here are some novels to curl up with by the fire, even if you read them on Kindle. The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride is a delightful novel set…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. As many of us sit down to bountiful Thanksgiving dinners, it’s all too easy to forget about the more than 17,000 homeless people in the midst of well-off Massachusetts. We have the seventh highest per capita rate of…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Remember Entebbe? Look it up. It was the site of a 1976 Israeli operation to rescue 248 hostages from an Air France flight captured by Palestinian terrorists and given sanctuary by Ugandan dictator Idi Amin. The non-Israelis were…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. No matter how heavy the topic of the following books any one of them can be a temporary departure from the world around us, helping us better understand the seeds of today’s chaos . Time’s Echo: The…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. My husband and I are no longer COVID virgins. A two-week bout with COVID, from which we’re just emerging, left me feeling disinclined to write but very much inclined to seek comfort in reading. Fiction was the…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. In a recent surreal interview, ousted Speaker Kevin McCarthy blamed the Democrats for the chaos in the House of Representatives. (He wasn’t the only GOP official trying to sell that bill of goods.) The public isn’t buying it. Let’s be clear. McCarthy…