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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron own blog. It wasn’t enough to decimate the core of what was Al Qaeda in 2001.  The landscape in certain hospitable countries like Yemen and Syria is now dotted with Al Qaeda offshoots and affiliates.  And, for the last eight years,…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. “Our credibility in one place affects our credibility in another,” Secretary of State John Kerry told about 20 members of the Association of Opinion Journalists in a briefing Monday at the State Department. Syria’s use of sarin gas…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Check it out. In the early days following the Marathon bombings, the media made plenty of mistakes as reporters rushed to tell the story.  Reports surfaced that the two suspects were under arrest when they were not.  The…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. It’s hard not to be shaken to the core by the horrific attacks at today’s marathon. The deaths, the mutilation, scores of injuries, and fear.  The assault on what can only be described as an iconic (yes, I…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. We left the Calderwood Pavillion in the South End tonight thinking that Ryan Landry’s “M” could be by far the worse play we’ve ever seen, at the Huntington or anywhere else. My husband and I, who  love theater and…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Newark’s charismatic mayor, Cory Booker, took the stage Sunday at Salem State University’s Speaker Series.  A man on the move politically (he’s planning a run for retiring Frank Lautenberg’s U.S. Senate seat in 2014), he’s on the move…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Political correctness run amuck: President Obama felt compelled to apologize to California Attorney General Kamela Harris for calling her “by far the best looking attorney general in the country.” Frankly, the only person who might legitimately feel slighted…

Grassroot video tour of the exterior of the Middlesex Community College building in Lowell. Posted on Youtube by Xenosproduction.

The entry below is being cross-posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The Red Sox opening day victory……what could be better?  I posted the team’s first-place standing on my refrigerator, thinking it might all be downhill from there.  But I felt great. Never mind that the dreaded Yankees are broken old…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Yesterday North Korea announced it’s restarting its nuclear reactor so it can build its nuclear weapons arsenal.  This follows North Korea’s increasingly bellicose posturing over the last couple of months, including a nuclear bomb test in February.   The…