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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Check it out too. Fourth congressional district candidates Sean Bielat (R) and Joe Kennedy III (D) finally met in their only televised debate, on Channel 5′s On the Record.  It’s hard to know how many viewers they had, but it’s…

If you missed Scott Brown’s now famous “I’m not a student in your classroom” statement last night here it is. It is interesting to watch the Senator’s face just prior to the comment as Elizabeth Warren pounds him on his poor voting record on middle class issues. Brown’s angry response…

As you know by now, John Silber, former Boston University Chancellor and candidate for Massachusetts Governor died yesterday. In 1990 one week before the gubernatorial election, Silber held a strong 9% lead over Republican Bill Weld.  On election day, that lead dissipated  into a 4% defeat. Political pundits attribute Silber’s…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. She listened, she learned, and took a big step forward. For weeks,  ,many  sympathetic to Elizabeth Warren’s US Senate candidacy have expressed exasperation at her campaign and her candidate skills. In this, the important first debate against her…

Clint Eastwood arguably gave the most memorable speech at the Republican National Convention. The Hollywood legend addressed Obama using a symbolic empty chair as the President’s surrogate. Eastwood claims the unusual speech was unrehearsed and totally spontaneous. Regardless, it became an immediate “media sensation”. Of course, the people over at…

Here is the audio of Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney saying 47% of Americans are too dependent on the government. According to Politico Romney defended his statement saying, “…the video didn’t fully capture his views or his entire comments about personal responsibility and the role of government in society.” You…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Set aside such unacceptable (and criminal) ”clear and present” dangers such as  shouting Fire in a crowded theater, as a journalist I have always thought of myself as something of a First Amendment absolutist.  That’s being tested these days. The cornerstone…

There is still plenty of time to get in shape to participate in Middlesex Community College’s 5th annual Fitness Challenge. Below are the details, taken directly from the MCC Blog. Middlesex Community College’s third annual Fitness Trail 5K Challenge, a family friendly race/walk, will be held at 10 a.m., Saturday,…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Over the summer it was  rumored that NBC was going to drop David Gregory from the Meet the Press moderator’s chair because of dramatically declining ratings. Would that they had. Except for FOX appearances, Mitt Romney has been…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Check it out too. Should a murderer in prison for life be entitled to an elective surgical procedure at taxpayers’ expense?  Fifty state legislators have asked the state Department of Corrections to appeal Judge Mark Wolf’s decision that…