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The best line of last night’s presidential debate came from President Obama who explained to Republican Candidate Mitt Romney that the nature of America’s military has changed. Check it out below.

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. South Dakota Senator George McGovern’s 1972 run for the White House was the last Presidential campaign I ever worked on. My journalistic career appropriately barred political involvement. But, as a good and decent man who stood up for…

My favorite bumper sticker of all-time is “Don’t Blame Me, I’m From Massachusetts”…which was a reaction to Richard Nixon’s involvement in the Watergate Scandal shortly after his landslide victory over George McGovern in the 1972 presidential election. Nixon won 49 states and McGovern the “peace” candidate only won one…Massachusetts. George…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. When it comes down to the last weeks and days of an excruciating dying process, it’s all about options.  If I am terminally ill, determined by my physician to be within six months of dying from an incurable…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Last night’s vice presidential debate, expertly moderated by ABC’s Martha Raddatz (a former Channel 5 colleague), was engaging, high energy, substantively revealing, stylistically contrasting, and reassuring to partisans on both sides.  (David Brooks’ piece in today’s NY Times…

Here is Saturday Night Live’s take on last weeks presidential debate.

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. For years, as an editorialist, I supported the medical use of marijuana. I anguished when a cancer-stricken friend, deathly ill from the side effects of chemotherapy, was afraid to smoke pot because it was illegal, notwithstanding reports that…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. After last night’s Brown-Warren debate at UMass Lowell, co-sponsored by the Boston Herald, supporters of the two spilled into parking lots outside Tsongas Arena, arguing over which candidate won, but they were agreed that the clear loser was…

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…