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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…

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…