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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I agree with this four-year-old child in Colorado, driven to tears by the election. Politico made public that National Public Radio apologized to this adorable child whose pain I share. I find I’m repeating to myself the NPR…

These three videos were first posted by Len Lochrie. Taken from the same vantage point in Lowell, they show the increase in intensity of Hurricane Sandy.

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has announced it will no longer endorse political candidates, except in some rare undefined instances. What a travesty! Let’s face it. A newspaper or television station’s endorsement of a candidate probably has little impact…

So according to John Sununu…Colin Powell supports Barack Obama for “race” reasons? I wonder, does he support Mitt Romney for the same reason?

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The Mitt Romney who showed up at last night’s foreign policy debate agreed with President Obama on the majority of issues discussed and points raised. And, because the President has been dealing with them on the ground for…

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…