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The entry below is being corss posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Picnics, parades, fireworks, and concerts – all wonderfully traditional ways to celebrate the birth of our country and the values embraced in our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. In an article published in today’s highly respected Commonwealth…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. How can someone be an ostrich, a worm, a sheep, a jackal and a dodo all at the same time? It’s no zoological mystery. Trump supporters in Congress – the House particularly – do it every day,…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. As my followers can tell, I do love reading, which served me well during my recovery. But this finishes my current reviews. Happily, I have returned to normal life, seeing friends, going to restaurants, trying to outwit…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Recently defenestrated Chris Licht is now the former CNN chair and CEO. He had been successful in his previous roles, including show-running the Stephen Colbert show, but he was in over his head – running one of the the three…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Rachael Rollins seemed to have such promise. She was a gutsy woman, highly articulate in a no-nonsense way. Willing to stand up to hardened criminals. Eager to challenge a cookie-cutter system of justice with an ingrained preference for…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Painfully recovering from seven broken ribs wasn’t all bad. It enabled a ton of reading. The following represents a few of the books with which I busied myself. More will be posted soon. A Burning by Megha Majumdar is a…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Toxic politics, anti-democratic nativism, uncivil behavior and willful stupidity – all dominate our sense of life in the United States today. But every once in a while, something happens that renews one’s faith in the human condition. One…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I remember when the U. S. Supreme Court was held in high esteem.Today less than a third of Americans polled view SCOTUS even somewhat favorably. Justice Clarence Thomas is a poster boy for why that is so. With a…