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Thanksgiving By Paul Hudon Thanksgiving this year falls on the 24th, the eighth anniversary of the press conference when president-elect Obama announced his nomination of Tim Geithner as Secretary of the Treasury and Larry Summers as Director of the National Economic Council. And so for me, this Thanksgiving is the…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Critics of my blogs may be delighted to know that my operating system was corrupted, and I have been without a computer for two weeks. It was a most peculiar time to be silenced. Hallelujah, the tech crisis is…
Read More »In company with our readers, I have been thinking about the election results and reading articles left-right-and-center for a week. How did Donald Trump manage one of the epic upsets in American political history? Why did so many people who analyze government and politics for a living miss what was…
Read More »Michael Moore had his finger on the Trump revolution months ago. He predicted the wins in Penn-Mich-Wisc-Ohio, as well as the Jesse Ventura Effect of voters making mischief because they can. Now he says get up off the mat if you were not for Trump and get to work. That’s…
Read More »What bothers me as much as anything on this day after is that the Congressional Republicans were rewarded by voters, not all voters but enough of them, for taking their football and going home for the past six years. They did almost nothing to help move America forward. We could…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Last Sunday, when the Cubs were down 3-1 to Cleveland, celebrated prognosticator Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight proclaimed that the Cubs had a smaller chance of winning the World Series than Trump did winning the presidency. More recently, he’s…
Read More »We are on the doorstep of an American presidential election result that will either be the most disruptive since 2000 (see my colleague Dick’s post today) or a decision to stay the course with a moderate, compassionate, fact-based White House administration. Are we headed toward a Brexit-type repudiation of the…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I voted early yesterday. Ten minutes before the City Hall polling place was to open a line was forming. Quickly 50 or 60 people joined the line. The stream was constant. To the extent that there was…
Read More »MSNBC’s journalist Rachel Maddow presented this clip of former Supreme Court Justice David Souter warning about the real peril to our democracy, the arrival on scene of a “strong man” who will be given control of our government. He said this will only happen as a result of “civic ignorance.”…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Last night’s video of Donald Trump, showing lewd behavior, coarse language, gutter-level attitude toward women and boasts of Bill Cosby-like predatory actions, shows nothing new about this extreme misogynist. Perhaps the video shocks because it so starkly portrays his fundamental character…
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