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New York, California, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Oregon, Indiana, Connecticut, Maryland, Arizona, and many other states have not yet held primaries or caucuses for the presidential race, and yet the media experts are in a rush to declare victors on both sides. This is what’s wrong with the approach used every four…
Read More »Jeffrey Goldberg in “The Atlantic” magazine’s new issue has an extraordinary and fascinating long article about President Barack Obama’s view of the world. It’s the most in-depth exploration of the President’s foreign-policy ideas and values that I’ve read in his two terms. For its length and complexity, the publication of…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Lincoln/Douglas it was not. Last night’s Hillary Clinton/Bernie Sanders face-off in Florida was substantive but problematic. The debate was feisty, often angry, occasionally misleading but, like the one in Flint, Michigan the week before, on a much higher…
Read More »It’s been a while since I’ve dragged over a link from my daily reading on the web, but this piece from the Brookings think tank by Norman Ornstein and Thomas Mann seems to me to be spot on about what has corroded America’s civic culture. Here’s the link so you…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I hope Les Moonves is happy. The head of CBS said that Donald Trump is great for business.“Donald’s place in this election is a good thing,” Moonves said at a conference Monday in San Francisco. Trump’s circus-like…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Remember when it seemed fairly certain that voters in November would have to choose between Clinton and Bush dynasties? Over the last nine months, voter anger and dissatisfaction have laid waste to that aura of inevitability on both sides of the…
Read More »The media commentariat and political insiders seem astounded that Bernie Sanders is attracting vast support among young voters on the Democratic side. Setting aside Bernie’s views on government policies and social values, remember that people in their 20s grew up watching movies that featured a wise old man with special…
Read More »Last week, State Representative Rady Mom held a pre-Iowa Caucus Straw Poll at the home of Lisa Gwiazda and Matt Donahue. Besides indicating their preference for president in 2016, attendees were asked to bring or where their favorite presidential campaign memorabilia. I wasn’t able to attend, by I’m told by…
Read More »On the eve of the Iowa caucuses and with political ads in heavy rotation on Boston TV stations in advance of the New Hampshire primary, here’s a poem with a bit of politics in it from the vault that goes back to 1988. I rarely use rhyme in compositions, but this one…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Fox News may have missed Donald Trump. Its viewership was down to 11-13 million viewers, half what they got in the first debate last fall. (The Democrats’ debates have had only eight million viewers, thanks to DNC Chair…
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