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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…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Last night’s vice presidential debate, expertly moderated by ABC’s Martha Raddatz (a former Channel 5 colleague), was engaging, high energy, substantively revealing, stylistically contrasting, and reassuring to partisans on both sides.  (David Brooks’ piece in today’s NY Times…

Today, 3.30 pm, O’Leary Library, Wilder St, South Campus Music and Prose Singer-songwriter Tanya Donelly and author Rick Moody discuss songwriting, artistic influences, and inspiration, as well as their collaborations that experiment with the line between music-making and prose-writing. Thurs., Oct 11, 3.30 pm, O’Leary Library, Wilder St, South Campus…

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…