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The entry below is being corss posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. A fresh Washington Post/Pew Research Center poll shows that while Americans feel really good about the demise of Osama bin Laden, few think we’re home free when it comes to the threat of terrorism. Seven in ten believe…
Read More »As suggested by a former First Lady to “Remember the Ladies” – on this day May 3, 1940 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt invited a group of Democratic women to meet with him at the White House. These woman were to be in Washington, DC to attend a meeting of the “women’s division” of…
Read More »Tony Sampas finds poetry in the geometry of Lowell’s mills.
Read More »Here is a video taken by a Citizen Journalist of the compound in which Osama Bin Laden was killed by American forces.
Read More »An IT contractor named Sohaib Athar unknowingly tweeted the American assault on Osama Bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan. Below is Athar’s tweet thread from the night of the attack. In order to make the text easier to understand, I reverse ordered the posts so they read from earliest to latest…
Read More »On April 24, 1980, the world awoke to news that the a rescue mission launched by the United States to retrieve its Iranian Embassy personnel who were being held hostage in Tehran had ended in a deadly failure. While at an intermediate position known as Desert One, a series of…
Read More »The “Open Court” project begins a pilot experiment in public access today in the busy Quincy, Massachusetts District Court. Court proceedings will be streamed live over the Web for anyone to see – in fact as I write I’m viewing/listening to the action. From an AP story: “The courtroom, which usually does…
Read More »Growing up in the 1960s and 70s, I always watched the network news on May 1 because that’s the day that the Soviet Union would parade its most advanced military equipment through Red Square as part of that country’s May Day celebration. To contrast the Soviet glorification of military power,…
Read More »Frequent contributor Jim Peters shared some thoughts with us over the weekend: I have been reading a bit of Robert Burns, the Scottish poet, and I really enjoy reading a poem he dedicated to a louse on a lady’s bonnet at church. He uses most of the poem to describe…
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