The Real American Dilemma By Leonard Zwelling It is not often that so much is explained in so small a space. The New York Times op-ed page on February 25, 2019 contains two columns that go a long way to explaining the chaos in America and the reason Donald Trump was able to wrest the […]
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Boredom And The Need For An Activist Congress By Leonard Zwelling https://www.wsj.com/articles/politics-has-become-boring-againand-thats-a-relief-11550619773 https://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-emergency-is-test-for-congress-11550619983?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=1 Two op-eds in the Wall Street Journal of February 20 answer a lot of questions about how the government in Washington is working—or not. In the first, F. H. Buckley of the Scalia Law School makes the point that Americans get bored
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Measles By Leonard Zwelling I’m basically a libertarian. I believe that anyone should be allowed to do whatever he or she wants as long as it does not hurt anyone else. I am a strict capitalist who believes in supply and demand. I believe that people can strive to make as much money as they
What Progressives Don’t Get About Israel By Leonard Zwelling Bret Stephens has become one of my favorite columnists on the staff of The New York Times. His clear-eyed, clear-headed opinion pieces seem to me neither left nor right leaning, but rather centered on common sense, which is always uncommon. This piece in The Times on
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Institutional Stories By Leonard Zwelling Tim Kreider wrote a very thoughtful op-ed piece in The New York Times on Sunday, February 10. In essence it was about “America’s War Of Stories” or the competing beliefs/truths/facts that are circulating through the Internet and influencing the way people perceive their neighbors and their country. It should be
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What Constitutes A Real Crisis By Leonard Zwelling https://www.wsj.com/articles/can-trump-handle-a-foreign-crisis-11549583825 https://www.wsj.com/articles/bezos-vs-the-enquirer-could-be-a-watershed-11549667933 The two op-eds in Saturday’s Wall Street Journal couldn’t have been more different (February 9). In the first the stalwart Peggy Noonan makes a great case for the luck of the Trump team in not having to face a true foreign crisis in its first
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The Real MTP Story: From The Inside By Leonard Zwelling I was a witness to scientific history. Someday, that history will be written in the textbooks. But not yet. https://wapo.st/2N5R1vl?tid=ss_mail&utm_term=.a80e4c108e38 As this perceptive op-ed from The Washington Post demonstrates, muramyl tri-peptide encapsulated in a lipid delivery vehicle (liposome) is an immunostimulant that activates macrophages to
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Matthew Whitaker: Trump’s Wall By Leonard Zwelling Spending one of your last days on a job being grilled by members of Congress can’t be fun. And, it didn’t look like much fun for Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker on February 8, BUT he prevailed. He really said nothing new besides the fact that he was
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After SOTU: The Country Is Still Divided By Leonard Zwelling At 7 PM Eastern Time on February 5, I was in heaven. At least the heaven on Earth known as Cameron Indoor Stadium on the campus of Duke University for the tip-off of the basketball game between Boston College and the Duke Blue Devils. My
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