The Bleeding Edge By Leonard Zwelling And you think the drug companies are corrupt. Check out The Bleeding Edge directed by Kirby Dick, a documentary about the medical device industry, its oversight (or lack thereof), and who is making money off the patients, despite the large number of these people being harmed by the devices. […]
I Feel Jeff Sessions’ Pain By Leonard Zwelling Apparently, Mr. Trump has suggested via yet another Tweet Storm that Attorney General Jeff Sessions ought to pull the plug on the Mueller probe. Mr. Sessions, to his credit, is largely ignoring his boss, something that the recused AG has gotten really good at over the months
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Moving Forward-Tomorrow By Leonard Zwelling This blog has made the case for a thorough review of how the mess at MD Anderson that culminated in the dismissal of Ron DePinho ever occurred in an institution of such high repute. How did conflict of interest become a way of life at Anderson? When did executives at
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Do Investigations Into The Past Matter? By Leonard Zwelling It seems that the more we investigate misdeeds, the fewer miscreants actually go to jail. It seems that way, but the Mueller probe suggests that this conclusion has its exceptions. Already five people including a former National Security Advisor have pleaded guilty and over 30 people
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Trump Doesn’t Understand What Money Is By Leonard Zwelling In a truly tasteless and tactless ploy to retain the support of his Midwest farming Trumpees, Donald Trump will use a fund that was established 85 years ago to protect farmers from natural disasters to offset the effect of the disaster that his tariff war is
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Who Needs Enemies With Friends Like Michael Cohen? By Leonard Zwelling Trump takes strange bedfellows. From Stormy Daniels to his latest Playboy model Karen McDougal, Mr. Trump certainly has a way with women. And apparently with men too. No, not like that. He can’t seem to develop a business relationship with guys that doesn’t blow
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70 By Leonard Zwelling Time flies when you’re having fun. That has got to be the explanation for the fact that on Sunday, July 22, I turned 70 years old. The party was a great one put on by my wife, kids and daughter-in-law at a brewery (where else?). That took place the week before.
President Or King: Which Have We Got? By Leonard Zwelling David Armitage is a professor of history at Harvard. In his opinion piece in the NY Times on July 14, he makes note of the kingly powers retained in the Constitution for the President of the United States. Chief among these powers is that of
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Denial and Appeasement By Leonard Zwelling The news conference was shocking even if Mr. Trump is trying to walk it all back reading from notes today. The President of the United States (I know, it’s still shocking that the title belongs to Donald Trump) stood side by side with the President of Russia and claimed
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Real Witches By Leonard Zwelling Mr. Trump has called the Mueller investigation a witch hunt as recently as his press conference on July 13 with Theresa May. I guess he must be right because yet again, Mr. Mueller’s team has turned up some real witches. The count of indictments is over 30 and several have
