What If The Adults Had Been In Charge? By Leonard Zwelling At this point, if there is one thing that both Democrats and Republicans can agree upon is that the response to the threat of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States has been mediocre, at best. Our infection rate is high. Our death […]
A Covid Break In Ohio By Leonard Zwelling Twenty-three consecutive weeks in Houston. It was a record for me. One hundred sixty-one consecutive days without being on an airplane. I think that’s a record, too. We had flown into Bush Intercontinental on February 29, 2020 from Palm Springs as the news of the coronavirus
The Common Factor: Coronavirus And The Beirut Explosion–Negligence By Leonard Zwelling Back and forth. The arguments come to me through my email and on the blog. It’s all Trump’s fault. Biden is senile and would be a disaster. The coronavirus is just a bad flu year and we should have kept everything open. No,
Cancel Culture, Wokeness and Revenge Of The Left By Leonard Zwelling Lance Morrow writes about the rise of the new cancel culture and wokeness on the left of the political spectrum in The Wall Street Journal on August 3. It is a subject that I have been wrestling with for a number of months
Gold By Leonard Zwelling There is a compelling new sports documentary on HBO called “The Weight of Gold.” It is narrated by super-Olympian Michael Phelps who is also an executive producer. It was directed by Brett Rapkin. Its story is a simple one and a horrible one all at once. It is that the
A Message To My Republican Friends: You Spoiled The Party By Leonard Zwelling Yes, it’s true. I actually have Republican friends. Remember I served in the office of a GOP senator and became friendly with the late Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) while I was on Capitol Hill. There is much to be liked in
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A Mixed-Up Idea Of Freedom By Leonard Zwelling The editorials are too numerous to list. Finally people are coming to their senses about what the real threat to America is. It is not the coronavirus although that is real and a threat. For now. I really believe that by this time next year we
Congress: A Lot Worse Than When I Was There in 2009 By Leonard Zwelling Back in 2009, just after having returned from my year in Washington, DC serving on the staff of the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, I wrote an op-ed in the Houston Chronicle outlining some of the
1942: Worse Than 2020 By Leonard Zwelling A big thank you to one of my favorite columnists, George Will, for pointing out this forgotten bit of American history. There have been worse times for the country than now. I always think of 1968. He went back a bit further—to 1942. Obviously, on New
Our Mess, Part 2 By Leonard Zwelling Never have I received responses to a blog like I did after the one on Monday, July 27 entitled Our Mess. Not only did I get responses, they were all over the place from castigating me for supporting the viewpoint of Heather Mac Donald to full throated
