Leonard Zwelling

EXTRA: The American Health Care Act By Leonard Zwelling https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/22/us/senate-health-care-bill.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0 For a quick summary, these are pretty good. The bottom line is rather simple. First, why do this at all? Answer, the uncertainty plaguing the insurance markets due to all of the talk about the Republican repeal of the ACA during the campaign and the …

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Guns—Again By Leonard Zwelling I have said it before and I will say it again, this country’s infatuation with firearms is deadly and unnecessary. The latest evidence, the shooting at a baseball field in Virginia on Wednesday morning, June 14, created yet another frenzy of hand-wringing that will undoubtedly come to nothing with regard to …

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Sycophants By Leonard Zwelling One needs go no further than this shameful video of a recent Trump Cabinet meeting to comprehend the trouble the United States finds itself in under this president. Mr. Trump goes around the room extracting praise from all of his surrogates in the various departments of the executive branch of the …

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Will Melania Make This Better? By Leonard Zwelling Maybe that’s what has been missing from Donald Trump’s White House life. A good woman. Now that his wife has moved into his new home that was formerly known as the White House and now as Mar-a-Loco, perhaps he can stay in bed until at least six …

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He Said, He Said By Leonard Zwelling No one is quite sure what to believe about the one-on-one meeting between President Trump and James Comey at which Mr. Trump “hoped” out loud that Mr. Comey would go easy on Michael Flynn, his just resigned Director of National Intelligence. It is reasonable that Comey took the …

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On Being Fired-Part II: It’s Tough Not To take It Personally By Leonard Zwelling “Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.” This is a quote attributed to Carrie Fisher in Wishful Drinking but probably has its origins earlier. It is true, nonetheless. That being said, it was clear during …

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On Being Fired-Part I-The Comey Hearing By Leonard Zwelling I have been fired—several times. It always feels awful, but is often for the best. I have found that in each instance of being fired, understanding why was critically important. It lessened the likelihood that I would make a similar error in the future and often …

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Africa, Part III-Zambia, Zimbabwe and This Is Not Victory By Leonard Zwelling The small planes banked in tandem over Livingstone in Zambia. They land and we go through yet another customs line to enter another country. We are fortunate. This day they were allowing a multi-pass visa to both Zambia and Zimbabwe for only $50 …

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Africa Part II-The Big Five By Leonqrd Zwelling The plane ride from Capetown in the southwest to Ngala and Kruger National Park in the northeast took about 2 and ½ hours in a four-engine prop plane from South Africa Airlines. The landing site is Hoedspruit Airport, a tiny remote landing zone. From there it was …

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Africa-Part I By Leonard Zwelling Genie had wanted to visit South Africa for years. So we set out to do so on May 17, thus the absence of blogs for the past week or so. Couldn’t I take the lap top? Not if I ever wanted to see it again for we were coming back …

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