March 2015

Low Morale Is the Symptom, Not the Problem. Just Ask the Spouses

Low Morale Is the Symptom, Not the Problem. Just Ask the Spouses By Leonard Zwelling (With special thanks to a friend of long-standing)          For at least 2 years, through 4 individual surveys of faculty psyche, the party line has been that there is a problem with faculty morale. I disagree. Low morale, as measured

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King v. Burwell: ObamaCare On Trial, Health Care Reform Still Needed

King v. Burwell: ObamaCare On Trial, Health Care Reform Still Needed By Leonard Zwelling (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/09/us/politics/some-supreme-court-justices-cite-2012-argument-against-health-care-law-as-defense-for-it-now.html?ref=us&_r=0)          In a final attempt to bury the Affordable Care Act (ACA, ObamaCare), the forces of objection, both conservative and libertarian, are trying to use the phrase in the law that denotes subsidies only for “state exchanges” as a means

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When Four Years Is More Than Enough

When Four Years Is More Than Enough By Leonard Zwelling          In 1980 America was reeling from the self-declared malaise of its thermostat-lowering, cardigan-wearing President, Jimmy Carter. The economy was stalled. Interest rates were climbing. Gas lines had been endured. American diplomats had been captured with our embassy in Iran and the President’s rescue attempt

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EXTRA: The Anti-Semitism at UCLA

EXTRA: The Anti-Semitism at UCLA By Leonard Zwelling          That’s enough.          The BDS, boycott, divestments and sanctions, movements on college campuses that aim to economically target the State of Israel for its heavy-handed use of force against the Arabs who live in the former British Mandate of Palestine (aka, self-titled Palestinians) is bad enough.

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Hillary’s E-Mails: Why Anyone Should Care

Hillary’s E-Mails: Why Anyone Should Care By Leonard Zwelling          Like Mt. St. Helen’s, this story is exploding into the blogosphere and there are really two questions that must be addressed:          Why is this even a story?          Why should anyone care?          Anything involving the Clintons is a story because that’s the way

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Ben Carson, MD: Proving That Just Because You Are A Great Doctor Does Not Mean You Are A Great Leader

Ben Carson, MD: Proving That Just Because You Are A Great Doctor Does Not Mean You Are A Great Leader By Leonard Zwelling          I have a friend who is an attorney who says that for $197 anyone can sue anyone in Texas.          Perhaps it is also true that anyone with an MD degree

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