by Ron Barak | Dec 24, 2015
In my most recent blog, I told you the true story about Mark the Plumber, from Texas, not to be confused with Joe the Plumber—and how ISIS is using social media and humorous photos of Mark’s truck surrounded by ISIS soldiers for great laughter—humiliating not only...
by Ron Barak | Dec 17, 2015
Early today, unsubstantiated threats were sent to the country’s two largest school districts, New York and Los Angeles. They reacted night and day differently. New York played the odds, concluded the threat was not credible and kept its schools open, business as...
by Ron Barak | Dec 15, 2015
As we all prepare to select a new President next year (unless you maybe want to do it sooner!), I started thinking about what it is that make for a good leader, if not a great one. Here are five traits or qualities that occur to me: 1. Knowledge and intelligence...
by Ron Barak | Nov 23, 2015
Inversion layer brings Ma Bell to Health Care. Sound like a weather report? Of sorts, it just might be. An inversion layer is generally understood to be “a layer of warm air overlying an area of cold air causing temperatures to increase with height.” In this case,...
by Ron Barak | Nov 20, 2015
It has been extensively reported that one of the reasons the terrorists were not preemptively cut off before the the carnage they wreaked last Friday in Paris is that they were able to encrypt their communications so they could not be intercepted and followed. Another...
by Ron Barak | Nov 15, 2015
Making a mistake is not the end of the world. We all make them. What is the end of the world is when we don’t learn from the ones we make so that we don’t repeat them. That’s what the GOP is doing. Seemingly not learning a thing from the errors it made leading...
