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G. Wesley Clark, MD
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December 8, 2014
A Medical Perspective on the Garner TragedyWhen the initial news of the death of Eric Garner occurred, it seemed a minor occurrence – very important to Mr. Garner and his family, but not a major national event. Now it has become the genesis of nationwide mindless protests, over th...
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October 19, 2014
Ebola and the Centers for Dissimulation and ConfusionThe first thing to understand about Ebola is that we don't understand very much about Ebola. The virus was first identified in 1976 in the blood of a Belgian nun who died of the disease, and whose job was, incidentally, giving injections to...
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February 3, 2012
Fast and Furious ThrillFormer DNI General Michael Hayden, writing an opinion for CNN, barely suppresses his glee in describing the irony, and the schadenfreud likely delighting the Intelligence community, at Attorney General Eric Holder's current predicament arising from t...
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February 2, 2012
Fast and Furious ThrillFormer DNI General Michael Hayden, writing an opinion for CNN, barely suppresses his glee in describing the irony of Attorney General Eric Holder's current predicament arising from the Fast and Furious scandal, and the schadenfreude likely delig...
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March 20, 2011
President Obama Goes to War - Without CongressNormal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ...
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October 20, 2010
Oxymoron: A smart liberal?Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ...
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October 8, 2010
ICE Doesn't Want to be TRAC'dThe Obama Administration has been under heavy fire for ignoring border security, and manipulating border and immigration enforcement to avoid deporting illegal immigrants, using any plausible excuse, even to the point of assigning a team of attorneys...
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September 16, 2010
Sharia - What Every American Must KnowNormal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ...
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September 8, 2010
Democrats and the 'KopechneTreatment' for marginal candidatesNormal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ...
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May 13, 2010
Eric Holder accidentally tells the truthAttorney General Eric Holder testified, to the House Judiciary Committee, while nervously scratching his brow, that the decisions of the Justice Department "are done in a political way". Most likely, he meant to say "in an apolit...
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May 5, 2010
How close was the Times Sqauare bomber to getting away?How close did the Times Square bomber come to getting away? The FBI lost him from surveillance, and did not locate him until the final passenger list was submitted from Emirates airlines, after the doors of the plane were closed.Eric Holder says he ...
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February 3, 2010
Newfoundland Premier heads to US for heart surgeryNormal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ...
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December 29, 2009
The Napolitano strategy for dealing with 'underwear bombers'Eight years ago, the Shoe Bomber carried explosives on board an airliner, concealed in his shoes. Ever since, countless millions of hapless travelers have suffered the indignity and inconvenience juggling and tracking their laptops and iPods thru t...
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December 19, 2009
Hentoff on ObamaNormal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ...
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December 7, 2009
A brilliant idea from the Wall Street Journal on creating jobsThe Wall Street Journal has proposed a new stimulus plan, that will create many more new jobs, will actually save taxpayer's money, and is more likely to succeed than anything like the White House's new cockamamie proposal to pay homeowners to weath...
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September 10, 2009
Political MalpracticeAs a counterpoint to President Obama's proposals for increasing government interference in the healthcare system, Gregory Conko and Philip Klein of the Competitive Enterprise Institute have issued a detailed analytical report, entitled "Politica...
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August 31, 2009
Medical 'Best Practices' Change Rapidly -- Regulations Don'tIn a carefully reasoned commentary published in the Wall Street Journal, Drs. Jerome Groopman and Pamela Hartzband challenge the fundamental negative allegations of bureaucratic federal agencies, such as the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality...
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August 27, 2009
No more privacy under ObamaCareUnder the ObamaCare healthcare nightmare, the private details of your medical history would be made accessible to an unknown number of government bureaucrats, for supposedly legal purposes, but also for illegal snooping by thousands of government emp...
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August 25, 2009
Liberal Fascism is not a book anymoreThe fog is clearing, and the Progressive path is becoming clearer.At his Liberal Fascism blog, author Jonah Goldberg starkly recapitulates the progress of the State under Obama:Let's see. Off the top of my head, in the first six months of Obama's pre...
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August 24, 2009
Now There You Go Again -- More Whoppers from ObamaPresident Obama has assembled another whopper meal for those who still hunger for more baloney and believe he will not tell a lie. His latest installment in the chaotic galaxy of his contradictory assertions is a virtual chain of the same tired...
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August 18, 2009
No right of appeal in ObamaCareA so far little-noticed feature of the ObamaCare monstrosity is systematic denial of patient's rights to appeal to judicial review of the actions taken by the overlords of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), now ruled by the progressi...
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August 17, 2009
A doctor responds to Obama's NYT op-edMr. President, I just read your op-ed in the New York Times. You must either be incredibly ignorant (e.g., pediatricians performing tonsillectomies, surgeons being paid $50,000 for an amputation), or else you believe that Americans are incredib...