Can the FBI Prevent US Citizens from Entering the Country?

If you are not answering strongly in the negative, then you need to re-read the Constitution.
The story is here.
A naturalized US citizen and his US-born son have been denied entry to the US because they refuse to talk to the FBI and undergo a polygraph test. They are coming from Pakistan and are the [...]

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Making Mistakes

I want to dive into a new area today and actually talk about some things I’ve seen in the clinic and in the hospital to try to illustrate some ‘greater truths’. I do this with a little trepidation as I’m a staunch believer in patients’ rights to privacy and talking about an individual patient’s [...]

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Happy Anniversary to Me!

Well, month-iversary really. Anyway, I’ve been blogging with WordPress for 1 month now (more or less – 30 days anyway) and have a few stats to show for it:

Posts: 34
Comments: 20
Total visits: no idea (WordPress doesn’t tell me that), but I can tell you that I doubt it’s very many!
Links to this site: 0
Most [...]

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Lincoln says: ‘Hang Them’?

I would like to urge all my readers (all two of you!) to start visiting FactCheck.org on a regular basis. This is a site run by the Annenberg Public Policy Center whose mission is to monitor the ‘accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, [...]

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Yet another episode of ‘You’ve Got To Be Kidding Me’, courtesy of ‘The War On Terror’

I’m breaking my promise already.  Get a load of this editorial from the NY Times.  This poor guy is being harassed by the FBI for supporting the destruction of a dam so fish could move more freely through the river.
A local paper reported that Mr. Bensman told the [Army] Corps [of Engineers] he “would like [...]

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Plan B is Here.

It’s official. Plan B is soon to be available over the counter. Actually, it’s to be kept behind the counter and only available to women over 18 without a prescription, but this is a success none-the-less. I personally think it should be available to all women, all the time, but I can [...]

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Goodbye GG! We’ll miss ya!

We had a death in clinic this week. Not a patient. Our nursing assistant, GG (I’m not sure if it’s worth keeping up this anonymous nonsense, but I guess I started it; I might as well stick with it.) died suddenly and totally unexpectedly. Apparently she felt bad on Tuesday night and [...]

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Alendronate for GC-induced bone loss

There are two articles in last week’s New England Journal of Medicine worth looking at (login required for access): one is a randomized trial of alendronate in glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis, and the other is a review article of Paget’s disease of bone. I want to review the first of these here (N Engl J Med [...]

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Apologies

I’m a little behind on my blogging. My plan was to try to get in at least two posts on weekends, and a few throughout the work week, but this weekend Mrs. C and I are up at my parents.  It’s turned into a little family reunion with all my brothers and sisters here, not [...]

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Strike One …

Our fearless leader has had his first strikeout on domestic wiretapping outside of FISA. A federal judge has sided with the ACLU and others to find warrant-less wiretapping a violation of the First and Fourth Amendments, and and overstepping of the line between branches.
Some of the better quotes from Judge Taylor:

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