Author, Doctor, Speaker, Joseph Bentivegna

Doctor Bentivegna is an ophthalmologist living in Connecticut. He has written numerous op-ed pieces for The Hartford Courant and The New York Times regarding health care, tort reform, and the political situation in Haiti.

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If Our Ruling Class Wants to Stay in the Middle East, Bring Back the Draft

             President Trump is being savaged by all sides for his decision to remove our troops from Syria. This allowed Turkey to invade areas occupied by the Kurds, our allies in the fight against ISIS. The House of Representatives voted 354-60 to decry the policy. Newspaper editorials and armchair pundits on Fox News, CNN and MSNBC have berated the President. ABC News even fabricated a fake video of a Turkish attack on the Kurds (it was actually from a shooting range in Kentucky). One pundit in the Wall Street Journal described the President’s policy as “Speak Loudly but Carry a Toothpick.”       But do any of these armchair warriors have any skin in the game? Do President George W. Bush, Hillary Clinton and President Obama, architects of this policy that the President inherited; have to worry about Chelsea, Sasha, Malia, Barbara or Jenna being killed in the mid-East. No, they do not. Why? Because there is no draft.       In the 1960s, while there was still a draft (it applied only to men), the Vietnam War became … [Read more...]

An Update on Justice Ginsburg’s Health

             Regular readers may recall that seven months ago, I wrote an article entitled “Justice Ginsburg is Probably Quite Ill.” To recap briefly, Justice Ginsburg had two malignant tumors removed from her lungs and her physicians stated she was cancer free. Unfortunately, she has now been diagnosed with a recurrence of pancreatic cancer, an entity she was treated for in 2010.       According a statement from the Supreme Court:       "Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg today completed a three-week course of stereotactic ablative radiation therapy at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. The focused radiation treatment began on August 5 and was administered on an outpatient basis to treat a tumor on her pancreas. The abnormality was first detected after a routine blood test in early July, and a biopsy performed on July 31 at Sloan Kettering confirmed a localized malignant tumor.       As part of her treatment, a bile duct stent was placed. The … [Read more...]

Activist Judges are the Source of America’s Discontent

       With the stock market at record highs, the economy humming along and no involvement in major wars, one would think America would be content. We are not. Why?       It is because America’s elite believe that public policy should be determined by judges, not elected representatives. President Trump viscerally grasped the power of this issue early in his campaign. This non-religious, twice-divorced, well-known Playboy galvanized a large portion of the Republican base – religious conservatives – by promising to appoint judges who interpret the law rather than invent it. He even listed the names of well-known conservative judges that he would appoint. Since his election, he has scrupulously kept this promise, with two conservative Supreme Court choices and 142 federal judge appointees.       But the media, the Democrats, the academic community and the tech oligarchs are livid with President Trump for his success in this area. In their view, many of America’s injustices to women, the poor, minorities and the sexually avant garde are due to what they perceive to be an … [Read more...]