The Riven Heart

The Waiting
More than 57,000 patients have been waiting more than three months for medical appointments at hospitals and clinics run by the Department of Veterans Affairs, and nearly 64,000 others have been enrolled in the system for a decade but have still not been seen by doctors despite their requests, according to a nationwide audit released Monday....The audit also found that 13 percent of patient schedulers said that they had been instructed by “supervisors or others” to enter false information related to how long veterans had to wait for appointments. (New York Times, 6/10/2014)

What happens when you put Vermont's Colonel Bernie Sanders in charge of oversight.


Unfocused
Instead of focusing on making it harder for the mentally ill to get guns, maybe we should be making it harder to get guns, period. Something to consider before the next mass shooting. (Joe Nocera, New York Times, 6/2/2014)

And all those millions of guns already out there?

No, let's stick with the first option and keep the mentally ill from getting guns.


The Past
Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday there was “sexism” in Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign that she and the president needed to get past. “Beginning the process of working with then-Senator Obama after I ended my campaign, we had an awkward but necessary meeting to clear the air on a couple of issues, and one of them was the sexism that - unfortunately - was present in that ‘08 campaign,” Clinton told Robin Roberts on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” (Politico.com, 6/10/2014)

Here we thought it was Republicans who were waging the "War on Women." Hillary "Inevitable" Clinton reveals for the first time that it was, in fact, Barack Obama who was the culprit. Shouldn't this be front page news?


Bemoaned
During her interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer Monday evening, Clinton bemoaned the financial hardships she and Bill Clinton faced post-presidency. “We came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt. We had no money when we got there and we struggled to piece together the resources for mortgages for houses, for Chelsea’s education. You know, it was not easy,” she told Sawyer. (Freebeacon.com, 6/10/2014)

And now we finally learn the true story of why the Clintons tried to steal the White House china as they departed Washington after Bill's second term. 


Quote of the Day
When conservatives say we should rescue our POWs, they mean, “Leave a trail of dead enemies in your wake as you snatch our guy from the enemy’s clutches.” (Sonny Bunch, Freebeacon.com, 6/10/2014)