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Mitch McConnell and company voted repeatedly to pay these guys to… not shoot at us: The Iraqi government plans to cut salaries for the estimated 100,000 members of the Awakening movement whose revolt against Al Qaeda in Iraq played a key role in bringing about the sharp fall in violence in Iraq. The move is …
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When certain right-to-life groups stated they were against letting Terri Schiavo die, they meant it, and they continue to attempt to breathe life into her (and more importantly, the issue), grasping at anything they can find to prove that yes, indeed, Terri Schiavo was but one more CAT scan from going for a walk. The …
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An altogether excellent piece by Cathy Young in the Boston Globe: To put it simply: Haleigh Poutre is no Terri Schiavo. Schiavo had been in a persistent vegetative state for 15 years, and had undergone a barrage of tests showing that she had no higher brain functioning and no consciousness — a fact on which …
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And the spin and the smears continues unabated: Pinellas County Medical Examiner Jon R. Thogmartin will hold a press conference on the autopsy report at 11:00 AM Wednesday. What the report will conclude is not yet known, but the Schindler family and many supporters of Terri’s right to live hope the autopsy will provide clues …
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The autposy reports have been finished for Terri Schiavo, so the entire nation will have to revist this case again. At any rate, it appears that Dr. Frist’s faith-based video diagnosis was a touch off: He said she would not have been able to eat or drink if she had been given food by mouth …
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Smijer offers his final words on Terri Schiavo.
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Other than Vogon poetry, few things are as unpleasant as a quick swim in the fever swamps to assess the current state of Michael Schiavo. One would think, with the news yesterday (completely and understandably overshadowed by the events in London) that Governor Bush is dropping the investigation into the ‘timeline,’ that it would be …