"There would have been George dead if he had not acted decisively and instantaneously in that moment when he was being disarmed." ...
"That eyepopping margin is the chief reason that few people took Mr. Santorum seriously last year when he started running for president...
An ABC News article, from 2005 , back when people were agonizing over Terri Schiavo. "The process of starving to death seems very barba...
How is the press marking the anniversary? Some are running with the "living wills" theme. Others are revisiting the husband and...
People keep emailing me the link to this NPR report on a speech that Sandra Day O'Connor gave at Georgetown the other day. I assumed I...
Should I talk about Maureen Dowd's column ? Not only is she behind the TimesSelect wall, but she's got a sudden big spoiler for the ...
"Link to this" it says at the bottom of a post by "The Opinionator" by Chris Suellentrop. It looks like a blog, but it...
January: I just wrecked my car. February: Is podcasting good? March: Is it possible to explain the Schiavo statute on television? April: ...
Didion finds many interesting angles to the story. Her focus is not legal, but personal and psychological. She examines not just the motiva...
Laura Bush took over for her husband doing the comedy at the White House Correspondents Dinner tonight. I was surprised by how risqué it wa...
David Brooks on Roe v. Wade : Things would have worked out better for liberals if the Supreme Court had not made abortion into a right but h...
NBC15 reports : Two state lawmakers plan to bring the issue of assisted suicide back to the floor, saying recent high profile cases prove pe...
Good . "I believe in an independent judiciary. I repeat, of course I believe in an independent judiciary," DeLay said. At the same...
Here 's Dana Milbank's article in the Washington Post on the "Confronting the Judicial War on Faith" conference. The quote...
The NYT reports comments by Tom DeLay at a conference with the inflammatory title "Confronting the Judicial War on Faith": Mr. De...
The Washington Post has an article about the struggles within the Republican Party about the judiciary, including this passage: DeLay and h...
It's better that some idiot really did write that memo about what an effective political device the Schiavo family affair could be. I...
There's a lot of detail about the political reaction to the judiciary in this NYT article. Senate majority leader Frist is distancing h...
People have been complaining about "activist" judges for years. But here 's a Washington Post report on a Senate speech by Sen...
The other day, I recommended the new episode of "South Park" ("Best Friends Forever"), which deals with the Schiavo cas...
