The people who have been fighting to keep Terri alive have been noble in their efforts, but have taken the wrong approach. There is a way to get the left (and liberal activist judges) to fight tooth and nail to keep her alive.

Convict her of triple homicide and sentence her to death.

After all, the only humans that liberals will fight to keep alive are those on Death Row.

# posted by Bob Taylor @ 7:49 PM |

Senate Democrats, including Ron Wyden of Oregon, a right-to-die state, have declined to pass by unanimous consent a version of a bill the House passed yesterday to save Terri Schiavo

# posted by Bob Taylor @ 6:37 PM |

Virtually no one disagrees human activity is fueling global warming, and a global treaty signed in Kyoto, Japan, aims to reduce polluting emissions. But the world's biggest polluter, the United States, has withdrawn from the 1997 treaty, saying its provisions would hurt the U.S. economy.

# posted by Bob Taylor @ 6:12 PM |

Kerry, who worked unsuccessfully with other Democrats and at times some Republicans this week to defeat specific provisions in the budget proposal, said the debate ``should remind all Americans that Washington does not always work for them.''

# posted by Bob Taylor @ 8:27 AM |

The Rev. Robert Johansen has been trying to marshall the medical arguments against allowing Terri Schiavo to starve to death, and today he makes a remarkably persuasive case in the National Review Online. He notes that they have lined up almost 50 heavily qualified doctors, most of them board certified and/or professors of medicine, who are doubtful of the adequacy of the diagnosis of Persistent Vegitative state (PVS) that has been given to Terri. Yet the Judge in the case, George W. Greer, seems not to want to hear what they have to say:

# posted by Bob Taylor @ 6:49 AM |

The House Health and Families Council vote split 7-3 along party lines, with the Democrats complaining that the Republicans were rushing the bill through for the benefit of one woman without making prudent modifications.

# posted by Bob Taylor @ 7:19 PM |

Florida Republicans Rep. Dave Weldon and Senator Mel Martinez introduced legislation yesterday that would give Terri Schiavo and other disabled patients the same rights and federal legal protections as prisoners on death row. Steven Ertelt writes for LifeNews: "The bill would allow Terri's parents to use a 'writ of habeas corpus' to take the case out of the Florida state courts and to federal courts." LifeNews also reports that Michael Schiavo's attorney George Felos said the bill was unconstitutional and could cause years of delays before Terri's feeding tube could be removed: "To allow never-ending federal review of state court decisions would make it virtually impossible to carry out patients' wishes if anyone in the family disagreed."

# posted by Bob Taylor @ 8:46 PM |

TAMPA, Fla. Mar 10, 2005 — A judge ruled Thursday that Florida's social services agency cannot intervene to delay the removal of the feeding tube keeping brain-damaged Terri Schiavo alive.

# posted by Bob Taylor @ 3:09 PM |

Agency, lawmakers act to sustain Schiavo

# posted by Bob Taylor @ 11:32 AM |

The left-leaning Italian newspaper La Repubblica reported yesterday that Mr. Calipari decided not to use available escort protection from the elite commandos who protect Italy’s Baghdad embassy.

Instead, he rented an inconspicuous pickup truck to recover Miss Sgrena, wrote La Repubblica’s top investigative reporter, Giuseppe D’Avanzo.

“In Iraq, the United States makes the rules and the Italian ally also must respect them. If it wants to break them, it must do so with a double game and some crafty tricks,” Mr. D’Avanzo wrote.

# posted by Bob Taylor @ 6:54 PM |

The only world leader who didn't get the memo was Paul Martin. Who? Well, OK, he's not exactly a world leader, but he is prime minister of Canada, and asked the other day about the withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon he replied thus: "It's clear if the Syrians are in Lebanon, it's because peace has to be maintained." I'm sure Assad is grateful for the endorsement. That and a dime'll get you a cup of coffee in Winnipeg.

# posted by Bob Taylor @ 6:59 PM |

Ward, a professor of ethnic studies, said the actions of the governor and Legislature threaten to gut the state constitution.

# posted by Bob Taylor @ 11:05 AM |

By a 5-4 margin, it reversed death sentences for prisoners convicted of crimes committed while juveniles; however, the Court ruled that states may voluntarily terminate prisoners as "extremely late-term abortions" under Roe v. Wade

# posted by Bob Taylor @ 8:01 PM |

Sorry to write such a long post on Churchill, which I'm only doing because he came to Wisconsin. I find him incredibly boring, saying the sort of tired old things that radicals have been saying for as long as we can remember. He's getting way too much leverage out of a metaphor, and it's not even an inventive metaphor, just the same old America is Nazi Germany metaphor that radicals have been using for as long as we can remember.

# posted by Bob Taylor @ 7:12 AM |

......................The Rules:

Avoid the following at all costs:

1. Ethnic “Ghetto” Departments – Some departments are simply fronts for the sort of liberal indoctrination that is such a ridiculous affront to academic standards. They were typically created not as a genuine scholarly pursuit, but to appease some liberal interest that wanted to perpetuate itself by thrusting its views upon fresh student minds. These nefarious departments include the Center for Afro-American & African Studies, Women’s Studies, American Culture, Cultural Anthropology, Chicano Studies and others.

Not only does the wise student skip over these departments when pursuing the course guide, he also carefully crosschecks his choices to make sure that none of his selections happen to be cross listed in these attempts to pass off ideology as scholarship.

The reason these courses are typically poor excuses for education is that they only present one side of their subject matter. For example, if you take a class on the industrial revolution in the women’s study department, you won’t learn much about the industrial revolution, but you’ll learn a whole lot about what modern feminist do.

2. RCGS – Admittedly, race, culture, gender, and sexuality actually do play important roles in some aspects of life. Unfortunately, this role typically isn’t large enough to rationalize a four-credit class on it. Yet this doesn’t stop some of our professors from reading into each of these issues on everything from Greek linguistic structure to physical chemistry. If you take a class with one of these in the course description, expect to hear how whatever the course is about would benefit if it went through some severe sensitivity training.

3. Liberal Buzzwords – Certain terms are particularly chic in liberal circles and if they show up in your course descriptions, you can prepare yourself for some major liberal bias. Here’s a quick look at what words the liberal and trendy are using: imperialism, social inequality, environmental inequality, racism, sexism, womanhood, labor, race identities, cultural identities, social justice, social construction of identity, environmental justice, fair trade, queer theory, feminism, gender roles, heterocentrism, colonialism, and any other –isms I might have left out..........................

# posted by Bob Taylor @ 1:35 PM |