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This is shameful, and we certainly don’t endorse it:
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Now that Terri Schiavo’s heart has stopped beating, her case enters a new phase. Her body will ascend physically into heaven after three days, where she will plot with the Almighty to bring about stem cell research on Earth, universal health care, family planning, public awareness on eating disorders, and private accounts for Social Security. [...]

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The conservative Eleventh Circuit finds Congress’ Palm Sunday Overreach violated the separation of powers and is therefore “a legal nullity.” Told ya.
Clarification: This is a minority opinion. The majority turned down the latest tuber motion without addressing the constitutionality of The Overreach. But if they had, this opinion is what they would have said.
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This post by Cathy Young runs down some of the odious lies that have been circulated about the Schiavo case by various grandstanding parties. It’s pretty damning of the tubers, even though it’s barely scratching the surface. I have to say that the hate-mongering I’ve seen the last few days by people like Joe Scarborough, [...]

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Here are a couple of good articles on the Schiavo case. It’s The Law, Not the Judge explains a few basics of the decision-making on the competing claims in the case, and The Rhetoric in the Schiavo Case brings it down to earth.
What’s happening right now is a fight over Terri Schiavo’s remains among three [...]

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I watched three cable news shows today to soak in the circus atmosphere in Florida and wasn’t disappointed. Sean Hannity is broadcasting live from the Schiavo hospice, Joe Scarborough is a megaphone for the American Taliban, and only Hardball has any perspective.
Pat Buchanan has flip-flopped so hard that he’s even criticizing Hitler for euthanizing retards. [...]

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Check out what Daily Pundit says about the parties.
He’s got a point. Neither party has a monopoly on either virtue or vice, and they’re both inclined to complacency, arrogance, and corruption if they’re too powerful. We need to restore checks and balances in the legislative branch, and the best way to do that is to [...]

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See Dr. Frank for the cure.
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This is blackmail. This isn’t.
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See this post by John Cole on the imminent threat to the conservative movement:

When Terri Schiavo is finally allowed to slip past her cruel fate and move on to a better place, she will not be the only one to have died this month. At another gravesite, this marker should be erected:
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