Day March 26, 2005

Hours after a judge ordered that Terri Schiavo was not to be removed from her hospice, a team of state agents were en route to seize her and have her feeding tube reinserted — but they stopped short when local…

My friend Joe Delaplaine has done a quite funny, witty sendup of Fox News, complete with idiot announcers, inept reporters in the field, and non-stop ticker “news.” Good stuff indeed. View the movie. (Quicktime, 3 min, 45 MB ) Email…

One of the Vatican’s more definitive statements on the end of life is a 1951 document by Pope Pius XII, declaring that the Catholic Church holds that a person is obliged to always preserve life, but that obligation was not…

Police arrest teenager for selling marijuana-laced brownies 80-year-old man arrested for selling crack and methColombian police find drugs sub. A nearly complete eight-metre fibreglass submarine, capable of carrying 10 tonnes cocaine, worth $200m, was found in the Pacific port of…

Bush hits a new low in polls for job approval President Bush’s job-approval rating has sunk to 45 percent, the worst of his presidency, amid public opposition at his intervention in the Terri Schiavo case and growing concern over gasoline…