Month March 2005

UK lawmakers accuse US of grave rights violations The United States has committed “grave violations of human rights” against prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, Afghanistan and Iraq, the Foreign Affairs Committee of Britain’s parliament said in a report on Friday. Pentagon…

Tom Delay, who has been foaming at the mouth in support of Terry Shiavo staying alive, joined with his family and plugged the plug on their ailing father in 1988. For me to be outraged by his hypocrisy, I’d have to…

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…