John Cole has a strong and well reasoned take on the pro-life crowd’s strange stance on allowing people to die without pain: For whatever reason, vocal advocates within the ‘pro-life’ community are against assisted suicide, but are also against adequate pain treatment- or at least the real worry is that dying patients might get addicted [...]
Paul Mirengoff of Powerline Blog mentions on Bill O’Reilly (see video at link below) that “it was years ago and no one was reading us at the time, but we were highly critical of Trent Lott when that story broke in responct to Senator Thurmond and his comments.” I know I wasn’t reading Powerline Blog [...]
It is simply impossible to believe that a Private First Class would carry out abuses like she did without orders. A US soldier convicted of abusing Iraqi prisoners said, in remarks recently made public, she knew of “worse things” happening at Abu Ghraib and insisted military commanders were fully aware of what was going on [...]
I’d have a much easier time believing Strom’s pro-business libertarian talking points if he didn’t take money from Tobacco firms. He’s certainly not the healthiest guy on the block, so I can see how a smoking ban would mean little to him. He can’t seem to figure out what the role of government should be. [...]
