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The Rom Houben Tragedy And The Case For Active Euthanasia

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Terri Schiavo, Rom Houben, Law, Culture Wars, Hoax, Liberals, Belgium, Civil Rights, James Randi, Euthanasia, Religion, Politics, Human Rights, Conservatives, Dalton Trumbo, Right to Die, Health, Coma, Ethics, Arthur Caplan, Morality, Technology, Jean-Dominique Bauby, Medicine, Bioethics, Torture, Politics News
Jacob M. Appel

If one believes that the prevention of suffering may sometimes justify the withdrawal or withholding of care, then the very fact that Houben was conscious for twenty-three years might call more convincingly for such action.

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More Republican Lies and Deception Over Cancer Screening

Andy Ostroy | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cervical Cancer, President Obama, Mammography, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Shakira, Breast Cancer Screenings, Preventive Service Task Force, Terri Schiavo, Health Care Reform, Pap Smnear, George W Bush, Sen. Tom Coburn, Breat Cancer, Politics News
Andy Ostroy

It's irresponsible for Republicans to label two new cancer-screening recommendations as partisan-based and illustrative of the sort of "rationing" they claim reform will bring.

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End of Life Consultations: Adults Only

Barbara Coombs Lee | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Terri Schiavo, Congress, End of Life Consultations, Advance Directives, Midterm Elections, Death Panels, Prostate Cancer, Medicare, Town Hall Meetings, Health Care, Compassion and Choices, Politics News
Barbara Coombs Lee

Some leaders prefer to confine us in childhood, so we need never acknowledge, grieve over or plan for our own deaths. A childish approach to end-of-life issues permeated the August recess.

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Sam Stein

GOPers Decrying Obama "Death Panels" Supported Intervention For Schiavo

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gingrich, Obama Death Panel, Terri Schiavo, Schaivo Death Panel, Michael Steele, John Cornyn Death Panel, Republicans Death Panel, Obama Health Care, Newt Gingrich, Politics News

On a conference call with reporters this week, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas.) repeated what has become the most popular conservative canard about Preside...

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Far-Right Fearmongering on Death is Nothing New

Scott Swenson | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Terri Schiavo, Health Care Reform, Death Panel, Death With Dignity, President Obama, Sarah Palin, Death, Health, Politics News
Scott Swenson

Why is it that in life's most personal and private moments--sexuality, conception, birth and the dying process--the party that says it governs least always governs most?

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Chris Matthews "Birthers Out" with his "Deather" Stance on Living Wills

John Amato | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Terri Schiavo, End of Life Consultation, Chris Matthews, Birthers, Living Wills, Crooks and Liars, Rachel Maddow, Glenn Beck, Politics News
John Amato

Matthews goes so far as to conflate end-of-life counseling with the government paying for abortions, and then calls them both "social policy".

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Carville and Rove Duke It Out at Radio City Music Hall

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 06.28.2009 | Media

Read More: Supreme Court, George Bush, Bill Clinton, Kathleen Blanco, Karl Rove, Charlie Rose, Cia, Rush Limbaugh, Colin Powell, James Carville, Iraq, Code Pink, Dick Cheney, Saddam Hussein, Guantanamo Bay, Ray Nagin, Terri Schiavo, Sonia Sotomayor, Nancy Pelosi, 1960's Civil Rights Act. Republican Party, Radio City Music Hall Speaker Series, Hurricane Katrina, Social Security Privatization, Media News
Marcia G. Yerman

Instead of getting Ali and Frazier, the crowd braced itself for a confrontation between Carville -- "The Ragin' Cajun," and Rove -- "The Boy Genius." There was drama and theatrics galore.

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Charlie Crist: Bad News for the GOP?

Adele Stan | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Terri Schiavo, John Cornyn, Charlie Crist, Gay Rights, Mitch McConnell, Marco Rubio, Closet, Latino Vote, LGBT Rights, Hispanic Vote, Religious Right, Gay, Larry Craig, Republican Party, Mike Rogers, Kirby Dick, Outrage, Politics News
Adele Stan

Is Charlie Crist the face of a new Republican Party, or a harbinger of the GOP's demise? He's handsome, personable and popular: a dream candidate for...

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Italy's Silvio Berlusconi Seeks Law To Keep Comatose Woman Alive

Reuters | Posted 03.11.2009 | World

Read More: Terri Schiavo, Berlusconi Comatose Woman, Europe, Berlusconi Eluana Englaro, Eluana Englaro, Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's Terri Schiavo, Italy, World News

Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is pushing a law through parliament to force doctors to resume feeding a comatose woman in a right-to-die cas...

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Union Coma

August J. Pollak | Posted 01.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Terri Schiavo, Auto Bailout, Automaker Bailout, Uaw, Gm, Ford, Unions, Labor Unions, Auto Industry, Politics News
August J. Pollak

A little change of wording turns right-wingers around on the auto bailout. To see more of August J. Pollak's cartoon "Some Guy With a Website," ch...

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Memo to Tom DeLay: Be Quiet, Go Away

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Terri Schiavo, Abramoff, Tom Delay, Middle Class, Terrorist, Obama, Tax Breaks for Elite, Mccain, Delay Calls Obama a Marxist, Muslim, House Ethics Committee, Casino Scandal, Bush, Mccain Tax Breaks, President Clinton, Politics News
Jeff Schweitzer

DeLay was sanctioned three times for openly favoring lobbyists, misusing a federal agency and attempting to bribe a colleague for a vote. He claimed that Republicans were "bigger than Christ."

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Learn From History or Repeat It

R.T. Eby | Posted 05.06.2008 | Home

Read More: Terri Schiavo, Bob Corker, Rev Wright, RCCC, Tennessee, Reverend Wright, Playboy, Jeremiah Wright, Harold Ford, Home News
R.T. Eby

The Republicans cannot win on the issues. McCain is proposing a continuation of the Bushbaby policies that have sent the country into endless war and recession. So the attack ads have begun.

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