Mid-Morning Report

For the latest round-up on Terri Schiavo, check out Hugh Hewitt. Also, the guys at Powerline are weighing in this morning with some incisive comments about how this case might play out if it goes to the Supreme Court. Here's Deacon:

Now Justice Kennedy is in the batter's box. He will be asked to stay Terri's death. Kennedy thought it was cruel and unusual to execute a teenager who committed pre-meditated murder because he understood that he wouldn't be executed for the crime. I don't know what Kennedy will make of Terri's death by starvation and dehydration. However, the Europeans, to whom Kennedy looked for guidance in the juvenile death penalty case, tend to be okay with this sort of thing.

Ouch.

Since citing foreign authority is now in season for the Supreme Court, maybe Scalia can look to the Vatican for help on the Schiavo case.

Then there's this. I have no idea if it's true or not. But it seems to me that the least we can do is feed Terri until we get to the bottom of all of this. What's the harm in that?

I was listening to Laura Ingraham on the ride into work this morning and she made a very cogent observation. How would liberals be reacting today if our courts were denying the aid of water to a beached whale? PETA would be sending in commandos with buckets. And I would say more power to them. Who wants to see a living thing suffer and die?

In other news, things seem to be continuing to go well in Iraq as U.S. and Iraqi forces raided a terrorist camp, killing some 85 terrorists. The AP story cryptically alludes to positive developments in Iraq, calling this "the latest in a series of blows to the insurgency."

Say what? Series of blows to the insurgency? When did all this happen? Must be little elves.

Moving on. I don't have HBO but I'm looking into receiving it just so I can see this. Heh.