A federal judge on Tuesday told the President and Congress of the United States to stay out of private medical tragedies, refusing to order the reinsertion of Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube, denying an emergency request from the brain-damaged woman’s parents.
Too many members of Congress treat their position as lawmakers as a license to steal, living large at taxpayer expense, ignoring laws that apply to ordinary Americans and betraying the trust of the public that put them there.
As the country stood in rapt attention Monday over what will become of Terri Schiavo, the American medical community reacted with uncertainty and some criticism of Congress for injecting itself into the family battle over her fate.
When physicians are elected to Congress, they tend to leave their white coats at home and reserve their expertise for questions on health care policy.
When it comes to ethics problems, Tom DeLay has a lot of company.
Tom DeLay, who has wielded political power with uncommon efficiency, looks into the mirror and sees a victim of politics. Others are less charitable. With allegations of questionable ethics swirling around him, the House majority leader finds himself a target of a great Washington sport: tearing down the titans.
U.S. law enforcement agents at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, prison for terrorism suspects concluded that the military’s aggressive questioning yielded information that was “suspect at best,” according to newly released portions of an FBI document.