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Here is an interesting twist. Conservatives are dismayed over recent years and what became of their friend, the Republican Party. Well, parrot that concept, and sneak in the opposite reason as an explanation and you know how liberals think. In this way, they try to redefine conservative values from their bent prism. In this case it is the Pitts, really.

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Except, according to my correspondents, those conservatives in charge weren't really conservative at all.

As Roy from Sanger, Calif., put it in an e-mail: "If you believe what we have had in D.C. so far this century is a conservative Washington, your perceptions are colored by a memory loss of what real conservatism looks like. Bring back to life 'real' conservatives who died before 1996, and they would think only one party ruled in D.C. now, the tax and spend, spend and spend some more party."

The funny thing is, I agree.

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But I have a question for them: Where have you been the last 15 years? Where were you when conservatism was untethered from principle, unhooked from reality? Where were you when it became smug and self-righteous, when it traded its integrity for situational outrage, its credibility for angry certitude, its honor for ballot box success? Where were you when it sold out to evangelicals and anti-intellectuals? Where were you when it got hijacked?.............

Wake-up time for conservatives with a conscience

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Back to Baroness Warlock...

Upthread we link to the topic as posted by wagglebee. The Baroness assaults our senses again in the article by Ken Connor, a fighter for Terri.

As we realize, the death forces keep this at the core of their bag of tricks and the Baroness is a vociferous proponent. It should scare the bejeepers out of us that she comes out of the dank closet, as we realize all the shady closet doors around us right here. Thanks, Leslie...

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A waste. A burden. That is how influential medical ethics expert Baroness Warnock views people suffering from dementia. Lady Warnock, a prominent adviser to the British government, told the Church of Scotland's Life and Work magazine that people suffering from dementia should be allowed to kill themselves rather than continue to burden their families and Britain's National Health Service. Sadly, Warnock's comments are all too consistent with our modern utilitarian view of life.

Lady Warnock argues that people suffering from dementia are "wasting" their families' lives and the nation's resources. She believes that merely having dementia makes one's life not worth living. She maintains that people should be allowed to give advance notice to a third party that they wish to be killed when they reach a set point of mental deterioration. And she wants to expand this "advance directive" to include just about any situation where a person believes their life is no longer worth living. Her ultimate goal is to license people to "put others down." "Put them down"—like a sick dog. At least she's frank....

Do the Demented Have a Duty to Die?

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