Free Republic

The steaks and salmon are sizzling. Mushrooms and onions are sautéed in butter and garlic. Corn is steamed; butter melted. Pasta is boiling and sauce bubbling. It smells so good. Terri Schiavo won't smell them. Salad is tossed in dressing and adorned with feta cheese. Crusty bread and butter await, and a fine wine is uncorked and left to breathe. Coffee brews and tea steeps while desserts tempt the eye and palate. Terri Schiavo won't taste them. Our lives go on. We eat and drink and sleep and wake and smile and cry and love and hate. And Terri Schiavo...

Do you hear it? I do. The countdown clock is ticking – the zero hour is 1 p.m. EST, March 18 ... five days from today. On that day, a young woman in Florida will begin being murdered by the judiciary. It appears no one can stop it. Now that's power. On that day, the tube supplying food and water to an infirm young woman, Terri Schiavo, will be removed. It will be done for just one purpose: to kill her. To end her life. Her father, Robert Schindler, calls it "judicial homicide." It's more than that. If Terri's feeding...

It must run in the family – it's genetic. Remember the "Read my lips, no more taxes" line delivered with political sincerity by the first President George Bush – and famously ignored with the same sincerity? Now his son, the president, has done the same thing. The question is, when a president says it, is it a lie? You decide. On Dec. 17, 2004, President George Bush signed the National Intelligence Reform Act. The law included the requirement that 10,000 Border Patrol agents would be added over five years – that's 2,000 per year. In addition, the legislation also...

As you read this, Terri Schiavo might be processing. That's the au courant word to use these days. It means dying. Processing means that medical attempts to keep the person alive will not happen. It means someone, somehow, somewhere decided the patient's time has come and they will not stand in the way of death, even if that life could be saved. Terri Schiavo is alive, brain damaged from a mysterious injury 15 years ago in her apartment with her husband present. She cannot swallow. Her husband, Michael, has refused her therapy that might wean her from the feeding tube....

As you read this, Terri Schiavo might be processing. That's the au courant word to use these days. It means dying. Processing means that medical attempts to keep the person alive will not happen. It means someone, somehow, somewhere decided the patient's time has come and they will not stand in the way of death, even if that life could be saved. Terri Schiavo is alive, brain damaged from a mysterious injury 15 years ago in her apartment with her husband present. She cannot swallow. Her husband, Michael, has refused her therapy that might wean her from the feeding tube....

The wonderful world of legal murder February 21, 2005 By Barbara Simpson © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com As you read this, Terri Schiavo might be processing. That's the au courant word to use these days. It means dying. Processing means that medical attempts to keep the person alive will not happen. It means someone, somehow, somewhere decided the patient's time has come and they will not stand in the way of death, even if that life could be saved. Terri Schiavo is alive, brain damaged from a mysterious injury 15 years ago in her apartment with her husband present. She cannot swallow....

What a world! At one-and-the-same time, we argue issues of life and death under euphemisms of pro-choice, pro-life, the right to choose, the right to die. First, we have the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the legalization of what has come to be abortion on demand at virtually any time during the nine months of pregnancy. It ranges from days-old fetuses to fully developed, near-term babies. We still argue about it, but it has diminished the value of human life and was a kick down the slippery slope. Can there be any doubt when I can look at today's newspaper...

"I'm sorry, so sorry. Please accept my apologies." Words from one of my favorite songs, but the "I'm sorry" line has gotten out of hand. Cut it out! Just in the last week, we've been "sorry'd" to death. Dan Rather did journalistic mischief, played a classic game of CYA, got a slew of underlings fired and gets away with a simple "sorry." Then there's Prince Harry, the 20-year old "spare" prince of the British monarchy who wore a Nazi costume to a party. Unfortunately for him, the tabloids got a picture and it became world news. It was a stupid...

Monday, December 20, 2004 The modern horror of a baby never born Posted: December 20, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern By Barbara Simpson © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Just when I think I've heard everything, I get smacked in the face with the realization that I haven't. Take the issue of women wanting children. Science being what it is, by golly, if she wants one, she'll get one. If you can't make one yourself, get someone to do it for you. Money makes it happen, with help from your friendly, neighborhood specialist. Use your own egg and your husband's sperm or, pick an egg and choose...

Monday, November 1, 2004 The cat in the robes is a rat Posted: November 1, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern By Barbara Simpson © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com I know what costume Osama bin Laden chose for Halloween this year. He went to the party as a cat. Domestic variety. You gotta give the old guy credit – for this, at least. He knows cats and how they love to toy with mice. Tease them. Taunt them. Frighten them. Keep them on edge. To the cat, it's a game – a little fun, a big power trip and a tasty snack at the end of it....

Monday, October 18, 2004 Don't worry, we'll protect you Posted: October 18, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern By Barbara Simpson © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Fanned into hysteria by the media, people across the country are clamoring for the flu vaccine. It's not a pretty picture, and I'm speaking as someone who chooses not to get the vaccine. Old folks stand in line for hours hoping for the shot. One woman, in line last Thursday for five and a half hours in 90-degree-plus heat and sun in Lafayette, Calif. – not far from San Francisco, where I am – collapsed, hit her head and died. Marie...

Monday, October 4, 2004 If U.S. was a diamond, would we protect the borders? Posted: October 4, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern By Barbara Simpson © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com When I was a kid, I always figured if I ever became a crook, I'd be a jewel thief or smuggler. I love jewelry and my movie view of that lifestyle made it look exciting and fun. As long as you got away with it, of course – and, of course, I had no doubt I would! As it turned out, I stayed on the right side of the law, but I still enjoy hearing about...

Monday, September 27, 2004 A right to live ... not to be killed Posted: September 27, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern By Barbara Simpson © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com If I didn't know better, I'd think the heavens are crying. Perhaps they are. Florida is being inundated as the progression of hurricanes continues its destruction. Ironically, while media focus on evacuations aimed at saving lives, the Florida Supreme Court ruled 7-0 last week, that a helpless young Florida woman should die. Her name is Terri Schindler-Schiavo. I take that back. Not just die. Be killed.That is what's involved when a person is denied food and water....

A right to live ... not to be killed September 27, 2004 By Barbara Simpson © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com If I didn't know better, I'd think the heavens are crying. Perhaps they are. Florida is being inundated as the progression of hurricanes continues its destruction. Ironically, while media focus on evacuations aimed at saving lives, the Florida Supreme Court ruled 7-0 last week, that a helpless young Florida woman should die. Her name is Terri Schindler-Schiavo. I take that back. Not just die. Be killed. That is what's involved when a person is denied food and water. That person will die...

<p>She didn't twist my arm, but Mom convinced me to see Michael Moore's new movie.</p> <p>I'd told her there was no way I'd spend my hard-earned money on his propaganda!</p> <p>Mom – a dyed-in-the-wool FDR Democrat – knows my politics. When she learned I'd not seen the movie, she had a cause: get me to attend with her and a crowd of her Democrat club buddies. In fact, her local theatre booked the movie because Mom touted it to them.</p>

Truth is stranger than fiction. Right now, we don't know which is which. Things are strange. First he was gone from his base in Iraq, then reported lured and kidnapped, then threatened, then beheaded, then alive, then safe, then back in U.S. custody. Huh? It's a sure thing, this didn't just happen. I don't believe for a minute, this wasn't planned and executed with cunning to cause disruption in the military and in American minds. Like a cat toying with a mouse, I think we've been had. The issue deals with a 24-year-old Muslim man – a member of the...

Let's stop beating around the bush. Why keep pretending we're a sovereign country? We are, of course – on paper. But in practice, despite the troops in uniform, the high sounding rhetoric of politicians and pundits, the flags on high and our history of defending liberty – we're giving it all away and no one seems to care. I'll take that back. I care and I'll bet most Americans care, but the powers that be, our elected officials, don't pay much attention to us. They only want our vote every two or four years and, of course, they want our...

Not that they cared, but the barbaric Muslims, who wave the religious banner of Islam with each murderous act, took more than the life of Paul M. Johnson Jr. They brutally kidnapped, tortured and ultimately coldly – and no doubt with militant Islamic pride – slaughtered an innocent man. They don't care. Vice President Dick Cheney said we'll hunt the killers "one by one, and destroy them." Wrong. "One by one" won't do it, because it'll turn into a case of Islamic Terrorist Whack-A-Mole and death is their ticket to paradise. An al-Qaida website provided photographic proof: the bloodied body...

I couldn't attend the Reagan ceremonies, so I did the next best thing: I watched the live TV coverage of the events honoring the life and death of former President Ronald Wilson Reagan. I wanted a variety of coverage. But I dropped the hope of "variety" quickly as I realized that mainstream media couldn't resist petty partisanship and historical revisionism. CNN went on about how Mr. Reagan really didn't have much to do with the fall of the Soviet Union. ABC's Peter Jennings reminded us that Simi Valley was home to the white police involved in the Rodney King scandal....

I am sick of ridiculous federal court rulings and I'm angry. It's about abortion, unborn babies and court rulings beyond "wrong." I know. Nothing today is "wrong." Nothing is a "lie." Anything goes because limitations offend people. The "offendee" can force others to eliminate the "offense." In fact, offending someone is the worst sin of all. Oops. Sorry. No such thing as "sin" either. It's so hard to know what's right and wrong.Uh oh. Sorry, again. There is no right and wrong. If it feels good, sounds good and offends no one – do it. No one will stop you,...