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Left-wing Democrats in the House are working on a plan to compel the House Judiciary Committee to launch an impeachment inquiry into what they say are "high crimes and misdemeanors" committed by President Bush in the run-up to the Iraq war. "If you read the record of the writing of the Constitution, ‘high crimes and misdemeanors’ had a very particular meaning at the time of the drafting of the Constitution," Rep. Zoe Lofgren said at a forum held by Rep. John Conyers earlier this month. "It certainly didn’t mean lying about sex," she complained, in quotes picked up by the...

Terri is gone. But her memory and legacy live on. What lessons will America draw from this horrific experience? I pray that no other American – conscious or unconscious – is permitted to be starved to death. It makes no difference whether or not there is a living will. It makes no difference whether or not the subject made some casual remark in previous years about his or her wishes. It is one thing to deny extraordinary means of life support to a terminally ill patient. It is another for the state to sanction the killing by the denial of...