The Empire Journal reports on this filing.

Although the family’s attorneys and the Florida Governor have made some good legal arguments only Mr. Watts has petitioned the court concerning Theresa’s illegal detention at the Hospice of the Florida Suncoast, Inc. based on the fact that she is not terminally ill and it is illegal according to state and federal laws for her to be placed into and detained in hospice. Mr. Watts has used habeas corpus as the vehicle to bring this argument. As it stands Theresa has been illegally detained at Hospice Woodside for close to 5 years.

Via BlogsForTerri

Check it out.

Deacon at Powerline responds to some attacks from the left.

With the left, it always seems to come down to ad hominem arguments or the defense of one orthodoxy by reference to some other (usually unrelated) one.

Reading his post reminded me a lot of the comment I got on this post. Check it out.

Looks like I got a commenter riled up with the post above. In one comment, I have been called the following: clever boots, unimportant, stupid, smarmy little bugger, a punter, shallow, angry, and close-minded. Oh, and apparently I engage in “silly little name calling episodes.”

Here is a link to the court document granting stay on the starvation of Terri until 5:00 pm today (via TerrisFight.org).

I heard on NPR’s Morning Edition today that lawmakers in Florida were considering a bill that would remove guardianship from the spouse of a disabled person, if that spouse cohabits with another. I can’t find any reference to this anywhere online. If you’ve got any info on this, shoot me an email and I’ll post it with a link back.

UPDATE: Interesting point about the timeline posted here at MVRWC.

Dawn Eden, ever the clever headline writer, has a post titled NPR’s Persistently Deceptive State in which she points out:

Just heard on NPR’s “All Things Considered”: “Doctors say Terri Schiavo is in a persistent vegetative state.” Then the announcer added, in a clearly incredulous tone of voice, “Schiavo’s parents are fighting to prevent the removal of her feeding tube.”

The media keeps repeating this “persistent vegetative state” canard. Never mind all the doctors—including a Nobel Prize nominee—who deny that she is in such a state.

This morning on Morning Edition, she was referred to as “the severely brain damaged woman who is being kept alive by a feeding tube.” That is much more accurate.

Check out the videos here (right-hand side of the site), if you haven’t seen them.

Michelle runs the correction from the Atlanta Journal Constitution, but what she doesn’t point out is that the funniest part of this hoax is how the original article says he was able to free himself from the avalanche.

Here is the original story.

A Slovak man trapped in his car under an avalanche freed himself by drinking 60 bottles of beer and urinating on the snow to melt it.

(We blogged about the original story here).