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• A Guardianship Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing

  
  North Country Gazette — Authority: 493
  COMMENTARY© By June MaxamAll Rights ReservedThe Congressman claims that he’s an advocate for the elderly.In actuality, he’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing and a hypocrite of the worst degree.Florida Congressman Gus Bilirakis of Palm Harbor doesn’t talk about hisrole as the probate attorney who worked in a concert ...
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• Belgian Case Reignites Brain Dead Debate as Catholics Order Force Feedings

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  The family of Terri Schiavo, the Florida woman who was artificially kept alive for 15 years, say they feel both heartbreak and vindication over the news this week that a Belgian man thought to be in a persistent vegetative state (PVS) was fully conscious for two decades. Schiavo, who had been diagnosed with a profound ...
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• Doubting a Medical Miracle

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 902
  Rom Houben, a Belgian man who spent 23 years lying motionless in bed, suffering from complete paralysis that was misdiagnosed as the result of a coma, was discovered to have been fully conscious three years ago by a doctor using new brain-scan technology.
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• Doubting a Locked-In Mans Words

  
  The Lede — Authority: 709
  Rom Houben, a Belgian man who spent 23 years lying motionless in bed, suffering from complete paralysis that was misdiagnosed as the result of a coma, was discovered to have been fully conscious three years ago by a doctor using new brain-scan technology.
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• "300,000 Terri Schiavos"

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 805
  Not content with being Bart Stupaks puppet-masters, pulling the strings to strip all abortion coverage out of healthcare reform, end all of their social service programs in DC if the city goes forward with a proposed gay marriage law, refusing communion to Catholics because of their political beliefs, the Bishops ...
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• Schiavo Political “Guru” Seals False Swearing Deal

  
  North Country Gazette — Authority: 493
  © By June MaxamAn Exclusive NCG Investigative ReportAll Rights ReservedNo Reprints AllowedTALLAHASSEE, FLA—If you were a Democrat seeking elective office or wanted to become involved in the world of politics, would you hire a corrupt political consultant?Michael Schiavo, one of America’s most infamous husbands, ...
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• So They Can Misread Brainscans

  
  Tai-Chi Policy — Authority: 147
  And misdiagnose someone for years as being less active than they were, mentally ? As Instapundit points out, it’s a good thing there weren’t any liberals around trying to be “compassionate”. Posted in Health Care Industry Tagged: Coma, Terry Schiavo
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• For 23 Years, Fully Aware but Mute and Paralyzed

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 709
  After surviving a car wreck in 1983 at the age of 20, Rom Houben was written off as a vegetable. He was actually perfectly alert. The Belgian would spend the next 23 years in a private hell until doctors finally discovered his consciousness and found a way to communicate. The story has revived the fiasco the ...
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• Trapped in his own body for 23 years and misdiagnosed as “vegetative,” does this change your mind about Terri Schiavo?

  
  Out In Left Field — Authority: 129
  After a horrific car accident twenty-three years ago, Rom Houben was believed to be in a coma. Doctors said he was in a vegetative state and, as a result, couldn’t understand or communicate with those around him.Almost three years ago, with the help of a super-duper scanner, neurologist Steven Laureys discovered ...
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• Terri Schiavo: Unjustified Homicide

  
  North Country Gazette — Authority: 493
  COMMENTARY© By June MaxamALL RIGHTS RESERVEDNo Reprints Allowed How can Michael Schiavo live with himself? How can you methodically and intentionally kill someone while the whole world watches and claim that you are justified in doing so, escaping criminal consequences?With more and more medical evidence coming ...
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• Horrifying.

  
  LyfLines — Authority: 139
  Just horrifying : A car crash victim diagnosed as being in a coma for the past 23 years has been conscious the whole time. Rom Houben was paralysed but had no way of letting doctors know that he could hear every word they were saying. I screamed, but there was nothing to hear, said Mr Houben, now 46, who doctors ...
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• The little gods among us

  
  Athanatos Christian Apologetics Ministry — Authority: 124
  Courtesy of the Drudge Report today I’m treated to an article about a person who had been diagnosed as being in a coma who actually had been fully conscious for more than 20 years. The idea that somebody could be misdiagnosed as being in a ‘vegetative state’ takes on significance when we remember that in some ...
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• Still More Doctors Amazed to Learn Patient in Persistent Vegetative State . . . Wasn’t

  
  Patterico's Pontifications — Authority: 719
  From the Daily Mail : A car crash victim has spoken of the horror he endured for 23 years after he was misdiagnosed as being in a coma when he was conscious the whole time. Rom Houben, trapped in his paralysed body after a car crash, described his real-life nightmare as he screamed to doctors that he could hear ...
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• Not Just Oprah Moving On

  
  North Country Gazette — Authority: 493
  COMMENTARYBy June Maxam, PublisherNorth Country GazetteIn an announcement which surprised the entertainment world this week, Oprah Winfrey told her audience that she was ending her show in September, 2011, at the end of her 25th season.Why she chose to make the announcement now, two years in advance of the curtain, is ...
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• Morning Fix | Patrick Kafka by Sam Scott Schiavo

  
  The Fashionisto — Authority: 622
  Back in April, we got one of our first looks at Patrick Kafka in his first editorial for Hungarian magazine The Room . Photographed by Sam Scott Schiavo , Patrick was not only presented with the challenge to sail through a shoot, but to also make Prada’s daring spring collection appear natural and accessible. ...
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• Terri’s Foundation Commends Bishops’ PVS Revision

  
  North Country Gazette — Authority: 493
  ST. PETERSBURG, FL.– By overwhelmingly approving a revision to the directives that guide Catholic heath care facilities on the moral responsibility to feed and hydrate those persons labeled to be in a “vegetative” or even comatose state, the U.S.  Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) affirmed the Catholic ...
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• Ex-Judge Gets Probation, $250 Fine For Bank Fraud

  
  North Country Gazette — Authority: 493
  TAMPA, FLA—He faced up to 30 years in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release.He was fined $250 and ordered to complete a year of probation.That’s because he had been “humiliated” and disbarred for five years after being caught, according to the sentencing judge.Former appeals court judge ...
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• WTFCatholicism?

  
  Akkam's Razor — Authority: 126
  What the hell is going on with the Catholic Church?I have been seeing a ridiculous amount of Catholic-related news, starting with the local archdiocese announces they are closing my high school. I can remember the following exchange, at North Catholic, junior year, in Father DeMeos Psychology class, and how it ...
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• George Greer’s Death Panel, Part II: Death Warrant

  
  www.TheReaganWing.com — Authority: 419
  The following article, by Gary and Lisa Ruby, was originally published in March, 2005 (before Terri Schiavo was killed by court order) on their website: Liberty to the Captives. They’ve given me permission to re-publish it, here. It is a complete, painstaking  breakdown of the legal end of the Schiavo atrocity. ...
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• George Greer’s Death Panel, Part I: Short Intro.

  
  www.TheReaganWing.com — Authority: 419
  At great risk of being, once again, accused of “over the top” rhetoric (risk, nothing, it’s a virtual certainty) I must point out that Death is the icon of Liberalism.In discussion of our article, “Making History November 8, 2009,” socialism apologist “Demo Kid” takes great issue with my suggestion that ...
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