Thursday, October 06, 2005

• Oregon, federal government clash at Supreme Court over assisted suicide

  by Tom Strode, posted Thursday, October 06, 2005 (18 years ago)

  "There would be no point to a federal law if it were simply up to the states to decide what to do with these drugs under that law."

  National Right to Life Committee General Counsel James Bopp

  WASHINGTON (BP)--Oregon and the United States squared off before the U.S. Supreme Court over physician-assisted suicide Oct. 5, with the state government arguing its legalization of the practice is covered by its right to regulate medicine and the federal government contending its control of drugs trumps such authority.

  New Chief Justice John Roberts presided over the contentious case on only the second day of oral arguments in the high court’s new term. The arguments occurred on a day when Harriet Miers, President Bush’s latest nominee to the Supreme Court, visited with senators in preparation for her confirmation hearings. Read More

• Does 'gay rights' questionnaire offer insight into Miers?

  by Michael Foust, posted Thursday, October 06, 2005 (18 years ago)

  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--An Associated Press headline making the Internet rounds Oct. 3 screamed: "Miers backed gay civil rights." It was enough to make conservatives nationwide panic. In hindsight, though, it may have been much ado about nothing, a legal expert at Focus on the Family says. Read More

• 'Mind-numbing' devastation: Southern team helps in relief

  by David Roach & Jeff Robinson, posted Thursday, October 06, 2005 (18 years ago)

  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--Pictures are typically worth a thousand words, but the images that the television coverage of Hurricane Katrina produced did not prepare Mary Sills for the destruction she witnessed first-hand in southern Mississippi. Read More

• NOBTS president thanks SBTS for ‘sacrificial gift’

  by Jeff Robinson, posted Thursday, October 06, 2005 (18 years ago)

  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--While many see only rubble when looking at what is left of New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Chuck Kelley sees something decidedly different: opportunity.

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• Faith sustained hospital worker as N.O. floodwaters rose

  by Ken Walker, posted Thursday, October 06, 2005 (18 years ago)

  NEW ORLEANS (BP)--With thick, steamy air choking his nostrils, no electricity lighting the hospital building and panicked patients wondering when they would be evacuated after Hurricane Katrina, Whit Tabor’s faith took on a new dimension. Read More

• Coast Guard couple credits faith, prayer for successful rescues

  by Keith Manuel, posted Thursday, October 06, 2005 (18 years ago)

  NEW ORLEANS (BP)--Commander Scott Kitchen describes the United States Coast Guard as one big family, and after Hurricane Katrina, that family participated in what he calls “the biggest rescue effort since Moses.” Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: A disappointing movie summer ends with hope

  by Phil Boatwright, posted Thursday, October 06, 2005 (18 years ago)

  KANSAS CITY, Kan. (BP)--Movie audiences felt that overall this summer’s blockbusters went bust. Even those they liked at the time ("Batman Begins," "Fantastic Four") didn’t do the repeat business that mega movies generally generate. And far too many movies were simply dreadful. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: Many crucial things unclear about Miers

  by Brent Thompson, posted Thursday, October 06, 2005 (18 years ago)

  FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)--How do I know whether to support George W. Bush’s nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court? How do I know what kind of justice she will be? Read More