"One of our principles is that power corrupts, and you need to disperse it," Senator Jim DeMint said, to a group of GOP officials at a conference in Myrtle Beach.

Raw Story article.

Wealth is power, n'est-ce pas? Also, information? Also, access? When have liberals ever been all about concentrating power? Of course, DeMint doesn't really mean what he's saying, I feel. I think he means states as opposed to federal (when it's the other guys in charge). I don't remember much discussion about concentrated power during arguments about FISA, Iraq, intelligence, executive privilege, and so on.

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Kerfuffle in Italy after their high court ruled that a persistently vegetative coma patient could be allowed to die. The Church is of course aghast, and had been firing with all guns at the courts during the long appeal process. But this case exposes the clash of dogma and data.

Church fury as coma woman allowed to die.

A hundred years ago, the woman in question would have been long dead. But our capability of maintaining life also is the capacity to sustain Hell, as the father referred to his life for the past 17 years. And of course there is that tricky beginning-of-life question.

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