Credit where credit is due - leftist support for the the weakest members of society.

Against the Grain links to Nat Hentoff's latest column on Terry Schiavo. He calls the Schiavo situation "longest public execution in American history."

Also, Ralph Nader weighed in on Terry Schiavo last week. He argued:

The courts not only are refusing her tube feeding, but have ordered that no attempts be made to provide her water or food by mouth. Terri swallows her own saliva. Spoon feeding is not medical treatment. "This outrageous order proves that the courts are not merely permitting medical treatment to be withheld, it has ordered her to be made dead," Nader and Smith assert

These aging liberals remind us that the core of the leftist project was once about protecting the defenseless against the vicissitudes of life.