Considering that this comes from the “paper of record,” the “flagship newspaper of the nation,” this is fairly depressing (hat tip to Hot Air — I would have stumbled upon it when I hit Instapundit later, but credit where it is due):
It is an eminently good thing that the anti-suicide measure would require medical specialists to keep track of veterans found to be high risks for suicide. But that’s to care for them as human beings, under that other constitutional right — to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Respect for the grave sacrifices by veterans requires the Senate to strike down the Coburn ploy and hurry this vital measure to President Bush.
I think a commenter said it best:
Pray allow me to offer my heartiest congratulations to the Times: the mind-numbing vapidity, idiocy, and factual inaccuracy of this latest effort is nothing short of breathtaking. And, when it comes to the Times and its sister publications, that’s saying a lot.
Indeed, it is. Perhaps the staff at the “newspaper of record” might want to actually read the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, no doubt for the first time in their lives. Better yet, send them back to elementary school.
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Send them back to elementary school? In this day and age? That might possibly compound the problem.
Since the NYT is going to create Constitutional rights anyways, why not steal them from the DoI? At least both documents were voted on by some of the same guys. Dead white slaveholding males…they’re fungible.
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