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Here, have some Ovid. Via Suburban Banshee.

Not Dead Yet has updates on legislation on health care for the profoundly disabled; plus lots of commentary and links, like “8 things that need to happen to safeguard against non-voluntary euthanasia in the U.S.” Make it a regular stop. Via Noli Irritare Leones.

“Videos Challenge Accounts of Convention Unrest”: From the NYTimes:

…Accused of inciting a riot and resisting arrest, Mr. Kyne was the first of the 1,806 people arrested in New York last summer during the Republican National Convention to take his case to a jury. But one day after Officer Wohl testified, and before the defense called a single witness, the prosecutor abruptly dropped all charges.

During a recess, the defense had brought new information to the prosecutor. A videotape shot by a documentary filmmaker showed Mr. Kyne agitated but plainly walking under his own power down the library steps, contradicting the vivid account of Officer Wohl, who was nowhere to be seen in the pictures. Nor was the officer seen taking part in the arrests of four other people at the library against whom he signed complaints.

A sprawling body of visual evidence, made possible by inexpensive, lightweight cameras in the hands of private citizens, volunteer observers and the police themselves, has shifted the debate over precisely what happened on the streets during the week of the convention.

For Mr. Kyne and 400 others arrested that week, video recordings provided evidence that they had not committed a crime or that the charges against them could not be proved, according to defense lawyers and prosecutors.

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Via Hit & Run.

“Mourning Our Younger Brother”: Jewish Week obituary for Pope John Paul II. Via Kesher Talk.