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Two Federal Courts Get it Right, Protect Late-Term Abortion
Posted on February 2nd, 2006 on
Two federal appeals courts ruled the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act unconstitutional because it does not include an exception for women who...

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Samuel Alito Lied During His Confirmation Hearings
Posted on January 30th, 2006 on
Lies take many forms. Sometimes, silence communicates a lie. If, for example, a Supreme Court nominee is asked his position on a specific iss...

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A Byrd Out of Hand is Worth an Alito on the Bench, Alas
Posted on January 29th, 2006 on
Senator Robert C. Byrd, Democrat from West Virginia, has announced he will vote to confirm Alito to the Supreme Court. As reported in the N...

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Alito Being Shoved Down Our Throats
Posted on January 26th, 2006 on
There is a fundamental lack of respect for the principles of the United States Constitution evident in the way Republican Senators are responding to...

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Republican Bully Tactics in Action
Posted on January 25th, 2006 on
Republican Senators have been lodging the odd accusation against their Democratic counterparts that any protest against Samuel Alito’s no...

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Greater Liberty for This Nation
Posted on January 24th, 2006 on
One of my friends has recently taken a deeper interest in politics, and e-mailed me to ask what I think “will bring this nation greater li...

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Alito Will Make the U.S. Less Secure Against Terrorists
Posted on January 23rd, 2006 on
Confirming Samuel Alito as a Supreme Court judge would be a blow to the security of the United States. Whereas Sandra Day O’Connor, as the C...

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Too Old to Die?
Posted on January 15th, 2006 on
Clarence Ray Allen has been on California’s death row for 23 years. He’ll turn 76 the day before he’s executed. Accordin...

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Bush is Finally Honest, Admits to Tyranny
Posted on January 14th, 2006 on
Earlier this week, Bush gave yet another speech on Iraq in hopes of bolstering support for the war that he started. He insisted that the a...

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Shame on Senator Lindsey Graham
Posted on January 13th, 2006 on
One of the sickest moments in the Senate confirmation hearings for Samuel Alito came when the Republican Lindsey Graham of South Carolina as...

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“Democrats in Senate Make Housewives Cry”
Posted on January 12th, 2006 on
Two days ago, Fox News correspondent Brit Hume was asked, as pundits often are, to shoot from the hip on-air with his thoughts on the Supreme Co...

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