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"I DON'T RECALL"(THE CLINTONS COMMIT PERJURY WITH IMPUNITY) by Mia T, February 24, 2006     (viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE) audio montage, Lincoln-pose scoop: rushlimbaugh.com   'REFUSAL TO LEVEL WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE'... IS HILLARY 'KNOWNOTHING VICTIM' CLINTON'S MIDDLE NAME by Mia T, February 16, 2006     (viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE) audio montage, Lincoln-pose scoop: rushlimbaugh.com "The refusal of this administration to level with the American people on matters large and small is very disturbing. HEAR hillary clinton Sen. 'KnowNothing Victim' Clinton Holds News Conference EFFECTIVELY PLEADS 5TH BY INVOKING...

Schumer: Miers Lacks Votes to Be Confirmed By HOPE YEN, Associated Press Writer 17 minutes ago A Democrat on the Senate committee that will consider Harriet Miers' nomination said Sunday that President Bush's Supreme Court choice lacks the votes now to be confirmed, saying there are too many questions about her qualifications. "If you held the vote today, she would not get a majority either in the Judiciary Committee or the floor," said Sen. Charles Schumer (news, bio, voting record), D-New York. On the 18-member GOP-controlled committee, "there are one or two who said they'd support her as of now."...

The Meritocracy Party Is it still the GOP? The Miers nomination poses an awkward test. by Duncan Currie 10/19/2005 12:00:00 AM Increase Font Size | Printer-Friendly | Email a Friend | Respond to this article WRITING IN the Wall Street Journal, editorial board member Melanie Kirkpatrick counsels her "friends on the right" to "brew themselves a cup of chamomile tea and go back and review the roster of Bush judges." Such an exercise may help them "sleep better" with the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court. "Any president is due some deference under the Constitution in his choice...

In the course of a just-completed press conference with PA Pres. Mahmoud Abbas, Pres. Bush fielded a Miers question. In defending her record, W asserted, as he has done often, that Miers has been "consistently ranked as one of the country's top lawyers." That is simply inaccurate. The National Law Journal has twice ranked her among the country's 100 "most influential" lawyers, and once among the 50 "most influential." She has never been ranked among the "top" or "most outstanding" lawyers. I hope people would agree that when it comes to being a good Supreme Court justice, being "inflential" doesn't...

Just step it out: She gets on. At the hearings, she is not all that impressive, but she is voted up. Our side remains fractious and resentful. Even those who screamed “Wait for the hearings!” because they got tired of saying the president can nominate anyone he wants, it’s in the Constitution, are left exhausted. (And some even admit that maybe we shouldn’t have waited for the hearings.) A critical number of us don’t vote in 2006, either out of resentment or disillusionment or disgust or all of the above. A handful of our senators go down. Even if the...

SINKING David Frum Survey USA poll today indicates that 44% of self-described conservatives have a "favorable" impression of Harriet Miers as opposed to only 12% who have an "unfavorable" impression. (45% don't have an opinion.) Good news for the White House? Not exactly. Two weeks ago, CNN/Gallup's poll showed 58% of self-identified conservatives describing the Miers nomination as "excellent" or "good." (29% thought it "fair" or "poor.") The CNN/Gallup poll already showed Miers 20 points less popular among conservatives than John Roberts had been. The CNN and Survey USA polls are not exactly comparable of course. But taken together, the...

Marek Edelman, the lone surviving commander of the Warsaw ghetto uprising against the Nazis 60 years ago, keeps its lesson fresh simply by looking at today's world. The fight for freedom and against tyranny is never over, he says. With a strong French cigarette in his hand and strong opinions in his mind, Edelman, 82, grows agitated when talking about war in Iraq. "The war is not about oil, it's about defending man's freedom," Edelman said in an interview at his home. "As you can see, the world has not learned the lessons of the Holocaust." Dictatorship is "a disease...

Why is it all so complicated in the Middle East? Isn't the war between the coalition forces and Saddam Hussein's regime? Why should the road to lasting peace lie not just in Baghdad or Washington but through Riyadh and Cairo and Damascus? And why through Tel Aviv? How has a struggle in Israel between Palestinians and Jews got tangled up with the war in Iraq? History provides help with the answers. From the Garden of Eden on, the Middle East has been producing empires and battles and religions. History leaps there from the pages of books to become a living...