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Welcome, all you Freepers, to the continuing C-span soap operas about judicial nominations. "The Guiding SEARCHLIGHT, " "As the SENATE Turns, "One NOMINATION to Live" "GERIATRIC Hospital" (for all you Byrd and Lautenberg fans out there). Follow along with us, as the Dems raise the level of histrionics, bloviation, pontification, and all around bad acting to new highs, er, lows...

Priscilla Owen's nomination to the federal bench has been scrutinized by Democrats who have balked at some of her rulings in Texas. Priscilla Owen was first nominated by President Bush to a federal appeals-court post in May 2001 - four years ago. That's enough time to earn a college degree. So it's hard to believe that there is anything that isn't already known about the Texas Supreme Court justice. And yet, four years into her battle to win Senate confirmation, clouds of rhetoric are obscuring exactly who Ms. Owen is. Republican senators say she is a careful and conservative jurist...

Merck sued by Fox journalist over faulty vaccine5/14/2003 6:37:20 PM NEW YORK, May 14 (Reuters) - A Fox News journalist who contracted hepatitis A despite being inoculated before an assignment in Afghanistan sued Merck & Co. (MRK) , the maker of the vaccine, on Wednesday.Merck recalled batches of ineffective hepatitis A pre-filled syringes in December 2001. The journalist, Claude Novak, could be one of thousands of people who develop hepatitis A, which causes liver damage, after taking the faulty Merck vaccine. Unlike hepatitis B and C, the disease is rarely deadly. The suit, filed in New York State Supreme Court,...