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***Urgent Help Needed!*** Support the Senate Republican filibuster on judicial nominees!!!STOP THE DEMOCRAT OBSTRUCTION!SUPPORT FRIST-MILLER! What you can do to help: Frist Hopes to Change Filibuster Rules by Keith Peters, Washington, D.C., correspondent Senate majority leader wants to lower the number of votes needed to stop Democratic blockade of President Bush's judicial nominees.Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist has had enough of his Democratic colleagues filibustering conservative judicial nominees — so he has plans to make breaking those filibusters easier.Frist wants to do it by changing Senate rules governing the number of votes needed to override a filibuster. His attempt...

President Calls for Action on Judicial Nominee For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary February 26, 2003 Presidential Hall Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Office Building 10:30 A.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Bienvenidos. I want to thank mi abogado and my close friend for his leadership and his participation in our government. Everybody has got to have a good lawyer. (Laughter.) Especially in my line of work. (Laughter.) And I've got a great one with Al Gonzales. I'm proud to call him friend. I also want to thank the members of the Latino Coalition who are here today. I want to...

This must be what a phony war feels like. Having first ventured out of the bunker united as we clutched our flags, fought fear and braced for battle, we now enjoy the fragile complacence of daily routines that can no longer be taken for granted. Except, of course, that they are being taken for granted. Strangely enough, there's little sense of having returned to "life as usual" with any understanding of the essential urgency of the mission before us: to neutralize the terrorist forces of jihadist Islam. Having accepted the basic survival strategies of life as civilian targets -- invasive...