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Understanding now that it’s on the chopping block, I really wish I had found it sooner...
...Commandments monument from the grounds of the Alabama state supreme court. Last week's federal-court decision overturning Nebraska's gay-marriage ban has only added fuel to the right's fire. Thus, Scarborough is spending most of his time these days working to beat back Democrats' attempts to block several of President Bush's judicial nominees. "It takes two-thirds of Congress, the President's signature and three-fourths of the states to change the Constitution--or one judge," says Scarborough, sitting beneath the mounted head of a whitetail deer in his east Texas office. "And believe...
Often referred to as the "nuclear option," the move would change a Senate tradition that lets the minority party drag on debate unless the majority can muster 60 votes to stop it. In response, Democrats, who point out that Republicans used other procedural tricks to block more of President Bill Clinton's judicial nominees than Democrats have blocked of Bush's, have vowed to tie up the Senate in other ways. The Senate could be headed for this historic showdown in part because it anticipates an inevitable one down the line: a full-blown confirmation brawl over the next Supreme...
...very fundamental building block of any culture is marriage and family,” he says. “Anything that’s detrimental to that, we need to do everything to make it right...
...this $20-per-year service to send e-mails that no one can trace back to you. The recipients can reply and even block you, but they can't see who you are. Of course, one person's secret admirer could be another person's stalker. Although the service doesn't monitor messages, it will disclose your identity if a court asks for it or to "protect any persons ... from imminent harm...