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...internal Justice Department documents they almost certainly will not get. Democrats were reduced to hoping they might hit some political pay dirt by scrutinizing what Roberts had written about the reach of the Constitution's interstate-commerce clause, which has figured in environmental and workplace regulation as well as civil rights cases, but is usually barren terrain politically...
...mention of fanifo or any aquatic activity that could be mistaken for it. What happened? The widely accepted theory is that someone convinced Tonga's ruling chiefs to ban the sport. That someone was not Vason, who arrived with eight others sent by the London Missionary Society. Amid civil war, three of Vason's colleagues were killed; the others fled. Vason, a young bricklayer, saved himself, he wrote, by assuming "the revolting customs of a savage life." Far from banning anything, "I entered, with the utmost eagerness, into every pleasure and entertainment of the natives, and endeavored to forget that...
Even though being an action hero might not be his ultimate career goal (he has just shot a movie about a civil rights--era basketball coach and wants to do a slapstick comedy), Lucas certainly works hard at it. To prep for the role, he went through the Air Force's flight survival-training school, where he was blindfolded and put in a helicopter that was then crashed upside down in the water. "I really got close to extreme panic," he says. "I thought, I'm going to drown. And I'm drowning for a movie...
...good thing that John Roberts has been universally described as decent, funny, civil and fair, since he may be joining a court with a long history of pugilists, ideologues and misanthropes who have somehow made it past the U.S. Senate. Justice James Clark McReynolds, who served until 1941, was, in the words of historian David Garrow, a "drooling anti-Semite" who refused to speak with fellow Justices Louis Brandeis and Benjamin Cardozo or have his picture taken with them. Chief Justice Fred Moore Vinson was a glorified drinking buddy of President Harry Truman's whose sudden death was hailed...
...9/11, the U.S. was rudely injected into a Muslim civil war--the jihadists are intent on conquering the entire region and re-establishing an ancient caliphate--except that only the jihadist side was really fighting. By taking the fight to the Arab/ Islamic heartland, the U.S. has forced Muslims to commit. The most remarkable effect of the wars to liberate Afghanistan and Iraq is that, whereas on 9/11 we stood alone against the terrorists, today there are two large and energized Muslim populations--with legitimate governments building armed forces--engaged in the same struggle against jihadism...