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Democrats said they have stopped nomination because Estrada, thought to be a staunch conservative, declined to answer questions on his political views during Senate hearings to confirm his nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia...
...Chesterton once observed that America is a nation with the soul of a church. Bush's use of religious rhetoric seems to confirm this view. None of this is good news for Christians, however, because it tempts us to confuse Christianity with America. As a result, Christians fail to be what God has called us to be: agents of truthful speech in a world of mendacity. The identification of cross and flag after Sept. 11 needs to be called what it is: idolatry. We are often told that America is a great country and that Americans are a good people...
...beating. How could its surgeons have erred so egregiously? Fulkerson says the procedures that should prevent such errors broke down twice: when the surgeon, Dr. James Jaggers, instead of checking, assumed that the blood type of the donated organs matched Jesica's and when he failed to verbally confirm that assumption with Carolina Donor Services, the organ-donor agency. "Jesica's case has clearly sent a warning to transplant centers," says Dr. David Yuh, a transplant surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md., where the transplant staff is double-checking its own organ-matching processes...
...doing quite well." And the guidebooks are denying guilt as well. "It's not a bad score or one less star that killed him," said GaultMillau head Patrick Mayenobe. "This great chef must have had other worries." A Michelin spokesperson would only express sadness for Loiseau's death and confirm that his stars are safe - for this year at least. The day after Loiseau's suicide, the staff of the Côte d'Or tried to stay open. The website announced that serving food would be "in the spirit of Loiseau." But after one day, the shaken crew found...
...proposed reconciliation of this constitutional tension is to note the extraordinary qualifications of this candidate and to urge the Senate to confirm Mr. Estrada; actually, all the Democrats have to do is to allow the nomination to come to a vote. The Senate should assert its constitutional power against presidential nominations for judicial office, and arguably even with a filibuster, when the nominee does not possess the high qualifications for federal judicial office. Mr. Estrada’s record in the Solicitor General’s Office suggests that he is no ideologue. When high ability and good character...