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...federal courts, the President has appointed a number of ideo-conservative nominees, most of whom are committed to overturning Roe v. Wade and to other conservative objectives. Congressional Democrats, as the minority party, plan to use their right to filibuster—prolonging debate indefinitely to block the nominations??a right that has been enjoyed for more than a hundred years. Republicans are threatening to remove this right...
...system. To act otherwise would be to jeopardize that which our founding fathers instituted to prevent a dangerous accumulation of power. However, the country is presently poised to neglect past wisdom as Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn. proposed to end the use of the filibuster on judicial nominations??the so-called “nuclear option.” And at stake is more than just a few judicial nominees; this would dramatically damage the foundations of our democracy, pulling partisanship and political extremism further to the forefront and destroying the compromise and moderation that have...
...Democratic primary voters—whose prescient sense of electability led to the famously successful McGovern, Mondale and Dukakis nominations??the Kerry pitch worked...
Quincy Jones’ numbers boggle the mind. He has scored 34 movies and produced or played on 221 albums, including 57 solo projects. He produced the number-one selling album of all time, Thriller, and has 76 Grammy nominations??the most ever for a single artist—with 26 wins. He was nominated for the Oscars seven times, the Golden Globes thrice and the Emmy Award four times, with...
Most Pretentious Foreign Violence: While the academy wisely gave Tarantino the night off this Sunday—Kill Bill didn’t even receive any technical nominations??its logic on the Brazilian City of God seemed to be, “If no Americans are involved in the violence, it must be good!” Even Tarantino stopped short of showing graphic violence against small children (though his film does think it funny to show a school-age girl watch as Uma Thurman kills her mother in the family kitchen). City of God has no such...