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Ever get a gift that looks beautiful but comes with a long list of special-care instructions? That's what opponents of Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito got last week when his 1985 application for a job in the Reagan Justice Department surfaced in Washington. In it, Alito espoused the idea that "the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion." With a solid majority of Americans in favor of legalized abortion, Alito's opponents thought they had finally found their cudgel. But the Senate Democrats, at least, did not seem prepared yet to use it bluntly...
...visit by a U.S. president once had the power to change China. President Nixon's breakthrough meeting in Chairman Mao's quarters in 1972 signaled China's willingness to side with the U.S. against the Soviet Union; President Reagan's visit in 1984 helped consolidate China's economic reforms; and President Clinton's arrival in 1998-the first American presidential visit since the Tiananmen massacre-generated such hope for political reform that a group of dissidents responded by forming an opposition party...
BROOKS: Not necessarily. In the 1970s, the loss of faith in government caused by Vietnam and Watergate actually ended up helping the right because Ronald Reagan came in saying, "Don't trust government." That doesn't mean it'll happen again that way, but there's an opportunity for a party to assert authority and order and say, "I'm going to end the chaos." The hunger for order in society is very strong...
...Court Justice Antonin Scalia have often been viewed as brothers in arms--so much so that Alito earned the nickname Scalito among many court watchers. But the comparison is misleading. Throughout Alito's career--from his time as an Assistant Solicitor General and Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Reagan Administration to his three years as a federal prosecutor in New Jersey to the past 15 years as a Newark-based judge on the Third Circuit Appeals Court--he has earned a reputation as the antithesis of the brash, grating Scalia. "He's conservative, but he's not a zealot...
...under the spotlight on Thursday, when Lewis Libby is arraigned. Because of the roles Rove and Libby played in the CIA leak case, and the White House's sluggish performance in the last weeks, some Republicans are saying Bush needs to get new advisers. Kenneth Duberstein, who served as Reagan's chief of staff, said on NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday that Bush needed to "bring in two or three people who can talk with him and talk reality. I think it is central." In Iraq, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican, said on CBS's Face...