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...people like Sheldon get their way, it will be about almost everything that encompasses the so-called culture-of-life movement, including restricting stem-cell research and assisted suicide. Social conservatives are almost certain to use the Schiavo case as another weapon in the coming war against what they castigate as judicial activism, the practice of creating new rights from the bench. As Frist contemplates the so-called nuclear option of trying to take away congressional Democrats' ability to filibuster President Bush's controversial judicial nominees, Schiavo is sure to be a rallying cry. In particular, critics fervently believe that...
...most laughable weapon in the drilling companies’ rhetorical arsenal is talk of “roadless” drilling. “Roadless” has turned into “roads” before, in Prudhoe Bay. According to an Interior Department official quoted in The New York Times yesterday, “The term ‘roadless’ does not mean the absence of roads. Rather, it indicates an attempt to minimize the construction of permanent roads.” Wonderful news. By the same logic, one might suppose the term...
...last Saturday, Clark had the night of her life. She posted 78 saves on 83 Harvard shots through six periods, keeping the Lakers competitive and always seeming to be at the right place at the right time to mute Harvard’s offensive arsenal—every weapon except for Corriero...
...guess is, Reid will win the judicial battle. He holds the ultimate nuclear weapon, the ability to bring the Senate to a halt using individual points of privilege. Frist will have to convince not only moderates but also a handful of Republican traditionalists that they should vote to overturn a Senate custom-the filibuster-that protected their rights in years past. There is danger to Reid's strategy, of course. The Democrats run the risk of seeming hopelessly recalcitrant, of using legislative gimmicks to achieve in Congress what they have resoundingly failed to accomplish at the ballot...
...would be politically correct to describe that encounter as a spiritual one. But it seems to me it was more than that. It was, in the minds and souls of both human beings, an encounter with God. Smith's weapon, it appears, was a hugely popular book, The Purpose Driven Life, by Rick Warren, an unabashedly Christian guide to making it through life's highs and lows by constantly asking what God has intended for you. The book is indeed a powerful one--precisely because it insists on the notion that God knows all of us intimately, especially sinners. Smith...