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Election could decide future of the federal courts

Republican Sen. John McCain likes fellow conservative justices John Roberts and Samuel Alito. Democratic Sen. Barack Obama does not think much of Clarence Thomas.

Ivins: The new 'activist' judges

Another bee-you-ti-ful example of the right-wing media getting it all wrong. Here they are having the nerve to mutter in public about "activist judges" because Judge Anna Diggs Taylor has pointed out that spying without a warrant is illegal in this country -- so warrantless telephone tapping is illegal in this country.

Getting over Alito

The Samuel Alito hearings are over--but some Democrats were left wanting more. Things went badly from the start: few Americans watched, and those who did saw Alito and his supporters calmly parrying suggestions that as a Supreme Court Justice, he would threaten America's balance of power, civil liberties and citizens' right to privacy. "He's rope-a-doping them," said a frustrated Democratic aide. Any points the Dems scored were erased by Alito's wife Martha-Ann, who broke down in tears as the questioning of her husband grew increasingly personal. Her emotional reaction sealed her husband's victory--but the Dems had other reasons to fight on.

San Francisco challenges state's same-sex marriage ban in court

The city of San Francisco Thursday filed a lawsuit against the state of California, challenging the state law that defines marriage as being between one man and one woman only, the city attorney's office said.

CNNMoney: The rising price of saying #&%(*@*

The Golden Globes awards ceremony this Sunday will be a little later than last year - about 10 seconds later.

Fortune: Fun with demographics, ten men strike again, God's new plan for Palm Springs, and other matters. SENSITIVE MOMENTS IN FREEDOM OF

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Senator Alfonse D'Amato asked federal regulators . . . to respect the First Amendment rights of profane radio star Howard Stern . . . D'Amato's move surprised some civil liberta...

Fortune: Social responsibility in the retail furniture business, new hope for studious students, and other matters. WORRYING ABOUT WARREN

We have two little cavils about the Business Enterprise Trust, launched late in May by a dozen and a half thinkers about business, many of them actual practitioners. The group includes Warren Buffe...

Fortune: WINNING ONE FROM THE GIPPER TV producer Norman Lear brought you Archie Bunker, Maude, and the defeat of Robert Bork in the Senat

FOR BETTER or for worse, the Senate Judiciary Committee's stunning rejection of Ronald Reagan's Supreme Court nominee, Federal Judge Robert Bork, was partly a Norman Lear production. Conservatives ...

Fortune: Just Asking Jobs for Angola, In Defense of Vitamin A, The Future of Coed Basketball, and Other

Matters. In which the present writer yet again puts forward a number of slightly loaded questions unredeemed by any prospect of reasonable answers and additionally burdened by a spiraling word coun...

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