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Noble History of the Filibuster

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The noble history of the filibuster: Filibusters were particularly useful to Southern senators who sought to block civil rights legislation, until cloture was invoked after a fifty-seven day filibuster against the Civil Right Act of 1964... The record for the ...
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Top Five Reasons Senate Democrats Oppose Ending Partisan Judicial Filibusters

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From husband David, who says he is writing only slightly tongue-in-cheek: The top five reasons why Senate Democrats oppose an end to partisan judicial filibusters: 5. Tom Daschle, we shall avenge you! 4. To preserve the right of out-of-the-mainstream politicians ...
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Gregory Kane on Janice Rogers Brown: Two Uncle Toms Are Better Than One

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Baltimore Sun columnist Gregory Kane discusses the Janice Rogers Brown nomination in a (very frank) way, raising points I haven't quite seen anywhere else: Black folks have so much invested in hating [Supreme Court Justice Clarence] Thomas that seeing him ...
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Black Activists Praise Priscilla Owen

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Project 21 members have thoughts about Justice Patricia Owen: Priscilla Owen is one of the finest jurists in the country. The fact that she has been forced to endure more than four years of public humiliation and character assassination is ...
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A Look at Senate Staff

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The New York Times has an interesting look at some of the Senate staffers working on the filibuster rules change debate. Apparently, one of the top GOP Senate rules strategists learned his craft in part by watching Senator Robert Byrd ...
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David Bellamy Challenges Global Warming Orthodoxy

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Husband David has some thoughts on a recent news item: You ever wonder why environmental groups walk in such lock step on the global warming theory? Maybe it's because they censor colleagues who disagree. The Sunday Times (UK) reported last ...
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Majority Leader Frist: Unreasonable?

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A quote from today's Hotline: "It appears that the Majority Leader cannot accept any solution that does not guarantee all current and future judicial nominees an up-down vote." -- Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, on the Senate floor, 5/17/05 A ...
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Star Parker Nails it on Social Security

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Black leader Star Parker on Social Security: The simple truth is that the Social Security system needs to be replaced with one in which American workers retain their own money and invest in their own retirement accounts. Our task is ...
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Funding PBS

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An argument against the existence of PBS: An unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias, a people made morbidly obese in mind and spirit by the junk food of ...
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Yukos Verdict

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Voice of America seems to be of two minds in its story today about a verdict in the trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky of the Russian oil company Yukos. The story's headline reads: "Russian Businessman Found Guilty of Fraud, Tax Evasion." ...
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