Saturday, June 28, 2003

40 Years After
Rev. King's Speech
Court Adds 25
Beating racism is a moral fight, not a legal one.

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I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.--Martin Luther King Jr., Aug. 28, 1963
Not yet.

"The Court expects," Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote this week, 40 years after Rev. King's famous speech, "that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today."


BY DANIEL HENNINGER

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Thursday, June 26, 2003

Partisans gear up for possible court vacancy

The court

A battle is brewing in the nation's capital. The troops are fired up, the money is pouring in and the rhetoric is on the rise.

The focus of the pending fight? The Supreme Court.

There isn't even a vacancy, let alone a nominee, but Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives believe it's possible that one justice of the nation's highest court will step down this summer.


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Media Ignore Gephardt's Vow to Overthrow the Supreme Court

Gephardt said Sunday, "When [sic] I'm president, we'll do executive orders to overcome any wrong thing the Supreme Court does tomorrow or any other day."
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Wednesday, June 25, 2003

The Presidents
Aside from Reagan, what other "right" men have been in the White House?

Washington and Lincoln can certainly be claimed as great conservative presidents. Yet Washington was also, literally, a revolutionary, and Lincoln vastly expanded the government, levied an income tax, debased the currency and often violated civil liberties. You can justify Washington's revolution as a response to tyranny and Lincoln's big government as a response to rebellion, and argue that they were conservatives in a larger sense. But they're not a perfect fit for the Reagan template, any more than Jackson was a perfect fit for the New Dealers' FDR template.
BY MICHAEL BARONE

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Why I Hate Spam
And what we're doing about it.


SEATTLE--Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so irritating.
BY BILL GATES

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A Fine Mess
James Taranto at Opinion Journal says the combined result of the two cases is to push racial preferences further down the road to extinction. He is especially impressed by Justices Ginsburg’s and Breyer’s concession that “one may hope, but not firmly forecast, that over the next generation's span, progress toward nondiscrimination and genuinely equal opportunity will make it safe to sunset affirmative action.”


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Tuesday, June 24, 2003

Major Issues Before the Supreme Court

Major issues expected to be decided by the Supreme Court on Thursday:



_Sodomy: whether states can punish gay couples for engaging in sexual acts that are legal for heterosexual couples, a follow-up to a ruling 17 years ago that upheld a sodomy ban. Lawrence v. Texas, 02-102.


_Free speech: a review of the scope of corporate free-speech protection in a case that involves sneaker maker Nike and allegations it lied about working conditions in overseas factories. Nike v. Kasky, 02-575.


_Death penalty: a death row inmate appeal that gives the court its clearest recent opportunity to set some standards for lawyers. The Maryland inmate claims inexperienced lawyers badly botched his trial. Wiggins v. Smith, 02-311.


_Child molestation: whether states can erase statutes of limitations to revive prosecutions in old crimes. A California man was charged with molesting his daughters almost 50 years ago. Stogner v. California, 01-1757.


_Minority voting: how states can redraw election districts that previously had dense minority populations without violating a federal voting law. Georgia v. Ashcroft, 02-182.





By The Associated Press



Monday, June 23, 2003


America: the Times of Scoundrels
An American couple blamed for espionage in USSR's favor became some kind of a symbol of that epoch


Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed 50 years ago, on June 19, 1953. The Rosenbergs were blamed for espionage in favor of the Soviet Union. The people would have been justified if the story happened in some other time in a different country, especially that the Rosenbergs' guilt wasn't proved. However, no other scenario was possible in the USA at the height of an epoch that was later called "the times of scoundrels". That was a period when people were under suspicion not only for sympathies to the USSR but also for any criticism in the address of that-time political system. The Rosenbergs were awfully unlucky. At the same time the couple became some kind of a symbol of that epoch.
Vasily Bubnov


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Sunday, June 22, 2003

Muslim Nazis
John LeBoutillierFor almost 20 years before imposing the Final Solution, the German Nazi Party openly advocated the extermination of all Jews. And Western and American political and business leaders did business with these German Nazis - despite their clear and unashamed anti-Jewish views.
Sure enough, having obtained power, the Nazis imposed their particular brand of what is now called ethnic cleansing. Six million Jews were exterminated and, had it not been for the successful advance from both sides by the Allies, millions more would have been murdered.

Their crime? Being born with Jewish blood in their veins.

Today yet another mass extermination is being advocated by people that we again are doing business with: Palestinian and Arab leaders loyal to Yasser Arafat and the Hamas terrorist organization.


John LeBoutillier


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