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A hero died today.It was not pre-arranged. It just happened that the driver made a demand and I just didn't feel like obeying his demand . . . I was quite tired after spending a full day working. - Rosa...

Bottom of the sixth: Boy, Oswalt is certainly the great equalizer tonight, isn't he? He's deflated a lot of the momentum that the Cardinals had after Monday night's game. Astros lead 4-1. Middle of the seventh: Biggio scores after Edmonds...

Sen. Hatch: Democratic Filibuster? Bring It On!

One of the concerns about the possibility of an openly originalist nominee for SCOTUS is whether or not the GOP Senate would exercise enough intestinal fortitude to push the nomination through in the face of expected Donk rabid opposition and obstruction.

Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), while he would have supported the Miers nomination, has expressed the need to take on the Donks in whatever way is needed to advance the next nominee to the court.

"I think the president ought to pick the best conservative he possibly can, and we go on from there - and I'll be there to help."

On the question of a filibuster of possible conservative nominees like Michael Luttig or Sam Alito, Hatch said, "These are people who have great dimension and great caliber in the law - Michael Luttig is the perfect illustration - but if they want a filibuster, we're gonna have to take them on."

"There's really never been a leader-led partisan filibuster in the history of our country with regard to Supreme Court nominees," Hatch said, "or any other member of the judiciary, and I think we're just gonna have to take them on."

"We're not going to put up with that," he added emphatically.

Hoo-rah!

What I wouldn't give for a damn fresh fig right now....

Argus Leader:Commercial red meat production in South Dakota during September was up 1 percent from a year ago, according to the state Agricultural Statistics Service. Production in South Dakota totaled 87.3 million pounds for September, an increase of 5 percent...

I have waited until I saw the whites of her eyes, but I can keep the powder dry no longer (forgive the mixed metaphor). The Bush administration must withdraw from consideration the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court....

From John Fund: Another reason for conservative suspicion is that it was Mr. Card, a former moderate Massachusetts state legislator, who pushed the Miers choice. This is something that Andy and the president cooked up, a White House adviser told...

A couple of days ago I countered the Democrats point that Clinton only lied about sex, but Bush lied about WMD by pointing out what Clinton done and said in 1998. Now Rush Limbaugh uses that argument:All right, now, an...

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