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Just a few of the latest happenings from here, there, everywhere. Today's Packers-Bengals game just might be the ugliest every played, and I mean that from a fashion standpoint. The Packers (in their legendary green and gold) versus the Bengals...

Bush Picks Alito for Supreme Court

President Bush, stung by the collapse of his previous choice, nominated veteran judge Samuel Alito on Monday in a bid to reshape the Supreme Court and mollify his conservative allies. Ready-to-rumble Democrats warned that Alito may be an extremist who would curb abortion rights.

This appointment is a giant step upwards. When an appointment has instant and outspoken responses from Senators Schumer, Ried, and others of their ilk - as far as the Chief is concerned, that's about as good an endorsement as there could be.

Now - it's up to Sen. Frist and the rest of the GOP to show that they have enough backbone to push the nomination through. Hopefully this will be the case. What's the point of gaining the majority if you're not willing to exercise it?

The Denver Post has the latest Ward Churchill update....

Chris Matthews, of all people, blew the doors off the Democrat?s slime machine that now has its sites on Samual Alito. Rush Limbuagh covered it yesterday:CALLER: Good. I just saw the Chris Matthews talk with Dean last night, and Chris...

I can't even begin to mount the pile of links and information out there about Plamegate, and I'm fine with that. For one, I don't have the time. For another, tomorrow is supposed to be the big "press conference," so...

Sen. Hatch, Chris Matthews Slam Donk Talking Points!

A talking-points memorandum being circulated by Democrats to friendly media outlets attacks Judge Samuel Alito on the basis of his Italian heritage.

Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch stormed Monday night that the memo was "despicable" and a sign that desperate Democrats are "hysterical" over the Alito nomination.

What's interesting here also, is that Sen. Hatch found out about the memo from MSNBC's Matthews:

Matthews alleged that Democrats are passing around a memorandum that he called a "complaint sheet" about Alito. The cable talk show host said the lead item in the memo claims that as a federal prosecutor, Alito failed to convict members of the Lucchese crime family in a 1988 case. The implication is that because Alito is Italian-American he went easy on the prosecution, or worse.

The Chief has NO hesitation about ripping a strip off the back of the MSM when warranted, but to give credit where credit is due, Chris Matthews made a good play on this one!

An obviously angry Matthews said, "I'm sitting here holding in my hands a pretty disgusting document. This is put out not for attribution, but it comes from the Democrats. They're circulating it; I can say that. The first thing they nail about this Italian-American is he failed to win a mob conviction in a trial ... way back in '88. In other words, they nail him on not putting some Italian mobsters in jail from the family. Why would they bring up this ethnically charged issue as the first item they raise against Judge Alito?

"This is either a very bad coincidence or very bad politics," he added, and warned Democrats that their sneak attack will backfire. "Either way it's going to hurt them. ... Not abortion rights, not civil rights but that he failed to nail some mobsters in 1988 -- this is the top of their list of what they've got against this guy. Amazingly bad politics."

The memo failed to note that Alito won a major prosecution against the Genovese crime family.

The Donks have also damaged their relationship with what has been a sizeable part of what's left of their base:

A. Kenneth Ciongoli, Chairman of the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) on Monday demanded an apology for the media's frequent references to the judge's Italian heritage and the use of the term "Scalito" to describe him as a clone of Justice Antonin Scalia.

What can one say - the Donks ARE getting desperate!

This week has seen some of the most delightful fall weather I've ever experienced. This morning I walked out of the front door and to work wearing short-sleeves -- something that you should not be able to do on the...

Has Johnson learned nothing?But some Democrats were contemplating just such a move as the 55-year-old Alito began courting senators on the second day of his Supreme Court candidacy. Democratic Sen. Tim Johnson of South Dakota refused to rule out supporting...

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