And you still have to ask 'what happened'?

1. there is abortion on demand

2. there is a war on Christmas

3. there is a war on boys

4. there is a war on terrorism

5. giving tax cuts to the rich helps everyone

6. poor people deserve to be poor

7. there is a war on Christians

8. Christians are anti-women’s rights

9. Christians are anti-gay rights

10. Christians don’t think the environment matters

11. feminists hate men

12. feminists are lesbians

13. feminists believe they should terminate every pregnancy.

14. feminists are ugly

15. women don’t get jobs on merit, they only get them through trickery

16. women whine

17. women nag

18. women don’t play the game right

19. women want a double standard

20. women control sex in relationships

21. women control men

22. feminists are stupid

23. pro-choice people can’t organize

24. human beings do not impact the environment

25. Democrats/progressives/anti-war/greens are unpatriotic

26. Democrats/progressive/anti-war/greens are radical socialists

27. Democrats/progressive/anti-war/greens are immoral

28. The United States is a Christian nation and should be governed as one

29. George Bush is a strong, able, moral man

30. the media has a liberal bias

and he's on television as frequently as Law and Order reruns. How depressing.

I'm with Shapiro on this one. Explain to me how a filibuster will stop Alito or make the Democrats winners? As has been suggested earlier, they had months to plan a strategy and didn't. This last minute filibuster attempt may make a few people feel better that their Senator stood for 'principle' but it is really too little too late. Democrats consistently forget to plan and then expect their constituents to fall behind their lame too-late strategies.

I don't trust John Kerry's political or common sense. Could his call for a filibuster be a ploy to give cover to some Senators from their conservative voters by allowing them to dis the party when they vote for closure? Well, ploy may be too strong a word, but that would be the result.

Explain, please, what would a filibuster accomplish? Will it keep Alito off the Court? Will it prevent Bush from nominating someone equally reprehensible? Would it demonstrate a more powerful Democratic party? Forget the filibuster - the Democrats should have asked intelligent and direct questions of Alito. They didn't - they're done on this one - they've lost the point - so move on and try to get it right on the next issue.

and thanks to Rebecca for the reminder that Dolly is a national treasure.

Christine "Its My Party, Too" Todd Whitman who gives speeches before Planned Parenthood groups. Next thing you know she's promoting Alito.

...and their active thinking skills. They've been miserable in these hearings. An intelligent 10th grader could do better. My 75 year old mother who didn't finish high school could do better. I could do better, even drunk and riding a unicycle. I'm tired of being embarassed by them all.

Good article that should be required reading by Senate Dems for how not to question a nominee. Watching these hearings, and most Senate hearings, is painful because it is meaningless - Republicans offering long-winded self-aggrandizing and worshipful statements while the Democratics miss one opportunity after another to lay out their case for why they can't vote for him. All of them, but particularly the Democrats, need to take a class in Managing Your Image 101, Being Honest 102 and Say It Like It Is 103. They've been in Washington and played the Washington games too long. As for Biden, I'm still annoyed by his slobbering all over the Republicans on television during the Democratic national convention. Some Senators just don't get that they have a constitutency to represent and it is bigger there their 'friends' in the Senate.

What can I say, I google him and found...

Dr. Bogomir Kuhar, former Pharmacists for Life International president, is a popular promoter of the "oral contraceptives as abortifacients" view. In his book, Infant Homicides Through Contraceptives, he asserts that contraceptives are responsible for 8 to 12 million abortions annually. PFLI also advances the view that oral contraceptives are physically damaging to women. The organization endorses the Catholic church’s charge that modern contraceptives promote a “contraceptive mentality” that is damaging to women and society because contraceptives allow men to view women solely as sexual objects.

Some headlines from ther PFLI website:

1. Extremist feminazis and unions join to impose themselves on Wal Mart to dispense abortion pill

2. LDI's expose booklet on the Nazi ties to Margaret Sanger, founder of 'Klan Parenthood', as their website refers to her eugenics organization

3. LDI: Planned Barrenhood committed more abortion murders in 2004, approaching quarter million per year

4. PP offends millions of Christians with sacrilegous 'Choice on Earth' greeting cards and gifts

5. Pro-aborts forcing Emergency Abortion pills down throats of pharmacists, religious hospitals

6. Walgreens spokesman Michael Polzin had no qualms gloating over firing 4 pharmacists for refusing to kill their smallest patients in utero

7. IL pro-life group calls for Walgreens boycott; KS diocese asks faithful to avoid Walgreens

8. Pittsburgh to fight against free speech of peaceful protestors at killing centers

etc.

Another example of the religious right trying to impose their religious beliefs over the rights of other religions.

Thanks for this article that gives me plenty of talking points whgen I write my senators.

Unni Wikan's book Generous Betrayal: The Politics of Culture in the New Europe with the description, "All over Western Europe, the lot of many non-Western immigrants is one of marginalization, discrimination, and increasing segregation. In this bold and controversial book, Unni Wikan shows how an excessive respect for "their culture" has been part of the problem. Culture has become a new concept of race, sustaining ethnic identity politics that subvert human rights--especially for women and children. Fearful of being considered racist, state agencies have sacrificed freedom and equality in the name of culture."

I googled and couldn't find the article from 9/6/01, just many blogs that said there was an article. If you could cut and paste the address it would be very helpful.