THE UNCONSCIONABLE TREATMENT OF JUDGE ALITO

It's only a matter of time before the Senate votes to confirm Judge Samuel Alito, Jr., to replace Sandra Day O'Connor as the next Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. Indeed, anyone who tuned in to last week's hearings recognized the proceedings to be political posturing by individual senators of the Committee rather than an appropriate evaluation of the judge's unquestionable intellect and stellar qualifications.

Following the hearings, both moderate Republican senators from Maine, Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, said they "would not support a filibuster" of the nomination. Dianne Feinstein, widely considered one of the Senate's most liberal Democrats, indicated similar sentiment when questioned on CBS News' Face the Nation. "When it comes to filibustering a Supreme Court appointment, you really have to have something out there, whether it's gross moral turpitude or something, that comes to the surface," Feinstein said. "I don't see those kinds of egregious things emerging that would justify a filibuster." The more recent announcement by Senator Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) stating his intention to vote in favor of confirmation all but secured Judge Alito's fate.

It's now common knowledge that Judge Alito will ultimately be approved in committee by a 10-8 party-line vote. Absent what Democrats themselves consider to be an unlikely ability to dig up a silver bullet, he will be confirmed by the full Senate.

None of that, however, stopped Judiciary Democrats from reneging on a "good faith agreement," which was made with Republican leaders more than two months ago, to hold a committee vote on January 17. None of that prevented them from exercising their "right" to delay the long-scheduled vote on Judge Alito's confirmation for yet another week. The vote is now scheduled for January 24.

Given the obvious confirmation of soon-to-be Justice Alito, why the delay? Back in November when the so-called good faith pact was reached, the highest ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, Patrick Leahy, stated unequivocally that the only conditions for violating the agreement was "if something extraordinary comes up that neither Senator Specter nor I anticipate or expect." Setting aside Senator Ted Kennedy's inappropriate theatrics during the hearings, nothing extraordinary came up - Nothing. In fact, the only explanation offered is that Democrats didn't want to cut short their Martin Luther King Day holiday.

Believe that and we have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.

No, the real motivation behind the delay is to appease the liberal special interests that primarily make their living -- a very healthy living -- opposing judicial nominees who don't openly subscribe to their radical agendas. Make no mistake, liberal groups such as People for the American Way, Alliance for Justice and MoveOn.org, wield that much influence and power. And, Senate Democrats are all too willing to bow to their demands and proceed with the ongoing strategy of obstruct and delay that has come to define them in the process.

You see, putting off Judge Alito's fate means these groups have another week to spread lies and innuendo about Judge Alito's character and attack the President in the media. It means they have another week to run their television ads in states such as Ohio, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania where Republican Senators face tough re-election battles this year. It means they have another week to find that nonexistent silver bullet in the hopes of slowing Judge Alito's momentum. It means they have yet another week to justify their relevance to their extreme liberal base.

The delay has nothing to do with Judge Alito's qualifications and ability to serve on the Supreme Court.

To date, Judge Alito's confirmation has been pending in the Senate for 79 days. By the time he's finally confirmed, it will be closer to 90 days. It's time to move on. It's time for Democrats, in good faith, to stop pandering to the liberal groups who seem to dictate their every move. It's time for them, in good faith, to stop playing politics with the federal judiciary. It's time for them, in good faith, to do their constitutional duty and permit a fair and prompt up-or-down vote.

Fortunately, Judge Alito won't have to rely on the Democrats' "good faith" for much longer.

ABORTION DESTROYS THE BLACK COMMUNITY

Courtesy LifeNews.com

Washington, DC -- Millions of Americans on Monday honored the memory of assassinated civil rights leader Martin Luther King, but, as they did, pro-life leaders within the African American community were concerned about the toll abortion is taking.

"Far and away the worse toll is taken in the most vulnerable community, the African American community, where black women are three times more likely to have an abortion than their white counterparts," explains Starr Parker, president of the Coalition on Urban Renewal and Education.

African American women make up 13.7 percent of the U.S. population of women of childbearing age, yet the abortion rate among Black women is three times higher than of white women. For every five African American women that get pregnant three will have abortions.

Parker explains that moral principles and freedom are often at odds with each other, as they are in the abortion debate. She says moral principles in opposition to slavery made Americans more free and the same can happen with regard to abortion.

"Americans know today that Roe v. Wade has pushed that envelope," Parker said. "We live daily with wholesale abuse of human life that devalues America and Americans. This loss of value and perspective has weakened us and made us less free."

Nicole Redden understands the devastating effects of abortion firsthand. Her 15-year-old cousin Tamiia Russell was six months pregnant when she died from a legal abortion in Michigan in January 2004.

"This stuff needs to stop," said Redden. "People need to take a first hand look at what happens here."

Redden said that Tamiia used an identification card with another woman's picture to state she was 19, as abortions cannot be performed on minors in Michigan without parental consent.

According to Redden, the woman in the picture ID looked nothing like Russell -- but the abortion was done anyway at the WomanCare of Southfield abortion facility.

"Afro-American women have been victimized by the abortion industry for profit," Rev. Clenard Childress the director of LEARN, a black pro-life organization, explains. "Each day 1,452 Black infants are killed for profit and ... much of our current leadership are silent. Political alliances have caused us to 'sell out' our women and our children."

While black political leaders frequently support abortion, they're not representative of the African American community.


When the NAACP took an official position in favor of abortion in the early part of 2004, which it has since quietly rescinded, a poll conducted by Black Enterprise Magazine found that 60% of African Americans disapproved of the decision.

Meanwhile, in an August poll sponsored by Pace University and Rock the Vote, 54 percent of all Americans declared themselves pro-life while just 44 percent said they supported legal abortion. However, African-American voters took a pro-life position by a larger 59 to 42 percent margin.

Parker explains that traditionally black churches are waking up to the way abortion has denigrated the African American community.

"Black pastors and their congregants are waking up to the fact that the liberal agenda that they have been supporting all these years does not liberate but denigrates, dehumanizes, and enslaves," Parker said.

However, pro-life groups and crisis pregnancy centers are reaching out to the black community.

Janine Simpson, director of Urban Center Development for CareNet, a network of more than 900 pregnancy resource centers, says abortion businesses target black women and "an estimated 70 percent of abortion providers are in minority neighborhoods."

But groups like CareNet are working to open centers across the country that provide practical help and resources for pregnant women.

SAM ALITO PANICS THE DEMS

All Americans can be proud of Judge Sam Alito as they view the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings leading toward the judge's membership on the Supreme Court of the United States.

The quality of Judge Alito and his intellectual prowess can easily be gauged by the pathetic and slimy attempts of the Democrat senatorial windbags on the committee. Their performance clearly betrays the panic of the left as it begins to realize that Judge Alito is the start of their worst nightmare, a nightmare that may last long after some of the bloviating committee Democrats have gone to their final reward.

One can only imagine what these Democrat scoundrels will do should President Bush get the chance to appoint one more, and perhaps two more, Supreme Court justices. They may call for revolution in the streets to stop the Court from becoming overwhelmingly conservative.

Thus, Judge Alito is only the warm up for future demonstrations of liberal lunacy that may well spell the final end of a Democrat Party that was once in touch with a large part of mainstream America. That end can't some fast enough.

NEWS MEDIA STARTS 2006 WITH A BANG

Well news media: Another excellent job of reporting regarding the mining disaster in West Virginia.

But this only goes along with all the reported rapes and murders in the Superbowl in New Orleans, and let's not forget the stellar reporting of deliberate destruction of the levies by GW and all the sniping at the rescue helicopters.

The first and greatest tenet of journalism is CONFIRMATION! CONFIRMATION! CONFIRMATION!

As years have passed you have done none of it, as witnessed by Peter Jennings, Dan Rather and their many cohorts.

And let's not forget the omission of news that does not fit your agenda. New York Times, Boston Globe, ABC, CBS, NBC, NECN et al: Does this sound familiar?

The job of the media is REPORTING news, not MAKING or fabricating it.

Yet somewhere along the line the roles of our entrusted bodies have changed: The Supreme Court makes laws instead of interpreting them; the Media enforces a left-wing agenda instead of relaying information to its public; Congress does nothing, and then we demand that the Military clean up your mess!

Yet you continue to embrace the philosophies that in other countries have enslaved and forbidden the truth. Remember: If this country ever should fall, yours will be the first to be exterminated by the new conquerors. If you feel this is not so, just take off the rose-colored glasses and look at the citizenry in Iran, Syria, China and the many countries of the so-called United Nations!

Many of the media do their best to besmirch the lions of this country. If those of you to whom this applies are able to read, perhaps you may recall the title of a famous book telling of what will remain: 'A Nation of Sheep'!