Romney’s Plan for an Ultra-Conservative Supreme Court

Governor Romney promises to “nominate judges in the mold of Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Scalia, Thomas, and Alito.” The most striking thing about the list is who isn’t on it: Reagan appointee Anthony Kennedy.

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Freedom isn’t always our business

The confluence of three cultural events this week has raised my awareness of the precious value of freedom.  Two were just completed novels, and one was the repetition of an annual holiday.  The books were Barbara Kingsolver’s “Poisonwood Bible” — a searing account of the life of an American missionary family in the Congo as that nation won its independence from Belgium, and Eric Fli

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