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Posted on Jan 31, 2006

AP: WASHINGTON - Samuel Alito took his place on the Supreme Court Tuesday after winning Senate confirmation, a personal triumph for the son of an Italian immigrant and a political milestone in President Bush’s campaign to give the judiciary a more conservative cast.

The 58-42 Senate vote was largely along party lines as Democrats registered overwhelming opposition to Bush’s choice to replace Justice
Sandra Day O’Connor, whose rulings have helped uphold abortion rights, affirmative action and other legal precedents of the past 50 years.| story

Buzzflash: When the editor of BuzzFlash was a young man on a car vacation with his family, he stopped at a site of historical interest. It was a marker that was in the middle of a cornfield in Illinois. At that time, the modest cement obelisk allegedly was the point that signified the population center of the United States.

That meant that to the East and West, North and South, the population of America was supposed to start at the marker and spread out from that spot. | editorial

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By P. Goepel, January 31, 2006 at 11:55 am #
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Concerning your editorial of Jan 29 and the myth of the center, people do not need to “be” informed. They need to inform themselves. Thanks to the very medium you use, anyone can read Justice Alito’s decisions and think for himself. It does not take either a right leaning or a left leaning analyst to discover whether he is a jurist or an ideologue. I do question whether you are more interested in what he has actually said or in what your favorite sources imply he has said.

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By W. Allen, January 31, 2006 at 7:16 am #
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I found it interesting that as soon as the vote for cloture passed with the help of nineteen compliant dems, republican Senator DeMint came to the floor to lambaste the democrats as losers without courage and without ideas. Unfortunately, this time he was right. For shame!

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