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Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist died Saturday evening at his home in suburban Virginia, said Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg. A statement from the spokeswoman said he was surrounded by his three children when he died in Arlington.

Freep this "who won the election" poll being promoted on WTOP here in the Nation's Capitol. Bush is behind in the hourly results.

Bush, Democrats Reach Deal on NominationsWASHINGTON (AP) - Breaking a months-long impasse, the White House and Senate Democrats on Tuesday struck a deal allowing Senate confirmation of dozens of President Bush's judicial nominations in exchange for a presidential promise not to bypass the Senate again this year.

ATLANTA - A military rocket launcher was found Tuesday near a rail-transit station, but the FBI said it looks to be a less-powerful model commonly used to train soldiers and would be unable to bring down an aircraft or destroy a train. . . . Lazarus said there was no cause for public alarm and the city's rail-transit system was not interrupted by the discovery.

The Supreme Court takes up the Pledge of Allegiance and those two words: "Under God". We'll hear the fresh debate. Hosted by Tom Ashbrook Guests: Erwin Chemerinsky, professor at the University of Southern California Law Center and chief advisor to Michael Newdow Jim Henderson, senior attorney for the American Center for Law and Justice.

McCain: GOP Misrepresents Campaign Law By SHARON THEIMER The Associated Press Monday, February 24, 2003; 3:40 PM Republican Sen. John McCain on Monday accused his party of misleading GOP activists about the nation's new campaign finance law and employing "scorched earth" scare tactics to make the rules look more restrictive than they are. McCain sent a letter to Republican National Committee Chairman Marc Racicot accusing Republican lawyers of spreading "falsehoods" about several aspects of the law during recent briefings for party members.

Senator Jeff Sessions, Republican of Alabama, discovered that after Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont took over the Chairmanship of the Senate Judiciary Committee from Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah, he had dropped the phrase "so help me God" from the oath taken when swearing in witnesses. Sessions made an issue of this at a meeting of the Judiciary Committee last week and Leahy said he would return the phrase "so help me God" to oaths, a phrase which was added to the government oath by President George Washington. Leahy dismissed the controversy as a mistake, due to his short ...

Oath: Sacred Guardian ofHonest Testimony and Faithful Service From which we learn that some of those Solons who profane life, liberty, and property while enjoying the rare privileges of the United States -- the World's most exclusive club -- now are seeking to destroy one of the most essential guarantees of honesty and integrity: the sacred oath. Depending on the version of Greek mythology, Oath is either the name of the River or the name of the goddess who tends the River that is often elsewhere known as Styx. The connection between that river and Western Civilization is found in ...

KENLY, N.C. (AP) - Three teen-age siblings were found shot to death in a squalid mobile home filled with trash and animal droppings, authorities said. Investigators questioned the parents for several hours Thursday after the bodies were discovered, but they released little information about suspects or a motive. No charges have been filed. Neighbor Frances Jones said the victims' mother flagged her down and told her: "My children are dead; they're laying on the floor naked, dead." The names and ages of the two boys and one girl were not made public. "This is a very unusual crime scene, and ...

THE APPOINTMENTS CLAUSE AND THE ROLE OF THE SENATE IN THE PROCESS OF FILLING VACANCIES IN THE FEDERAL JUDICIARY INTRODUCTION In accord with the Rules of the Senate, every Senator elected or appointed to serve in that body takes an oath regarding the performance of senatorial duties "before entering upon his duties."(1) By that oath, a Senator pledges to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States," to "bear true faith and allegiance to the same," and to "well and faithfully discharge the duties" of office.(2) Among senatorial duties, none excites greater dispute than that of providing "advise and ...

San Francisco is about to embark on another first in the nation: providing health care benefits for city workers undergoing sex-change procedures. Starting July 1, if the plan gets the expected approval from the Board of Supervisors and Mayor Willie Brown, the city's health plan will cover sex- change operations, hormone treatment and related medical needs for city employees changing from male to female or female to male. . . . .

Virginia Senate Targets Lazy Boys, Sleeper Sofas, Hammocks and Other Threats Identified by Fairfax County's Somnolence Police In which we discover that Virginia legislators threatened to allow Fairfax County Commissioners to impose Red-Chinese-style family size limitations through a zoning law modification. Truthserum has warned you before, stay out of the kitchen when the legislators are cooking up statutory goulash, and for heaven's sake, decline any dyspepsia-inducing souffle put together for you by the socialist social engineers that masquerade as Democrats. The most recent evidence that Virginia's clown princes of cultural manipulation have been at work is a little-known, but poorly ...