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For a few months in 1966, the budding romance between film star George Hamilton and Lynda Bird Johnson, daughter of the 36th president, was the talk of Washington....But a previously confidential FBI file - which a Philadelphia judge last week outlined in an opinion and ordered to be released - shows for the first time how far Johnson went to protect his daughter and his presidency

"Running on opposition to expansion of the Commerce Clause has now been turned by the Obama White House from complicated legalese into an easily understandable problem thanks to the presence of the individual mandate in the ObamaCare health bill. In almost bumper sticker fashion, Obama is asking whether voters support the idea of being forced by the government to buy something they don't want. And connecting this issue to confirmation of a new Supreme Court nominee."

In the current debate over judicial nominations, some commentators claim Republicans such as myself are misrepresenting history by suggesting the current filibuster tactics of the Democrats are unprecedented. These commentators cite the 1968 nomination of Abe Fortas to be chief justice of the United States as an example of how Republicans once attempted to block a judicial nomination on the Senate floor. I welcome the opportunity to respond to this claim, because the more Americans learn about the history of judicial nominations, the more they will realize how terribly off-track our confirmation process has become. In 1968, President Lyndon Johnson...