Democrats in different ways ... are deciding what's the best way to position themselves for the next vacancy, which will be lots more contentious.

Bush recognizes that this is one of the most important days of his presidency and that he will make this nominee every bit as central to his legacy as (the) war in Iraq, Social Security reform and everything else that is at the heart of what he has done. His message is: This matters more than anything.

I'm a big fan of good grades. But I am going to suggest to you that you will find that the skills of a student are of somewhat less use to you once you get out into what is sometimes referred to as 'the real world.'

Rodney King is a progenitor of all these cell phone videos that we have. It was unusual that a person had a video camera to take a picture of the Rodney King beating. Now, of course, everybody has a phone, and that has been one of the key factors in all the new attention to the issue.

There's a contradiction between the two, and as always, the Supreme Court wins, and that bodes ill for the California case.

I don't think even conservatives believe the court is ready to overturn Roe v. Wade.