This is the time for a consensus nominee,

You can't have a campaign for a nominee based on whispers and winks.

We need to be careful here. This is a nominee who could shift the balance of the court, and thus the laws of the nation, for decades to come.

But as more and more SARS cases are discovered here at home, it's time for us in New York to get the same expert advice to prevent a full-blown outbreak.

It is sad that the president felt he had to pick a nominee likely to divide Americans instead of choosing a nominee in the mold of Sandra Day O'Connor, who would unify us,

A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.