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Sirius and Fox News
Tweet Share on Facebook January 11, 2006 CommentIn October 2004, I bought (actually leased) a new BMW. One of the attractions was that it was wired for Sirius satellite radio. Ever since, I have enjoyed listening to the satellite radio very much, particularly the classical music channels and the audio from Fox News Channel.
No more. On January 1, Sirius stopped carrying Fox News Channel. Evidently Sirius CEO Mel Karmazin would not pay Fox News CEO Roger Ailes's price for the rights to carry the channel.
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Robert Stethem
Tweet Share on Facebook January 11, 2006 Comment (1)You must read this moving letter.
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Judge Randolph on Judge Friendly on abortion
Tweet Share on Facebook January 11, 2006 CommentTwo months ago Judge A. Raymond Randolph of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit delivered a speech to the Federalist Society in Washington on the late Judge Henry Friendly's draft opinion in a 1971 case challenging New York's laws against abortion. Here is the text of Judge Randolph's speech. Judge Randolph was Judge Friendly's law clerk at the time and has saved the draft over the intervening years. Judge Friendly rejected the arguments that the New York statute was unconstitutional. But before the decision could come down, the New York legislature wrote a new law allowing abortions during the first 24 weeks of pregnancy. The case was dismissed as moot.
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Judge Alito on Hamilton Township and Princeton
Tweet Share on Facebook January 11, 2006 CommentIn his opening statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Judge Samuel Alito referred to his early years in Hamilton Township, just outside Trenton, and his college years at Princeton.
I got here in part because of the community in which I grew up. It was a warm, but definitely an unpretentious, down-to-earth community. Most of the adults in the neighborhood were not college graduates. I attended the public schools. In my spare time, I played baseball and other sports with my friends.
