Update (9:55 p.m.): Welcome to the blog, first-timers. If you’re as bored as I am with politics, check out my hobby blog, Fantasy Fiction for Christians.
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I used to invite blog-less readers (although bloggers were free to participate) to “live-comment” events. The first such post (first presidential debate) generated 166 comments. The third debate post generated 544 comments. I couldn’t believe my eyes as I watched the thread grow. But the Election Day post holds the record with 623 comments. Those were heady times.
Unless he says something particularly inspiring, the only portion of Bush’s speech I’ll live-blog tonight is illegal immigration. I’ve heard rumors that he won’t even mention it, so this post may not be updated. 
If you plan to watch the State of the Union address tonight at 9:00 p.m. EST and want to comment on it, the thread will be open. I prefer listening to these things on the radio. I’m usually not in the mood to watch Big Teddy and Maxine Waters scowl and politicians preen.
Related: Blacks, Illegal Aliens, and the Preening President
Live-bloggers: Blogs for Bush, Captain Ed, MM, Sister Toldjah (live-commenting but no live-blogging), Arch Radish, California Conservative…
Unrelated Addendum: I made The Nation. I’m “honored.” This pro-life blogger is here to stay, baby!
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In a 58-42 vote, Samuel Alito was confirmed to be the new U.S. Supreme Court justice. Adios, Sandra Dee. From the AP:
All but one of the Senate’s majority Republicans voted for his confirmation, while all but four of the Democrats voted against Alito.
That is the smallest number of senators in the party opposing a president to support a Supreme Court justice in modern history. Chief Justice John Roberts got 22 Democratic votes last year, and Justice Clarence Thomas — who was confirmed in 1991 on a 52-48 vote — got 11 Democratic votes.
Alito watched the final vote from the White House’s Roosevelt Room with his family. He was to be sworn in by Roberts at the Supreme Court in a private ceremony later in the day, in plenty of time for him to appear with President Bush at the State of the Union speech Tuesday evening.
I have no strong feelings about Alito’s confirmation one way or another. But I’m curious about what he allegedly told Senator Diane Feinstein back in November about his “the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion” statement made in 1985:
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I will appear on KFQD in Anchorage, Alaska, to talk about the recent March for Life rally, Planned Parenthood, etc., tomorrow at 7:15 p.m. EST. (See Marching for life and against the “Negro Project”)
On Sunday I’ll appear on KRLA around (?) with blogger and new talk show host Lores Rizkalla of Just A Woman. It will be her first broadcast. [Update: Wait a second...the show is on at midnight Pacific time, so that means I'd appear at 3:00 a.m. Uh...I'll get back to you.]
By the way, I plan to do a big round-up post this week. I haven’t done one of those in awhile. E-mail a link to something interesting, and I may include it in the round-up.
Martin Luther King’s legacy has taken on mythic status. Both Democrats and Republicans claim him as their own, trying to “out-King” each other every year on his birthday.
Then there are the detractors who insist that King’s legacy has been whitewashed, that he was a Communist agitator, plagiarist, and adulterer. Add to that the issue of civil disobedience, and whether it is biblical for Christians to defy government authorities.
Most recently, King’s children got into a spat over what to do with the Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta after their mother became incapacitated.
Lost in all this was their mother, King’s widow, Coretta Scott King. Regardless of his legacy and politics, Coretta seemed to be the ultimate long-suffering widow and mother, raising four children alone after her husband was slain by James Earl Ray or whoever conspiracy theorists think did it. I’m sure she’s had to deal with hucksters of all sorts through the years: people trying to attach themselves to her, using her and King’s name for their own gain.
Coretta died this morning at age 78.
Bloggers: Perspectives in Motion, Sister Toldjah, Cindy Swanson, D.C. Thornton (sporting a brand new template!), The American Mind, Independent Conservative, Independent Christian Voice…
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