NEWS HEADLINES

Roberts’ Confirmation Hearing Starts Monday
(CNSNews.com) – Confirmation hearings for Judge John Roberts – newly nominated to serve as chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court – will begin at noon on Monday, Sept. 12, Senate leaders announced on Tuesday. They expect Roberts to be confirmed by the start of the court’s next term, on Oct. 3…

John Roberts’ Critics Outraged All Over Again
(CNSNews.com) – Groups that opposed the nomination of Judge John Roberts to replace Sandra Day O’Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court are even more furious now that President Bush has nominated Roberts to serve as chief justice. The National Organization for Women called Roberts' latest nomination "an outrage and an insult to the women of this country..."

Sen. Clinton Demands a ‘Katrina Commission’
(CNSNews.com) – Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) has sent a letter to President Bush, urging him to appoint an independent national commission to review hurricane relief efforts -- a panel modeled after the much-criticized 9/11 commission...

Abortion Issue Focus of Dem Bid to Oust Santorum
(CNSNews.com) - Even though the 2006 elections are more than 14 months away, Democratic leaders already have decided that their best shot at unseating Republican U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum is to run a pro-life candidate. The contest already is drawing national attention...

Chinese President’s Debut Visit to US Canceled
(CNSNews.com) – Because of the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, Chinese President Hu Jintao has agreed to cancel a scheduled visit to the United States. Analysts say analysts say neither Washington nor Beijing was entirely happy about the visit anyway...

COMMENTARY

Hype, Hypocrisy and Accountability
By Gerard Valentino
The establishment media have spent the last five days placing blame for the human tragedy taking place in New Orleans. What the talking heads on network and cable news refuse to admit is that they are partially to blame…

America As a Third World Nation
By Alan Caruba
The haunting images of New Orleans were those of a Third World nation unable to cope with a natural disaster. The overriding question in the first days following the hurricane was, “What is the government doing?” The government’s response to the disaster suggests that there are, indeed, limits to what it can do. We all need to rely less on the “government,” but it seems unlikely at this point that the government will allow that to happen…

Los Angeles' Thwarted Terror Spree
By Daniel Pipes
The Jewish high holidays this year fall in early October, and that's when a massacre was planned against two Los Angeles synagogues, as well as other targets, according to an indictment just handed down against four young Muslim men. Terrorist plans that fail don't make headlines, but they should. Even though most Jews resist acknowledging it, the Muslim threat is changing Jewish life in the United States. The golden age of American Jewry is coming to an end...

Israel Sending Team to Assess Hurricane Relief Needs Jerusalem
(CNSNews.com) - Doctors, divers and psychologists are among the many Israeli professionals eager to help Americans in the aftermath of the deadly hurricane Katrina, an Israeli official said on Tuesday...